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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/polytheism/

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

Stickered again by the sticker bandit (my niece)

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

Muting this thread because it’s escaped containment which means there’s both a tonne of silly replies and too many non-silly replies for me to ever manage to respond to them all

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
sophie@catgirl.cloud ("⛧-440729 [sophie raven]") wrote:

jutebeutel, schlechte beutel

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

Sinclair enjoys tacos

https://deadline.com/2025/09/sinclair-moves-charlie-kirk-special-youtube-not-kimmel-slot-1236551675/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Do you remember?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mutinyc@ni.hil.ist ("to wound the autumnal Mutiny") wrote:

Not all of
A Softer World
aged well, but

the best ones still
hold up.

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

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD1KCYFOw&si=lHMO--1wXXp21QNs

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded.

Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw

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

Also (not that David Byrne needs my free promotional efforts) Byrne did just release a new album:

https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aphclarkson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Alexander Clarkson") wrote:

Boiue makes good points, but it is David French who goes on to nail the central question surrounding the future of the US that means the midterms may be a crucial turning point. If this was any other country there would already be discussion of severe potential risks of civil conflict.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n5ammsjicqo4v44eezcpqkfv/post/3lzdyzyggyc2n

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

Corporations are not our allies.

#USpol #capitalism

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#SilentSunday

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!

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

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

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/

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

This one hits home hard.

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/

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

Many such cases

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

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.

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

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/

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/

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.)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

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

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

#politics

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

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

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

BREAKING: Trump ends annual report on hunger in America