@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-13 09:45:47
🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified.
#GazaVerified
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-13 09:45:47
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-12 15:56:58
When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-11 10:55:40
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-murder
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-12 20:56:02
Sources: Paramount CEO David Ellison met with Trump last week for two conversations; Trump has said he will stay out of Netflix-Paramount competition for WBD (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/media/david-ellison-tr…
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-08 23:26:04
Il existe des #chiens #savant
https://www.la…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-12 05:33:47
Meditation With Ashley Brown
Each week you'll find: Simple meditation insights to understand the mind. Guided practices for calm, focus, and inner freedom. Inspiring conversations with my favourite teachers and wisdom keepers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustr…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-10 14:13:26
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-12-10 20:37:33
I've been on a business event / meet up.
It was really good, met a couple of interesting people and had really good conversations. It was good to just speak with strangers.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-12 21:29:34
Super Bowl winner, national champion DC added to Raiders coaching mix https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/super-bowl-winner-national-champion-dc-added-to-raiders-coaching-mix-3606749/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 06:07:46
Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-11 03:46:05
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/microsoft-copilot-personal-productivity
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-31 13:51:01
»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
🙄
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-08 08:24:47
EAL/D Conversations
Explores features of EAL/D education across NSW government schools, unpacks elements of second language acquisition and highlights practices that support effective teaching and learning for EAL/D students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-25 21:20:35
Putin's secret conversations with Bush: Kremlin planned aggression and didn't hide its hatred: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/putins-secret-conversations-with-bush.html
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-01-08 14:24:01
Finished reading "So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin" by Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik.
Gopnik interviews his friend Martin in intimate conversations about his multifaceted career: magic, comedy, film, novels, banjo, and art collecting.
Martin emerges as a true renaissance man, applying analytical rigor across diverse art forms. Focused explorations rather than exhaustive biography, their friendship creates genuine reflection.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-02-08 18:20:03
@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-08 12:53:56
Your regular reminder that you can find all of our Gaza Verified families’ fundraisers (those who use GoFundMe and Chuffed) in a single list at:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
The list is ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last seven days.
If you can, plea…
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io2025-12-07 17:16:35
Excellent piece by @… on the ebb and flow of creative work and the inevitability and importance of fallow periods.
“What I failed to notice: that the fallow periods were doing something too. They were composting. I was taking in books and conversations and experiences without the pressure to immediately metabolize them into output. I was wandering without a map, which meant I sometimes stumbled into territory I never would have found if I'd been navigating by GPS.
The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-01-29 15:02:28
Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations https://www.404media.co/massive-ai-chat-app-leaked-millions-of-users-private-conversations/
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-22 17:31:57
“The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.”
Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confess
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 01:24:39
After some great conversations yesterday I took myself up on my own challenge 🤣
After cosmix-saigon (using the unstable channel of NixOS, bcs of the most updated Cosmic DE) I just revitalized asterix-saigon.
Based on the nixbook project (thnks @… ) and NixOS Stable this gives you that rock solid stability and the latest and greatest KDE Pla…
@mia@hcommons.social2025-12-04 16:45:36
On a day full of conversations about big AI tech and the decisions museum, libraries and archives have to make at the intersection of licensing data for AI and their values, the AI Afterlives workbook seems like a thought-provoking exercise #FF2025
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-01-07 15:46:55
I'm betting on Betteridge's Law for this one. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936576/2026/01/06/heated-rivalry-nhl-hockey-culture-change/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-29 07:25:59
"(In)accessibility in Higher Education and the Myth of the Ideal Academic" by Elizabeth Champion @ De Gruyter Conversations:
https://blog.degruyter.com/inaccessibility-in-higher-education-and-the-myth-of-the-ideal-academic/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-31 15:06:29
What I learned from candid conversations with Taylen Green, T.J. Parker and others during Senior Bowl week
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/senior-bowl-game-2026-top-prospects/
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-26 11:18:15
Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136…
@tanyakaroli@expressional.social2025-12-05 04:30:38
Hvis man har lyst til at nŸrde sprog med mig og et par kolleger, er her et spritnyt afsnit af podcasten Writing wrongs (med en lidt for dramatisk titel, synes jeg, men hvad): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/writing-wrongs/id1797795962?l=da&i=100…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-09 04:15:41
The Golden Globes' inaugural best podcast award nominations avoided controversy by passing on popular politics-related podcasts and personalities like Joe Rogan (Mark Kennedy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/golden-globes-podcast-cat…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-31 19:18:35
Baron Davis' favorite conversations from 2025 | Raiders: Talk of the Nation https://www.raiders.com/video/baron-davis-favorite-conversations-2025-raiders-talk-of-the-nation-nfl
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-03 23:39:39
With few Epstein files released, conspiracy theories flourish and questions remain
"I know from survivors and survivors' lawyers that when they had these conversations with FBI agents, they specifically named other men who they were trafficked to or who showed up at the island or who covered up for this abuse," Khanna said. "There were lawyers of the survivors present there. There are dozens of these interview memorandums. The DOJ has not released a single one."
