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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Bought Qi chargers 3 months ago. Clearly stored them somewhere "safe" and "memorable".

On second thought, they probably fled the apartment, in a coordinated operation with all my spare HDMI cables 🤔

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

One adjacent example of intentional miscommunication: the word "open" as applied to AI. An LLM cannot be "open source" unless you have access to the training data and methodologies. "Open weights" is a craven attempt to misdirect the word "open" — we might as well say that bunch of machine code is "open" because you can disassemble it.

LLMs can only be trained at extremely disproportionate scale, such that they cannot be "open" in any meaningful sense.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

And yes, this is once again critiquing Dash's whole "I trained this model myself from open weights." That's fine-tuning. You didn't "train it yourself," you took a model someone gave you *in its compiled form* and tweaked it. Unless you have provenance for all the training data that went into it and can assert that the authors of that data agreed to have their labor used in that way, you cannot use that fine-tuning as an argument about labor ethics.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Winter morning. An unassuming snap from a recent photo walk.

#darktable

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.

All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:

I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the sense of machine learning, statistical inference, or other similarly valid things AI boosters use to shield from critique.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115766140296237983

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¹Not actually a theorem.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Arseny Kapoulkine") wrote:

time to update code for the new year

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My mom asked me to help her with a problem with her WordPress (.com) site, and oh boy. It's been a while since I've seen a UI that frustrating. The new theme editor is a sluggish nightmare. It took me by surprise too, was originally trying to troubleshoot an issue with her original theme, switched to another, suddenly the theme editor is completely different, previous theme nowhere to be found.

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

Took hours, but have cleared out around 80% of the feeds from the feed reader.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@robinhouston/115821134807127928

Wow, someone discovered a more efficient way of multiplying two 3×3 matrices! You might think this would have already been solved.

This new method, due to A. Perminov, uses 23 multiplications and 58 addition/subtractions. The previous best used 60 addition/subtractions and 23 multiplications - and this was discovered only in August last year. The first scheme using 23 multiplications dates back to 1976.

This is not at all the sort of math I'd ever want to work on; it reminds me of pole-vaulting and other specialized athletic competitions. But it's one of those problems that's easy to explain, hard to solve.

(As @robinhouston emphasizes, this new scheme is the only the best known if you want to allow for the possibility that multiplication could be noncommutative for the 'numbers' in your matrices - like for the quaternions. For commutative rings, like the reals and complex numbers, people already know how to do multiply 3×3 matrices with just 21 multiplications.)

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

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

Today in History: J.D. Salinger born, 1919

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's that weird Christmas time where weekdays are just suggestions. Could be Tuesday. Could be 2022. Nobody knows.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Mum is bringing a couple of her friends around tomorrow for a trial run of my celtic knotwork lesson next week, she's bringing pasties and I made a victoria sponge. :D

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

The Rise and Shine slice and a delicious and fortifying Bloody Mary!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The amount of news coverage this stupid tweet got was actually wild. I got doxxed, death threats, emails, DMs. I even got a postcard in THE MAIL from someone in Germany. It was a nice letter though.

Wildest couple of weeks of my life.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

So when anyone clicked the link from his tweet, they landed on my webpage.

Not such a big deal if Giuliani quickly deleted the tweet. But he didn't. He left it up. It's probably still up now(?)

To make matters worse, he tweeted out again blaming Twitter for his typo. Saying it was a hack lmao.

Remember, Rudy Giuliani was like Trump's technology czar, or some shit like that, at the time. It wasn't a good look.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/rudy-giuliani-falsely-blames-twitter-after-typo-points-anti-trump-n944136

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Second, I kind of trolled Rudy Giuliani so bad that it made the news.

Giuliani posted a tweet with the kind of typo that creates a hyperlink by not including a space between the period of a sentence.

I happened to see his tweet the second it was posted. I clicked the url, no one owned it. I bought it and whipped up a webpage as I was on my way out to do an improv show.

The website's message:
"Donald J Trump is a traitor to our country."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46440529

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I know I give liberals a hard time for not being progressive enough (plus a lot of other things).

But, now that we're all friends, I think it's worth mentioning that the two things I'm most known for on the internet are the worst cases of libbing out you've ever heard.

First, I wrote *a lot* of the Biden and Obama memes in 2015. I didn't invent the meme but I managed a novelty Twitter account where I pumped them out like wild 🫣. And anything I posted were written by me. Sorry about that.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters:

"“A combination of weatherproof tents, colocation facilities and Meta’s traditional datacenter buildings, this datacenter shows Meta’s pivot towards AI,” Epoch said"

Seems like a pivot towards infrastructure which I feel may prove to be an important distinction one day. https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters:

"The team pores over satellite imagery, building permits, and other local legal documents to build a map of the massive computer filled buildings springing up across the United States."

Here’s the interactive map.

https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers/satellite-explorer

https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Shout out to Tales of the Flowers: just a family blog I stumbled across with semi-daily posts since 2007. No social media links. Nothing really to sell. Just cataloging their life and vacations.

Nothing wrong with selling stuff, btw. I love small businesses. It’s just so rare to see someone blogging like this for the love of the game that isn’t tech related.

#blogging https://www.flowerstales.com/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

Este hilo que hizo @fromjason está buenísimo. Lectura obligada. Añado mis pensamientos abajo. 🧵

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115806120211378582

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
juliana@solarpunk.moe ("Rat Goddess of Vengeance") wrote:

eating yeast is vegan because yeast are nasty lil freaks and they like it

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Yes "fight" was a typo for "right" but holy shit it worked even better so I kept it

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey, fuck fascism, there, now I've started 2026 on the fight foot

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
uoou@mas.to wrote:

I've written briefly about some of the (media) things I enjoyed the most in 2025.

https://friendo.monster/posts/things-i-enjoyed-in-2025.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

His vibe dysphoria bit makes me laugh so hard every time.

https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisflemingfleming/video/7269797958563007790

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

What's the name of that comedian who has medium length curly hair and wear glasses? He has big theater kid energy. Perhaps queer. Very funny (imo). Screams and is very animated on stage?

Remember when you could type a description into Google and it would more often than not give you the right person?

Edit: Chris Fleming!