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

LLMs exaggerate and exacerbate existing market and industry dysfunctions. They've hastened media's descent into fabrications and clickbait, accelerated the devaluation of writing and illustration. And in software it has fuelled an existing crisis and exposed a divide at the core of the industry

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/116199843763626570

the idea that the US is anything resembling a democracy, or even a republic, is a fucking joke

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

The voles have been exposed!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/09/the-snow-is-melting/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

YouTube recommended me @ZackPolanski on Paloma Faith's podcast. The cross-over I never knew I needed, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDSx2NR3%5Fg

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

At my sister's house while my rug dried from steam cleaning.

Both my sis and brother-in-law work from home and they each have a home office. Both offices couldn't be any different. My sister's is bright and homey. My brother's is dark and cluttered with boxes. He has three monitors and a huge built PC.

His office is the only place in the house that my sister can't touch and I think it drives her wild lmao

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

Saw a comment that read "bailing me out of jail radicalized my mom" and one, that's so funny. But also, a good reminder that a centrist is often just someone who's never had to engaged with the system, and they're one bailing out a loved one away from radicalization.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
paco@infosec.exchange ("Paco Hope") wrote:

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

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

A few unsorted thoughts about how the "Claude" models differ from what for example OpenAI release. Basically: One is a religious text, the other tries to be more of a commercial product

https://tante.cc/2026/03/09/claude-magic/

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

Does anyone else get the kind of email I get?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/09/i-get-email-104/

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

A good story about Epstein? It's nice to hear it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/09/nice-to-know-that-good-guys-exist/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

Australians began downloading VPNs in droves, while one of the world’s largest porn distributors said it was blocking users as the country rolled out online age restrictions on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/09/asia-pacific/australia-vpn-porn-age-restrictions/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #australia #pornography #internet

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@OregonLive/116199748611213923

lol, imagine being the kid who just realised what they had done!

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

LinkedIn routinely makes me want to stab my eyeballs out with a promo pen.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me, Jenny, and Max recently finished our final episode of season 1 of #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms. We really enjoyed it and shared our thoughts in this audio clip.

Our full podcast website is at https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory

#GameOfThrones #TheHedgeKnight

Attachments:

• audio: A podcast discussing A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

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

The lack of self-awareness is astonishing. Do these people have any idea how idiotic they look and sound? I guess not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/09/i-just-cant-watch-tiktok/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NZZpQ4lMFg

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

"If you're using BEM or similar methodologies, keep element selectors like .button__icon at the root level. The class name already describes the relationship, so nesting just adds specificity without adding clarity."

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnSassing-my-CSS-nesting

YES! WordPress devs please note! 🙏

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai-error-girls-school-bombing/

Everyone who has been using and promoting and defending Claude in particular can burn in a special hell made just for them, for all eternity

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

my seekrit project progresses apace...

I just sent this message to my sysadmin:

there is a deployment-test of the "Sol system" galaxy server running on [redacted] right now, and I am leaving a couple of NPC-driven spaceships running on this workstation at home wandering around in the system on [redacted] as an experiment while I take a walk. I want to examine the "Captain's Log" and the "XO's Log" after a while. they should eventually bump into each other and get into combat, but we'll see...

just a "heads up" so if you see unusual activity on boris or over the net you do not get too worried ;^}

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
lislis@toot.cat wrote:

Gestern hat #feminizidmap, ein Projekt in dem ich schon viele Jahre aktiv bin, zwei wichtige Meilensteine erreicht: ein Report zu unseren 2023 Daten und v1 der öffentlichen API mit genau diesem Datensatz 🎉 https://feminizidmap.org/de/

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
fronteers@front-end.social ("Fronteers") wrote:

Zin om bij te praten met andere frontend developers? Kom donderdag 12 maart langs bij onze Fronteers borrel in Utrecht. Geen talks, gewoon gezellig netwerken, discussiëren over browsers, CSS, devtools en alles wat met het web te maken heeft.

📍 Het Gegeven Paard, TivoliVredenburg (vlak bij Utrecht Centraal)
🕕 Vanaf 18:00
🍹 Eerste drankje op kosten van ons

Laat even weten dat je komt via Meetup 👇
https://www.meetup.com/fronteers-nl/events/312424786/

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

Want to transcribe speech locally from your terminal? 👀

🎙️ **scriptor** — Real-time speech-to-text CLI & TUI

💯 Speak into your mic and get instant transcription. Fully local, no cloud!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/giacomopiccinini/scriptor

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #speech #terminal #transcription #devtools

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• gifv: 27262542c3d847f8.mp4

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

Guess how old I am today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/09/69-nice/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

@fromjason the way AI could become a kind of capital they can control is if it just gets inserted everywhere regardless of whether it's useful or not. So that—to within a rounding error—all knowledge work and just general daily activity involves an AI at one or several stages. Because at that point, it's no longer a product, it's the literal environment that information flows through.

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realhackhistory@chaos.social ("[realhackhistory@home]#") wrote:

Things that I won’t use, even to mock or joke about it:

* Generative AI
* Incel slang
* MAGA or nazi imagery

I think this is a reasonable boundary.

Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Transmission #200 from NROL-82 (Q CLEARANCE)

1. Bodily Remains Cell
2. Spectral Epstein Files

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

“Let’s Be Evil: Anthropic, OpenAI and the Department of War • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/let-s-be-evil-anthropic-openai-and-the-department/

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

“Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/checking-an-llm-s-work-is-a-systemic-not-an-individual-problem

> AI is a machine that turns quality assurance into burnout

Boosted by jwz:
fullfathomfive@aus.social ("thermonuclear small claims") wrote:

@sundogplanets
When the eel is not shy
And she comes to say hi
That's a moray

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june@social.nouveau.community ("June") wrote:

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

lol, this post really brought out all the insufferable fanboys. I'm not gonna pretend like I didn't know which of the 3 platforms I posted this on would have a bunch of people deeply personally offended by criticism of a corporation