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

“AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

> we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI

This is a very narrow test and I'm not entirely convinced it's specific to "AI" (you might be able to replicate this without it just with UI design) but it's observing a mechanism that might be relevant to the chatbot dependence some of us are already seeing in our peers

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

a LinkedIn post of the motivational kind:

#curl

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Misofist@girlcock.club wrote:

I love working within the ActivityPub ecosystem, it's so refreshing

#gotosocial

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glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

#Japan relaxes #privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop #AI’ - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan%5Fprivacy%5Flaw%5Fchanges%5Fai/ "Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption" race to the bottom continues

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FeloniousPunk@beige.party wrote:

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 40th day after 936 hours of near-total disconnection from the outside world.

The wartime censorship measure continues even as the US and Iran regimes each declare victory, with the Iranian people once again left in the dark.

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

noted: lazy load web components with conditional imports
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-08T05:58Z/

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mcc wrote:

I attempted to do a microjournalism on Bluesky collating known-good (citable) information about an Iranian proposal which screenshots on social media variously claim to be "the Iranian 10 point proposal" (accuate) or "the ceasefire terms" (inaccurate, I'm pretty sure).

I wish regular journalists would do this stuff.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mixgg2nsnk23

@dryad.technology is bridged here via bridgy but it looks like I still can't quote boost my own posts here, so I'm linking it over here.

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ocean@raru.re ("oshy") wrote:

VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.

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wtfjht ("WTF Just Happened Today?") wrote:

The 2026 midterms are in 210 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 945 days.

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

this is why I think slop is so damaging, especially so as it gets harder to spot, because you're feeding yourself with vacuous garbage that superficially resembles information. if you accept it as valid, every related skill that you've worked hard to sharpen up to that point is fundamentally at risk because as they gets re-encoded they will be adapted to accommodate the miscategorized noise.

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

It is also a really important set of skills for learning, because you can go to an art museum and look at works that inspire you and figure out (or make an educated guess at) the technical processes that their author used to make them, and then you can apply your learnings to making something new. You don't go to the museum to find things to copy without understanding.

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

This process is really important for developing and maintaining the technical skills of working in traditional media, because if you are not able to establish cultural and observational reference points you lose the ability to "see" as you work. Like, after you have been working on something for several hours everything sorta looks correct and wrong at the same time, and if you don't have something to ground it you'll drift in ways you don't want to.

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

What a year this week has been and it's still only Tuesday

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

the problem of course is letting it cool before slicing into the pie

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

During the first few weeks of Operation Desert Storm we'd routinely see footage of entire battalions of Iraqi soldiers walking up to the first American GI they could find waving white flags, believing that the worst thing that could happen to them at the hands of the American military was a shower, an MRE and a pack of cigarettes. The mythos of the American a just actor was largely intact then, and that mythos saved a lot of American lives. And then Abu Grahib happened, and that all ended.

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

It really does take the sort of stable genius that can bankrupt a casino (look it up) while not even paying workers (ditto) to impose a tax on their country's gas prices and lose freedom of navigation as a settled principle all at once.

Generational talent.

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

there are two basic principles in the Multiverse: Yum and Yuck. cherry pie us Yum.

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

Two weeks feels like plenty of time for impeachment and removal proceedings. Just saying.

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

Bone Temple, the immediate follow up to 28 Years Later, somehow managed to surprise me again. Such an original take on the genre. Took so many swings and managed to land most of them. What a weird and wonderful franchise, 30 years in the making.

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

A good man is hard to find.

#economics #sharedeconomy

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ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

What a depressingly voluminous list.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

jwz wrote:

President Nyarlathotep Is Simply Engaging in Classic "Mad Outer God" Negotiating Tactics.

Andrew Paul: But -- and just hear me out here -- the American voters did resummon Nyarlathotep because enough of us remain enthralled by his unfettered madness,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk53

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

no time for this shit tbh

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

Somebody told him no, and he folded.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/he-always-chickens-out-good/

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

I'm okay with this TACO Tuesday

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bridget@gts.sharitt.com ("Bridget") wrote:

I’m unconvinced that nuking Iran will solve the ethics in gaming journalism issue

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.

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

Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"

It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.

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occult@ominous.net wrote:

This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.

No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.