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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m not a huge believer in “use Emacs for everything possible,” but a modern Gopher/Gemini client seems entirely appropriate in it somehow.

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joshuagrochow@mathstodon.xyz ("Joshua Grochow") wrote:

@df @Gargron Academics may study LLMs out in the open, but I don't think academia has been able to produce LLMs whose outputs are sufficiently marketable compared to the current commercially available ones. Because the first "L" ("large") is - in our current, limited understanding - crucial for the verisimilitude of the synthetic text, and only corporations (and governments, but they mostly haven't gotten to this yet) have the scale to get large enough for that so far.

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babadookspinoza ("they/them might be giants ☭") wrote:

Poverty is like quicksand: once you’re in, struggling only sinks you faster. Late fees, overdraft fees, higher priced smaller quantities, high interest rates… being broke becomes your biggest expense and full-time job. Always paying for yesterday, never able to build a future.

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anderson_jon@hachyderm.io ("Jon Anderson") wrote:

If George Floyd was the catalyzing event that finally radicalized me against police, AI is the event that has truly radicalized me against capitalism.

Before: "yeah it's bad and sucks and hurts us, but like...idk"
Me now: "jesus christ burn it to the ground, it is simply a parasite on even the ECONOMY let alone the people."

AI truly feels like a pinnacle of extraction of workers and environment. To turn the world into a theme park for the wealthy. It makes me think of a...post somewhere online that's like "If you want to live in a walkable city but all the people working at restaurants and coffee shops can't afford to live there, you're living in a theme park." It's what they want. Because service industry jobs WILL still exist, but everything that makes us human will be extracted and sold. I might feel differently if that money were, i don't know, given back to us. But it never would be, never could be.

And it is ever more painful because I nearly feel like I *must* use it or be fired in short time if it comes to light I haven't been. If I don't, I will be unable to pay rent and they will hire someone else (IF ANYBODY?) to extract more from. And it'll be me and many people (so many more qualified than me, at that) competing for the scraps of not-all-in-on AI companies of which there will be increasingly few. Where are my morals except given away to the dollar for survival. Or competing for trade schools or whatever husks remain.

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chriswarcraft.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Chris Kluwe") wrote:

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3mgqlddag2k25

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

You see, social media is like chocolate banana bread. It-- lol jk.

No but for real. I'm BS skeptical to put it mildly. And I really hope I get to be embarrassed about that one day.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Bluesky is as-tech. They may lead with subscriptions first. But the ads are coming.

What does an ad network with a public firehose of user data look like?

No really, I'm asking. What does that look like because we've never seen that before.

For one, I think, the concept of privacy is completely dead. The Cambridge Analytica-style of psychological targeting is now democratized. So that's fun. We don't make a big enough deal about that firehose.

Anyway, I just made chocolate banana bread.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Rudy, the founder of Blacksky was cool enough to share expenses.

What immediately sticks out to me is the AppView expense. Blacksky must index the entirety of Bluesky's posts.

That means ATProtocol is designed to favor the largest node. The small nodes must cary an uncontrollable, unpredictable expense. That's a pretty unattractive aspect of this decentralized ecosystem.

You could be breaking even one day, then overnight in the red after a big migration that you may or may not benefit from.

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pedro@social.bufu.link ("Pedro Bufulin") wrote:

@fromjason I don't know if you will enjoy reading this (hope you do) but I found your blog randomly somewhere I don't remember, found it quite interesting and decided to ape your website style and even made my own doodles:

https://bufu.link/

Thanks for the inspiratino, see you around

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Objectively, too much power still rests in the Public Good Company's hands. It's like I'm watching troops amass the border while the General is on the radio claiming "this isn't an invasion." That's the vibes I get from Bluesky, currently.

And I'd rather be embarrassed and wrong, than politely watch another Meta superpower take hold of the web.

That said, I'm suspicious of BS while still optimistic about projects like Blacksky. But they're up against a lot...

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mgrinder ("Michael Grinder") wrote:

@fromjason I remember loving the movie Big when I was a kid, but was kind of horrified when I re-watched it as an adult. A thirteen-year-old boy gets put into an adult body, has a sexual relationship with an adult, and then gets put back into his previous body and life as a thirteen-year-old.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Let's be clear what's at stake here, because this isn't just about a social media platform.

Bluesky PBC wants ATProtocol to be the *infrastructure* for the entire Social W̷e̷b̷ Internet. That level of ambition deserves scrutiny from everyone from every angle.

This isn't an ActivityPub vs ATProtocol thing either. Frankly, imo, they both can go under or survive.

Will these projects improve the social web for the *people* is the only question that matters.

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

it's competition time and oh boy was i right. one of them went, and i quote "i don't think they need to measure it"

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

we got it all tensioned, then the wheel fell off. well, flew off, really

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

amazon composite video

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

oh and i suppose it's worth pointing out that neither of these are technically clockwork. but it might take a while to wind a car up if it was...

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

Crucial Track for March 10, 2026: "Koyaanisqatsi" by The Philip Glass Ensemble

This is all @adam’s fault.

But, in all seriousness, with everything going on in the world, from war, to famine, to even AI, everyone should set aside 86 minutes to watch Koyaanisqatsi.

#CrucialTracks #music

View entry:
https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/macmanx/20260310

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

i just don't think they're going to be able to store up enough energy to go for anything like long enough. but maybe the challenge isn't very challenging?

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

the episode is "clockwork cars". one is going for storing energy in elastic and the other is going for a flywheel.

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

watching scrapheap challenge. the teams have just explained their ideas and i'm not convinced either's going to work very well.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116207039015001029

What a perfect example of the dichotomy between Trump and the American tradition.

Both are willing to invade sovereign nations and inflict catastrophic violence for oil reserves. That's the baseline. Trump is just willing to withstand media scrutiny that comes with killing more civilians than usual.

So, the question is, in history textbooks, which will be the headline and which the footnote? Because the US was the most violent empire the world endured *before* Trump. He's just mask offing it.

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

inaction plan

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WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

Worth your time.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
#Iran #politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Me: I promise I won't go on one of my dark fantasy rants

Me after 2 beers: LABYRINTH IS A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO KIDNAPPED A BABY TO GET THE ATTENTION OF A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO APPROVED THAT SCRIPT

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

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

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: lol, no

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/does-trump-know-whats-happening-iran

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eons@mastodon.gamedev.place ("+>e") wrote:

@fromjason @hypolite if they manage to keep hardware in sky-high prices, then nobody will be able to afford a computer capable to run any model thinking_meme.jpg