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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@jbz "I denied a cocaine pull request and then a cocaine posted a hit piece about me. And then someone wrote an article about it but actually cocaine made up a bunch of quotes by me."

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@theorangetheme It is completely opt-in. Your room comes equipped with a mirror, a spread-out line and a stainless straw, but if you call down to the concierge desk, someone will come up and flush that down the toilet for you. If that's really what you want. By the way here is a pamphlet about our ethical cocaine initiative.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@driusan You can even combine the two!

"Investors see hope in rich people's yacht money despite cocaine fears igniting a turbulent week for markets"

"Cocaine wasn't the biggest engine of rich people's yacht money growth in 2025, despite assumptions"

"The cost of cocaine slop could cause a rethink that reshapes rich people's yacht money"

"Cocaine is transforming rich people's yacht money -- not destroying it"

"Cocaine spending frenzy could reshape rich people's yacht money, CIOs say"

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

Me, Jenny, and Max chat about the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on our cute little self-hosted podcast: https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory/

Attachments:

• audio: Dunk angers the Targaryens and demands trial by combat. When Aerion calls for a trial of seven, Dunk must find six warriors to join him in battle.

Boosted by jwz:
driusan@doomscroller.social ("D") wrote:

@jwz@mastodon.social A selection of headlines from finance.yahoo.com today:

- "Dark side of cocaine": Wall Street weighs stock sell-off over disruption fears
- Rampant cocaine demand for memory is fueling a chip crisis
- The Big Tech losers as cocaine fears wipe billions off valuations

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

I've really been enjoying making non YouTube, non big tech based content, but I can't lie, it's a bit tricky to adjust to not knowing how many people are listening.

For anyone interested in my non YouTube stuff, check out http://chriswere.wales

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

TIL "vlog" is the technical term for a really good fibrous poo that you get after a few days eating vegan food.

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116079709866264832

Also, it “predicts” that over half of that productivity boost would come from layoffs. (Economic productivity = output / input, e.g. revenue / number of employees, so whole org productivity as measured can often be juiced by reducing headcount)

jwz wrote:

The following DJ - who, to his credit. Is wearing a shirt - "don't wanna see no pussy ass bullshit".

In summary dubstep is a land of contrasts. Make some noise.

jwz wrote:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this DJ is evidence that "The Situation" did not use condoms.

Boosted by ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff"):
knowmadd@mastodon.world ("Kévin") wrote:

Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

What do you think the LLM output was?

Please; review the output.

#ai #LLM #ai

jwz wrote:

JFC we got dubstep Marky Mark in the house, I almost can't hear his black metal abs groan over the sound of the neighbors doing woodwork. *taps headset* I am being informed

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stuffifound@pixelfed.social ("Stuff I found") wrote:

Watch out for men in suits. They are the worst kind!

#anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #capitalism #capitalists #MenInSuits #activism #anarchism #socialism

Boosted by jwz:
mhd@tilde.zone wrote:

@jwz Works for the code side of things, fails with music, though. You can't just lock people in with a bunch of GPUs and get Rumours.

jwz wrote:

"RFKjr's cocaine told me what vegetables to stuff up my butt."

Boosted by jwz:
jedbrown@hachyderm.io ("Jed Brown") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116078186911677336

Every week another "AI" booster rushes out: "I started taking amphetamines three times a day and now I'm the next Paul Erdős!"

And invariably within days or weeks, we find them walking dazed across traffic, car doors open in the middle of the intersection with a baby inside, to scratch a proof on a lightpole. The proof is always wrong.

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

Monday again, eh?

1. glance at BBC news; world hasn't ended
2. check on a shitpost; replies are too dystopian
3. plan an optimistic week; start with coffee

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@lorimolson @jamesthomson Came here to say the same. Developers were also among those whose content was slurped up by big tech to feed their copyright laundering apparatus.

jwz wrote:

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

while we're at it, let's make sure everyone has read the audiophile memcpy post

https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/

Boosted by jwz:
bluemoon@piefed.social wrote:

Free buses? Really? Of all the promises that Zohran Mamdani made during his New York City mayoral campaign, that one struck some skeptics as the most frivolous leftist fantasy. Unlike housing, groceries and child care, which weigh heavily on New Yorkers’ finances, a bus ride is just a few bucks. Is it really worth the huge effort to spare people that tiny outlay?

