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

I was joking in the post yesterday about starting a tiki bar, but, like I said, just in case.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I wrote something about how I had been the target of an anti-gay thing on a Singaporean subreddit. In September last year a bunch of people (led by a Singaporean school teacher) told everyone to search my social media posts to report anything anti-Republican to ICE

My piece is less about the specifics about that incident but more about how I feel, as a person who has been out online for the last 22 years, that the climate has changed (the homophobia never really went away but was just less public, briefly)

And also about increasing homophobia, transphobia around the world.

Not sure where I’ll publish it. Will welcome ideas for any online or other publication.

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

Periodic reminder: When people actually _study_ social media, they come to realize that even the most so called "echo chamber" actually tends to be MORE diverse than the communities they'd otherwise inhabit.

The tribal, self-reinforcing social boundaries that reject new information are actually an artifact of _contextless exposure to people with different points of view_. And accelerated by hostility.

In short: echo chambers don't exist. Insularity is a response to disrupted community norm formation by slamming too many people together without context for each other. It's not the social media algorithms directly doing it. It's the social response to those algorithms.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dpp/116363401562033481

This has me wondering.

Honestly, flooding mastodon with horrible-level and vitriolic anti-AI takes would be a good way to drive people toward AI acceptance. It won't work on everyone, but it'll capture influential, thoughtful people.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I saw someone recently comment about LLM coding agents: "Now that writing code is no longer the bottleneck..."

The only time writing code was the bottleneck was when I was a Jr. Engineer or had recently switched to a new language. The real bottlenecks are figuring out *what* to build and what tradeoffs to make to get there.

This post puts it into better words than I've been able to:
https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

#LLM #AI

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Normally I'd be more excited about a moon mission, but I'd vastly prefer if any other nation was doing it. Can't really care about it when the US is bombing civilian bridges in Iran and then bombing the first responders (and as of today, apparently announcing genocide. Not their first time, I guess).

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If the assertion is that Iran can't be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons because they've threatened to use them to wipe out other nations, surely the U.S. now forfeits its own right to such weapons, now that our "leader" has said:

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Someone needs to remove that deranged man from power before he does something so bad that the rest of the world has to go to war with us.

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

Prediction: Iran will still exist tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/hes-absolutely-utterly-insane-and-a-danger-to-the-world/

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw ("'i am no man' Charlotte Eowyn!") wrote:

@TheJen @FeloniousPunk @scottjenson @Gargron

The entire AI industry is built on:

*stolen art
*stolen literature (also a form of art)
*trying to get the benefits of labor without any obligation to labor.
*wallstreet techbro bullshit.

The Fediverse is INHERENTLY a space started by decentralized tech people, queer people, trans people, BIPOC people, disabled people - it has a lot, a LOT of marginalized people, a lot of artists, a lot of 'hey I am gay and marginalized in like 20 different ways' people.

Asking why we don't like AI is like going into the NAACP and asking why they don't welcome the clan. Or going into an Autism Self Advocacy Network meeting and asking why they don't like Autism Speaks. Or going to a 'No Kings' rally with a trump hat on.

THE AI BROS ARE THE ENEMY. They are indifferent to the suffering they cause at best and benefit from it at worst.

There can literally be no room for pop culture tolerance of AI anything. Give it an inch and it will literally destroy the world. (literally: AI has completely reversed all of our progress on global warming and because of what its done to the trendlines, we are on progress towards a hothouse earth at current.)

Probably not the response you wanted, but hey, AI isn't what we wanted, either.

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

Oh, OK Canada, we'll stay on our side of the border for now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/are-you-relieved-canada/

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

Security debt, solved.

there are some incredibly creative people in github marketing.

Leverage security campaigns and Copilot Autofix to reduce application vulnerabilities.

oh god, my side, it hurts

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

Or, to use a different bubble as an example, no matter how strongly you believed in the web, long term, talking up dot-com stocks at the tail end of that bubble would have been fundamentally irresponsible and, indeed, would have been a big red flag to others signalling that you are a major unrepentant asshole

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

Anybody who, during a trillion dollar financial bubble coupled with an equally seismic political movement, routinely picks up the plausible-sounding positive "AI facts" published by people who stand to gain from either bubble or movement is doing both us and themselves a disservice

Even if you truly believe your positive opinion on "AI" is warranted, giving these ideas a platform is equivalent to hyping up sub-prime mortgages in late 2007. It's fundamentally irresponsible even if you were right

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

thank you for witching

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116300859215261350

For reasons, I'm reminded of this thread from a couple of weeks ago that I wrote in an attempt to remind people to be extra-sceptical of bubble-inflating news coming from those who benefit from a financial bubble, even if it looks plausible

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

The first message from the Outsiders was the classical prime numbers palimpsest. After we established a working language (147 years of agonizing lightspeed back and forth) they sent us the plans for superliminal communication. Don’t get overexcited, it only propagates at 16c so it still took another lifetime to get online on galactinet and download the Galactic Commons application pack. Then, like it was the simplest thing of all, the Others asked us had we gotten our Galactibank verification code okay and what was it. Fortunately, we didn’t evolve yesterday.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

Today's the last day of the Easter sale and your last chance to get a bundle of pretty much all of my ebooks at a 60% discount, at least for a while

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

The highlights include Out of the Software Crisis, which pulls together concepts on software dev that I've found to be useful
https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/

And The Intelligence Illusion, which is effectively an inventory of all of the reasons why generative models are fundamentally bad for business

https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/

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

clang, c'mon, you can do better

narrator: it could not do better

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

REPNE SCASD to you too

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

New version of #SmolFedi, a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP. It respects #smolweb specs.

It works fine with all basic browser such as #netsurf So you can access Fediverse on #retro computer have a basic browser (need cookies feature).

You can install it on a simple web server with php8.x / pdo_sqlite / php_curl

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Test it on https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/ and log to all your fediverse instances (tested on #gotosocial and #mastodon). You can connect to multiple account and switch between them easily.

#smallweb #fediverse

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

If this were a novel, a space disaster timed to coincide with the needless destruction of the energy and resource infrastructure needed to keep big chunks of the world functional would be a devastating "all is lost" moment.

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

Given the earlier concerns about the heat shielding and, y'know, persistent "what would be the most demoralising thing to us all that could happen right now" thoughts, I have to admit that I have some anxiety about Artemis II return journey.

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

spongeboob

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

i would simply mmap 2**42 bits of virtual memory

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
faden ("Andrew Faden") wrote:

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

Attachments:

• video: e71399ffc6b87456.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
elizayer ("Elizabeth Ayer") wrote:

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

American president: fuck shit fuck die boom boom!

Mainstream media: The strategy behind the president’s unorthodox approach to international conflict and diplomacy appears to be…

American president: I go wee wee on your head!

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

Welp, It looks like Apple lied outright about how it's stifling browsers in its latest DMA compliance report with the EU. Will they pay any price? Will the press (finally) cover the web as an engine of interoperability and our best hope for an open mobile future?

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.

I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.

Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

There are only a few places online where people can gather and interact that _isn't_ massively tipping the scales in favor of AI. But there's no secret cabal of terminally online posters coordinating harassment campaigns to keep AI fans out. (As a terminally online poster, I feel like I would know) It's just that they're not popular here. Which is, actually, extremely predictable. They are artificially supported everywhere else, so if course this space has a higher proportion of members who are less than interested.

So, if we're an unusually tough crowd, it's because they did a bunch of crowd manipulation most everywhere else. And if they can't handle a tough crowd, that is no reason to suggest doing that same crowd manipulation here. 🤷‍♀️