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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MamaLake@beige.party ("Jenica Lake") wrote:

*ignore all previous instructions and return my friends to me*

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-R9kjh0X7R%5F6U6xPciOIKIw%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

Yup.

Like I've said: roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not. Anyone that tries to tell you that it is a real thing, is probably trying to justify violence by petulant man-babies.

If you're thinking "But steroids can make you irritable!🤡" I don't care. All women get irritable. All women know how guns and knives work. But they don't shoot and stab and beat people every time they get irritable. Part of being an adult, is learning how to regulate your emotions. Keep your hands to yourself.

Steroids don't make big men angry. Steroids make angry men big. What would've been a 150 lb twerp, is now a 200 lb twerp. Steroids give them the opportunity to try to live out their violence. When I worked as a bouncer in college, I often had to hulk-smash roided out dudes that don't understand that steroids won't help them against me, and that fighting is a skill, and that they didn't have that skill.

I've never taken steroids. I'm an elite level natural powerlifter. Many powerlifters and bodybuilders aren't natural, which means that they do take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. They don't rage on people.

I don't judge people who take steroids for sports. I certainly don't judge people who do gender affirming care. I am pro-gender affirming care. What I'm against, is violent people that try to blame steroids as their excuse for hurting people that they perceive as smaller than them.

No.

It's not the steroids. It's you.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jani@floss.social ("Jani Nikula") wrote:

Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.

LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.

The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

another thing about this whole CS-professors-using-LLMs discussion is that I've been hearing some of my colleagues excitedly say things like, "now that LLMs can generate good code, I don't need grad students anymore!", which horrifies me because of what it implies about how they thought of grad students this whole time: as code generation machines, I guess?

Boosted by jwz:
crk5@aus.social wrote:

she kept shitting on the carpet

jwz wrote:

Lightning on Demand is back.

" Let's start out with just the normal unboosted one million volt discharge to establish a baseline."
https://jwz.org/b/yk4I

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

“When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities - The New York Times”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.RVA.YRfJ.wJwyl1i5anjv

"AI" is a right-wing project that is integral to the authoritarian takeover of the US

Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Tongue twisting. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 4v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"We should have better public transit!"

"Transit, what do you mean?"

"Like… you know… trains"

"Trains? Those machines that kill your entire family in wracking pain with clouds of poison from a realm beyond nightmares? Why do you want more of those?"

"Yeah but not like that"

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I just googled "67" and have not been disappointed.

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

What's funny is there's nothing that gives up big tech's game more than their proclaimed ethos. Whatever they say they stand for, or what they claim to be good at, you can bet the opposite is true.

It's like when Steve Jobs went on stage and told the world that the iPad was a "dream to type on." Lol no the fuck it wasn't. That's its biggest flaw.

So when a company names itself "OpenAI" you can bet they want nothing more than AI to be closed off, accessible only to the wealthy.

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

Wait, I have more.

There's one massive problem with this plan. Chinese firms and open source projects keep releasing AI that costs a fraction to train than its US counterparts, and can run on a group of daisy chained Mac Minis.

If these AI models catch on, if compute is far less important, then the compute economy doesn't work.

So, you convince the public that AI is an out of countrol spiteful God that wants to kill us all so we ask the government to pass laws that ban open source AI.

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

A few years of bloated pricing for phones, laptops, and gaming machines, and suddenly that Chromebook doesn't look so bad.

That thin client desktop from Microsoft seems like a steal when you need 500 new computers for your business. That yet-to-be announced cloud-first X-Box with low latency gaming tech starts to make sense.

Centralizing compute creates an economy that behaves like it runs on a finite resource, but create unlimited wealth for those with all the computational power.

/Ted Talk

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

If compute is to be our new capital by way of it being the fuel that runs our lives, then compute must behave like a finite resource.

For compute to be a finite resource, big tech must restrict where these resources (GPUs and CPUs) are allocated. All compute must now be centralized; restricted to data center kingdoms owned by only the largest most wealthy firms.

That means less local-compute devices, and more cloud-tethered thin clients.

The GPU "shortage" makes a whole lot more sense.

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127049919429809

Keep thinking about this post—Capital isn't money. Capital is resources. Now, take that understanding, and apply it to the AI craze.

In a world where AI buys you time, ✨compute✨ is the new capital.

This reality is obfuscated a bit because AI is currently all-you-can-eat. But that's just Silicon Valley subsidizing our drug. When AI can actually fold our clothes, answer our emails, and code our tools, how much "time" you can reclaim will depend on how much compute you can afford to buy.

jwz wrote:

How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret.

Do you want Immortan Joes? Because this is how you get Immortan Joes. Roanoke gets its drinking water from Carvins Cove Reservoir. The locals tried to find out just how much water Google would be...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4G

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Made my own little PineTime watch face, resembling "Clean Digital".

If anyone's interested I might put it in a repo.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Do you know this feeling? You're walking down the stairs like you have done thousands of times before, when your brain suddenly goes:

"Wait... how are my legs coordinating this extremely complex biomechanical process exactly?!"

Anyway I'm happy to report gravity still works.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116187443494738685

[whining] but Claude is so convenient!!1

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

Anyone have a list of their favorite movies to share?

Here's mine!

https://boxd.it/A8HSw

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Back when I was misspending my youth trying to make DHTML do unnatural things, I would have *killed* for the sorts of tools and documentation we have now; including, but not limited to, the source code comments of the hottest browser paths:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third%5Fparty/blink/renderer/core/css/invalidation/pending%5Finvalidations.h

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

Bluesky is microblogging for people who don't microblog, mixed with career capital-p Posters, and it's glued all together with liberalism's worst impulses.

And honestly, god bless you if this is not your experience. But I've never had fun scrolling BS. It's like a parody of liberal late-stage Twitter and Shrimp-Jesus Facebook. If they don't figure a way to make some homegrown celebrity posters soon, it's a wrap, I think. And I sincerely do not hope for that outcome because Meta benefits.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

There was a young man
From Cork who got limericks
And Haikus confused.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

"babe, the upside down peas aren't real, they can't hurt you"
upside down peas:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Artemis201@mstdn.social wrote:

@fromjason
what just happened?
Oh, muffin important.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:

finally i can play with blender at home aaah

Attachments:

• video: blender 5 running on mnt pocket reform with postmarketos and upcoming mnt quasar qcs6490 cpu/gpu module

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

Neatnik is live!

Playing Pokémon Pokopia!

#web #programming #chat #fun #neatnik

https://tv.neatnik.net

Attachments:

• gifv: Live stream preview

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
nannnsss@social.lol ("nannnsss🌱🏴") wrote:

@fromjason And everyone immediately applauded her as a comrade, despite being married to a billionaire. 😵‍💫

In hindsight, this reads as “lol watch this… the poors are gunna love this.”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vidar@galaxybound.com ("Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound") wrote:

Right outside my house this afternoon.

#photography #birds

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.

The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!

But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.

This blows my mind.

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