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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Iris@scholar.social ("Iris van Rooij 💭") wrote:

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Software as a Service permits anti-design because it has none of the attributes that make good products earn the space they take up in the world.

It takes up no space in a store, in your home, and on your computer.

7/x

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eLYxVYjV4

Audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/1190f134/anti-design

1/x

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. The malicious crates have been removed.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/

Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Update #822 from FalconSAT-8 (Q CLEARANCE)

1. Office of Boomboxes
2. Cybertruck Foam

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

Did you know these butterflies have needle-sharp claws?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/caught-one/

Boosted by jwz:
eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Someone needs to explain to Rep. Ted Lieu in small, simple words that a vote to honor a Nazi is the opposite of a vote “to condemn political violence.” Dipshit.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

The Ruby community has a DHH problem: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

#ruby #rails

Boosted by jwz:
devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

This Trump–Epstein statue popped up in DC today. 🤯😅

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

Heh, Peter Fleischer, former Chief of Privacy for Google, gets spicy:

"Legally, a non-EU company can only claim the benefits of the one stop shop if the decisions regarding data processing in Europe are made there. "

https://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-irish-backdoor.html

Boosted by jwz:
flipper@mastodonapp.uk ("Flipper 🐬") wrote:

@pluralistic I feel sorry for billionaires. These are people who will never write a poem, who will never pay taxes, and who probably have someone help them when they go to the toilet.

Perhaps RFK should concentrate on finding the cause of billionairism, instead of whatever bullshit he's up to today.

Boosted by jwz:
henryseg@mathstodon.xyz ("Henry Segerman") wrote:

New dice from The Dice Lab (me and Robert Fathauer), which may (?) be useful if you regularly write equations. https://youtube.com/shorts/fgMoxEAZtoA

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
jeromyokc@okla.social ("Jeromy") wrote:

i've started a new blog about my ham radio adventures. I just can't get on the Discord train as much as I want for sharing content so I'll just stick to what I like. My latest post is about visiting my hometown ham fest in Enid, OK.

I won a TYT TH-9800! Very fun

https://kj5fte.radio/attending-the-2025-enid-ham-fest/

#hamradio #hamfest #oklahoma #arrl #allstarlink

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @dap joined
@bcantrill and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".

Also:
- a spirited discussion of leadership and management
- the consumption of Play-Doh as a reflection of values (basically)
- a mid-episode earthquake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrgp4WXnA5Y

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

The print edition of The Intelligence Illusion is available for order: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-print-edition-of-the-intelligence-illusion/

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

"The print edition of The Intelligence Illusion is available for order"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-print-edition-of-the-intelligence-illusion/

It's been a long road to get here. Will write more about it over the next few days, but first I need to nap and rest a bit 🙂

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

It's truly incredible how few of the redditors that feel comfortable commenting on browsers, security, and computers in general understand how any of those things work.

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

“One Dead and Two Wounded in Dallas ICE Facility Shooting

Federal authorities previously said detainees were among the victims and no federal agents had been shot.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/24/us/dallas-ice-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The butterflies are preparing to leave us…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/and-now-its-out/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-bird-spotted-in-a-texas-backyard-is-the-first-known-hybrid-between-a-blue-jay-and-a-green-jay-180987383/

#ClimateChange #Evolution #Science

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
quietui ("Quiet UI") wrote:

An unlikely component has quickly turned into one of my favorites:

https://quietui.org/docs/components/mesh-gradient

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

We made a comic about wheels.

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

We'll be seeing new butterflies soon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/the-monarch-chrysalides-are-changing-color/

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

Ancient Greek philosophy still lives! Despite being dead wrong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/it-must-hurt-when-he-ejaculates/

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

My nights are like this too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/i-have-this-nightmare-too/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

This is wild, this kid is a hero!

An 12yo boy noticed a classmate brought a gun to school. So the boy disarmed the other student. Once he had control of the gun he unloaded the bullets, disassembled the gun and hid the parts so the kid who brought it would not find it.

He threw away the bullets, separating them from the gun.

All without any adults ever noticing.

At the end of the day teachers found the gun parts and the kid was expelled for not reporting it.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/23/nbas-tyrese-haliburton-sends-3000-donation-to-michigan-boy/

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

Historians will one day listen to his speeches and wonder how he wasn't immediately slapped into a straitjacket and trundled off to an asylum. Actually, I suspect a lot of historians wonder about that right now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/24/its-not-the-escalator-that-was-broken/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pTHXxydUhJ4