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checked the news at 7pm because i thought that was the deadline, which is actually 8pm

more “supergirl” it is, then

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116234940290642085

THAT’S WHAT I’M ALWAYS SAYING, BRO

i also just realized no one is paying me to give a shit (or pretend to give a shit) about sam altman so imma read “supergirl: woman of tomorrow” instead
it has taken this piece for me to realize sam altman and sam lessin are not the same person. berenstein / berenstain shit (in that one thing was always true but i wrongly believed something else)

“Altman does not recall the exchange.”

according to whom? altman? i am sure this piece isn’t flattering but it’s weird to see this claim stated as fact when A) it seems pretty unlikely and B) there is no way to verify it so the attribution should be clearly stated. weird

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

The New Yorker

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116342858679520849

why

why are they continuing to enable this fucking dipshit

i told $SPOUSE my pet theory that this is hell, and one of my supporting arguments was elon musk’s continued existence intrusion into our daily lives, which honestly felt like cheating

@da_667 I never understood the whole online echo chamber criticism. Like do I live in an echo chamber by living a city?

What's next your preferred bar is now an echo chamber? I really wonder if the whole point is "if you don't have everyone on the platform how can I advertise to everyone"?

I look forward to the post capitalist days when I can go outside and enjoy the green shaded paths, and graze from the abundance on trees and bushes at will, watch all the colorful birds, and meet up at the local makerspace, skillshare, tool and appliance library, repair cafe, music, art studios & gallery and performance space, farmers market, coop greenhouse & solar powered food trucks in former parking lots, gardens, flea markets, etc. that took over a former mall.

#vision #future #solarpunk

"foss is about giving people choices"

"well thank god i can pick between a thousand desktop environments, a dozen init systems, and a bunch of bootloaders. say, i have this code i'd like to share, where should i put it?"

"github"

"anywhere else?

"no"

"okay. well i also have this website i would like to stay online without A) constantly being knocked over by teenage dipshits and/or fascist bigots or B) being scraped by 'ai' crawlers"

"you can sign up for cloudflare"

"or...?"

(yes, i know there are technically other options. i would like to use them! but there is absolutely no denying that the path of least resistance is to use these services, especially when alternatives are constantly taken down, worked around, etc. because—and i'm sure this is a coincidence—of constant ddos attacks and other bullshit)

extra super cool that the practical solution would be to give cloudflare a bunch of money (that these services don't have) because somehow it's the only company that can deal with this shit, which definitely isn't weird at all