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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Speaking of music, there's also a lot of wonderful things to find here:

https://www.youtube.com/@arteconcert/videos

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

How do you do, fellow humans?

I enjoyed this set from Caught in Joy this morning. "Mercury":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKxcwYeNWs

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

“Yeah, that's how you get got in this process. Once you stop scrutinizing the model's output, the probability something goes off the rails approaches 1. "Human in the loop" is necessary, but the current process itself makes the loop stultifying, and encourages the human to take themselves out of the loop. That process is straight up dangerous. The temptation to let it rip is always there, and I didn't even have a boss pressuring me to ship code.”

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

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RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

Went to IU Ballet’s Spring Ballet last night and it was gorgeous, and such a delight — humans do that!! They put years of their lives — so much of their childhood — into very VERY! disciplined practice. Building technique, flexibility, strength, and artistry.

And goodness, is it a visual demonstration of what can be achieved with trust in highly collaborative teaming among humans who are prepared to play their roles in each movement that takes trust to learn, and repeat, and perform!

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

I/O is an oxymoron, you can't divide by zero

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

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116352218169176064

This. And this is the place resistance to “AI” or resistance to _shape_ “AI” use actually has systemic power.

And to be clear, there are people whose concrete desire is to tear down all the process and safeties and go full steam ahead and they are productive enough to have organizational clout.

If we want to shape the future we need to understand these dynamics and wield them well.

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

I would not have known it was Easter, if not for the joyous voices of its celebrants.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/05/i-would-have-forgotten-that-today-is-easter-if-the-president-hadnt-reminded-me/

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

The modern way to find a baby-daddy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/05/making-babies-with-a-computerized-sperm-storage-site/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpkIIhk%5FLS4

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

hmm i can't have been feeling very well last week, i seem to have perpetrated crypto code.

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

On days like these I'm reminded of one of my granddad's favourite words: "helgislepja". Translated as "sanctimony"

"Slökktu á helgislepjunni í útvarpinu" > "Turn off the sanctimony in the radio"

That doesn't capture how funny the word is though: it literally means "holy phlegm" or "saintly mucus"

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

oh christ, where did i leave that benchmark?

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

life must be sooo complicated if you don't know a bit of physics

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pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

I'm still digging out stuff to flog off to cover the rent this month. Buy early and buy often! This time, rice up your old Amiga to ridiculous speeds:
https://www.amibay.com/threads/vampire-500-v2.2458418/

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

you ever just sort of have a delayed laugh attack, where you're just stunned but you know as soon as you stop being stunned you'll laugh a lot?

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

there is so much on the youtube that i don't even know how to make sense of

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

okay i can confirm that 'energy harvesting' is not entirely a good youtube search term if you want to know about ultra low power electronics

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

non-human governors harvesting energy from human fear?

not sure if crank or comedy

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

There is also not much to figure out for the rest of us. The technology is purpose-designed to remove people from the equation, much like a handgun is purpose-designed to remove people from existence. Any "figuring out" about either tech will only result in variations on their purpose

What we need to do is strip back the tech, go back to the drawing board, and figure out how to reinvent it practically from scratch to be more human. /fin

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

There is no rebuilding, no constructive potential for "AI" without political reform, both in the US and in Europe. The motivation behind the tech still remains: powerful people want to take things away from society

The people who funded and drove today's "AI" will have the resources to figure out how to make the tech affordable after the financial bubble pops. They're the ones who will have the resources to figure things out about LLMs, not us.

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

They were built for this goal—fewer humans, less accountability—and will always be problematic no matter who is in charge and always always be a risk as long as the "shitty people" have power

In the modern history the "shitty human beings" have always retained power and influence after bubbles pop, from Reagan onwards. The bubble builds up wealth and power, they keep it after it pops, and use their influence to get in on the ground floor on the next one.

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

Generative models and automated decision-making systems are political projects. They are tools for fencing off sectors of our society for rent, for cutting back on education and healthcare for the poor, for removing accountability. They are inherently tools for removing humans from the equation. They are not neutral in their design. Their existence has a political purpose

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

I've been seeing people say the harms of "AI" comes from shitty people, not the tech and that the shitty people will go away after the bubble pops. While the first part is true in the strictest sense (contrary to claims, these are not autonomous systems) it's not really true in a practical sense. The harms are designed in and the "shitty human beings" won't go away.

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

but assuming we're not in coordinator mode, the prompt that instructs the main LLM to create an agent with the prompt text to create our statusline script is emitted, and if that works, then an agent will be run with the statusline system prompt, which is awesome.

So the prompt tells the LLM to modify the $PS1 variable in the shell configuration. for those non-computer touchers out there, the PS1 variable is the thing that customizes "what happens before my cursor on the shell line" - it's what makes it so sometimes it shows that folder you are in, and how people make their terminal look very fancy.

So the prompt text includes a whole fake JSON string that says "write a function that receives these kinds of parameters and then returns a whatever"

observe the prompt text in first image's description of fields and then the description on the claude code docs website. notice that they are ... different!!! like where is the cost field in the prompt description? the docs give a whole example of using this, but if you were to invoke it via the slash command, then it would just have no idea how to do that. the only way this succeeds is by virtue of the fact that the llm is just generating the most likely text anyway and so the odds of any of this succeeding are just "that some script that calls some variables with some maximally likely names represent some value that is maxmially likely, based on the training set prior."

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

i thought they were supposed to be stopping with all this segregated cores nonsense? or did they just stop segregating cpu features for different cores?

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

lol, nova lake's mobile parts with performance cores, efficiency cores and low power efficiency cores

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

should beginners still learn to code?

probably not, but mostly because programming as a career will not take care of them.

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is now the longest nation-scale internet shutdown on record in any country, exceeding all other comparable incidents in severity having entered its 37th consecutive day after 864 hours.

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

“Experts are dubious.”

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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

@jwz

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

on the swiss cheese risk model

in this case, the barriers seem to have been mostly holes