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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @emilymbender and @alex say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵

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

okay, this is very cool

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xmems

Boosted by jwz:
loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

they call them "strange attractors" because they're pretty fucking weird

Attachments:

• gifv: a bunch of particles flowing strangely in a complex symmetrical pattern

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

Wishing you and yours the very happiest of holiday seasons

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

Lmao. This is funny.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Techniques using statistical ML weren't bucketed under "AI" when those techniques weren't the things that showed high performance on whatever tasks people thought were "AI" tasks in the 80s.

Are decision trees "AI" now? How about 40 years ago? What's the difference?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

Happy 50th birthday to Scheme!

MIT AI Memo No. 349, ‘Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus’ was published on December 22, 1975

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5794

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

oh yah, absolutely

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/115764806885426590

If you’ve been wanting to go back to a password + 2FA setup for omg.lol, the first thing you should do after signing in is visit https://app.neatnik.net/id/account/authentication/ and set up your authentication methods exactly how you want them. You can have as many or as few enabled as you’d like.

(I’m still going passkey-only myself, but now you can do whatever you want!)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Neatnik ID is now live at https://app.neatnik.net/id/! This new account system now powers omg.lol and will be the bouncer-at-the-club for all Neatnik web stuff.

Current omg.lol members can use it to access omg.lol and our two fun little side-projects, https://spake.studio and https://eph.emer.al. DNS Kitchen beta testers can also use it to access https://dns.kitchen. (And before too long, we’ll use it for Neato testing, too.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") wrote:

Alice:

"Why so sad?"

Bob:

"I just asked AI who I am."

Alice:

"Yeah, really depressing how shit they are."

Bob:

"That's not it."

Alice:

"So the problem is...?"

Bob:

"AI is accepted as an oracle that is never wrong. Legally, I am whomever the government's chosen AI thinks I am, and I am whomever my next job interviewer's AI thinks I am, and I am whomever my next date's phone thinks I am."

Alice:

"You are not wrong. AI is not a technical problem, it is a social problem."

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
benjamim@social.lol ("Benjamim :prami_hearts:") wrote:

@jorgecandeias encontrei essa internet faz agora 3 anos. Agora tenho um verdadeiro oásis na internet que adoro ( home.omg.lol) 🙇 @adam

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

Marc Andreessen Touted the Open Web. Now He Lives Life in Exclusive Group Chats | Vanity Fair (April 2025):

"Some chats cut across the political spectrum. One called Chatham House reportedly includes Democrats like billionaire Marc Cuban and economist Larry Summers as well as conservatives like Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro, Palantir co-founder and Trump booster Joe Lonsdale, Andreessen, and more."

Chatham House. ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/22/marc-andreessen-touted-the-open.html

Boosted by jwz:
Jyoti@mas.to ("Jyoti Mishra") wrote:

SEASONS GREASONS!

#SeasonsGreasons #IdLoveSomeoneToComeDownMyChimney

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

fucking bluesky openwashing

if bsky/atproto isn't fashtech, it works just like fashtech

(y'know apart from the bit where bsky corp is literally rationalists, coiners and neoreactionaries)

so they do a lot of openwashing theatre. they never shut the fuck up about how open and decentralised they are.

while in practice being 99.99+% one single fucking app run by one company

with an "open" protocol they're making up as they go along

that just happens to have a fuckload of central control points, over and over

blacksky sets up an entire separate infra! bluesky bans a blacksky user. whoops they're banned on blacksky too

shit like that that shows the whole thing as a lie, and these fucks keep saying "decentralised"

everything that works well about bsky works well precisely insofar as it's a single instance.

the promise of atproto is the fediverse but shit.

it's been two and a half fuckin years. jesus.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I'm going to have to download, configure, and run the thing in a linux VM (Docker) and hope it's reproducible there.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Have been using some new open-source developer tools. One of them (which I would very much like to use) has a terrible bug when allocating memory which causes it to go instantly from working normally to gobbling up all system memory until I am forced to reboot. On a system with 36GB RAM.

After some googling, it looks like macOS has no way to limit the memory usage of a process (outside of launchd). So I can't protect my machine from crashing while trying to reproduce and debug the issue. 😞

jwz wrote:

Just pushed out updates to four of my apps because of an update to the updater and it's turtles all the way down.
https://jwz.org/b/yk0y

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

Theater Kids not down with fascism

https://playbill.com/article/american-college-theatre-festival-suspends-affiliation-with-kennedy-center-festival-will-continue-on-its-own

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Bonne semaine les BG

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

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• gifv: c684035405ca581b.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
b@convo.casa ("b҉") wrote:

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/21/nx-s1-5651294/rick-steves-saves-homeless-seattle-area-hygiene-center

He describes his decision as a response to what he sees as a failure of public priorities, not a model to be relied upon.

"If we don't have [$2.25 million] for a whole county to give homeless people a shower and a place to get out of the rain and a place to wash their clothes, what kind of society are we?" Steves said.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: A video showing a fictitious conversation between a person and ChatGPT.

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

Bari Weiss is to news what I am to professional football: Someone who does not belong on the field

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DSksnE3Dpeg

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
truthaddictvt@masto.ai ("Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

I enjoy this place these days, but it took awhile to get there, and it doesn't really provide the same thing Twitter or Bluesky do. You have to be a pretty specific venn diagram of dork to get the most out of this place

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
truthaddictvt@masto.ai ("Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115763803172947099

There's a lot I find annoying about Mastodon, but one thing I do like is how different the vibe is. You're not going to be seen by thousands of people, which people on the other sites see as a detriment (and yeah posting here does often feel to me like tacking a flyer on a community notice board that no one really passes by), but there also tends to be less of an element of performance in posting here, and more sincerity, because you're mainly talking to a handful of people you actually know

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Mass surveillance is gross. "AI-enhanced" mass surveillance is even worse, and Flock Safety (funded by Horowitz's a16z & Y Combinator) is exceptionally scummy, insecure, incompetent, and lying about it:

https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?t=442

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

These two photos, were taken here in Iceland during a trip to the remains of the WW2 era naval base in Hvalfjörður. The wall belonged to a military hospital #photos #iceland #photography

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

What I do love about #Mastodon and the greater #Fediverse, by the way, are the personalities. There *is* a culture here.

Other microblogging sites have a sort of algorithmic supremacy going on where you trade personality for a ticket to the internet celebrity lottery. No individualism. You pick your niche from a set deck and you play the FYP slots.

Meanwhile, everyday I run into someone who's like "hey I'm star-cake. I'm a queer carrot farmer. I collect Soviet-era camera lenses." Amazing.