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<p>House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup<br>—</p><p>The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/inv</span><span class="invisible">estigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/fintech/" rel="tag">#Fintech</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>un temps pour réparer</p><p>tag : tricot restauratif, <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/repair/" rel="tag">#repair</a> <a href="/tags/diy/" rel="tag">#DIY</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/societe/" rel="tag">#societe</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a></p>

<p>🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.11 👩‍🚀</p><p>&quot;Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)&quot;</p><p><a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.elenarossini.com/the-valu</span><span class="invisible">es-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/</span></a></p><p>with shout-outs to: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bengrosser" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bengrosser</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rysiek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rysiek</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@phanpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phanpy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pixelfed</span></a></span> and all the lovely people I&#x27;ve been interacting with on here ❤️</p><p><a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#bigtech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/consent/" rel="tag">#consent</a> <a href="/tags/matrix/" rel="tag">#Matrix</a></p>

<p>Please excuse the Substack link, but given that &quot;84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools&quot;*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity.</p><p>&quot;We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/microsoft-stud</span><span class="invisible">y-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/study/" rel="tag">#study</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn&#x27;t write the words, and it&#x27;s not his book. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard&#x27;s words in a commercial built with technology. &quot;The ultimate role of &#x27;Crash&#x27; is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/mp9fCF" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/mp9fCF</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/jgballard/" rel="tag">#JGBallard</a> <a href="/tags/cocacola/" rel="tag">#CocaCola</a> <a href="/tags/lifestyle/" rel="tag">#Lifestyle</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>💥 SEMIFINALS START NOW 💥</p><p>We’ve gone from 32 of the worst people in tech to the final four as we get closer to our final matchup.</p><p>🗳️ Cast your ballot: <a href="https://forms.gle/WaN2pon7ZUavMcBH8" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>forms.gle/WaN2pon7ZUavMcBH8</a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/techwontsaveus/" rel="tag">#techwontsaveus</a></p>

<p>🎉 TIME FOR QUARTER FINALS 🎉</p><p>We’re down to the final eight, and there are some difficult matchups as we get close to the prize.</p><p>🗳️ Cast your ballot: <a href="https://forms.gle/rBW7uSSLRfzkd3Bn8" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>forms.gle/rBW7uSSLRfzkd3Bn8</a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/techwontsaveus/" rel="tag">#techwontsaveus</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalley/" rel="tag">#siliconvalley</a></p>

<p>Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off &amp; you realize it&#x27;s assembled with tamper-proof screws. </p><p>Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence &amp; a $500K fine.</p><p>They&#x27;d be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.</p><p>None the less, that&#x27;s EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works. </p><p>Despite <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> &amp; others&#x27; efforts I feel this isn&#x27;t clear to the general public. </p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>

<p>&quot;Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it&#x27;s not your kid&#x27;s iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you&#x27;re using PLATO.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0</span><span class="invisible">3/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/vintagecomputers/" rel="tag">#VintageComputers</a> <a href="/tags/plato/" rel="tag">#PLATO</a></p>

<p>Exquisite.social is a delightful and innocuous generic Glitch Mastodon server, with a slight focus on technology, privacy and *BSD. We are here to play and make friends in a supportive atmosphere:</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://exquisite.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>exquisite.social</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://exquisite.social/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>exquisite.social/about</a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card"><a href="https://exquisite.social/@exquisite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>exquisite</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/glitchmastodon/" rel="tag">#GlitchMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/glitch/" rel="tag">#Glitch</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>Surf Beta Testers 🏄‍♂️</p><p>Our biggest release yet is here! Enjoy redesigned navigation that drops you right into your Surf Timeline in the new Home experience and lets you quickly access your go-to feeds from anywhere in Surf.</p><p>Here&#x27;s a quick look at what&#x27;s new:</p><p><a href="/tags/surfsocial/" rel="tag">#SurfSocial</a> <a href="/tags/apps/" rel="tag">#Apps</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/opensocial/" rel="tag">#OpenSocial</a></p>

