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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
THE DONT FUCKING USE AI AS A WAR STRATEGIST
We've really fallen hard for the "inevitability of AI" propaganda. Journalists, especially.
A trained parrot would also sometimes recommend nuclear war if we allowed it to run our military. It's not news because we simply don't use trained parrots for war.
This is only news because no one is asking these companies and our government why we must use AI for war.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
From The Intercept: Protest #ICE, Go To Jail.
This is why we don't post photos of protesters' faces or other identifying marks. This is why we don't "RSVP" to protests.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz β€οΈ π» βοΈ π₯ π΅π·") wrote:
Instagram keeps getting caught serving sexually suggestive videos by young women/girls to men. And as a society we sort of just accept it?
Like, we know what Adam Mosseri is doing. He's trying to keep that average time on site metric alive by being a big weirdo creep.
And now, we have millions of people who when they hear "Fediverse" they think- that thing Adam Mosseri used to talk about on Threads. Like, he's the face for some people.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
Strip mining the cultural commons so it can be synthesized and sold back to us, claiming it's all inevitable, these guys really are The Borg, aren't they.
Mastodon Feedstray thought:
I've heard of the term "Software Engineer" referred to as being "stolen glory", because engineering as a practice has long had MUCH higher standards than software development, when it came to reliability/quality/etc, because the stakes were usually so much higher, and the study required for qualification were correspondingly high.
LLMs seem to be leaning on this further: Software developers have embraced the idea that we can spit out any low-quality, unreliable, even straight-up dangerous garbage that, as long as it seems somewhat productive, is "valuable enough". They have dropped the floor on what we're able to achieve while deskilling many of us who at least were developing the skills required for quality production. Most importantly, they're making it so leadership actively discourages taking the actual time to make sure something won't fucking kill someone.
I was looking at a certain open source project's page and there was a link to its associated consultancy. On the front page was a gif of a prompt for an app generator LLM utility, and the first fucking prompt that showed up was "Write me an application that will act as an X-ray analyzer, looking for anomalies and reporting on them", and that was just obviously the most fucking irresponsible thing I'd seen all day. Imagine having some non-expert just write something that will put people's actual lives on the line like that, and sell it as if it has any qualification to make reliable diagnostics. This is the level of brazen irresponsibility we're dealing with.
Mastodon Feeddenschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:
Update: This project was just archived on GitHub. Apparently, just having GenAI fix all your bugs and do all the work isn't working, huh?
Shocker. Real shocker.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
I won't volunteer to be a moral crumple zone.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
"Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/objects-not-data-art-prints/
> Over the next few months, Iβll be experimenting with selling art and photography prints as a way to fund my work on this newsletter
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/objects-not-data-art-prints/
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Hot tip: don't use the spicy auto complete to do anything critical, like, I don't know, tell you if you're having a medical emergency
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social ("Finn LΓΌtzow-Holm Myrstad") wrote:
βHave you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!
β‘οΈWe have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)
Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.
More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.
More here: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
Enjoy this short film!
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
smh
Mastodon FeedThis #DIDay - Sunday March 1st - we'll be online and hosting an onboarding workshop, to help folks get the most out of Mastodon. Tell your friends!
https://termine.di.day/events/0416dee7-cc7f-4e2a-aa94-ff11322daaaa
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
Michelle Yeoh plays several characters in this short film set in Penang.
The codeswitching (language and body language) based on status / environment / character is nuanced and reflects a broad range of the Malaysian Chinese city life experience that I have been a part of.
I also love that most of it is filmed in food places, and now I am terribly homesick.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun ParmaksΔ±z πΎ") wrote:
We're trading from /dev/tty0 from now on π―
π **longbridge-terminal** β A TUI for stock trading & market monitoring
π Real-time watchlists, candlestick charts & multi-market support (HK / US / CN)
π¦ Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
β GitHub: https://github.com/longbridge/longbridge-terminal
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #trading #stocks #fintech #cli #terminal
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.
These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?
/cc @pluralistic
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange π¦π") wrote:
This month's #BirdWhisperer is a pair of black-cheeked lovebirds, of course! Look at them, whispering and plotting their little crimes.
(ref photo by Bernhard Jaeck)
#art #birds #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ksylor@front-end.social ("Katie Sylor-Miller") wrote:
Welp, I got laid off today along with 40% of Block. Iβm still totally in shock an have no idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".
"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Current worry: even if I did believe that coding βagentsβ could be used productively and safely by organisations with robust engineering practices, neither WebKit nor Firefox are that and WebKit specifically has a knack for bad regression bugs in existing features
So, yβknow, that they seem to be using these tools is a worry
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:
With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:
"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791
I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
Caddy: it makes self hosting so easy
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell β") wrote:
this is so deceptive! does Apple actually hide the Tahoe update if I didn't click the disguised button and selected it?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:
ancient proverb
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
greenelects.world@bsky.brid.gy ("Green Elects") wrote:
π¨ The Greens WIN their first by-election in history π Hope is here. It's all of us. Enjoy your Friday π
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
floppyplopper@todon.nl ("Angela Glansbury π½") wrote:
@Tattie @therivercrow
i'm going to expand on this "greens can't win" thing.what can one MP do? if you're thinking vote in parliament 1 mp is no worse than 100.
what can one mp do?
stand in front of demonstrations and ensure coverage when everyone is arrested.
give witness to uk human rights abuses in international courts and foreign parliaments.
name fash funding networks in parliament.
visit prisons and illegal detention sites.one mp can do lots.
be happy when you vote, it might make a huge difference and set the agenda. i can't guarantee we will win if we fight. but we all lose when we don't fight.
groan at the cliche if you like but it's as true as ever: we have nothing to lose but our chains.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell β") wrote:
on that note, I had to end my CORS proxy :( my Croissant app is only useful as a Tauri app now
blogged: https://dbushell.com/2026/02/27/croissant-cors-proxy-update/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
floppyplopper@todon.nl ("Angela Glansbury π½") wrote:
more like matt badlose πΈ :goose_honk:
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell β") wrote:
a shocking number of web dev blogs are missing CORS headers!
only 46 of the 200+ feeds I subscribe to can be accessed by web-based RSS readers :(
Learn how and why: https://www.blogsareback.com/guides/enable-cors
I'll give you 30 days before I name and shame π
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were βπ§π±β"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: πͺπΊ") wrote:
UK : Green Party win Gorton and Denton by-election!
Results: Votes / % / (% change)
π’ Green 14,980 40.7% (+27.5)
π΅ Reform 10,578 28.7% (+14.7)
π΄ Labour 9,364 25.4% (-25.3)
π¦ Conservative 706 1.9% (-6.0)
π Lib Dem 653 1.8% (-2.1)
