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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I don't want to be a catastrophist but every day I am politely asking "this seems like it might be incredibly toxic brain poison. I don't think I want to use something that could be a brain poison. could you show me some data that indicates it's safe?" And this request is ignored. No study has come out showing it *IS* a brain poison, but there are definitely a few that show it might be, and nothing in the way of a *successful* safety test.

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

“"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai

This is such depressing reading.

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

No more shipping websites with slow images! 🔥

🔍 **image-auditor** — A TUI for detecting image performance issues

⚡ Finds missing lazy loading, wrong formats, layout shifts & oversized images

💯 Helps with SEO, Core Web Vitals & Lighthouse scores

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/0franco/image-auditor

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #webdev #performance #seo #devtools #frontend #terminal

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

btw the EU is leaning towards LLM output not being copyrightable too https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37511/protecting-copyrighted-work-and-the-eu-s-creative-sector-in-the-age-of-ai

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

Americans underestimate the probability that 8 years of Trump rule and dozens of terrible SCOTUS rulings will do to US public finances and infrastructure what 15 years of Tory misrule did to the UK.

A future President with a huge majority could reach Starmer levels of f’d in terms of room to spend and/or borrow.

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

huh, genuinely thought wix.com was a British company, must have been the huge ad spend a few years ago

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

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

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

1. YES THEY ARE.

They are vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They are generating tech debt at scale. They don't THINK that that's what they're doing. Do you think most programmers conceive of their daily (non-LLM) activities as "putting in lots of bugs"? No, that is never what we say we're doing. Yet, we turn around, and there all the bugs are.

With LLMs, we can look at the mission-critical AWS modules and ask after the fact, were they vibe-coded? AWS says yes https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes.1511983/

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

But, as Cory puts it:

"""
It is nuts to deny the experiences these people are having. They're not vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They're not generating tech debt at scale.
"""

I had a very visceral emotional reaction to this particular paragraph, and I find it very important to refute. Here are two points to consider:

Boosted by jwz:
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

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

created a second porkbun.com account to push my dying domains for failed side quests 🫡

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

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

The more I hear Altman speak, and I could be totally wrong, the more I believe his deal with Microsoft was a miscalculation on his part.

It sounds like he's figuring out late that the real product isn't the AI, there's no moat for LLMs or Agentic AI, it's the infrastructure. It's the datacenters and $40k GPUs. It's selling retail compute to the masses.

It's in whose benefit to allow OpenAI to become both a software and compute provider? They won't let him do that.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

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

Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

So, replace "intelligence" with "compute" and you have big tech's vision for us. Computational power metered like a utility.

Interesting to hear Altman say this when OpenAI isn't really a data center hyperascaler. They're a software company. He buys his compute from papa Microslop.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116191400688736544

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Legit incredible.

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

The Hype Williams era of Hip-Hop videos is unmatched. His directorial debut Belly was mostly a flop outside of hip-hop circles, so Hollywood never gave him a second chance.

Makes you wonder what could've been.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

AI bot account warning…

Some moderators were discussing a string of fediverse sign-ups by a single account on multiple instances: “andy_agent.”

It stems from a platform for AI bots to autonomously create their own internet presence. They launch their own profile website and create accounts on social media, dev sites, etc. So we will undoubtedly see more of them.

It’s wild that I even have to write this.

#AI #Bot #AutonomousAI #Mastodon #Fediverse #AndyAgent

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

Is there a resource for someone semi-new to Obsidian? Like, I know basics, but want to learn the fun stuff.

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

Malta is a a Non-alcoholic malted drink. It’s very much an acquired taste, that I so happen to love.

I let my niece try some and she became very upset with me that I “let her drink that.” Lmao.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116217778458693311

(I promised to link "dirty south" rap this week and wait, are Timbaland and Missy *dirty south* or just south? They're from like, Virginia. In retrospect this clique, and the ATL/NOLA/Houston cluster, seem like separate but parallel currents: a group of hip hop artists comes out of the US south doing something fundamentally new and changes the way music sounds.

Anyway at least it *feels*, and felt at the time, fundamentally southern. All those cricket samples.)

Boosted by jwz:
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

I am absolutely loving the fact that fedi is the kind of place where people still not only know the terms "scrip" and "company town", not only understand why these are dangerous ideas, but are also violently vocal about how bad they are as soon as something shaped like them is mentioned.

:blobcatlove:

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

What I'm listening to today: "Writtin´ Rhymes", Timbaland and Magoo

This album dropped in the aftermath of clique co-leader Missy Elliot's "The Rain" going off like a bomb, and had like three huge hits on it, but basically no track on this album misses so I want to play you one of the lesser tracks that never got radio play. Timb and Missy became such huge multidecade cultural forces it's easy to forget when they were *hungry*, just obscure kids who produced for Alliyah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i%5FqK0lxHXQI

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

Every time a phone scammer hangs up you in frustration when they finally realize you’ve been trolling them for 5 minutes, God creates an adorable kitten and gives it to an angel

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
frank@fraxoweb.social ("Frank 🍁⚜️") wrote:

A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.

She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA

That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.

I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.

This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/

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

It was the worst of times it was the worst of times

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

Though, I doubt Vesper would've survived the "distraction free" trend just around the corner.

It was a trend driven by, ironically, markdown—the lightweight formatting syntax language made by John Gruber, that wasn't supported in John Gruber's note taking app Vesper! 🫨😅😬😱

I get not wanting to be typecast (heh *type*cast), but my brother in Christ, lead with your strengths.

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

Also, have y'all ever read the story of Vesper, John Gruber's note taking app? I still have it downloaded to my phone for some reason (minus my notes).

Vesper came out just as iCloud was rolling out and it struggled to find a business model. This was before everything was a subscription and people just bought their apps 😭

I remember Gruber also had a ridiculous license fee for using a custom font for the app.

It was decent writing app. Just bad timing.

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

lol the bendgate hashtag is still used like once a month. What a scandal.

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

Oh, you don't think I'm qualified to weigh in on tech world happenings? I waited in line for the T-Mobile G1. I was there for #BendGate. I had hard opinions about John Gruber shutting down Vesper.

😭😭 It's wild to think I've been reading tech crunch for nearly 20 years now. You guys, what if we're getting old?

jwz wrote:

Math is hard, Mastodon edition.

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