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

I think if you're going to make a habit of posting your slop machine "prompt" followed by the resulting output you should mark your account as a "bot".

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SergKoren@writing.exchange ("Archimage") wrote:

“He was a contract killer. His job was to go in to.a corporation and kill any contracts the company suggested that weren’t beneficial to its workers.”

#writing #throwawayline

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Oh. There are raving racist/eugenicist kooks in the United States government? Is anyone surprised?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/the-rot-is-everywhere/

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

It is Spade release day once again, and 0.17.0 is packed with new features 🎉

It was pretty hard to pick which features to show in this "teaser image", so you should head to the blog to see what other exciting stuff got added :blobcat: https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-17-0/

Full changelog: https://gitlab.com/spade-lang/spade/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref%5Ftype=heads

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

The way Anthropic is leveraging the media to its benefit reminds me of that book "Trust Me, I'm Lying" which goes into detail about how easy it is to get stories planted and to get news blogs to spread your lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%5FMe,%5FI%27m%5FLying

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327

Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:

> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.

I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.

Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a maximalist dystopia.

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simeon@indiehackers.social ("Simeon Nedkov") wrote:

@fromjason https://timschwab.substack.com/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires was an eye opener Re: getting paid.

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

Have y’all seen Very Important People? It’s a “talk show” on Dropout.tv where improvisers get dressed up in movie-quality costumes and they perform an entirely improvised interview.

I’ve only ever watched the clips they post to Youtube, but It’s phenomenal. https://youtube.com/shorts/91xgOX4NCTg

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll

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

Dammit, fixing the typo cleared all the existing votes X_X

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aethernaut@mastodon.art ("Neal") wrote:

The best lesson of parenting is, anytime a living thing is acting wacko, check if they need food, water, or sleep

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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794

AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.

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

I find myself somewhat convinced of what most would probably call a conspiracy theory.

It's not the outlandish "therefore {aliens, mind control}" variety. It's much more boring and in line with Big Business MO.

It involves the top-down AI hype, TSMC, the US government, the bubble-shaped economics of LLMs and Nvidia, the recent Anthropic / OpenAI spectacle, and some history lessons about trains and government bailouts.

This is a significant departure from what I normally like to write about.

Should I blog about it?

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ebassi ("Emmanuele Bassi") wrote:

This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/kalibration.website/post/3mgayshkmmc2a

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The photos I've posted lately are all from Vífilsstaðir, which opened in 1910 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and is now a nursing home. While the main building is in decent condition, the surrounding structures are not.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete

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maciek@hachyderm.io ("Maciek") wrote:

"Human control feels great because everyone reading it thinks it means them."

I love @tante 's posts for gems like this.

https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/

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eatyourgreens ("Evil Jim O’Donnell") wrote:

Propellant, by @beep

“As it turns out, that “growth at any cost” mindset does have an incredibly high cost. Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that — in addition to all their other many failings — these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

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gryphonmyers ("Gryphon Myers") wrote:

@thesamesam @linear @dysfun I've been doing my best to track stuff like this here https://aidirtylist.info/. It has been suggested to me before that it may be useful to integrate this human-curated list into programmatic tools (browser extensions, repository filters, etc). I would fully support such efforts and I welcome more contributors to the list itself

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

Also, this is what brings Mark Pilgrim back to the internet after all these years?

Cursed timeline.

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

If you had any doubt that the rise of LLM tools is a threat to F/OSS, even beyond the fact that its trained on it without permission, and is now frequently used to replace it (why import a battle-tested library when you can have an "agent" half-ass it?), people are now using LLMs to create derivative rewrites of open source projects to give them cover for bullshit relicensing attempts.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

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

“Propellant. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

> Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that — in addition to all their other many failings — these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.

jwz wrote:

If it pleases the court, I would like to revise and extend my previous comments. I characterized "Enterprise season 1" as the Trek low bar, and that was only because I had completely forgotten that both "Section 31" and "Picard" are things that exist.

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dracos ("Matthew") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

Of all the things that would cause Mark Pilgrim to have to return to the internet, it would of course have to be the worst timeline, AI licence laundering.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

The "Pro-Human AI Declaration" that was released is kinda bland and not very consistent or meaningful (https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/) but the core takes now is to hold the people in your circle who thought that signing this together with Steve Bannon and other racists was a good idea accountable.

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75269-fe43-4d25-8d82-69439351f14d

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quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

If the whole of Europe isn't in a civilizational mad dash for renewables within months I don't know what to tell you. It's going to get real rough and even more expensive to function.