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5662638/epstein-files-release-trump-conspiracy-2026
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-01-03 14:06:10
Got an email that it was 22 years ago that I started a LiveJournal. 😃 For a number of years in the 2000s, “LJ” was the main place I shared my thoughts and general posts. I did set it up as “blog . danyork . com”… and I remember many conversations there. After it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007, I started to phase out my usage. The last time I really used it was 2008.
Now… it is a trip into the past:
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-04 05:48:10
Remember to use C attributes in your conversations. People always appreciate some qualifiers like [[likely]] or [[unlikely]]. If you talk to older people, you may prefer __builtin_expect instead.
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-09 20:59:18
The Barefoot Hustler
Offers explorative conversations with inspiring creatives, visionaries and entrepreneurs that are challenging the status quo and paving their own route to success and happiness...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/barefo
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-01-02 15:47:06
#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-01-22 15:09:32
U.S. Senator and YDS alum Chris Coons '92 M.A.R., '92 J.D. on American Conversations with Heather Cox Richardson! Watch the video here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/26854423997479001/
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-01-05 15:47:21
🔧 Prompt sensitivity testing - verify small phrasing changes don't break behavior (formal vs casual openings)
💰 Cost tracking built-in - use cheap model for conversation, smarter model for judging. Budget alerts at $5/month, run tests nightly not on every commit
🎓 Real catches: character breaks, premature agreement, prompt injection leaks, persona drift in long conversations
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-01-04 00:26:13
I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2026-01-01 10:25:11
I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026
You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.
Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-20 13:35:51
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-02-04 08:57:09
You can search for any tech guy's name and they plop out of the files.
Besides the shady mail conversations you can see there's also Steven Sinofsky's Retirement Agreement in there for some reason in case you wanted to see how that looks like.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-16 06:05:11
»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-28 08:46:46
On this International Remembrance Day for the Victims of the #Holocaust, can we please also spare a thought for the victims of the #genocide that is happening right now, right in front of our faces?
What is the point of our remembering the atrocious crimes of the past if we do not strive to pre…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-02-02 06:07:36
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-01 11:09:47
Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.
@mia@hcommons.social2025-12-03 20:14:23
So many conversations about AI literacy and training for museum, library and archive staff at #FF2025! Perhaps we need a RAG chatbot for finding existing training resources in whatever flavour you need
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io2026-02-04 14:25:20
“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-22 20:20:40
A lot of conversations about neurodivergence take the form of the first image below. I’m arguing to adopt the framing of the second image instead (except 100- or 1000-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional).
We’ve identified a few clusterings in a space of extraordinary and beautiful variation, and given those clusterings names. How useful those names are! How little they capture, even so! How much variation remains unnamed! How much variation must exist within every human being!
12/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-05 10:21:30
Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for verification as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).
I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.
In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Isra…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-01-06 13:17:05
Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday we had a Yellow snowfall warning and today it's a Yellow freezing rain warning. It seems like the winter of 2025 - 2026 is going to prompt more conversation than usual about the weather. Therefore I'm providing this Wiki article as a public service. You can meteorologicaly mesmerize your family, friends, and coworkers with these wild bits of trivia on Canadian extreme weather. And even if you don't awkwardly wedge some of this into your conversations, the crazy numbers appeal to the weather nerds in all of us.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
Weather extremes in Canada - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_extremes_in_Canada
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-09 02:42:18
Life Inside The Salad Bowl
This is a space for honest conversations about navigating reality, celebrating recovery, and finding light after darkness...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-inside-the-salad-bowl/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-18 17:40:58
Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/snapchat-rolls-out-topic-chats-for-publ…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 01:35:23
QUOTE
“We gave them ample notice,” Hudgens said when asked about Alt5 Sigma’s claim it missed its
third-quarter deadline because of delays tied to its independent accountant.
Hudgens said his firm had conversations with possible successors
-- but he didn’t think Alt5 Sigma had engaged any of them.
As for when a company is late with filing a quarterly report, in general, he said,
“it usually indicates issues"
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-04 11:49:30
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Azez (@…)
• Saly🍉✌️ (@…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2025-12-04 23:50:48
🧠 Next-token diffusion framework combines LLM text understanding with diffusion-based audio generation
🌍 Supports English & Chinese with cross-lingual capabilities
🎤 Handles spontaneous singing & natural turn-taking in conversations
📊 10.2k GitHub stars, MIT licensed
https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-11-27 09:20:05
This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-08 05:33:18
Not Just Leadership
Honest conversations with guests from Australia, the Pacific and Latin America, looking at the personal side of leadership: identity, values, challenges and growth...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/not-just-l…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 20:06:03
Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-wearables-startup-limitl…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-25 06:05:22
Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah"
https://ift.tt/FYAtiy4
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-11-23 01:09:36
Time to lose some hashtags I follow. Conversations turning into evangelical ripostes.
A pity, fortunately enough the valuable and valued conversations still outweigh the preachers by far.
