The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.

I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.

It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.

I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.

I don't know how much of a #comics audience is here, but the only way to encourage one is to post like there's one here already, so: I’m opening my pre-convention commissions list for Comic Con Oakland!

DM for details, or write me at slieber(at)gee-mayle-dot-com

Listening to 2014 albums today, and I am reminded how sad I am that Casualties of Cool turned out to be a one-and-done project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTW0Uf-34BA

#Music #Country #Ambient #CheAimeeDorval #DevinTownsend

#DevinTownsend - Home At Night (Official Music Video). A new piece from #TheMoth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ft-oXVpP4I

#NP #NowPlaying

Waffles is doing one of his special Snoozeday Tuesday acrobatic sleeps

#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats #SnoozedayTuesday

Scooby sleeps in the strangest ways
#cats #catsofmastodon

Four years with you in the fediverse today, what a journey!

THANK YOU to the OGs who’ve been with us since day one, and to all who’ve joined along the way. Your engagement keeps the conversation going.

We’ll continue sharing news and updates from the Commission, stay tuned for more.

Big love to our community 💙

See you around,
EC

Will you stop stalking me, human? I'm trying to build a nest here! Penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus, 🇩🇪 Beutelmeise, 🇵🇱 remiz).

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki #VogelVonVorne

NOT funny! Dogs only say “Ruh-roh!” when they’re extremely distressed

New #Blossoms song: Joke About Divorce. You can't beat #16mm for music videos! It's such a good look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leH7G_snJbA

#NowPlaying #NP

#TheDearHunter - The Glass Desert III - The Plains (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalo5HJQSRQ

#NowPlaying #NP

Now that "low-entropy saladoid" has entered my lexicon it will never leave. #SaladTheory

CatDad does admin. Archibald Is Helping.

#fediCats #catsOfMastodon #serviceCat

If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-04-14

#UK #Palestine

My man, Sir Wobbles, just being as cute as he can. That’s quality belly fluff there. #catsofmastodon

Please give me a dollar a month on Patreon so I can buy this big lovable goofball more treats.
https://www.patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

I’ve been on a bit of a Wim Wenders streak recently. Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas, and now Perfect Days.

This is interesting. In my blogposts analyzing ATproto I had compared the shared heap vs message passing from a CS perspective

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

Ian Preston of Peergos did the actual formal mathematical proof of the incentive structure: https://peergos.net/secret/z59vuwzfFDp45jmsA6Wj2jc9hemCjB4JJHB81iosJsA9GAVRtkbrqBs/1024927538#%7B%22app%22:%22markup%22%2c%22path%22:%22ianopolous/docs%22%2c%22args%22:%7B%22filename%22:%22social-scaling.note%22%7D%2c%22writable%22:false%2c%22secretLink%22:true%2c%22linkpassword%22:%22UfAQURKSTTmM%22%2c%22open%22:true%7D

> It is interesting that this is independent of N. Let's say you have 1000 servers, and 1000 followers per user. Then the shared heap model uses about the same network bandwidth. With a small number of servers SH can be better, with many servers AP is better.

> The conclusion is that the shared-heap model builds in a structural incentive to keep M small, and thus has a natural centralizing force. Conversely there is an incentive in AP to keep F small.

Ie, there is a mathematical incentive in ATproto to only have a few large players.