It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? The US government is doing something hateful and stupid, science is awesome, the UK government is doing something hateful and stupid, trans people are hot, people are making crafts, the catgirls are meowing at each other, Ben is storing Creme Eggs in a medically inadvisable way and you should use Linux. Post hourly. You're welcome.
@afewbugs who is the brilliant mind?
Laurie Voss (@[email protected])

https://zeitgeist.blue is a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours to let you catch up with doomscrolling. Now with support for Mastodon!

Alpaca.Gold
@afewbugs oh the tedious bastards guy.
@afewbugs oh that's grim and tedious :/
From a skim of the thread, the non-consent scrapey thing should respect #noindex hopefully? Ugh. Wish people would stop with this creepy nonsense
@mothninja @afewbugs apparently not, he “wasn’t aware of it”
@afewbugs That thread on the OP is a wild read. Fucking hell.
@robincrow I just can't get my head around how much he apparently did not expect the reaction that anyone who had been on Mastodon for more then two minutes would have predicted
@afewbugs @robincrow yikes. How could anyone think this is a good idea?
@afewbugs I want to read what the people I follow wrote not some LLM's idea of it, also summarising posts from a microblogging site is surely the peak of attention span failure, if you can't even read the relatively short posts from people you chose to follow 
@afewbugs
Time to start talking about gravy?

@afewbugs

JFC what fucking clueless dickhole that guy is. What makes people like that?

@afewbugs @NellytheWillow Cats.

Only every second, not hourly.

@afewbugs Also cats, flowers, landscapes, moss, books.
Wait I need to find out about Ben & the creme eggs-- that's the only thing that hasn't been in my feed out of that

@afewbugs

LOL!

Now, I am *very* curious about this item:

"Ben is storing Creme Eggs in a medically inadvisable way"

8- )

@SaguaroLynx may I introduce you to @TheBreadmonkey , the man, the myth, the meme

@afewbugs @SaguaroLynx

It sprung from this baffling news article that seems to have mutated into people insinuating I put confectionary up me

https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/112546167848506625

Ben (@[email protected])

The internet is a confusing place. I was looking for news stories about Mr Blobby, then I somehow fell down an INSANE rabbit-hole so that when my wife came in and asked what I'm doing because I'm supposed to be getting ready, I said to her the following.................. I'm trying to verify that the man who holds the record for inserting most creme eggs into his anus was eaten by a crocodile. I hate the internet. (It's 9!) Edit - I don't know if they were wrapped or unwrapped and I don't know if he was eaten by a crocodile as the Daily Sport asserts in their article.

beige.party
@TheBreadmonkey @SaguaroLynx without wishing to victim blame, had I stumbled across this news story I don't think I would have thought "You know who are a mature bunch of people to share this with who won't make any weird insinuations whatsoever? The good folk of Mastodon that's who."

@TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs

I was partly right about assuming that this involved the alimentary canal.

I prefer my choice of top end.

@TheBreadmonkey
I assumed you had staff that would put them up you so you didn't have to put your back out trying.
@afewbugs @SaguaroLynx
@TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs @SaguaroLynx I didn’t get the Ben reference, either, I’d clearly missed that toot, but I vaguely remembered the story from somewhere, I’m just not sure from which millennium.

@afewbugs

But will the creme eggs melt?

@afewbugs thanks, that saved me from scrolling
@afewbugs do they use their own electricity at least? Or are they using some data center from a shitty corporation? By the comment about privacy I guess it's the latter.

@afewbugs We all hate crypto and Artificial Intelligence. Half of us hate BlueSky. A third of us hate Substack. We're deeply cynical about Dems and think the GOP is a death cult. There's bird photos on occasion. The cool kids are telling in-jokes about, alternately, kdramas, Star Trek, and the latest humiliating episode from Trump's cabinet.

I think that about does it.

Edited so this wouldn't be filtered out of my timeline.