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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

And I am suddenly feeling like a dinosaur 🦖 ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

"Free beer tomorrow"

Trump officials: Lower prices and greater affordability are coming

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/16/trump-affordability-inflation-tariffs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yogthos@social.marxist.network ("Yogthos") wrote:

A stunning 40% of younger American women now want to flee the country, creating the largest gender-based emigration desire gap ever recorded globally.

This marks a decade-long collapse in faith in US institutions, accelerating under both parties. While their global peers are content, a generation of women sees a future elsewhere, with many ready to take the next generation with them. At this point, the American dream is to flee the dying nation.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

#usa #uspol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

This is how #Washy sleeps most of the time, under a blanket, upside down and paws up

Almost a default for him :blobcathearts:

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

@rosie_108 just sent me this silliness.

Attachments:

• video: Chris dancing in the woods like a maniac.

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

I wonder why so many young women want to leave America?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/16/the-long-term-consequences-of-misogyny/

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

Join us tomorrow!

~~~

When self-professed defenders of workers’ rights are turning to chatbots for “research”, we’ve got a problem.

Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alex and I will investigate some recent disappointments in labor research together with Sophie Song:

Monday, Nov 17, noon PT,
https://twitch.tv/dair%5Finstitute

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

My new kink lately has been collecting the things orgs have been telling investors they’re doing with GenAI.

Here’s EA, where they demo’d their chat bot making up a game on the fly.. “Make it more epic” 😂 I’ve been told by a source in EA the presentation was faked, they actually just have an LLM in AWS which is pretty shit.

EA aren’t alone in this.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Rationalwiki.org Status:

Still being hammered into uselessness by AI spammer bots.

I have the newly-released iocaine3 in place, hooked to nginx and it's processing requests!

(e.g. curl https://rationalwiki.org -A Perplexity gives you a remix of a source text)

Unfortunately, the bots are still getting through.

The documentation for iocaine3 appears still to be in a state of flux (i.e., wrong and misleading), so dropping in the very 'l33t NSoE filter will wait on that.

here's the nginx config fragment (send reqs to iocaine, what it lets through goes to varnish):

location / {

proxy_cache off;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
error_page 421 = @fallback;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:42069;
}

location @fallback {
proxy_set_header "X-Forwarded-For" $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 443;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6081;

proxy_connect_timeout 5s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}

cc @RationalWiki

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

If this were some sleazy sensationalist melodrama, I wouldn't be able to believe it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/16/our-continuing-descent-into-corruption/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
cmdr_nova@nullspace.mkultra.social ("cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$ 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

You wanna see engagement bait and rage bait vanish overnight? Stop paying people for it!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

https://www.oglaf.com/buoyancy/

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

Yes we knew that already

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-real-estate-ceos.html

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

an interesting graph (2 measures of US "income inequality" and major policy changes on one graph)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
HourlyOtters@mas.to ("Hourly Otters (New)") wrote:

Here's an #Otter!

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
flaviotorba@mastodon.uno ("Flavio Torba") wrote:

Al di là dei toni poetici, l'articolo esprime esattamente il mio punto di vista.
Se scrivi per puro intrattenimento, hai un problema in vista.

https://mowmag.com/culture/sono-uno-scrittore-e-ho-provato-a-scrivere-un-romanzo-con-l-intelligenza-artificiale

@cultura

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

Always “fun” to see an Icelandic politician complain about “AI threatening Icelandic” when she’s just finished eight years running a government that did fuck-all to address the problem and even exacerbated it by giving “AI” companies free access to massive archives of Icelandic texts.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
afelia@chaos.social ("Marina Weisband") wrote:

What a terrible time to be capable of imagination.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Kjaerulv ("kjaerulv") wrote:

'it is extremely difficult to completely stop users from recreating any kind of content that’s in the training data, and OpenAI can’t remove the copyrighted content from Sora 2’s training data because it couldn’t exist without it" #youwouldntsteal
https://www.404media.co/openai-cant-fix-soras-copyright-infringement-problem-because-it-was-built-with-stolen-content/

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

IIRC stock markets in the US tend to rally around the holidays, reality be damned. That should give even the most incompetent time and space to rally their message.

So, no matter how fucked up things look currently I don’t expect the “AI” bubble to pop until some time in 2026 at the earliest

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

Sometimes I like to remember that in 2013 Larry Page said that over 300 million people were using Google+ [300 million people were _clearly_not_ using Google+] and when that whole clownshow was over we all learned that 'using' meant 'what does that button do?' and the average duration of a Google+ session was exactly as long as it took people to see what that button did and then find the back button.

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

There really does seem to be a competition here on Threads lately for offering the worst publishing advice.

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

I mean I did so

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tim%5Fallaffiliatecash/post/DRGTsVOjp7H

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

@bonfire is doing some of the most interesting work on the open social internet, and they're doing it in the most exhilarating ways. I am delighted to be even a little bit involved in the work they have planned:

https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Kazuo Ishiguro, one of my favourite writers, on AI:

“I think many of us are concerned about the fact that the copyrights were completely infringed.

Our work was being taken, all my books have been taken to train AI, but if the copyrights can be respected then it can be used in a way that, say, a traditional researcher would use somebody else’s book.

Just because it’s AI, it shouldn’t be an excuse to just raid people’s intellectual property.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/kazuo-ishiguro-japanese-windsor-castle-the-king-charles-b2858339.html#

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

If you are interested in purchasing or evaluating the quality of hand bound books here are some of the things I look for as a sign of "high quality"

1. Look at the "headband" this is the place where the pages meet the spine. A headband can be hand sewn, glued, or some combination of both. It's where the skill of the bookbinder really shows. Is it neat? Does it seem durable? Do you like how it looks?

2. Look at the spine. Spines can be flat, rounded, they may feature sewing in some styles.

jwz wrote:

"| just want a lodge a formal complaint about your Al generated outgoing message. I'm taking my kid to a heavy metal show and I was so excited for him to get to hear the outgoing message. Very sad. Still I will bring my ID and my IQ. Thanks for everything!"

jwz wrote:

I guess it's Donuts O'Clock in the parking lot. I have been drunk AF (professionally!) but I have *never* been that drunk.

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person this is good satire and all but fedi actually has people who are in this position. general categories:
- you actively build things that murder or incarcerate people. quit now, or sabotage/whistleblow and accept the consequences.
- you do something not murder-related at a murdering/murder-enabling company. unionize and demand they stop murdering. if after sustained effort that fails, quit.
- you empty trash cans at such a company. your culpability is near-zero.