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Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. Today sounds interesting, we have an amber warning for heavy snow; a yellow for ice and a yellow for wind. I might stay in bed today! I also have a funny feeling that our heating stopped working during the night, I'll have to check that out when the house wakes up.

Hopefully, you will have a better day than us. Have fun, laughs, optional strong drink. Take care.

Today's photo is from January 2023, taken at Yeadon Tarn. Fungus on a dead tree trunk.

A clump of brown bracket fungus, I don't know which type, growing from the moss covered, gnarly bark of a dead tree. The photo is a close up so that the clump of fungi are the main subject, however, the texture of the bark, with its dark green mossy covering, is also interesting.

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Indonesia today became the first country to block Grok.

"The government views non-consensual deepfake practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space."

cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-sus…


Indonesia suspends Grok AI over sexualized images

Elon Musk's platform is facing global backlash after reports emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts.
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The US right wing news coverage of the Canadian "trucker convoy" came with a lot of "liberate Canada" rhetoric and that was the first blip on my radar that the US could be more of a threat than an ally.

It actually concerned me to the point I mentioned it on a few shows at the time and just got weird looks. And yet...

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RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

UBISOFT IS ANTI-LABOUR. If you think they're NOT, then you're NOT paying attention. Or, you're a moron. #NOTSORRY

#FUCKUBISOFT #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan

somecanuckchick

2026-01-11 00:22:59

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Only took 12 days... gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut…

See my December 29, 2025 post: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

#UBISOFTISGARBAGE #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan

♲ @somecanuckchick@mastodon.world:

How long until #Ubisoft closes up shop in Halifax? cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia… #cdnpoli #polcan #canlab #union #unions #gaming #games




Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected

The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.
Jon Hicks (GamesIndustry.biz)

#cdnpoli #polcan #boycottubisoft #notsorry #fuckubisoft

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Only took 12 days... gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut…

See my December 29, 2025 post: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

#UBISOFTISGARBAGE #BOYCOTTUBISOFT #cdnpoli #polcan


Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected

The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.
Jon Hicks (GamesIndustry.biz)

somecanuckchick

2025-12-29 18:40:07

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How long until #Ubisoft closes up shop in Halifax? cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia… #cdnpoli #polcan #canlab #union #unions #gaming #games

#cdnpoli #polcan #ubisoftisgarbage #boycottubisoft
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The Matrix.org Foundation

common reasons for having a bad time:

1) if you lose your session (clear the tab; delete the app) and later try to log back in, you will lose history sent since you were last logged in. this is fixed by MSC3814, but implementation has got repeatedly stuck.

2) if you forget your recovery key/passphrase, you'll lose all your history. this could be improved too.

3) if your server is beta or underpowered then risk of badness.

4) abusive spam (we've been working away on antiabuse)

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If your #fanfic summary starts off "All characters were bornded in 2008 instead" I'm not reading any further. Bornded? Really? I can't even...how do we get to bornded? Born is already the past tense! Okay, but if you didn't know that, I could see borned. I don't like it, but not everyone speaks English, and that's totally okay. But if you're using some kind of translation dictionary, wouldn't it give you the word "birth" and so then you'd write "birthed"? Birthed isn't my favourite, either, but it's fine. It's a real word. I've been sitting here for several minutes trying to figure out how anyone, anywhere, gets to "bornded". I would even accept "gived birth to", especially if your native language isn't English; it's a good try.
#fanfic

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Oh! Posting late because I forgot about this, but it fits #fedidreams. My dream journal last night said (cleaned up quite a bit from the transcript): "Listening to the radio. Heard an add like in OTR. But it was for choco-sausages. Yes, thanks to modern technology, Campbells soup has been able to create sausages, with chocolate chips embedded in them! That's right, now you, too, can enjoy having a sausage with chocolate chips in it. And it's all thanks to Campbells, producers of theoretically consumable products since 1900. Remember, choco-sausages contain chemicals that are unknown to the state of California. Campbells does not claim any medical benefits for choco-sausages, that choco-sausages may treat or cure any medical condition, or that choco-sausages are food or a suitable part of any meal." I have no other context. I guess I dreamed this? Or did I just...partly wake up and think this idea was so good it had to be recorded? I have no idea. My mumbling made it obvious I wasn't really awake.
#fedidreams

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Been seeing a survey going around fedi this morning about Discord's use of AI, but it's hosted on some other unrelated website, there's no mention of it on discord's blog and the first time I've heard of it is from mastodon, so, like, anybody got a source for this, or is this just someone playing games?

EDIT: The domain has been used by Discord in the past (see thread), which points to this survey being legit!

(I do still wonder why I heard it from Fedi rather than from Discord though)

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

Last question was something like "Would you stop using discord if we added AI" and obviously I answered no but also obviously I won't stop using discord if it goes even shittier because, like, I didn't want to use discord in the first place lol, a group chat moved to it from facebook and I couldn't make a compelling case for Jabber given that discord is easier to use, shitting it all up with AI isn't gonna change the fundamentals here

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Today I've been reminded to be careful about inferring anything based on what I encounter as a research subject. I was participating in a project where a grad student was studying interactions between blind people and robots. The robots kept failing to correctly complete the tasks that I was supposed to be asking them to do. After I was finished, the researcher told me that the robots had been programmed to make those mistakes on purpose, since they are common mistakes that robots might make, and she was trying to learn about the way a blind person would react to these mistakes. I was glad that she told me this, since, until then, my take-away had been that these robots were early research prototypes that couldn't reliably perform tasks, but this wasn't exactly the right take-away.

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Is it just me or does it feel super corrupt that all of these charities are paying their "leadership" seven (7) figure salaries?

The top one is making over $5 million USD / year.

charitywatch.org/nonprofit-com…

Nonprofit Compensation Packages of $1 Million or More

Which charities compensate their executives most highly. CharityWatch's salary information is calculated using the IRS Form 990.
www.charitywatch.org
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