There's now a directory of "open source" (they're not) apps using the new O'Sassy License promoted by…well dontcha know it, DHH. Yeah, that guy. 🤨 Look, I have *never* shied away from offering my complaints with the state of #OpenSource, and I think OSS communities need the room to explore things like Ethical Source for example. But calling a license that is not Open Source, "open source" is a jerk move, very confusing, and possibly in a legal gray area. Don't normalize his jackassery!
ICYMI: I launched a new video channel the other day! It's published via my #PieFed server Human Web Collective, and the videos are hosted via Bunny CDN. You can watch, join, and comment at the link, or if you really want to, you can follow from anywhere in the #fediverse: @npub14u8y...l5ad This is a setup I'm super excited about! ”Down the Lane“ is my new fedi experiment:
Art Deco’s Revenge: The Rise and Fall of Millennials (and Their Gray)
A new fediverse video channel? _Oh yeah!_ 🥳 Welcome to **Down the Lane**, a conversation about something which is both timely & timeless. In tod...
Oh this is rich. 🤣 https://www.commondreams.org/news/tesla-robotaxi-crash-rate
“Jared, be reasonable.” OK, here is me being reasonable. I’ve been telling people that if they want to use slop machines for their “internal” workflows for research/inspo/demo prototyping/whatever, that’s their business. Merely keep it out of any production output please! (Because sharing slop in public is rude.) Guess what? That actually makes me more moderate than this post! 😅
Aftermath
I Don't Think Larian's CEO Understands How Art Is Made
'I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it' [Citation needed]
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Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Links https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/1457249/meta-is-considering-charging-business-pa...
As a humorous riff off of the very Millennial buzzword "metrosexual", I wrote in my diary in 2022 that I was "Aragornsexual". Because of course. And although it’s a silly joke, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. Herein lies the first installment in my new series on the lifelong struggle with Performative #Masculinity and the storied images of manhood in pop culture past and present. #blog 🔗
Jared White
Dear Men, What is Preventing You from Looking Like…Aragorn?
The first installment in my new series on the lifelong struggle with Performative Masculinity and the storied images of manhood in pop culture past...
Starbucks? More like Starsucks amirite 😂 But seriously. Stand with labor. #BoycottStarbucks “The Red Cup Rebellion unfair labor practice (ULP) strike grew to over 3,800 baristas in 180+ stores across 130+ cities Thursday as the largest wave yet of union baristas walked off the job to protest Starbucks’ historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract.”
Starbucks Workers United
In Largest Expansion Yet, Hundreds of New Union Starbucks Baristas in 34 Cities Join Historic Red Cup Rebellion as ULP Strike Sweeps Nation - Starbucks Workers United
NATIONWIDE – The Red Cup Rebellion unfair labor practice (ULP) strike grew to over 3,800 baristas in 180+ stores across 130+ cities Thursday as t...
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404 Media (@404mediaco@mastodon.social)
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot. https://www.404media.co/ant...
 What a bizarre story! Jason Clinton seems unwell. I'm not saying this as a joke, I really hope he can get the help he needs for his mental health. It's always upsetting when you hear about another case of chatbot psychosis, but it's a unique sort of upsetting when that person is Chief Information Security Officer of a major tech company. 😟 View quoted note →
Yet another reminder that when Meta reports any statistics about anything going on on their platforms, a decent percentage of it is all fraudulent. In this respect, the following is not news at all. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampant-ad-fraud-china-safeguard-billions-revenue-2025-12-15/
I read this report concerning the latest freakshow re: Time Magaine and literally felt the brain cells in my crainium shrinking. So you probably don't want to read it. (Save yourselves!) But I'll share it anyway, particularly because that quote from Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs is so batshit crazy. It explains a lot. 😂
Futurism
Time Magazine Deploys AI "Ask Me Anything" Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can't Be Closed
The website for Time magazine now features a big AI chatbox that can't be closed and won't go away, blocking even its main headlines.