matte edens

Ruby is life! Riding the Rails since 2006. Internet Swiss Army knife.

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Brad L. :verified:reyjrar@hachyderm.io
2025-07-10

I'm witnessing professionals spending hours to engineer prompts for Copilot to do basic things like find a line in a file that has a string in it, or figure out who committed most frequently to a sub-path in a repository, or generate boiler plate code for classes.. None of these things require #AI. `grep`, `git log..`, and editor snippets have existed for a long time. They are quick. They are EXACT. They are FREE. They do not boil the oceans. They do not displace the workforce. They are more efficient and productive.

Learn the tools of your trade. If all you're doing is using AI, that means AI can and will replace you.

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2025-07-10

I am now hearing that using three of something in writing is a sign of AI now.

And not literally a long standard and super effective way of writing.

Delighted to have fucking incurious proud illiterates playing AI whisperer.

I hope you step on a lego em-dash in the dark.

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Daniel Keys Moranfatsam@mstdn.social
2025-07-10

Make America Great Again? That was the 1950s, yeah?

If you want to start by taxing the rich at 90% again, I'm willing to compromise.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-09

Even the MAGA mouthpieces can’t swallow that last line.

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2025-07-09

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

A framework called daisyUI builds semantic class names on top of Tailwind
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-08

Things were fine, the economy was strong. They created chaos and turmoil, so now supposedly they alone can fix it.

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Thomas 🔭🕹️thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-08

It’s always “of course I check the LLM output for errors” but they never say how they do that exactly.

I have a hunch they’re doing what’s colloquially called “lying”.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Lana@beige.party
2025-07-07

@RickiTarr don't you know by now?

There are two genders: male and political

There are two gender identities: cisgender and political

There are two sexual orientations: straight and political

There are two skin colors: white and political

There are two socioeconomic classes: rich and political

There are two religions: Evangelical Christian and political

There are two types of bodies: able bodied individuals and political

There are two ways to fuel your car: gas and political

There are two kinds of diet: carnivore and political

There are two political parties: Republican and political

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Thomas 🔭🕹️thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-07

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:

1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.

2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.

3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.

4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.

5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.

It’s a grift, through and through.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-07

She’s right again, you know. She usually is.

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2025-07-07

This is why we told the limeys to go fuck themselves at the point of a gun.

Any of it look familiar?
#NoKings

Listed among the reasons to boot the British monarch are:

1. ‘“transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences”

2. “Obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither”

3. “erect[ing] a multitude of New Offices, and sen[ding] hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people”

4. keeping “among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures”

5. attempting “to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

6. “cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world”

7. “depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury”

8. “excit[ing] domestic insurrections amongst us”
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J Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨kangaroo5383
2025-07-07
“IT'S LIKE THEY
DIDN'T
LISTEN AT ALL” - George Washington holding the declaration of independence 

“BRO,
SAME” - Jesus
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-04

Working class voters need to wise up to what he is doing to their future.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-04

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Lana@beige.party
2025-07-04

"But Lana you can't possibly think that all MAGAs are bad people."

Yes I fucking can. If you're currently on the side that's having a fun little giggle amongst themselves about committing a racist genocide 10 times bigger than the actual Nazi Holocaust you ARE a bad person and I don't think that's a particularly crazy hot take actually.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-02

Socialism for the wealthy helps the fewest number.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-02

Blood on his and Elon’s hands. Whenever you see Little Marco, picture a mountain of children’s souls crying out behind him.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-02

They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-02

Only despots threaten to strip away U.S. citizenship and deport their political rivals and enemies.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2025-07-02

from @rubenbolling

Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.

If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.

#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA

Cartoon depicting two identical men side by side. One in front of a blue background, the other in front of a red background.

Text: A Trump government community bulletin.

Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.

Ice agent: gaiter mask, no identification, military grade arms, no uniform, camo pants from Walmart, unmarked vehicle.

Criminal kidnapper: gaiter mask, no identification, military grade arms, no uniform, camo pants from Walmart, unmarked vehicle.

If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Ice: "Don't call us Trump's Secret Police. (It's a secret)."

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