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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Even the “respectable” thought leaders on the Right are clearly not arguing from within a consensus that America should exist as a pluralistic democracy. To Caldwell, that’s a dangerous pipe dream, lacking the necessary national cohesion; and more importantly, it’s an affront to the “natural” order.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Important to note that Christopher Caldwell, the guy who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-speech-dei.html?smid=tw-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-mid-year-insights-2025/

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

Every day the same shit often multiple times a day. You won't win, Microsoft!

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

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:

In 2022 Tianyi Zhang demonstrated an interactive debugger and testing framework for machine learning models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LekgPnRt1g

Earlier this month Horace He and colleagues demonstrated that the nondeterminism in ML models is a solvable problem:

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/

(The culprit is floating point error plus gpu core scheduling races.)

Prediction: combining these techniques is going to put the entire (stupid, embarrassing, humiliating) idea of prompt engineering behind us for good.

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

“Copilot in Excel: Understanding the Limitations - Office Watch”

https://office-watch.com/2025/facts-are-slippery-copilot-excel/

This isn't great.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
DamonCrowley@mindly.social wrote:

Last night's Supermoon rising over Yosemite National Park 🌕 💦

While it looks otherworldly, this effect was achieved through a long-exposure composite and careful alignment of natural light. A breathtaking example of creative astrophotography meeting perfect timing.

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

This new version of the Monster Mash is kinda scary.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/08/pretty-damn-scary/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3gJ5Kirk

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

So now Trump is making extortionate demands of our universities. Stay strong! Except for Texas, which is ready to cave already.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/08/youre-gonna-give-us-what-we-want-or-else/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it doesn't actually work; a vibe-coded framework is never going to help structure your systems anywhere near as well as one that is the result of human judgement and discernment, even one with a hefty pile of legacy junk associated with it. but management is not going to be able to see this; structurally, managers see the benefits and have a much harder time measuring or even perceiving the costs

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

but the scary part of this article is the bit where vibe coding *reads* to corporate interests as an alternative to open source, in that you can externalize your infrastructure development and maintenance costs onto OpenAI's VC investors instead. slightly higher overhead per developer, but no need to deal with pesky human beings who might start to agitate for more resources, so the reduction in hassle is worth the cost

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

corporations have been reluctant to "give back" because while it can produce good press, if you start "giving back" to the "community" too much, then the cost savings you got from externalizing your complement starts to erode; if you're going to give money to some tech, might as well own it

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

“Dewaffling the tech industry | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/dewaffling%5Ftech

> A lot of people in tech think that, even if they don't agree with the ideas, there are no harms associated with the free discussion of race science, eugenics, and the benefits of dictatorship and fascism

It’s early yet, but I feel pretty confident this is going to be the best thing I read today

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Grasmere.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Mastodon wrote:

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

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

some of my best friends are LLMs

WhatsApp more like SlopsApp 😔

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

The second news story was Deloitte charging the Australian government $290k for a report that was generated by an LLM, full of nonsense. These consulting firms aren't just *talking* about using AI in lieu of having smart people research and think hard—they're actually doing it.

Deloitte to partially refund A...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright - Matthias Ott:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/visual-regression-testing-for-external-urls-with-playwright

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
mijo@social.lol ("L. Carlos Pando :prami:") wrote:

Este post de Nick Simson habla de cómo ha ido agregando detalles únicos a su blog, pequeños easter eggs y cosas ocultas. Me encanta porque yo hago exactamente lo mismo con mi blog.
—
Make yourself smile
https://nicksimson.com//notes/2025-10-04-make-yourself-smile.html

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
lmorchard@masto.hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

The thing that was frustrating me to watch on Twitter is frustrating me again on Bluesky.

Folks pouring so much effort into a thing they seem to think is theirs and absolutely never will be. Doesn't matter how much noise or how many petitions or how many shitposts.

You can't own a social network by just occupying it and emanating presence and making noise. You are *ballast*, packing peanuts, slight impulses on a metrics dashboard. They'll do it without you

https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/115335296048643030

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ad_infinitum ("Worm") wrote:

starting a microblogging platform and likes and posts will be "honks" and "bobos". that way you can get notifications like "10 people honked your bobo"

Boosted by jwz:
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents
With Donuts on Fishing Poles
Calling it ICE Fishing
🤣

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

Regular occurrence

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mcc wrote:

And this is a problem because the Bluesky moderators are *having a time*. This leads us to impetus #2 for Bluesky decentralization: A huge faction on Bluesky is leftist shitposters and trans folks who fled Twitter early under looming threat of censorship by Elon Musk. Bluesky *does not* seem to want this group in their userbase and repeated "odd" moderation decisions have reduced trust in Bluesky among this user community to zero. The death of C‍​harlie K‍​irk has brought this to a breaking point.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
abstractcode@eigenmagic.net ("Colin") wrote:

“I am bored with disruption. I care not for yet another tedious claim of innovation. Bring me the small and whimsical that doesn’t try to break the world but merely brightens one small corner of it.”

I endorse this statement by @daedalus in the latest edition of The Crux. Maybe improve things for actual people instead of trying to innovate ways to rent seek off every fucking thing.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

maybe this is bad.

https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115334891587589280

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

Is there any organized opposition to the age verification laws sweeping the web? Nothing from the open web folks? Lefties? Anyone?

#OpenWeb #Fediverse

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
st3phvee ("Stephanie Vee :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

Hi! 👋 I’m new here and I’m terrible at introductions, so here’s a photo of one of my cats instead.

#CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.