It is. Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety. Just look at Boston; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and even New York itself, all of which have tried it to excellent effect. And it doesn’t have to be costly — in fact, it can come out just about even.

As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it’s most needed.

I was a public defender, and in one of my first cases I was asked to represent a woman who was not a robber or a drug dealer — she was someone who had failed to pay the fare on public transit. Precious resources had been spent arresting, processing, prosecuting and trying her, all for the loss of a few dollars. This is a daily feature of how we criminalize poverty in America.

Unless a person has spent real time in the bowels of a courthouse, it’s hard to imagine how many of the matters clogging criminal courts across the country originate from a lack of transit. Some of those cases result in fines; many result in defendants being ordered to attend community service or further court dates. But if people can’t afford the fare to get to those appointments and can’t get a ride, their only options — jump a turnstile or flout a judge’s order — expose them to re-arrest. Then they may face jail time, which adds significant pressure to our already overcrowded facilities. Is this really what we want the courts spending time on?

Free buses can unclog our streets, too. In Boston, eliminating the need for riders to pay fares or punch tickets cut boarding time by as much as 23 percent, which made everyone’s trip faster. Better, cheaper, faster bus rides give automobile owners an incentive to leave their cars at home, which makes the journey faster still — for those onboard as well as those who still prefer to drive.

How much should a government be willing to pay to achieve those outcomes? How about nothing? When Washington State’s public transit systems stopped charging riders, in many municipalities the state came out more or less even — because the money lost on fares was balanced out by the enormous savings that ensued.

Fare evasion was one of the factors that prompted Mayor Eric Adams to flood New York City public transit with police officers. New Yorkers went from shelling out $4 million for overtime in 2022 to $155 million in 2024. What did it get them? In September 2024, officers drew their guns to shoot a fare beater who was wielding a knife and two innocent bystanders ended up with bullet wounds, the kind of accident that’s all but inevitable in such a crowded setting.

New York City tried a free bus pilot program in 2023 and 2024 and, as predicted, ridership increased — by 30 percent on weekdays and 38 percent on weekends, striking figures that could make a meaningful dent in New York’s chronic traffic problem (and, by extension, air and noise pollution). Something else happened that was surprising: Assaults on bus operators dropped 39 percent. Call it the opposite of the Adams strategy: Lowering barriers to access made for fewer tense law enforcement encounters, fewer acts of desperation and a safer city overall.

If free buses strike you as wasteful, you’re not alone. Plenty of the beneficiaries would be people who can afford to pay. Does it make sense to give them a freebie? Yes, if it improves the life of the city, just as free parks, libraries and public schools do. Don’t think of it as a giveaway to the undeserving. Think of it as a gift to all New Yorkers in every community. We deserve it.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jamesthomson ("James Thomson") wrote:

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

This is really funny.
Ars Technica retracted their piece on the AI bot publishing a hit piece on the open source maintainer (Scott Shambaugh) because......... they published AI-made-up quotes from Scott.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Anyway, here's the original piece by Scott.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Edit: See Ethan's reply below for context. The author published a retraction.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Shout out to the blog post that inspired fromjason. I instantly fell in love with digital gardens after reading this Maggie Appleton piece and I've been tinkering with the concept as a hobby for the last three years.

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
slop@fuckaas.space ("slop enjoyer") wrote:

hi sharks i’m here today seeking $47 million for a 2% stake in my invention “tater tots that kill you”

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Ahhhgg a few people followed me because of a post I made about web design. I love web design so much, but I don't want to disappoint you.

I mostly micro-blog about my frustration with democrats, and how computational power is an arms race more consequential than Trump. I'm not exactly a ball of sunshine right now.

I try to balance it out with other things but *gestures widely with a cookie in my mouth*

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

I covered "These Days" by Jackson Browne because I could, and you can listen to it if you want

https://youtu.be/Z%5FKUnwBe5ek

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Me just learning that the book Starship Troopers *isn't* a satire like the movie, but an earnest writing that argues for fascism. 😱😭

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

today in "cursed aliexpress items" × "cursed usb items"