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

Don't fall for it, this is the newspaper that told us to put peas in fucking guacamole

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t-magazine/aspic-savory-jelly.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.nk8.nD87.GadUYnYXEbMm&smid=url-share

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

It's common for folks who should know better — including people who work on browsers — to claim some vendors "don't follow standards" when attacking certain designs. This isn't just wrong, it hurts our ability to think clearly about how make a better web:

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

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Been working a fair bit on https://freebooter.uk/ lately. Pretty happy with it so far.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

All the feckless scheming by the Democrats isn't going to unseat the Orange Tyrant in the White House. It's going to take mass public demonstrations, extended work stoppages/strikes, govt shutdowns, and sustained and viral boycotts of companies that bent the knee for profit or because they have spineless leaders.

Not saying it's going to be easy, but violent resistance is not the answer, as the Cheetoh-in-Chief would like nothing more than that. Nonviolent resistance works, and has a long history of unseating despotic leaders.

From today's NYT:

"President Trump demanded on Saturday that his attorney general move quickly to prosecute figures he considers his enemies, the latest blow to the Justice Department’s tradition of independence."

“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post addressed to “Pam,” meaning Attorney General Pam Bondi. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”

Mr. Trump named James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Senator Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California; and Letitia James, the New York attorney general, saying he was reading about how they were “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.”

"Asked later by reporters about his message for Ms. Bondi, Mr. Trump said, “They have to act. They have to act fast.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-justice-department-us-attorneys.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
timbl@w3c.social ("Tim Berners-Lee") wrote:

Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️

This Is for Everyone is available now from http://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

@slightlyoff yeah folks arguing against browsers shipping early prototypes clearly have never actually worked at the edge.

I remember seeing the progress of the storageFoundation API back in 2021. This shipped in Chrome only and projects like Photoshop tested it out and developed against it. Issues were found, the design was honed and then eventually rehomed under the File System Access API and adopted broadly.

While messy and requiring a few restarts this process was a huge win for the web.

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/