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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Finally, part 3. Long and winding, but that's because there's no easy answers, just soup.

An AI Haters Guide to Code with LLMs (Philosophy & Personal Politics)

https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/04/18/an-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms-philosophy/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Not every number is okay. Some are even ILLEGAL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%5Fnumbers

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I've been pretty hard on the LLM bros, but this truly is innovation (in benchmarketing):

https://youtu.be/Oq5e%5F8zvick

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I do language apps because they get me

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

1. AI Is a Research Field
2. AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
3. AI Is a Parlor Trick
4. AI Is an Ideology
5. AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
6. AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
7. AI Is a Way to Centralize Power

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]

Accordingly, this article does not provide a definition of the term “AI” but rather explores various ways in which the idea of AI has been used to organize how people understand our world, allocate resources, and relate to each other."

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jwz wrote:

Insurance Fraud Fursona.

Three sentenced for 'man in bear suit' insurance scam: Viral video handed to insurers as evidence seemed to show a bear in a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead on 28 January 2024. Similar claims were filed on the same...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6c

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

My brother is looking for survey subjects for an engineering course he's taking, with the criteria being "anyone who owns a business or, as an individual, produces large amounts of waste, or is in charge of waste disposal". If you or someone you know meets these criteria would you mind DMing me so I can send along a link to a survey? Thanks!

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
lisamelton ("Lisa Melton") wrote:

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116422911533853918

Just in case it's not obvious to cis folks here, this is a death sentence for #transgender people in the U.S. if these motherfuckers are successful.

Do *NOT* let them take this first step. That's why we need your help to fight this bullshit. Together. ✊🏳️‍⚧️

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am going to need some volutnteer copy-editors / advance readers for this monstrosity. if you're a booster this is going to be a hard read because it's relentlessly negative. but if you're a critic it's going to be a hard read because there's a lot of harm-reduction safety-tips language assuming that the reader doesn't agree with me and that they will continue to use AI (or at the very least are not able to escape mandates to use AI). so does anyone feel like doing some self-abuse next week

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
mistakenotmy ("Wolf Ha") wrote:

$30 billion and the water supply of a small city later

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ZeekWolfy ("✨Party Zeki 🌌") wrote:

Girls night! 💋

#fursuitfriday

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

@glyph @cstross @mitch @lasagne

As Trashfuture's Riley Quinn and November Kelly said on this morning's Trashfuture, American politics is a game with two health-bars: "racism" and "the number on the gas pump." They can be traded off for one another to a limited extent, but if you let either one dip too low, you are about to lose an election.

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YaLTeR@mastodon.online ("Ivan Molodetskikh") wrote:

the vscode git sidebar has three adjacent three-dots menus

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

from a menu in Toronto

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I gotta finish this curséd blog post first though. 3500 words and I'm almost done with the introduction. Starting to wonder if I'm actually just writing a book and I should be looking at a markdown -> epub pipeline instead

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

But, this *is* a community that is open to arguments about ethics and sustainability, which is rare enough in tech already, and I think it's important to be in the room to represent a constituency which has already peaced out to some degree, so I felt it would almost be an abdication of responsibility to not go for that reason.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I gotta be honest, I'm a bit annoyed at the amount of AI nonsense going on at both the conference and within the community right now. It was more emotionally difficult to book this year than it has been in years prior. I am expecting more tense social interactions that require a far higher degree of self-regulation this time than I am used to at an event where I usually feel like I am Among My People.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(and yes, I booked in the conference room block, as should you, if you're going)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

OK. I did it, finally. Travel is booked. If you're at #PyConUS2026 I will be seeing you there.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the statements "LLMs are only good for producing tedious and borderline-worthless bullshit" and "LLMs can produce code of vaguely equivalent quality to the current software industry median" are not necessarily mutually exclusive

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I've been enjoying this orchestral arrangement of songs from Giorgio Moroder this afternoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygm9uvO7NtE

(Until that concert, I did not know Giorgio Moroder was involved with Bowie's "Cat People".)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

poppermint

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyone want to set up a shoe company and pivot to ai?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Spring knight
- color version

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

well tied programs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I was making YouTube face the entire time I was watching this. Layers of surprise that I truly did not expect, starting from the title.

Dan Olson does not need me to do ads for him, but, software people, even if you're not already a fan of his, you should watch this. I will spoil it a little bit by saying that it is actually about the dangers of over-focusing on short-term metrics.

https://youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

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

it must be Spring: I am pumping up tires

Boosted by jwz:
stevebenen@journa.host ("Steve Benen") wrote:

Remember in February, when Trump filed a ridiculous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, expecting a massive taxpayer-financed payout?

The IRS signaled in a new court filing that settlement talks are underway.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/irs-signals-negotiations-with-trump-over-controversial-10-billion-leak-lawsuit