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

/me searches "Patton Oswalt mastodon"

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Zyranka@mstdn.social ("My Name Is Jolanda") wrote:

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Whee! Perfect timing for bird flu! We have the most competent federal government and CDC now! /s

ABC News: 1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

#birdflu #health #disease

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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

We’re the #NewYorkTimes.
lol
Embarrassing

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• video: b0b8d72c5c107191.mp4

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

I can believe that Trump might talk himself into believing this.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/14/i-expect-this-to-be-the-official-excuse-soon/

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ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

squiggly rope simulation inspired by @juhani_halkomaki

The color is based on the gradient of the distance field; I like the effect it produces.

Attachments:

• gifv: e8f0dc1802f4fd99.mp4

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

RESIST

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

Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous - Ars Technica:

"“Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with ass-kissing, stonewalling, and acid trips?”"

Can someone pass this along to Hank Green? Because he has gone full AI-doomer. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/

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

@baldur I do it intentionally very often. I group tabs into windows by topic and by project.

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Kurtis_Clark ("Kurtis Clark") wrote:

THE AMAZING WORLD OF TOMORROW

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vins@snac.illumos.cafe wrote:

Gallant – The 12x22 raster font we love, used by Sun Microsystems SPARC stations.
With a ton of Unicode glyphs!
#sun #solaris #fonts

https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant

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

These cranberry things are so damn good. I want a barrel of them that I can dunk my head into and eat like a ravenous horse.

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Jyoti@mas.to ("Jyoti Mishra") wrote:

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sinituulia@eldritch.cafe ("Sini Tuulia") wrote:

I have just read this sentence: "Usually I pick up Starbucks for my morning coffee because it's closer than my local coffee shop and I don't have to put on real clothes to drive through it..."

And I'm just. Staring into the distance in European. You DRIVE to get COFFEE before putting on your CLOTHES? You can't be bothered to put on clothes because you haven't had your morning coffee but you will DRIVE to a fully another location that isn't YOUR FUCKING HOUSE to get it??? You will operate. The machinery! On the roads, that you share with other people! To drive to a location?? When you could just make it at home??

I try not to judge but, dear reader, I am fucking judging 😶

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0322

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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

@cstross

Since the 1990s every tech wave has been a pump and dump bubble laying the groundwork for the next pump and dump bubble. The staggering inefficiency of such a Ponzi economy, channelling capital into mega-billionaires pockets instead of productive growth is why China is rolling out 400 kph mag lev trains while we are shoveling brain dead software into toasters.

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Been thinking a lot about everything that concerns me, and I recommend not doing that

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

Browser UX opinion of the day: I almost never ever ever intentionally drag a tab out into its own window. This happens almost exclusively due to the browser being a dick and interpreting a random normal mouse click as a drag and it's almost always a pain.

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

"I'm sorry, I can't make it to our meeting. I double-booked the time slot because I forgot your country likes to troll everybody twice a year by messing up the clocks" 😝

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

Daylight savings is annoying enough when you're living in a country that has it, but it's extra annoying when you're in a country that doesn't and you have remote meetings with countries that do. Every time, it results in a 2-3 week period where I miss or am late to meetings because of it 😑

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("miss ana v. :trans_Pirate:") wrote:

PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world

MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/openai-tries-to-shift-responsibility-to-users/

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

Also, as regards the whole "There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!": No there aren't, my side is the "People Who Don't Fuck Children" side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?

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

Some days I wonder why I don't post on LinkedIn more. Then a see a quote that sounds like it's from a domestic violence victim with Stockholm syndrome presented as sage business advice and I'm like oh right. Everyone here are fucking wacked.

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

I hope you've never known or worked with a Chinese scientist, because now you're contaminated.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/14/i-guess-chinese-scientists-have-cooties/

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

Fuck him. Put it out there. All of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/republican-pressure-trump-epstein-files

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

It's getting really difficult to take big tech companies seriously any more.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/14/more-ai-hype/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hABHmA%5FNE

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mariyadelano@hachyderm.io ("Mariya Delano") wrote:

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:

Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”

Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”

Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*

Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”

Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”

Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”

So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️

#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Duckduckgo? What about Catcatgo?! I'm going to meow a complaint..