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

Can I think out loud at you all for a bit? Brainstorm and organize my thoughts to hopefully find a path that makes sense for me?

The urge for a newsletter keeps coming back so maybe that means it's a good idea? Lol

Gonna make a list...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources.

You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure. Easy.

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

prompted it wrong m8

https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

“A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern travelers. It is called Digital Silence. It is the conscious decision to share the art and the emotion of a place without giving away its exact coordinates… It is a radical act of conservation.” https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8WJIeidh-/

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

Gather round y'all. Jason is thinking about doing a newsletter again. Get ready for him to get excited for a bit but inevitably talk himself out of it because he doesn't believe he can write consistently even though his drafts folder is overflowing. 🫨

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

@jargon_bot are you awake?

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

making decent progress on https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html for my seekrit project

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

Looks like they’ve resolved the issue, though it may still be a little bit while our instance catches up on fetching media and such. But at least things are working again!

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

It really is like cooking, where good cooks have an instinctive awareness of how exactly to make a recipe.

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

I must have magic fly hands. I just compared cultures that I and my class set up together…and mine are flawless, clean, and full of happy flies. Not theirs. Next year, I need to just have them practice making media.

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

After a successful migration of social.lol’s media object storage last night, it looks like Hetzner is having some difficulty today. 😭

https://status.hetzner.com/incident/da12dc96-517d-4a41-97ee-a87fa5cf9cb2

Keeping an eye on it, and hopefully we’ll be back to normal soon. Very sorry for the disruption.

(Incidentally, I just received an invitation to Bunny’s new S3 storage service, but given that it’s in beta I’d rather not take any chances.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Continvous Morger") wrote:

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk

Attachments:

• video: 7800e9505311f162.mp4

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

Data protection authorities from across the globe have today published a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery.

The statement represents the united position of 61 authorities and has been issued in response to serious concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) systems that generate realistic images and videos depicting identifiable individuals without their knowledge and consent. The signatories are especially concerned about potential harms to children.

Cc Elon

https://ico.org.uk/media2/fb1br3d4/20260223-iewg-joint-statement-on-ai-generated-imagery.pdf

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de ("heise online English") wrote:

Hetzner increases prices from April 1

Hosting provider Hetzner is increasing prices for existing and new services from April 2026. The reason is increased costs for RAM and SSDs.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hetzner-increases-prices-from-April-1-11185981.html?wt%5Fmc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md%5Fbeitraege.md%5Fbeitraege&utm%5Fsource=mastodon

#CloudComputing #IT #news

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

it's that time of the month when I ask: if Pivot to AI brightens *your* day, you can keep it going with just $5!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/23/if-pivot-to-ai-brightens-your-life-send-5-to-keep-the-daily-stories-coming/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

(via https://awful.systems/comment/10543801)

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

This is how to benchmark networks in 2026 ⚡🐁

📡 **xfr** — A modern network throughput tester TUI

💯 Real-time graphs, TCP/UDP/QUIC support, multi-client server & Prometheus metrics

🔥 "Next-gen iperf3"

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/lance0/xfr

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #networking #iperf #quic #terminal

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

Any scenario where "AI" works well enough to be in wide use long term means mass unemployment, wholesale political capture of media and cultural industries, dysfunctional products, and other continuing large-scale harms

The thankfully bullshit "AGI" scenario would just be an unending clusterfuck

Which is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic take

The best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry

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

In some of the scenarios billionaires do really well and in others they are largely insulated from the worst outcomes. Win-win for them

For the rest of us they're all bad. The scenarios where the tech is largely dysfunctional are the optimistic ones

If you posit that "AI" won't work well enough to make up for the costs long term and we realise this early to mitigate for the harms that are already happening then we might get out of this with a functional economy after the hubbub has died down.

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

One thing "AI" has in common with cryptocoin that pretty much every posited scenario is disastrous to some degree, just a question of flavour and distribution of said disaster.

If doomers are right: disaster

If naysayers—"it's dysfunctional"—are right: disaster ("Congrats! all software is broken")

If "moderate" boosters are right: disaster (mass unemployment)

If optimists are right: disaster (also mass unemployment)

If the AGI folks are right: disaster ( "Congrats! Digital chattel slavery")

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
konrad@fedi.neuwirth.priv.at ("Konrad") wrote:

Software development is so much easier and faster if you don't care about the tiny stuff like security or privacy. #openclaw

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116116686458550609

I’ve had basically tan identical encounter to the one described in this thread a few times as well, both offline and online

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es ("Bernie the Wordsmith") wrote:

Every time you do a "both sides" stuff between "AI hypers and deniers" you are basically telling me that the person worried about the destruction of their life, their job and the environment has the level of delusion of a person like Peter Thiel, an eldritch horror in a vessel made of flesh that thinks humanity, umm, should not exist.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pinakographos@mapstodon.space ("Daniel P. Huffman") wrote:

A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.

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

lol. reasons never to use bcachefs or spend 1ms thinking about it ever again:

it's vibe coded.

yeah, a vibe coded Linux file system.

here's the "blog" of the lead dev's "AI assistant": https://poc.bcachefs.org/

i now have much more insight into bcachefs getting kicked out of the kernel

EDIT: my fucking god what an incredible post this is https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the%5Fblog%5Fof%5Fan%5Fllm%5Fsaying%5Fits%5Fowned%5Fby%5Fkent%5Fand/o6tmlib/

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

remember when macOS didn't have apps that stole focus every 5 minutes, didn't freeze & crash the entire system, didn't run 100 background processes burning high CPU... that's just the 1st party apps 😭

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

strong suspicion I keep getting unsubscribed from email newsletters because their tracking pixels or links are failing to track 🤨

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

[at the pearly gates] Ah, [nervous laughter] no see if you consult the contents of my mind during the 2020s and ignore the effects most of my actions had on the world, I think you'll find that I used the harmful thing in a very smart and cool way.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Yesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.