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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
midtsveen@kolektiva.social ("Erik L. Midtsveen ✯☭") wrote:

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💕💁

#Billionaires #Capitalism #Anarchism #USA #US #Politics #Economic #LucyParsons #Inequality

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

When I force-quit Google Maps to stop it from whining and it STILL sent a notification saying “I’m connected to CarPlay!”, I was like, “Maybe I should just delete you from the phone entirely.”

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Used Google Maps on the phone for the first time in a while yesterday. The UX has caught up to Apple’s in a lot of ways, but it is a *shockingly* whiny app. It wants you to give it *all* access, and if you deny it, it will bombard you with “But it’ll be SO MUCH BETTER IF YOU DO” notifications.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)

And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,

Within two years I’m proven extremely right.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Attention creatives!

We've opened the call for European Cooperation Projects 2026 under our Creative Europe programme-the EU's flagship programme for culture and creative sectors.

With a budget of €60 million, the call will support around 150 projects carrying out a wide range of cultural and creative activities, involving artists and stakeholders active in different cultural and creative sectors 🎭💃🏻🎵📚

Deadline: 5 May

More👉https://link.europa.eu/yQKd7g

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/americans-trust-fauci-over-rfk-jr-and-career-scientists-over-trump-officials/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davew ("Dave Winer ☕️") wrote:

What are some good Mastodon accounts to follow for news?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I made it so you can now left-swipe to cycle through all kinds of vital information right on your PineTime's watch face:

time, daily step progress, temperature forecast, heart rate, battery status.

Hover the animated GIF to see it in action:

Attachments:

• gifv: Different progress displays of the watch face

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
snuci@oldbytes.space ("Santo Nucifora") wrote:

If you looked up "cute computer" you might find the XYZ Electronics Micro-portable computer. This Z80 based computer runs CP/M and used Sony's new 3.5" floppy drive with manual shutter floppies. Shown here, it's running the game Zork. While it kinda looks like a Mac, this was from 1983.

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

The legendary Dos Navigator (1991) is back 🥹

📂 **rdn** — Rust Dos Navigator terminal file manager

💯 Two-panel layout, DOS accurate colors, built-in viewer & even Tetris

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/apatrushev/rdn

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #dos #file #manager #devtools #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: fc6d9c00246669e4.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

This cherry tree decided to blossom way before all the others.
#photography
#sakura
#spring

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

@catch56 @passenger ~100% of the guys saying "LOCAL MODELS LOCAL MODELS" are on the $200/mo Claude subscription

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i will not be entertaining technical arguments for LLMs any longer. if you use an LLM you are marking yourself out as scum and i will treat you as such.

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

the AI bubble is a big money scam, but it’s part of a system of big money scams. the current US economy is multiple rotten logs holding each other up.

here are some things all on the horizon or here now, simultaneously:

* AI bubble pops (soon? my guess is 2027-ish)
* All electronics prices go up 50-100% (in progress) (edit: 200%-500% already)
* Private credit does a 2008 (currently juggling chainsaws and yelling "THIS IS FINE")
* Consumer loan defaults getting quite bad (since 2024)
* Wall St Bitcoin falls over (in progress; not so load bearing, but very funny)
* War sends oil through the roof
* Capping oil wells (a non trivial and slow to reverse action)

what other exciting economic disasters are cooking right this moment to ready us for Great Depression 2? place bets now!

btw, Jay Powell finishes as Fed chair in May and Trump's pick, Kevin Warsh, is a bitcoiner into Austrian Econ goldbuggery. countries left Great Depression 1 as they got *off* the gold standard, Warsh is the perfect wrong man to have in the hot seat at the wrong time

's gonna be awesome

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

> "I can code this from scratch" is way more impressive than you might think given toxic industry pro-AI nonsense. The same goes for writing clearly, reading and comprehending journal articles, thinking things through, and on and on.

> When the hype inevitably dies down, as it has done many times before, through AI summers and winters (see my talk here if you were not aware of these cycles), you want to have skills. You want to have a degree that matters.

https://olivia.science/cheating/

4/n

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.