Mastodawn

Dan Sugalski 19m ago

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️22m ago

There's a queer club night where they want everyone to dress up as Pokémon.

I'm imagining someone going around hitting on people with the pickup line, "Pikachu! I choose you!"

Dan Sugalski 20m ago

💀 𝓕airchild 💀34m ago

Sorry, dudes, it was "publicly available".

Futurism: Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source Code
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-suddenly-cares-about-intellectual-property-claude-leak

Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code

Copyright is suddenly very important to Anthropic now that its AI source code leaked. Just don't ask how it trained its AI in the first place.

Futurism

Dan Sugalski 21m ago

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Matt Blaze 46m ago

@RVLara23 As the old joke goes: guy goes to newsstand every day, scans all the front pages, but never buys a paper.

Proprietor finally asks him, "What are you looking for every day?"

"An obituary".

"But the obituaries are printed inside the papers".

"Not the one I'm looking for."

Dan Sugalski 24m ago

Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson 1d ago

#MASH on #war

Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

Dan Sugalski 27m ago

Fesshole 🧻1h ago

I work in the creative industry and I can tell you with confidence that a huge number of design agencies take your money and simply outsource all of it to low paid freelancers overseas. You're basically paying them to forward emails.

Dan Sugalski 1h ago

Mark McCaughrean 1d ago

Yet another #Artemis II article (from a French press agency, no less) ignoring that propulsion, power, & life support to the Orion capsule are provided by ESA’s European Service Module.

Built in Bremen by Airbus, with parts from all over Europe, e.g. solar wings made in Leiden.

Also no mention of the fact that the ESM’s for the Moon-landing Artemis IV & V missions are to be supplied as part of ESA’s contribution to the Lunar Gateway.

Which NASA cancelled last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/03/artemis-ii-astronauts-rocket-towards-the-moon-after-breaking-free-of-earths-orbit

Artemis II astronauts now closer to the moon than the Earth

Crew members can now see the moon, which one described as ‘a beautiful sight’, from their spacecraft’s docking hatch

The Guardian

Dan Sugalski 7h ago

Neil Brown 7h ago

Have you ever...

	Used a telephone book
	Spoken to a (human) telephone operator
	Reversed charges on a call
	Made a call from pay phone / phone box
	Received a call on a pay phone / phone box
	Used a phone card
	Dialled from one exchange to another to route a call
	Used a rotary dial phone

Poll ends at 4:12pm.

Dan Sugalski 7h ago

Admiral Wonderboat 7h ago

don't ask what happened to the night club made out of straw

Dan Sugalski 7h ago

Sheryl Weikal 22h ago

A 1% annual wealth tax on billionaires in Illinois would, by itself, balance the budget.

A 2% wealth tax on billionaires would pay for universal single payer healthcare for everyone in Illinois.

Tax the billionaires.

Dan Sugalski 7h ago

Chris Jags 10h ago

I wish people would knock it off with the "history will remember you poorly" offensive.

No sociopath who's filthy rich and powerful cares if some scholar 100 years from now says something unflattering about them. Go after these people in the here and now.