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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Does anyone here have any experience running or even just attending a community space that's a kind of drop-in art studio/creative workspace? Like somewhere that has a bunch of different art and craft supplies and tools, you can take your own project, you can speak with people there, learn new skills, try the stuff they've got, etc.

I'm interested in knowing what activities went on there, how you ran it or what you got from it as a participant, etc.

:boost_ok:

#AskFedi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

PyCon US 2026 is May 13th to 19th in Long Beach, California. If you've been meaning to learn to program, I'm doing a 3-hour tutorial (additional registration required) for absolute beginners who have never coded before. I hope to see you there! https://us.pycon.org/2026/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Go on, you want to own this iconic piece of computer history that's got rather more than usual under the hood: https://www.amibay.com/threads/amiga-a1000-vampire-complete-system.2458361/.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

It'd be like saying "the rapture is coming and the worthy dead will soon return to the bosom of Christ, so make sure to keep eating fiber"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

One of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MSTODAYnews@flipboard.com ("Mississippi Today") wrote:

Federal 'God Squad' exempts oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules - Mississippi Today
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/03/31/gulf-oil-gas-drilling-endangered-species/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mississippi Today @mississippi-today-MSTODAYnews

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"Post-Chiles, Dobbs, and Skrmetti, states can deprive people of reproductive autonomy and youth of gender-affirming care, while simultaneously allowing medical and non-medical actors use falsehoods to deprive people of abortion or discourage them from living as themselves."

https://bsky.app/profile/gemmadonofrio.bsky.social/post/3miekfh2zpk25

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

China is salivating over the fact that the US has fired a bunch of their tomahawk & Patriot missiles. They know Hegseth is incompetent, predictable & trigger happy. They manipulate Trump with flattery.

They likely know when our stockpiles are running low, based on the current burn rate. If replacements are long lead times, then they can strike at Taiwan & not worry about the American response.

Trump may say it’s too far away, let the allies in the Pacific handle CHYNA.

#nobootsontheground

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

what a lovely idea

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

The NPM Axios package maintainer suffered an account takeover:

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Even if you’re unaffected now, it’s a great time to set a dependency cooldown period for everything you use.

If you use #NodeJS, enable minimum package age in NPM/PNPM/Bun/Yarn.

If you use #Python, enable exclude-newer in uv, minimum age in pip, or help the Poetry maintainers finish the open PR: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/10763

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

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

ma po don'tfu

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/so-you-lost-a-war-to-iran/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-103/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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

trans day of variables

until today you thought they were constants, mwahaha

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

happy trans day of violence, my pretties

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! To all of my trans friends: I see you, you’re beautiful, and you matter. :prami_hearts_red:

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

The worst case scenario here is Götterdämmerung/ragnarök so let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that.

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

AFAICT and very much not an expert, but some of the places to watch for the really serious warning signs: India (food), Australia (energy-intensive mining), Japan (plastics), South Korea and Taiwan (semiconductors and other industry). Shortages are likely to be a much bigger issue than the market price of oil

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

Trying to read up on and comprehend the economic impact of certain current events is outright nightmare fuel. There’s a non-zero chance this will play out in a substantially worse way than the pandemic 😬

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116324402697434215

This is a huge problem and we need to be holding people making chatbot interfaces accountable for some of it. The _shape_ of these tools matter immensely. They need to be presented as not just ‘might be wrong' in a disclaimer sense, but deeply integrating their epistemic status in the UI. These are suggestions, leads, pointers, rough summaries.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

#CognitiveSurrender is when people give up their own thinking to follow #ChatGPT's recommendations 90%+ of the time when it’s correct and also still followed its advice ~80% of the time when it was completely wrong​.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Also, honestly? Dumb models are easier to understand and less likely to try to escape the box while solving problems.

Easier to trick, but that's always a small matter of how much easier not whether, and we need to be building process to mitigate anyway.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@eloquence/116297123919323315

Absolutely this.

MiniMax M2.7 and GLM-5.1 are incredibly capable.

And I think _tooling_ (that is: traditional, deterministic as can be software) to guide and give structure to the probabilistic problem-solving is actually incredibly effective. And better, in terms of energy, very very cheap. You can throw 500 billion more parameters and 2 TB of RAM and many megawatts at things to make them better... or you can throw tools to shape things at them.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

IMO the most likely cause of any kind of #AI bubble pop are Chinese models breaking through. And at least in the open inference markets, that appears to be happening already:

"Since February, Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption, according to OpenRouter data"

A true SOTA model from China could send markets for a tailspin just like the original DeepSeek release did.

https://www.ft.com/content/2567877b-9acc-4cf3-a9e5-5f46c1abd13e?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
ruby@toot.cat ("Ruby S.") wrote:

There's no better time to start transitioning our lives and our infrastructure away from fossil fuel dependence
From: @stroughtonsmith
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116324021476185254

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fenrislorsrai@blahaj.zone ("Fenris Lorsrai") wrote:

@karl@infosec.exchange @soatok@furry.engineer find your local harm reduction service, comp them a table, and they will generally be THERE unless they have a previous scheduling conflict.

free mobile events are big part of their mission so they really just need an invite to set up somewhere. so its really just they need an invite, like vampires, because they're going to steal your blood for a snap test.

they'll also usually bring condoms, lube, dental dams, drug test strips, and NARCAN.
(yes I have invited these to many events. plus had them do monkeypox vaccinations at events)

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

If LLMs were only used by a small number of experienced devs working with well-engineered guardrails, we'd have less of a problem

But once they start getting more commonly used, they start to pollute the entire ecosystem and the only way forward is stiff regulation for everybody

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Today is my birthday. My wife got me the complete hitchhiker's guide trilogy.

I bet you can't guess how old I am.

If you'd like to get me something I am proud to share my birthday with trans day of visibility. So perhaps make a donation to https://tcpipeline.org/