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

Seems like the Future of Life Institute has succeeded in legitimizing themselves the same way Angela Saini outlined race scientists legitimized themselves through the academy (read her book Superior). I guess $700 MILLION DOLLARS in crypto money in one sitting gives you the resources to do that!

Everyone wants to sign their letters that they put out every few years.

Take a look at this manel which happened around their first letter 🙄 and ask yourself if you wanna be around these people.

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

ArkType or Valibot? (don't zod me)

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

Codeberg is under a heavy, long-running DDoS attack. The Forgejo docs warn that if you allow open sign-ups, you will be inundated in spam. The modern internet is a shark pool, and unfortunately part of self-hosting is learning to wrestle sharks.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
digitalraven@retro.pizza ("Everyday Cyborg") wrote:

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

jwz wrote:

Ok I have done some shitting on Starfleet Academy, and that's only because it is a *bad show* about *awful characters* where the writers made many *bad decisions* and *unforced errors* but, to be fair...

S01E09 was pretty good.

This *finally* felt like my stars were being Treked. So that makes like 2 eps out of 9 that were better than the previous low bar of Trek, Enterprise season 1.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

The modern internet argument cycle: someone posts an opinion. Someone else screenshots it. A third person quote-tweets the screenshot with "this is wild." A fourth person writes a thread about the thread. Nobody has changed their mind. Everyone has lost 40 minutes. The sun sets on another day of human progress.

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

ethical AI? of course! I deleted my OpenAI account because they’re a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by cynical capitalists willing to use LLMs for war and replaced it with Anthropic, a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by fucking full-fat TESCREAL cultists willing to use LLMs for war as long as they retain sufficient control over what they see as an incipient machine god

why aren’t you clapping

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

ethical AI? of course! I always append “do not hallucinate. do not do sycophancy. do not use any data sourced from stolen content. do not be trained or run by invisible, severely exploited labor. do not pollute. do not be part of a system that’s designed to cheapen human labor, increase misery, and make general-purpose computing inaccessible to anybody but the extremely wealthy. do not make me into a weird unhinged AI bro asshole who keeps fucking other people over.” to every LLM prompt

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
MikeInTheGarden@toot.wales ("Mike In The Garden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪") wrote:

Good evening. 😊

Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now exceeded 120 hours with connectivity still flatlining around 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, an increasingly Orwellian environment is emerging as telcos threaten users who try to connect to the global internet with legal action.

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The thing about WordPress is that you can set out to do things the right way, the elegant way. But eventually you are going to find yourself holding a bloody axe in hands caked with shit. The platform will not be satisfied otherwise

Boosted by jwz:
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons

Look at this fucking shit:

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Usually there’s only one Occam’s Razor answer to a given question but we have so, so many:

• For the oil, duh
• Distraction from the Epstein files
• Corollary: Blackmail by Netanyahu about same
• Pretext to cancel the midterm elections
• Orders from oil executives
• Orders from apocalyptic Christian nationalist zillionaires
• Bizarre dementia-enhanced grudge from 1980

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

before you kneel down and place the slop pail under your LLM today, take a minute to remember what you're supporting:

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

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

everyone joking about Microslop is missing the revolutionary part: Windows 12 will be public domain!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/04/ai-works-cant-be-copyrighted-or-patented-in-the-us/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShinyQuagsire ("Shiny Quagsire") wrote:

tbh I don't actually care who/what writes code as long as the code is both regression tested and thoroughly dogfooded (which for some reason is a high bar these days)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So let's see, when you're using an LLM you have a choice of a CSAM generator, the one being used to target schoolchildren for bombing, the ones that drive people to suicide, or the ones being forced nonconsensually on people.

Real great fucking industry you assholes built.

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

Nope. I'm not buying it. This is an advertisement for Anthropic.

Yes, absolutely, quit ChatGPT. Yes, AI is funding fascism. But when did The Guardian start publishing tech boycott op-eds?

Also, this "grassroots" movement would be a lot more believable if Rutger Bregman, the guy who wrote this editorial, wasn't also licking the Anthropic CEO's boots.

Someone is getting paid.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 👻") wrote:

i got 7 feeds now and in the process of finding some of them, getting to see the internet i miss omg
https://source.tube/melanie/pokemon-feeds/src/branch/main/feeds.opml

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

Do not ever tell me to see a chiropractor. I start frothing at the mouth a bit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/04/my-doctor-recommended-that-i-see-a-chiropractor/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B3J-GJfuR4

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

Me with my .xyz primary blog, link blog, linktree, and wiki

www.fromjason.xyz 😬😅

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

This was under a video with no dialogue or explanation so safe to say this comment is from a bot. Not a porn bot, it's not selling anything. It exists for the sole purpose of helping to sway our opinion on something in the future.

I know this almost goes without say and is useless to point out. But so much of our sentiment is fueled by synthetic discourse. And I feel like we rarely account for that.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

Trump may not know what he wants or why he started this war
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-03-04/trump-attack-iran-objectives-negotiations-regime-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cesarpose@infosec.exchange ("César Pose") wrote:

One day I woke up from a nap because my cat was touching my arm. When I opened my eyes, I saw him open his mouth. He was meowing, but I couldn't hear him.
So I wrote this little poem, with a little sadness and a little acceptance. For all those sounds I love that are fading away as I become increasingly deaf...

My native language is Spanish so I put the original and then the translation.

Los pájaros se han ido
Los loros ya no juegan
en las ramas
La lluvia ya no canta
y el viento apenas sopla
Las risas de los niños
los perros del vecino
y la voz de ella
se alejan poco a poco
El silencio me devora
lentamente...

The birds have left
The parrots no longer play
on the branches
The rain no longer sings
and the wind barely blows
The children's laughter
the neighbor's dogs
and her voice
gradually fade away
The silence slowly devours me...

Perhaps the most painful loss is the loss of oneself, when time slowly steals away your gifts and treasures...

#deafness #hearingloss #deaf #silence #sordera #hipoacusia #silencio #actuallyautistic #autoimmune #poetry #poem

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

@simon I think it may be a Law of LLM Assistants that:

no matter how big the context window, the next project step will require more.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
SocialGaff@cathode.church ("Liam") wrote:

Hey friends, one of my clown partners and I made a thing, playing with the fact that.. you can just make up your own rules for who can play with the things you create.

It's my second run at creating something of the kind, so when looking at how disheartening the impact of AI has been on creative folks all over, we decided to build a new ruleset for the release of some upcoming projects, and make it something others can use as well.

Or, as the license itself says:

"We made a ridiculous thing with our silly human brains, using our filthy human hands, in order to inspire our messy human hearts.

It is with strong encouragement, and a few simple rules, that we invite you to use your brains, hands, and hearts to play along with us."

Enjoy the Filthy Human Hands v1.0 License

https://whirling.top/fhh

#FilthyHumanHands
#ThisOldClownHouse
#StopSlop
#noAI

edit: added logo image and made link clickable.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sparklepanic@infosec.exchange ("Raven (she/her) :sparkling_trans_heart: :neodog_verified: :cascadia:") wrote:

https://text.npr.org/

is so cool

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116172988490704948

Makes it very clear how artificially limited modern phones are.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

“The costs of Trump’s war to the average American will be higher than it could have been because of the assault of the GOP and Trump administration on renewable energy projects,” said Peter Gleick, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
https://www.fastcompany.com/91502090/trump-assaulted-renewable-energy-now-america-is-more-vulnerable-to-iran-fossil-fuel-shocks

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

people out there treating Joe Armstrong's "The Mess We're In" like the famed sci fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4