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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Life changing. #grickledoodle #horror #religion #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
realms@dice.camp ("Matt Machell") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Given how core MS, Github, AWS and co are, and their YOLO in the AI code approach. We are probably months out from an utterly catastrophic AI driven availability or security related incident.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
javierg@mstdn.social ("Javier") wrote:

@gjm @cstross

... "And during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, Gates personally intervened to kill the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool and to get Oxford to renege on its promise to make an open-source vaccine"

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

Currently, not feeling at all charitable to Apple.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/10/apple-hell/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

More and more convinced that the technocrats’ assertion that “AI” will take all of our jobs is a projection of their fear of a general strike.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

don't recommend reading the thread. there are a lot of true believers. many simply think that anyone not using AI is going to fall behind in utility, but there are a number of people who insist it is their right to AI slop all over projects that have expressly said do not.

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

I added tags to attic.social bookmarks

you can see my bookmarks here 👀
https://attic.social/bookmarks/did:plc:rgrzo7xept2yb2auooex4rlg
(hopefully nothing is broken i'm kinda winging this project)

Attachments:

• gifv: web form creating a bookmark by entering the URL, fetching the page title, and adding two tags

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

we have achieved peak orange place. don't worry about AI slop PRs...

But the maintainers can use AI too, for their reviewing.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Don't send us a PR, send us the prompt you used to generate the PR.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i have pruned a few possible feature combinations to reduce my woes. there are now only 13 implementations to write 😬

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Had some fun with the progress bar of my PineTime watch face and animated it. Looks lovely, if I may say so myself.

Attachments:

• gifv: Example of the animated progress bar.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
yaldi@jorts.horse ("Antifa Franklin") wrote:

just heading down the local

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

I tried to walk like an Egyptian.

Now I need a Cairo practor.

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

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-designers-thoughts-about-this-moment-in-ai/

— that's... one way to pitch your AI course

> "But not everyone has the luxury of just sitting this out, of closing the laptop lid."

the ol' reverse-privilege switcheroo!

ugh, sorry Brad, "AI is inevitable" takes are the most tiring to read 🥱

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

bollocks, one of the neat c tricks i came up with cannot be extended as i thought.

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/

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

Maybe I set up peertube on my website. Maybe I make some videos.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it has been 2 minutes and i'm already fucked off with c compilers again

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Laundry actually has three stages:

1. Clean
2. Dirty
3. The Chair

Just a neutral territory where clothes go to think about what they've done.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
archive: https://archive.is/wXvF3

l o l

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

All my posts are here https://olivia.science/posts

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe

> The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.

That story again: even parody Nobel committee recognizes how dangerous it is to travel to the USA these days. If your conference doesn't, your conference is less serious than parody Nobels. 🤡

#USpol

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

found the "bug"... PEBCAK

stupid tab complete added the wrong import 😡💢
(should have used gork code)

https://social.lol/@db/116203922255546306

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

Block’s AI layoffs are fake too

ayahuasca beard weirdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7djrd9OP55M&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260309-blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too - podcast

time: 5 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/ - blog post

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

“Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages”

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

Magnify dysfunction through automation and all you get is more dysfunction.

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

am i holding it wrong, or are the SvelteKit types not generating correctly? Zed editor bug?

I changed the return from `success` to `action`, it logs correctly, but the types are wrong. I deleted .svelte-kit and restarted everything - no luck :(

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E02
🎥 Episode: Girls
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 13, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0606

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/116076611382717131

This is what they took from us.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/116200138133289624

“C’mon, just try it. The first one is free.”

I guess kudos for being up front that it’s a time-boxed thing, rather than other “free for FOSS devs” things that are initially presented as long-term, but ultimately get rug pulled.