<p>The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it&#x27;s governed. For Dot Social, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> spoke with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@kissane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kissane</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://friend.camp/@darius" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>darius</span></a></span>, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the &quot;Xodus,&quot; what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans. </p><p>Read more about it in this blogpost.<br><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/fediverse/</span><span class="invisible">erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/</span></a></p><p>Listen to the conversation on <a href="https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.video/c/dot_social/v</span><span class="invisible">ideos</span></a> or wherever you get your podcasts.</p><p><a href="/tags/dotsocial/" rel="tag">#DotSocial</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#Podcast</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/opensocialweb/" rel="tag">#OpenSocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/socialweb/" rel="tag">#SocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/governance/" rel="tag">#Governance</a> <a href="/tags/federation/" rel="tag">#Federation</a> <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#Bluesky</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/atprotocol/" rel="tag">#ATProtocol</a> <a href="/tags/socialnetworks/" rel="tag">#SocialNetworks</a></p>

I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting &quot;AI&quot; buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/ui/" rel="tag">#UI</a> <a href="/tags/ux/" rel="tag">#UX</a> <a href="/tags/userinterface/" rel="tag">#UserInterface</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>

<p>🚀 New on <a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> 👩‍🚀</p><p>&quot;Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside &amp; out&quot;</p><p><a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-</span><span class="invisible">a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/</span></a></p><p>special thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.lol/@pancakes" rel="nofollow">@pancakes</a> for his awesome post on Misskey forks 🙏 </p><p>and 👀 <span class="h-card"><a href="https://werd.social/@ben" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ben</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@mia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefan</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/misskey/" rel="tag">#Misskey</a> <a href="/tags/sharkey/" rel="tag">#Sharkey</a> <a href="/tags/firefish/" rel="tag">#Firefish</a> <a href="/tags/mfm/" rel="tag">#MFM</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/floss/" rel="tag">#FLOSS</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>

<p>📢 Wir haben Neuigkeiten! Flipboard erweitert die Föderation in Deutschland: 21 neue Publisher sind jetzt im Fediverse. </p><p>Diesen Publishern kannst du ab sofort direkt folgen:</p><p>AZMuenchen, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AZMuenchen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AZMuenchen</span></a></span><br>BASICthinking, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BASICthinking" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BASICthinking</span></a></span><br>Business Punk, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BusinessPunk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BusinessPunk</span></a></span><br>BUNTE, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BUNTE_DE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BUNTE_DE</span></a></span><br>CURVED, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@curved" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>curved</span></a></span><br>DER SPIEGEL, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@DerSpiegel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DerSpiegel</span></a></span><br>DerStandard, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@DERSTANDARD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DERSTANDARD</span></a></span><br>Filmstarts, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Filmstarts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Filmstarts</span></a></span><br>FitForFun, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@FitForFun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FitForFun</span></a></span><br>Futurezone, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Futurezone_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Futurezone_de</span></a></span><br>GIGA, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Gigade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gigade</span></a></span><br>Gruenderszene, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Gruenderszene" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gruenderszene</span></a></span><br>Harvard Business Manager, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@harvardbusiness" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>harvardbusiness</span></a></span><br>Kino.de, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@kinode" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kinode</span></a></span><br>Men’s Health, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@MensHealth_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MensHealth_de</span></a></span><br>Metal Hammer, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@metalhammer_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>metalhammer_de</span></a></span><br>n-tv, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@ntv2019" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ntv2019</span></a></span><br>Photografix, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Photografix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Photografix</span></a></span><br>Premium Quarterly, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@PremiumQuarter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PremiumQuarter</span></a></span><br>SZ, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@SZ_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SZ_de</span></a></span><br>Ze.tt, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Zett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Zett</span></a></span> </p><p>Mehr dazu in unserem Blog: <a href="https://flip.it/cxfY1U" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/cxfY1U</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/publisher/" rel="tag">#Publisher</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/federation/" rel="tag">#Federation</a> <a href="/tags/föderation/" rel="tag">#Föderation</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/nachrichten/" rel="tag">#Nachrichten</a> <a href="/tags/politik/" rel="tag">#Politik</a> <a href="/tags/unterhaltung/" rel="tag">#Unterhaltung</a> <a href="/tags/journalismus/" rel="tag">#Journalismus</a> <a href="/tags/digital/" rel="tag">#Digital</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/wissenschaft/" rel="tag">#Wissenschaft</a> <a href="/tags/wirtschaft/" rel="tag">#Wirtschaft</a> <a href="/tags/klima/" rel="tag">#Klima</a> <a href="/tags/musik/" rel="tag">#Musik</a></p>

I&#x27;m glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven&#x27;t turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.<br><br><a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#firefox</a> <a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/smartissurveillance/" rel="tag">#SmartIsSurveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>

