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Ben Curthoys 3h ago

Perhaps they could have a race. It would be exciting to see which comes first.

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Shane Celis 4h ago

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to a notification.

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Danny 5d ago

I hate this photo trend so much that I created one myself.

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John Scalzi 8h ago

So, I go back to my beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people are happy and excited about it, while a woman author goes back to her beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people start giving her endless shit about it. If you're one of those people in the latter category, please go walk into the wilderness until such time as you have figured yourself out, is the absolute politest way I can put it.

Ben Curthoys 4h ago

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John Scalzi 8h ago

While I'm in the topic, accusing any working author of a "cash grab" is just about the stupidest thing you can say to them. EVERY ONE OF MY BOOKS IS A CASH GRAB Y'ALL, how the fuck do you think I pay my bills, with grass clippings and a winning smile, I'm absolutely doing it for the money. In exchange I'm gonna give you the best book I can but make no mistake I'm here for the cash. Attempting to shame writers for existing in late capitalism is a certainly a choice, bruh

Ben Curthoys 4h ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

9h ago

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

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Neil Brown 6h ago

Age verification, but it is pictures of sweets and chocolate bars and you have to say what you think that they cost.

Ben Curthoys 4h ago

I have recently been persuaded to subscribe to The Phoenix comic for my children and have consequently just learned that both "Danger Sausage" and "Action Beaver" are real characters in the same publication. I wonder if there will be a crossover. I applaud the chutzpah.

Ben Curthoys 5h ago

Happy rebrand day!

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Catalin Cimpanu 1d ago

Old failed startups are selling their internal emails, JIRA tickets, and Slack chats to AI companies as training data.

According to a Forbes report, prices have ranged between tens and hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Forbes

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