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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115745770152711683

This post is about how my feed reader gave me a front-row seat to the "AI" Bubble's takeover of tech.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/challenging-fate/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, what are the odds that at least one reason why big tech is pushing for “AI” is that they think it’s a hedge against a repeal of section 230?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115735893674730460

So far the reports are coming back as I expected. Reported the exact same ad nine times (two with different animation but same voiceover, the rest identical), routed through a different advertiser each time, and half the reports are coming back “this ad doesn’t violate our policies” and the other half says it is in violation

Exact same ad.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115734682928783505

My books are on sale for the duration of the holidays, on account of everything being awful for pretty much everybody these days.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

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mpt@mastodon.nz ("Matthew Thomas") wrote:

@slightlyoff Zeynep’s Law: “Until there is substantial and repeated evidence otherwise, assume counterintuitive findings to be false, and second-order effects to be dwarfed by first-order ones in magnitude.”

Examples: “vaccine injuries”, regulatory capture, wealth-tax-driven emigration lowering the tax take, seatbelts encouraging risky behaviour, heavier Web pages being faster than lighter ones … They’re all possible, just presumptively less likely than the opposite.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NS0D@mastodon.hams.social ("Pete NS0D") wrote:

ATTENTION All Hams who work FT8 and use ATT Fiber:

ATT Fiber blocks the Network Time Protocol port!!!

If you don't want to be WAY off timing wise, you need to run something like NetTime to externally synch your clock.

That is all - go forth and multiply (or add repeatedly, depending on your chip instruction set)

#Hamradio #FT8

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have not built and fielded a production server since before SSL evolved into TLS.

having to use nginx as a reverse proxy "screen" to deal with low level TLS attacks against my service frosts me. the alternative, forking low level connection request handling code in someone else's library (ick, OPP aka Other Peoples' Code) to deal with ppl *deliberately trying* to crash my service, well that *really* frosts me.

so I hate everybody tonight. f*ck script kiddies, f*ck them with a pitchfork

Attachments:

• gifv: mob of muppets with pitchforks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Trump Announces New 'Dodger Dividend' For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service

#MilitaryService #Cowardice #Satire #AvoidWar #DodgerDividend

https://theonion.com/trump-announces-new-dodger-dividend-for-anyone-who-avoided-military-service/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

'An electoral liability' | Majority of young Republicans oppose aid to Israel, poll finds

#USIsraelRelations #AntisemitismDebate #ElectoralLiability #NetanyahuFavorability #YoungRepublicans

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-12-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/an-electoral-liability-majority-of-young-republicans-oppose-aid-to-israel-poll-finds/0000019b-2783-d5c5-a3df-bfe7e7320000

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cammerman@mstdn.social ("Chris Ammerman") wrote:

If the U.S. learns nothing else from this dark era that we are in, we should at least learn that propriety and tradition absolutely cannot be treated as load-bearing.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Reportedly both the professor and the suspect attended the same undergraduate university, at the same time, in Lisbon. But Prof. Loureiro went on to get his PhD at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, while the suspect went to Brown (where he didn't finish).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Is the Gaza genocide as divisive in US politics today as the Vietnam War was in its time?

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
terrytangyuan.xyz@bsky.brid.gy ("Yuan Tang") wrote:

2. Senior Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Compressor and Quantization: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Senior-Machine-Learning-Engineer--LLM-Compressor-and-Quantization%5FR-047155-1

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terrytangyuan.xyz@bsky.brid.gy ("Yuan Tang") wrote:

4. Machine Learning Engineer, vLLM Inference, Tool Calling and Structured Output: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Machine-Learning-Engineer--vLLM-Inference---Tool-Calling-and-Structured-Output%5FR-052780

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
terrytangyuan.xyz@bsky.brid.gy ("Yuan Tang") wrote:

3. Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Distributed vLLM Inference: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Boston/Principal-Machine-Learning-Engineer--Distributed-vLLM-Inference%5FR-050962-1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

To test his vaccine theories, I think that non scientist should expose himself to diseases he WASN’T vaccinated for and see how that works out.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rrmutt wrote:

RE: https://socel.net/@catandgirl/115741862295216461

"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +49°F, 52%, ↑17mph, 1006hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 22:24:08-0500 | Dawn: 07:05:14 | Sunrise: 07:38:24
Zenith: 12:07:25 | Sunset: 16:37:06 | Dusk: 17:10:16
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

quite the wind tonight, hope my end-fed "random wire" antenna doesn't tangle with that tree again 📡

#HamRadio

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I’m not an expert but is it a good sign that Trump just announced the Hunger Games?

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5655553-trump-patriot-games-2026/amp/

jwz wrote:

The "Donut Shop Ends Police Discount" guy is no longer Deputy Director of the FBI.

"I think he wants to go back to his show," Trump said.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0p

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

“we're working very hard on becoming the world leaders in ethical goatfucking, boasts the new CEO of mozilla, mr. anthony enzor-demeo.

research into the value of goatfucking itself and the potential consent issues was found unnecessary.”

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Fortunato Depero 1932 / Peter Saville 1981

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deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

Many San Francisco politicians rushed to embrace the Fillmore Safeway development, but are running as far away from the Marina Safeway development as they can get. The starkly different reactions to these two Safeways are exposing the racism, classism, and hypocrisy at the core of SF’s housing discourse. https://www.deanprestonsf.com/blog/two-safeways

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mhoye wrote:

If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs @SamatSattarov “why are you being so mean, we’re developers too” be fucking serious. Firefox is fucking cooked and so’s the web and you’re giving me PR language from an Oops! Not Actually Official! account and expecting me to not notice I’m talking to a salesperson under the employ of a millionaire who only recently told me and the rest of the Firefox userbase to personally go fuck ourselves