<p>NEW SUBSTACK! &quot; <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> Seditionist Mike Lee Pushes Porn Ban; So He Plans to Ban Republicans??&quot;</p><p>Porn. Repubs are hate it! Family values! ..except Trump, Cruz Hastert, Gingrich, MTG, Boebert, Musk, Ailes, Giuliani, O’Reilly, Falwell Jr, Noem, Lewandowski, Hegseth....</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditioni</span><span class="invisible">st-mike-lee-pushes-porn</span></a> <a href="/tags/porn/" rel="tag">#porn</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#utah</a> <a href="/tags/mikelee/" rel="tag">#mikelee</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a></p>

<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene taken apart by Dan Goldman and I&#x27;m just so loving it </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA57ip8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA57ip8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA</span><span class="invisible">57ip8</span></a> <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#youtube</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>

<p>&quot;The more the Fediverse can be baked into systems already in use, as with the Wordpress plugin and Ghost 6.0, the easier it will be to make connections without platform or protocol battles.&quot; - <span class="h-card"><a href="https://backend.newsmast.org/@michael" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>michael</span></a></span></p><p>Part 2 of Michael&#x27;s post-FediCon blog series, exploring growth with a grassroots vibe, is out now! Check it out below 👇 </p><p><a href="https://www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-i</span><span class="invisible">n-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/socialweb/" rel="tag">#SocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/fedicon/" rel="tag">#FediCon</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#Blog</a> <a href="/tags/thirdspaces/" rel="tag">#ThirdSpaces</a> <a href="/tags/fedigrowth/" rel="tag">#FediGrowth</a> <a href="/tags/opensocialweb/" rel="tag">#OpenSocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/leavex/" rel="tag">#LeaveX</a></p>

In the past couple days on LinkedIn I&#x27;ve seen two distinct people declaring that StackOverflow is &quot;dead&quot;.<br><br>Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.<br><br>I smell PR.<br><br><a href="/tags/stackoverflow/" rel="tag">#StackOverflow</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/astroturf/" rel="tag">#astroturf</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a><br>

<p>Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.<br></p>Peter Naur in Programming As Theory Building, 1985.<br><br>A computer program is not source code. It is the combination of source code, related documents, and the mental understanding developed by the people who work with the code and documents regularly. In other words a computer program is a relational structure that necessarily includes human beings.<br><br>The output of a generative AI model alone cannot be a computer program in this sense no matter how closely that output resembles the source code part of some future possible computer program. That the output could be developed into a computer program over time, given the appropriate resources to do so, does not make it equivalent to a computer program.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/agenticcoding/" rel="tag">#AgenticCoding</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a><br>

Another new intrusive AI anti-feature popped up in Atlassian Jira today. I zapped it with uBlock Origin.<br><br>This is so much like when ads started flooding everything online, right down to the tools I&#x27;m using to de-clutter sites and webapps. At this point Jira is pimpled with terrible AI links nudged right next to legitimately useful features. Like it has acne, or maybe buboes.<br><br><a href="/tags/atlassian/" rel="tag">#atlassian</a> <a href="/tags/jira/" rel="tag">#jira</a> <a href="/tags/ublockorigin/" rel="tag">#uBlockOrigin</a> <a href="/tags/ublock/" rel="tag">#uBlock</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/aiantifeature/" rel="tag">#AIAntiFeature</a> <a href="/tags/aidarkpattern/" rel="tag">#AIDarkPattern</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a><br>

<p>Japan has kicked off its largest-ever defense exhibition as part of a move to highlight its growing openness to international collaboration and even the once-taboo topic of defense exports. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/21/japan/dsei-japan-defense-exhibition/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/21/japan/dsei-japan-defense-exhibition/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025</span><span class="invisible">/05/21/japan/dsei-japan-defense-exhibition/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#japan</a> <a href="/tags/dsei/" rel="tag">#dsei</a> <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#defense</a> <a href="/tags/defenseministry/" rel="tag">#defenseministry</a> <a href="/tags/gennakatani/" rel="tag">#gennakatani</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/sdf/" rel="tag">#sdf</a></p>

<p>YouTube is working on tools to help its biggest influencers identify and control their AI lookalike. Read more from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Semafor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Semafor</span></a></span>: <br><a href="https://flip.it/I13gSt" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/I13gSt</a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#YouTube</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a></p>