Hope it stays that way. I have no illusion it will.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-03 15:18:03
Hey everyone, Aseel is one of our team members on Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) and graciously volunteers her time to help us with our verification calls.
Please support her if you can.
Thank you!
💕
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-30 11:05:25
Encrypt It Already
End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the best way we have to ensure private conversations remain private. Not enough companies use it as broadly as they should. Learn more here.
— by @…
🔐
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-03 12:04:42
Hey everyone,
@…, @…, and I had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Ameen.Gaza (@…
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-26 16:30:45
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-04 13:16:12
Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-04 12:26:05
Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-04 11:16:59
The Gardener's Lodge
Through conversations with experts, industry leaders, and passionate enthusiasts, discover fresh insights into horticulture, gardening, agriculture, and ecology...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/growing-media/…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-24 15:24:44
Seventy percent of Americans oppose to US military action in Venezuela, CBS News/YouGov poll finds
Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization
as US prepares for next phase of operations
https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-01 11:59:59
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• eslam94 (@…)
• Hassan From Gaza 🍉🇵🇸 (
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-02 10:03:15
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-03 18:08:09
The Mojo Sessions
Features in-depth conversations with the world's most interesting people, hosted by Gary Bertwistle...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mojo-sessions/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-01 00:38:05
I’m not really sure what it means, given the state of the world, but I guess in an aspirational sense, at least, as in “against all evidence to the contrary, here’s hoping 2026 will be a…”
Here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year.
(Except the fascists. They can get fucked.)
💕
PS. You can find people in need in Gaza to donate to at https://
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-04 05:34:00
Future People
Each episode features unfiltered conversations with leaders who are rethinking value, legacy, and leadership in a world being rebuilt...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/future-people/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-20 21:41:08
Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-31 07:37:54
“Throughout our trip to Germany, most of the conversations I had with other survivors and their families reliably returned to fears and intergenerational traumas in the context of the Trump presidency; the rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and uncertainty in the U.S. and around the world. But although this was at the height of devastating reports of famine and genocide emerging from Gaza, everyone in our group, especially the Jews, seemed to make a concerted effort to avoid mention of Pa…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-01 18:08:10
What It Was Like
Conversations with people who have lived through extreme events...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-it-was-like/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-29 09:21:57
Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-28 12:07:21
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to four families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Mohamed Ismail (@…)
• Zaki (
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-02 18:08:55
RABcasts: Industry Leaders Exploring Global Change
Join Dr Suresh de Silva, Sydney radiologist and founder of global charity Radiology Across Borders, for a series of conversations with health and other industry leaders...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rabcas
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 17:09:15
Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-02 02:42:54
The Family Tree
A podcast for parents who want grounded conversations without the overwhelm, hosted by Jess and Bree...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-family-tree/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-27 14:49:12
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Aya (@…)
• Raghda (@…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-26 12:26:43
Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-26 21:01:40
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-31 11:16:54
A Voice And Beyond
Through heartfelt conversations and inspiring stories, we take you, our listener, on an incredible journey of connection, growth, and empowerment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-voice-and-beyond/…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-26 17:58:37
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-26 08:54:11
Your regular reminder that you can find the fundraisers of people from Gaza who are part of our fediverse community and donate to them directly to meet their basic everyday needs at:
#Gaza
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 12:15:45
A study of mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI: they often failed to recognize signs of conditions and offered general advice (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-29 08:24:04
Talking Aussie Farming
Each episode features candid conversations with farmers, innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders shaping the future of food and farming...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/talking-aussie-farming/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-24 12:30:16
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Dania (@…)
• Heba & her husband Tareq and t…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-28 11:16:57
The Dust Up
A series of conversations about surfboard designs, shaper interviews and lots more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-22 17:26:04
Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-21 12:08:17
Hey folks,
@… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new families to Gaza Verified today.
They are:
• Nour (@…) – please send her some love as the genocidal Israeli army bombed a position near her home while w…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-26 18:09:02
The Women To Wealth Podcast
A place I hope becomes your corner of the online world where you can hear conversations that are real, honest and funny, away from the reels, filters, and having to have the perfect script...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-s…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-20 11:50:37
Hey everyone,
Today, @… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Ahmad (@…)
• Suad (@…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-26 11:16:41
Live Work More Human
The home of big ideas, bold conversations and brave questions on all things work, life and leadership...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-are-human-leaders/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-19 12:20:33
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to @… today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.
She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-18 12:07:57
Hi everyone,
I had video chats with three people and families from Gaza today and I’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Yazzan (@…)
• Hadi (@…)
• Abeer (
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-17 13:05:04
Folks, if you want to donate to our Gaza Verified families but don’t know who to donate to or are overwhelmed, here’s is a list of all the families, sorted by those who have raised the least in the last seven days:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
(The list is based on
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-17 18:20:07
This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
Thank you!
💕
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-17 12:57:13
I just saw that we now have over 100 verified accounts on Gaza Verified.
https://gaza-verified.org/people/
That’s over 100 people that @…,
