https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.

I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

Choose your terms properly!

"Witch hunt" -- based on lies, used by the powerful to crush the underclass, probably sexist.

"Pitchfork-wielding mob" -- almost exclusively the poor exhibiting class solidarity to take down the aristocracy and/or an actual monster.

[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”

[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”

The Great AI Boomerang: Google, Meta, Klarna & More Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Fired

https://emeraldbook.org/news/may-3126-2/

29% of firms have already rehired for AI-cut roles, while 55% of executives regret replacing workers with AI.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116687014689391748

I am so happy that we are finally releasing this version. It's 7 months of work from the team and it contains a lot of improvements to Mastodon, including building blocks for even more ambitious things to come in the next version.

This is more than 1600 Pull Requests written and reviewed (by humans!)

According to git:
2465 files changed, 72493 insertions, 22164 deletions, 15613 modifications

🏳️‍🌈we come in all shapes and sizes
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HAPPY PRIDE!!!

i've been working on a whole little collection to go with this art, so keep an eye out!

#furry #furryart #pride #LGBTQIA #pridemonth #dragon #dragons #fruit

Gotta say.. it's a good feeling to login on a social media network without Nazi's and trolls!

No MAGA nutjob in sight and the so called President would be instant banned if he showed his clown face here

 goood stuff Fedi! 

So let me get this straight... rsync made a *security release* fixing a bunch of CVEs, it regressed some stuff, people looked at the commit log, saw Claude sign-offs, and started a mob on the sole maintainer?

Yeah, this stuff is what gives legitimate AI criticism a bad name.

I don't like it, you may not like it either, but when people are throwing LLMs at legacy codebases and finding CVEs by the dozen, and a sole maintainer is trying to keep the house from falling apart... if you're attacking them, you're firing at the wrong person.

You know what's a bigger cancer on this world than AI? People incapable of seeing any nuance in situations. And this applies to absolutely everything. I'm absolutely exhausted of extremist takes. From every single side and point of view, in every single debate, AI related and not.

You all seriously need to touch grass, and learn to stop being outraged all the time over every single thing in this world.