RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/117253326669913699

Great hanging out with this Mastodon icon. Also Felix was there 😄

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists of cooking your brain by locking yourself in the bathroom, holding flashlights under your chins and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until you wet yourself in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake

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Double trouble #CatsOfMastodon

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117247235937476398

The amount of money Omarchy is getting is absolutely insane. The Python Foundation has an annual budget of around $5 million, the Apache Foundation around $3 million. Meanwhile a niche Linux distribution raised $18M in 20 days.

I don't want a foldable phone, I want the phone I bought in 2020 that worked flawlessly to not lag because somebody forced Liquid Glass on it.

Erst war #plushtodon vom Fahrrad gefallen 😳 aber nun ist er doch noch sicher beim @fediMD angekommen. Puh.

#Plushtodon #GameboyCamera

"She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide." https://variety.com/2026/tv/features/lilly-wachowski-jk-rowling-harry-potter-trans-the-matrix-1236858104/

f Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity.

But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately.

Neighsayers claim Hugo is "just a horse" and "can't save and/or destroy the planet." But it is early days. Hugo technology is constantly getting better.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl6ekpw2ko

Happy Birthday, Jeremy! 🥳
Help me celebrate him and fill his day with lots of birthday love! 🥰

And if anyone shares a birthday with Jeremy today drop your name or a picture below! 📸
Let’s celebrate you all together! 🎉

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #birthday

Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117247842721973234

The “you are somebody now” is really striking in how overtly fascist the messaging is—if you want to read up on it, look up “New Man” as used by fascism.

Risk. #grickledoodle #cats #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat):

I have stolen
the plums
that were on
the counter

and which
you probably
would have preferred
I did not

I'm not sorry
they were so rolly
so fun
I put them
under the couch

#Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon