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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
baldur@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, I’ll be experimenting with selling art and photography prints as a way to fund my work on this newsletter

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

Sometimes all you can do is go out and capture the snow #photos #iceland #nature

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

The pressure to be original and unique in one's opinions is the reason so many people have terrible takes. There's a limited number of truths and infinite available lies.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:

'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....

NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!

#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton

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

“Five Things: February 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/02/27/five-things-february-27-2026/

All five links are interesting reads.

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

“Secret Agent Man”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/secret-agent-man/

> Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Copilot: insecure and unhelpful — but oh, those influencers!

how does this keep happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LVCunCF7Es&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260227-copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers - podcast

time: 6 min 40 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/27/copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
splendorr ("nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

don’t you understand? having constant LLM interruptions while you’re typing, suggestions appearing that you cannot help but read and try to parse

IS LITERALLY INTERRUPTING YOUR EVERY THOUGHT

and shaping the outcome whether you “accept” it or not

you cannot think clearly

you are becoming less You

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

#fdroid is also reporting this

Boosted by jwz:
merc@techhub.social ("Merc") wrote:

@jwz Hoo boy. The phrase "Dear Lazyweb" is like seeing flashing lights and a lane closure up ahead on the highway. You know you're about to drive past a car crash.

Normally it's software, so it's amusing to watch people who know a bit of python try to explain software to jwz.

This one is mechanical hardware, so it's people suggesting to jwz that he use a rubber band. But, I hadn't anticipated "I'm a qualified pulley engineer, and you're holding it wrong."

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Lately I've been feeling dead inside with absolutely anything AI-related.

Even with the beef between the US government and Anthropic, which I'm sure is objectively funny.

I don't like the future we're headed to at all...

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

How is Hegseth supposed to protect America’s interests if he can’t even bully a fuckin’ nerd?

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
denschub@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.

Boosted by jwz:
jsnell@zeppelin.flights ("Jason Snell") wrote:

Pentagon declares Pacific Tech a “supply-chain risk.”

Boosted by jwz:
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

accidentally gave a fuck, oops

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Announcing the Community Broadcasting Network

The trailer is live.

You can watch it on YouTube (https://youtu.be/N97vqR1pVOY) or on PeerTube (https://communitymedia.video/w/icMDFVmUA8jC8WEDFei1SB). It's a short video that tries to answer a simple question: what happens when a community picks up cameras and starts telling its own stories?

For me, that question started with New Ellijay Television (https://newellijay.tv). NETV is a community access station in the north Georgia mountains, powered by local producers. It's real TV for real people in one specific place. That project taught me that the tools for making television are now in everyone's hands. The only thing missing was a reason to use them together.

I tried to write down those reasons in a book called Community Media (https://communitymedia.network). It's a handbook for what I called a revolution in DIY TV. The message was simple: produce your own media, become the media, join the revolution.

But a book can only do so much. Television needs a network.

So here it is. The Community Broadcasting Network (https://communitybroadcasting.network (the website isn't finished, sorry! It'll be done soon) is a new hub for creative, community centered storytelling.

It's for the people who are already making videos about their towns, their passions, their small things. It's also for people who are tired of the algorithmic feed and want to watch something real.

The network will live on both YouTube and PeerTube. We're using the big platforms to reach people, but we're also planting a flag on the independent web. That feels important.

You can follow along on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/communitybroadcastingnetwork/) for updates and previews. The website and fediverse accounts are still a work in progress, but it will grow as we do.

If you want to support the work directly, we've started a Patreon (https://patreon.com/CommunityBroadcastingNetwork). That's also where a newsletter will live, along with behind the scenes content and first looks at new videos. Your support helps us find and share more stories from more places.

Welcome to the network!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dvshkn@treehouse.systems ("ǝʌɐp") wrote:

@soatok a lot of funny outcomes are possible, like defense contractors being unable to use cutting edge models (assuming Anthropic survives)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Also, this would be a *great* time to ask other AI hype peddlers – Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Google – if they are comfortable with US DoD using their models for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

Put them on the spot. Make them squirm trying to answer this question in a way that is not a major PR disaster, and not find themselves on Hegseth's "naughty" list.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Consider what this means in practice. Again Dean W. Ball:

> Nvidia, Amazon, Google will have to divest from Anthropic if Hegseth gets his way. This is simply attempted corporate murder. I could not possibly recommend investing in American AI to any investor; I could not possibly recommend starting an AI company in the United States.

https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2027515599358730315#m

So…

Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping. :blobcatcoffee:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

But the best part is that, as noted by Dean W. Ball – a former Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, under Trump! – "DeepSeek is now treated much more kindly by the United States government than anthropic":
https://xcancel.com/deanwball/status/2027540776402747853#m

Hegseth designating Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" means that no entity providing services to the US government can do business with Anthropic.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

In that context, ironically, Hegseth is not wrong about how sanctimonious the rhetoric of effective altruism is:
https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070

But here's the kicker – all the AI bubble barons are in the effective altruism and the wider TESCREAL bundle:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/198%5Fhow%5Feffective%5Faccelerationism%5Fdivides%5Fsilicon%5Fvalley%5Fw%5Femile%5Ftorres

It's only become a problem for Whiskey Pete now because Anthropic is being difficult.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Another level is that even in their rebuttals of Department of Defense (as it is still officially called!), Anthropic appeases the fascists by using the unofficial "Department of War" moniker:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

That's one of the reasons why I am not taking Anthropic's pushback seriously. It's not about any actual moral stance, it's about being able to do business with the fascists while not looking too bad publicly.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Basically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants to be able to use Anthropic's AI models for things Anthropic is not comfortable with: mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

Anthropic said "no". Whiskey Pete is throwing a tantrum, and Trump is supporting him in it.

This is highly entertaining on many levels.

One level is that a company peddling dangerous technology to fascists is suddenly learning the hard way how instrumentally the fascists treat them.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Oh, and I forgot about another level of comedy here: US government throwing a tantrum because *checks notes* it does not have enough technological sovereignty from US tech behemoths.

While at the same time actively pushing against EU's policies related to technological sovereignty:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/

This is truly comedy gold.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Context:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116145705146085126

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a

Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping. :blobcatcoffee:

#AI #Hype #Anthropic

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I don't have a horse in this LLM race, but it would be hilarious if everyone being forced to use AI at their place of employment refused to use or pay for anythimg but Anthropic's products after today's news.

Boosted by jwz:
henry@radikal.social wrote:

Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

I hacked car charging to work with my electric bike!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IyukCIia8