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

the thing that the BLITs and the Snow Crashes of the world did not forsee was that the basilisk would be slow rather than fast, that you'd have to *keep* staring at it for months, and that people would willingly do so, mostly because although it tore their minds apart, it was also moderately helpful for making low-complexity web apps and planning relatively simple administrative tasks

Boosted by jwz:
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@cstross This is how they get us.

Writers would never use AI-generated slop writing, but they'll happily use AI-generated slop imagery.
Artists would never use AI-generated slop imagery, but they'll happily display art to AI-generated slop music.
Musicians would never use AI-generated slop music, but they'll happily use AI-generated slop writing for lyrics.

(And nobody cares about AI-generated slop code.)

Boosted by jwz:
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

Thousands of people forming delusional 1-person math cults after talking to a computer simulacrum of human speech is some shit philip k dick would cross out because it’s too depressing

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Custom elements are the most anticipated #Typst feature. They will allow user's to customize package and template elements with set and show rules. But you can experience them today with Elembic. Join Gabriel and dive in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9FAdZ85naM

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

She's going to fit right in actually lmao

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116205848004537716

Ditto!

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

I got my mom on letterboxd and the first thing she did was slander The Martian.

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

a few Slay the Spire 2 runs? well if you insist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

> Truly a perfect news alert

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3mgppdsqm2k2n

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Small door. Small windows.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #door #concrete

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

"What if you could just make a movie?"

My dude you can pick up your phone right now and just make a movie. The reason why you don't doesn't have anything to do with technology.

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

RE: https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/116203726031953810

Zach has done such a good job that I'm along for the ride no matter what. I made my favorite website ever using #11ty. fromjason will always be an 11ty / Build Awesome site. Though I will miss the 11ty branding. The name rolls off the tongue.

Look forward to a few years down the road where I can smugly say "real ones know it's real name is 11ty"

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

smh i'm not going to be left behind, i'm going to be right behind you (in the previous chamber, without the dragon)

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.

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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/