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

This law firm memo provides a fairly detailed overview of the risks inherent in the "AI" finance bubble and it doesn't look good

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> The deeply interconnected AI ecosystem means that distress at any single node—a construction delay, a tenant default, unhedged energy cost differentials, a collapse in GPU resale values—can propagate across multiple counterparties and financing layers.

This is fine, right?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“we also hate slop, which is why [deafening slop machine noises]”

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

If you want to see the 80 page preview and follow the progress of the book, you can buy the preview separately here:

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/D70UH

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

I have an Easter sale going! First off, a bundle of all of my books, including the ones no longer available for sale elsewhere. It's more than 60% off the full price

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/QHWZc

But the interesting part of this is an experiment where, included in the bundle, is a preview of the book I'm working on. Buying the bundle, or the preview separately, lets you join a newsletter where I'll be documenting my progress on the book.

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

"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?"

(Original title: Dissolving the social)

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
johl@mastodon.xyz ("Jens Ohlig") wrote:

„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“

Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ladytel@masto.hackers.town ("/usr/local/goth @ home") wrote:

@soatok might as well throw in drug testing strips, sharps disposal, and narcan. Should cover a good chunk of public health concerns

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ic5146@meow.social ("Koko") wrote:

@tila @soatok honestly the fact that soatak came up under crypto furry and not some cryptocurrency grifter is nice lmfao

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
notthatdelta@furry.engineer ("Delta Sierra") wrote:

@FurryBeta @soatok people are going to fuck, ESPECIALLY in a setting where they don't have to clean up afterwards.

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

“Dissolving the social”

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

> “AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for.

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

formally vilified

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

Damn, it's been fifteen years to the day since this excerpt from my fantasy trilogy was published, and not only have I NOT completed the trilogy, I haven't even finished writing the first book! What's wrong with me? Why can't I hit a deadline? Truly, I suck!

https://reactormag.com/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I am late getting into the office, e.g., switching from the personal laptop to the work laptop. There are many things I dislike about Florida in 2026, but “working remotely and living rent-free” is a silver lining I desperately cling to.

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

i haven't actually gotten any code written in 96h, mind.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmkorhonen.fi@bsky.brid.gy ("Janne M. Korhonen") wrote:

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
notthatdelta@furry.engineer ("Delta Sierra") wrote:

@soatok Having attended many work/professional conventions and many many furry conventions:

Attendees at BOTH would benefit from HIV testing. Hell, attendees at ANY type of convention would benefit from free HIV testing.

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

approximately 96h since i quit smoking. haven't felt a need to take painkillers yet today, so that's something?

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116329739174685586

holy shit ACARS will never be the same again

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

Creationism is Numberwang!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/we-get-prizes/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AR99Hg8Vrvw

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

i did an out. still cannot recommend tbh

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

The more you know: Rassenhygiene and Lebensborn.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/list-of-jews-has-an-ominous-ring/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ic5146@meow.social ("Koko") wrote:

fucking hilarious that i remembered @soatok 's blog had quite a nice theme so i was wondering which it was

but i couldn't remember their name... so i looked up "furry security writeups" on ddg and first result was their blog omfg lmfao

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
astraleureka@treehouse.systems ("the vessel of morganna") wrote:

@soatok me: "why would ANYONE be upset about offering free HIV testing? it's literally public health"
also me: *casually trying to forget that half of the US actively rebelled against COVID precautions*
😭

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

tip for WordPress theme devs if a plugin has terrible CSS specificity (which is all of them)

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-01T13:51Z/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.

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

Today is the day I have an appointment with my division chair to announce my retirement.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/i-dont-think-the-division-chair-would-react-the-same-way/

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

"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”

Guess what I've been reading.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/a-good-slogan/

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

i have to appear human for half an hour at checks notes 1am tonight

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

i was brutally mauled by a category theory.

don't become a victim, support a ban on category theory today.

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

delimited discontinuations