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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Dammit, fixing the typo cleared all the existing votes X_X

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aethernaut@mastodon.art ("Neal") wrote:

The best lesson of parenting is, anytime a living thing is acting wacko, check if they need food, water, or sleep

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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794

AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I find myself somewhat convinced of what most would probably call a conspiracy theory.

It's not the outlandish "therefore {aliens, mind control}" variety. It's much more boring and in line with Big Business MO.

It involves the top-down AI hype, TSMC, the US government, the bubble-shaped economics of LLMs and Nvidia, the recent Anthropic / OpenAI spectacle, and some history lessons about trains and government bailouts.

This is a significant departure from what I normally like to write about.

Should I blog about it?

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ebassi ("Emmanuele Bassi") wrote:

This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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

https://bsky.app/profile/kalibration.website/post/3mgayshkmmc2a

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The photos I've posted lately are all from Vífilsstaðir, which opened in 1910 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and is now a nursing home. While the main building is in decent condition, the surrounding structures are not.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete

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maciek@hachyderm.io ("Maciek") wrote:

"Human control feels great because everyone reading it thinks it means them."

I love @tante 's posts for gems like this.

https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/

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eatyourgreens ("Evil Jim O’Donnell") wrote:

Propellant, by @beep

“As it turns out, that “growth at any cost” mindset does have an incredibly high cost. Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that — in addition to all their other many failings — these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.”

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

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gryphonmyers ("Gryphon Myers") wrote:

@thesamesam @linear @dysfun I've been doing my best to track stuff like this here https://aidirtylist.info/. It has been suggested to me before that it may be useful to integrate this human-curated list into programmatic tools (browser extensions, repository filters, etc). I would fully support such efforts and I welcome more contributors to the list itself

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

Also, this is what brings Mark Pilgrim back to the internet after all these years?

Cursed timeline.

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

If you had any doubt that the rise of LLM tools is a threat to F/OSS, even beyond the fact that its trained on it without permission, and is now frequently used to replace it (why import a battle-tested library when you can have an "agent" half-ass it?), people are now using LLMs to create derivative rewrites of open source projects to give them cover for bullshit relicensing attempts.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

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

“Propellant. — Ethan Marcotte”

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

> Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that — in addition to all their other many failings — these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.

jwz wrote:

If it pleases the court, I would like to revise and extend my previous comments. I characterized "Enterprise season 1" as the Trek low bar, and that was only because I had completely forgotten that both "Section 31" and "Picard" are things that exist.

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dracos ("Matthew") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

Of all the things that would cause Mark Pilgrim to have to return to the internet, it would of course have to be the worst timeline, AI licence laundering.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

The "Pro-Human AI Declaration" that was released is kinda bland and not very consistent or meaningful (https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/) but the core takes now is to hold the people in your circle who thought that signing this together with Steve Bannon and other racists was a good idea accountable.

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75269-fe43-4d25-8d82-69439351f14d

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quinn@social.circl.lu ("Quinn Norton") wrote:

If the whole of Europe isn't in a civilizational mad dash for renewables within months I don't know what to tell you. It's going to get real rough and even more expensive to function.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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MikeInTheGarden@toot.wales ("Mike In The Garden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪") wrote:

Good evening. 😊

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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.