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

Corporations are not our allies.

#USpol #capitalism

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#SilentSunday

A body of water surrounded by mountains and grass. It is the Easedale tarn.

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

“Artificial intelligence ushers in a golden age of hacking, experts say”

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/sep/20/artificial-intelligence-ushers-in-a-golden-age-of-/

> They have figured out how to turn the artificial intelligence programs proliferating on most computers against users to devastating effect

A criminally exploitable system on every device! Yay! Are we winning yet!

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡") wrote:

exploring the darkest corners of Pharloom because the main quest is too hard #Silksong

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

Stop citing that MIT "95% of Ai pilots fail" study - the headline appeals to my prejudices too, but
1. its data is the authors' 18/19yo mates
2. all the $ appear to be "ARR"
3. I don't trust a single number
4. THE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE AUTHORS' Web3 GRIFT! JESUS!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:

This one hits home hard.

& Cliff Y Jerrison @pervocracy It's very hard to maintain mental health because so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted, and right now needs more of an "okay, extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants" approach

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience https://hidde.blog/connection-creativity/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Many such cases

A tweet by Andrea Bosoni (@theandreboso) reads: “A guy sent me a message telling me that he’s building an AI marketing cofounder. He says it works incredibly well and that he can see it replacing marketers. Then he asked me if he could pick my mind on how to promote it.”

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

OpenAI finally saying the quiet part out loud. LLMs are as reliable as they're gonna get.

"experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable."

How can models be getting "more capable" *and* less reliable? More capable of bullshitting?

https://futurism.com/openai-mistake-hallucinations

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

Moreover, pretty much every time they say 'this larger model hallucinates less' that's turned out to be unfounded optimism as less biased research came out.

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

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws – Computerworld”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

> OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems.

An observation I made in my book, even in the first edition two years ago, was that research gave us reason to believe that hallucinations got worse with increasing model size

So, y'know... I literally told you so

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you've ever wondered if there's anything to the critique that some browsers "ship whatever they want" or "don't follow standandards", here's the long-form explanation of why those arguments fail on their own terms:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/standards-and-the-fall-of-iamus/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

organization, movement or a catch-all scapegoat? https://krrd.ing/organization-movement-or-a-catch-all-scapegoat/

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

I think this is the most relaxed "interview" I've ever seen David Byrne give. It's fun to hear his takes on some of the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEjVfThmn4

(I admit I haven't seen every interview ever with him, but the interviews when he was younger gave off "I am uncomfortable" vibes. Kinda how I assume I would've been at those ages, actually.)

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The audacity of having children: "You know what this planet is missing? A smaller, louder, less housetrained version of me!"

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ThinkingSapien@mstdn.social wrote:

#politics

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

SUNDAY: We’re offering a training on how to identify, defuse, and prevent the spread of political violence. By standing up in defense of democracy and in opposition to violence, we spread the courage for more to do so. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/844942/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

looks like there is one person posting #indivisible links, buried in sites controlled by USA fascist techbros because the USA corporate media controlled by fascist mediabros isn’t covering the protests.

YET!

isn’t it funny when there’s a deluge of #indivisible protests posts on Mastodon, those protests do get covered by INTERNATIONAL big media?

@indivisibleteam need to be 2 things:
- the seed for growing protests nationwide
- the firehose of news & media coverage they aren't getting

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

BREAKING: Trump ends annual report on hunger in America

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

AOC taunts Trump's border czar with four-word reply after report he accepted bribe

#BorderCzar #MSNBC #Corruption #PoliticalTaunt #ImmigrationPolicy

https://www.rawstory.com/aoc-homan-illegal-now-bribe/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

Putin can violate Estonian airspace with mid 31s. Putin can violate Polish and Romanian airspace with drones. But when NATO talks about enforcing a no fly zone over Ukraine, Putin threatens a nuclear war because NATO is too close to his airspace.

Screw Putin

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SharonCrockett@toot.community ("Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists") wrote:

This meme is so on point. These were not "terrorists". The terrorists were the fascists -- i.e., the Nazis. #dday #antifa #ww2

B&W image of Allied troops exiting boats to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. All caps text, "ANNIVERSARY OF THE LARGEST ANTIFA RALLY EVER HELD / JUNE 6, 1944 / NORMANDY"

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

I have just signed an executive order stating Lake Michigan will be renamed Lake Mastodon.

Also the Mall of America will be renamed The Mall of Southern Canada.

Finally I have created the Provence of Minnesota Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.

My cat will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

The San Francisco Police Department broke the law when it provided non-CA agencies direct access to the city’s ALPR database. We’re urging SFPD to do a thorough audit of its ALPR database, institute new protocols for compliance, and assess penalties for any employee sharing ALPR info out of state. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-aclu-sfpd-stop-illegally-sharing-data-ice-and-anti-abortion-states

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Trump’s social security chief says ‘everything’ is on the table and retirement is about to get a ‘different set of rules’”

Trump himself promised hands off Social Security, so he either 1) tells SS commisioner Frank Bisignano to STFU or 2) is asked from now until the day he dies why he lied to millions of Americans.

Your choice, Donald.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/trump-social-security-chief-warning-everything-is-on-the-table/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mei@donotsta.re ("mei | fully hingeless architecture now in production") wrote:

@wren6991 @lofty one trick i've seen for dealing with fpga toolchains that i really like is to LD_PRELOAD this bad boy. makes them much less flakey.

screenshot of enterprise_malloc.c, a 30-line file with the following contents: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <dlfcn.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define FREE_DELAY 100000 static void *free_delay_queue[FREE_DELAY]; static int free_delay_pos; static void (*orig_free)(void *); static void *(*orig_malloc)(size_t); static pthread_mutex_t free_delay_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; void free(void *ptr) { 	if (!ptr) 		return; 	pthread_mutex_lock(&free_delay_mutex); 	if (!orig_free) 		orig_free = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "free"); 	orig_free(free_delay_queue[free_delay_pos]); 	free_delay_queue[free_delay_pos] = ptr; 	free_delay_pos++; 	free_delay_pos %= FREE_DELAY; 	pthread_mutex_unlock(&free_delay_mutex); } void *malloc(size_t sz) { 	pthread_mutex_lock(&free_delay_mutex); 	if (!orig_malloc) 		orig_malloc = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "malloc"); 	pthread_mutex_unlock(&free_delay_mutex); 	return orig_malloc (sz * 2 + 0x100); }

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles. Use #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware. Store your data at home. Get a Canon Selphy to print the pictures you take. Buy books. Vinyl or CDs. Join your local library. Do. Don’t discuss. And help your neighbours to do the same things. Sharing is caring. Avoid getting lost in discussions about what’s best. Do. Fail. Share. Learn. Repeat.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

There's a certain kind around here who insists on referring to Zuckerberg's Threads as a "fediverse instance". OK, that "fediverse instance" is nonconsensually using the photos of real children in their schoolgirl uniforms to market itself to adult men. Do you think that "fediverse instance" should be defederated?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram

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

The guy funding #SocialWebFoundation and other #OpenSocialWeb groups is becoming real chummy with Donal Trump. I'm sure it's nothing.

#USPol #Microsoft #Google #Meta #oracle #SocialWeb

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

"I think this is the most exciting time in America ever"

Fascism is Capitalism in crisis.

#USPol #Microsoft #Google #Meta #oracle #bigtech

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