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Justin Mason

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Dublin-based software engineer; still linkblogging at https://jmason.ie/ . Nerdy stuff on https://mastodon.ie/@jmason . Works at NewsWhip, used to work at Swrve, Amazon and on SpamAssassin, nowadays mostly just being a dad in Dublin. Opinions my own.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 17h

The worst thing about this is finding out that Nazis have claimed Little Dark Age. ffs

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

Ok, handsomely might be pushing it. But that's just one video!

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

That people are now being paid handsomely to hate, is a huge, huge social problem. Regulation is desperately needed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This week’s violence has raised serious questions for some of the main social media platforms. Livestream content depicting violence outside Citywest was broadcast on YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, with streamers rewarded by viewer donations, as they captured protesters shouting racist expletives towards Citywest.
In one eight-minute segment of an hour-long livestream I watched on YouTube that night, the user broadcast the burning of the Garda van, referred to migrants in horrific terms and proclaimed they were there to show people “the real truth”. During the video, they received the equivalent of €56 in donations from viewers around the world. The notion that violence can be monetised on social media illustrates a glaring failure of platforms to adequately enforce their own community guidelines around violence.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

I absolutely recognise banks in that description

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 2d

one thing that i guess is kind of implied about home ownership but should really be spelled out directly in specific detail is that sometimes you may find a ceiling light full of liquid and it becomes your job to solve That Mystery

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

lol I have had EXACTLY this experience

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

absolute vocoder banger

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

Huh. I ran into exactly the same problem as Immich when I set up a Linkding install on my personal hosting. It seems Google have become allergic to any kind of hosted login pages, seeing them as phishing attempts. immich.app/blog/google-...

Google flags Immich sites as dangerous | Immich Blog

How Google actively breaks Immich deployments, an open-source Google Photos alternative

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

With Miller and Hegseth in charge, 100%

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · Jul 24

Some photos I took at the Sanctuary of Delphi in Greece, then recreated in Assassin's Creed Odyssey's photo mode.

A photo of the Sanctuary of Delphi in Greece.

A screenshot of the same area taken in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

Christine Burns mentioned this here! mastodon.green/@christinebu...

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (@[email protected])

PS. I have no way of communicating with Ashlee but I know people on BlueSky read my Mastodon feed bridged there. Obviously there are also people on Mastodon with accounts on BlueSky as well. I hope so...

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

absolutely awful. Those poor people

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

Extremely not musical favourite any more, believe it or not!

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

Grace Walker and Super Spesh were great characters. I'm on board!

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

yeah. what should be very simple becomes a mess of "oops handle the unexpected error responses"

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

love it

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

I just came across this Stephen Collins comic and it seems very relevant to this story making it across the channel.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

docker pull throttles are a nightmare to deal with. Like surely these are just blobs in an object store, why is this so hard?

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

ICCL's Kris Shishak has an excellent point eupolicy.social/@KrisShrisha...

"Ireland, like other EU member states, is yet to empower the relevant [AI Act] regulators. This means that it is not clear which AI regulator in Ireland would be monitoring this prohibition and who could take action"

Kris Shrishak (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Presidential election in the Republic of Ireland this Friday and Irish Independent reports that deepfakes of RTE news bulletins are circulating. It is quite likely that this falls u...

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 3d

Update: Facebook has now removed the deepfake AI video after being contacted by @Independent_ie for comment. Some of that account’s most-viewed content (100k+ views) up for days, though. Supposed to be spotted quickly.

m.independent.ie/business/tec...

AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘quitting’ presidential race goes viral on Facebook

A series of Al deepfake videos of RTÉ news bulletins criticising presidential candidate Catherine Connolly have amassed over 160,000 views and hundreds of genuine comments on Facebook.

m.independent.ie

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 3d

Coimisiún na Meán have been making noises about online regulation and election coverage regulation for some time.

Time to walk the walk.

Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 3d

This particular political deepfake account uses the same brand styling as RTE. Its last fake video here, not quite as slick but still passable, got 114k views, 268 comments and 309 shares on Facebook. It’s still live after four days.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

"I SAID I WANTED A REVERSE BATHTUB"

A real photo of Grover in a white ball cap and red apron standing out in his yard, in the Great Dismal Swamp, really, he lived in a swamp, in a ton of mud he is trying to make not flood his terribly designed and even worse built house as Trump yells at him, cuz I took Trump out of that weird photo where he was yelling at a little white kid who wanted to mow his lawn the first time we had to deal with this shit.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 3d

It really is, and it's sickening to see OpenAI gleefully leaning into it

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 4d

there is no moral difference between fox "hunting" and dog fighting

a canine trained to kill another canine, for nothing more than the amusement of braying idiots

dog fighting is rightly outlawed, and those supporting it would be social pariahs. fox hunters get dressed up for a nice day out

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 4d

🗣️ “If a fox is being ripped limb from limb and is dying a slow and agonising death - how can you say you abhor animal cruelty?”

🗣️ “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”

Heather Humphreys discusses her support for fox hunting and hare coursing.

#TheBigInterview

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