Mastodawn

“Just give me a list of how many RAMs, FSBs, and NSAs it has to have. I’ll buy it myself.” - my mother, asking for help getting a new laptop.

#uncomfortabletruth #ItIsntZero #computers

Cullen Thomas 6d ago

Being Left Behind Enjoyer 6d ago

TIL a LLM-based simulation of a specific person (like Grammarly does without asking) is called a “sloppelgänger”

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Cullen Thomas Feb 26

Erin Reed Feb 26

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Cullen Thomas Feb 25

Lesley Carhart

Feb 25

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

Cullen Thomas Feb 25

Sarah Perez 💙Feb 24

Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/apple-rolls-out-age-verification-tools-worldwide-to-comply-with-growing-web-of-child-safety-laws/

Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws | TechCrunch

Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

TechCrunch

Cullen Thomas Feb 7

Just threads of Facebook comments—a hundred replies long—in which both sides of a heated debate exclusively direct-quote AI summaries that are wrong.

#Cyberpunk20xx #NoAI #uspol #WeAreCooked #OneWayOut

Cullen Thomas Jan 25

McNadoMD Jan 24

Support the people of Minneapolis. Whether they shut the city down, whether they peacefully protest, whether they burn every federal asset they can find, support them. ICE is killing people because nazi fuckheads said they can, and our job today as We the People is to support our fellow citizens as they respond.

Yesterday 50,000+ people used peaceful “approved” protest, and today ICE responded by executing a man.

Cullen Thomas Jan 19

josef Jan 19

"AI slopcode" the "million useless pull requests" until "code review is impossible" and "open source no longer works" and so on. it all makes you wonder "where do we go from here?" but what if there is nowhere to go? if someone brings the wolves into the village, and the wolves are really cool but the wolves do actually get loose and eat the children of the village, then that is a bad thing that has permanently harmed the village, and the village will never be the same. sometimes this can happen

Cullen Thomas Jan 8

Joseph Cox Jan 7

New: DHS is lying to you.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying

https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

404 Media

Cullen Thomas Dec 16

Zack Whittaker Dec 16

With news that the data breach at web and phone analytics giant Mixpanel includes the viewing habits of Pornhub users, here's my TechCrunch story from early December about why this data breach is a big deal — and what sort of data Mixpanel tracks about millions of ordinary people every day.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/a-data-breach-at-analytics-giant-mixpanel-leaves-a-lot-of-open-questions/

A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions | TechCrunch

We sent over a dozen questions to Mixpanel's CEO about the company's data breach. Here's what we want to know.

TechCrunch

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