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

Video: Evil deeds vs evil people with @uoou
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/86sy3tUFmRKPf8XYtY7HKB

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ekis ("she hacked you") wrote:

"AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say" - Guardian

The "research paper" was a tweet by an AI company

The "experiment" was asking the LLM to shut down

A model is ~not~ shutdown ~ever~ by asking a model to shut itself down

*The only possible response is a hallucination*

You shut down a model by turning off the deterministic software running it; so works every time w/o fail

Yet Guardian's shill tech writers just report AI industry tweets as if it was fact

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bignose@theblower.au wrote:

@yakkoj
> a "AI is going just great" in the spirit of "web3 is going just great"

For my purposes, @davidgerard has that covered, with https://pivot-to-ai.com/

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

#NoKings fights for the absence of something, and are silent about the presence of anything. Ironically, this deft maneuvering away from any real substance is to attract the largest number of voters to its rally, which sounds exactly like the strategy that lost the #democrats the election. Because when it comes to setting your principles aside for mass appeal, liberals only go one way—towards centrism. The younger generations see right through that. They'll never show up to a centrist rally.

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

you're not "serverless" until you struggle to update a website because you've forgotten where it's hosted and how to deploy

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

reading: "I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance" https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards/

i may need a second coffee this morning :sweat_blob:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony, Pretty Much") wrote:

Trump handed 50 chemical plants a free pass to poison communities with cancer-causing pollution.

Now environmental groups have to sue him to try and stop him. Sure would have been easier to stop him with a vote.

Community, Health, and Environmental Groups Sue to Stop President Trump’s Unlawful Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions:
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/community-health-and-environmental-groups-sue-stop-president-trumps-unlawful-toxic

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stevewfolds@mastodon.world ("@stevewfolds") wrote:

@kibcol1049
This is close to my heart. My partner lost her sight to macular degeneration.

A Guardian article published yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/20/experts-hail-remarkable-success-of-electronic-implant-in-restoring-sight

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Modern C++ is just like Rust, except the borrow checker is you, at 3 a.m., whispering "I think this is fine."

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

I was thinking how weird it would be if movies evolved like short form video feeds where the goal is to keep the person in the theater and not necessarily to make a good movie.

Then I realized oh shit that's how we got reality TV

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

The Python Software Foundation shows more spine than every single tech giant in just one single decision.

> Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to the PSF’s values

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

jwz wrote:

Hand-cranked "They Live" transformation.
https://jwz.org/b/ykxA

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nzakas@fosstodon.org ("Nicholas C. Zakas") wrote:

Temporarily paused sending out new Bredbox invites after a user reported a large Pocket file failed to import. Got everything figured out and invites are going out again.

If you loved Pocket, sign up for a Bredbox invite:
https://bredbox.app

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
firesidefedi@video.firesidefedi.live ("Fireside Fedi Videos") wrote:

Episode 50 - Jaz-Michael King - IFTAS - Trust and Safety - Livestream 2025-10-21

https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/rfCpqU15ifB59eiaeovpKk

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

Heading to Amsterdam for #perfnow; can't wait to see everyone.

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

PeerTube video: Vegan ethics, resurrected animals, and defining evil
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/86sy3tUFmRKPf8XYtY7HKB

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Ihlo - Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYxC2f11dYA

#NP #NowPlaying

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s #NationalBlackCatDay and I love my national black cat. #CatsOfMastodon

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

All of our other plans have fallen through, so it must be time for our annual Books in the Box episode! Bring the books you have read (and would recommend!) from the past year, and join @ahl and me, today at 5p Pacific.

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1432446272060657837

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Watching news about the war in #Ukraine I often wonder how feasible it is for infantry to shoot down drones from the skies. Here's one test done by a Finnish shotgun champion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mORdXxZ2uKU

Turns out it's bloody difficult and probably even practically impossible with a standard automatic rifle designed to shoot at people.

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

I love this

https://www.seat61.com/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I wrote a crossword puzzle with a strange little theme that I didn't think quite fit anywhere else, so I put it on my blog. I hope you solve and enjoy! https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/crossword-rain-sounds/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Dio9sys@haunted.computer wrote:

things you can do if you say it's for tech company reasons:

* steal massive amounts of intellectual content
* put objects into reserved airspace without informing the FAA
* break FCC regulations by intruding into ham radio bands
* run bot farms
* extort money out of the owners of vulnerable devices that you made
* reinvent curl, but worse

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
transcendentempress@eldritch.cafe ("Jennifer🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

AI is not unavoidable, you don't have to "learn to live with it". You can say no.

Stop the tech authoritarianism.

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

A long, lingering final kiss.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/a-grim-ending/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

It warms my heart to learn about #Python Software Foundation refusing a poisoned grant from a fascist government.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
🧵
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

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

Well this campaign is going great

https://search.app/xaiX6