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

This worldview is impossible to deal with as it’s based on a fundamentally flawed reading of history.

Our past is filled with tech that was compelling right at the outset, with a clear unambiguous benefit, and then slowly and with faltering steps revealed to be harmful after adoption

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

I keep encountering, online and off, people who believe if an unethical tech becomes functional enough, that will make all the naysayers abandon their concerns and start using

That is, if LLMs become good enough then surely we will look past the deception, violations, abuse, and extremist politics?

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

So, wait, the whole “Mythos AI is so powerful it can find exploits in any software” thing requires both access to the source code and thousands of runs to find anything remotely actionable? This is the “too dangerous to release” model they’ve been hyping up?

Is that really it?

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

obviously amd64 is still not a good architecture and likely never will be a good architecture. but at least we have more toys to play with these days (where available)

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

so yeah i'm just gonna declare it, amd64 stopped being a completely suck architecture with x86-64-v3. that doesn't mean it was good then, just that it didn't suck completely.

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

if i were writing a compiler and supporting amd64 i am honestly not sure how far back i would bother going at this point. even AMD's BMI2 impl supports SHRX etc. properly (it's only PEXT/PDEP they made super slow). and it means you have amazing tools like the ability to avoid undefined behaviour while zeroing high bits.

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

if the cpu supports BMI2, will the compiler prefer to rewrite shifts using e.g. SHRX to avoid clobbering flags?

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xfq@w3c.social ("Fuqiao Xue") wrote:

Back in 2008 W3C sat down with Japanese typesetting experts and created a clear, practical guide to how Japanese text really works so CSS, SVG, and HTML could support it properly on the web.

Specs now point to JLReq for details, and it sparked similar language enablement guides for Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Tibetan, and many more.

Real typographic knowledge, turned into web standards that make the global internet look right in every language.

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

True story: 100% *successful* autonomous completion of non-trivial coding tasks by "AI agents" isn't a thing. It doesn't exist. It's not even close to existing.

Treat any such claims like you would treat claims of people teleporting to the office.

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lproven@vivaldi.net ("Liam Proven") wrote:

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

oh yeah, i never did figure out what i was doing wrong with that inline asm

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

in the netherlands this usually represents as headwinds there, headwinds on the way back when cycling.

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

watching about singapore flight 319 and this is amazing, they've got dutch weather there - tailwinds on opposite runways.

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tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

This asshole driving his codpiece on rhe LA River Bike Trail. Came up behind, took this photo. They stopped passenger gor out. I said something ingenious like "get off the bike path asshole" as i passed and wow they went nuts.

Rode up ahead to call 911 (correct use of cops in this instance i think) the pass. got out to threaten me, etc.

Saw him pull into a warehouse that fronts the path. Ill probably call back to report that.

Happy to harrass a cyber twuck with police. They deserve each other.

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darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

This is really well stated:

“I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them.” — Nilay Patel on AI

https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3mj3vb6wxnc2l

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benfry@information.garden ("Ben Fry") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156

I simply cannot get my head around why anyone would let AI anywhere near their data analysis work.

Why would you add something to your work that can drop its accuracy by half? by 10%? by 1%? What would be an acceptable amount? What is the possible upside that would make this worth it?

I'm floored by the number of people in this field who take themselves all too seriously but are out there starting their whatever *dot AI* companies to get in on the grift, or say things like “and of course, AI” like it's both obvious and inevitable. And how is this so shiny that even educators have taken leave of their senses?

What the f*k is the point of analyzing a dataset if you're ok with answers simply being incorrect? What are we even doing here?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained because Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

They really do match. Hopefully, they'll be restored to their former quaint glory one day.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #snow #rust

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

(I'm aware that some Hollywood A-listers have publicists/managers who make vetting questions a condition of interview access to their clients. I am not the right interviewer for that type of scenario. On the flip side, neither my publicists nor my manager ask for that from my interviewers, and also, I am not a Hollywood A-lister.)

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

Having been on both sides of the interview table: Veronica is correct, this is not it. As an interviewer I don't clear questions ahead of time and as a subject I don't ask for that. At most, as an interviewer, I'll entertain requests about subjects the interviewee doesn't want to talk about. When I'm asked that same question by an interviewer I tell them to ask whatever they want and if I don't want to answer I will charmingly deflect.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@veronicaroth/post/DW9OG6hEbH4

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

Charles Emerson Winchester the Third, on the other hand, handily defeats her, he's surprisingly wily

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DW-8B2xFfyC

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"No Flock"
Poster spotted in Bloomington, Indiana denouncing Flock surveillance cameras.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-surveillance poster spotted in Sydney

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digyoursoul@universeodon.com ("Voting is Your POWER") wrote:

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize.

Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.”

The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3mj5khm64fk2b

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toonie@meow.social ("🌿Toonie🍸") wrote:

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mcc wrote:

@jplebreton y'know, i think i knew this, but i never actually bothered learning what any of the other colors *correspond* to. like what are the other color book standards for.

*checks*

hahahahahaa

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%5FBooks TIL "red book audio" was part of a larger set of CD standards books with different colors. feels like discovering new Ages of Myst.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

casual thinkpieces and lazy attempts at scicomm are what has set me off but the actual thing I'm mad about is that we are ruled by people with a child's understanding of the world and the economy and that's actually really bad

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

seriously just imagine the plot of one of the movies that doomers seem to think are documentaries, like Terminator 2. imagine the scene where the T-1000 is getting pelted with bullets. instead of seamlessly autonomously healing, imagine it has to lie down and wait for a human to place an order for $1,000,000 of NVIDIA GPUs to be delivered in a shipping container and then a construction crew to set up a methane generator to run for two weeks straight before it got up again. is that still scary?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like if anyone had halfway-plausible "grey goo" nanotech that could do anything that looked like computation, that might be worrying. a locally viable self-reproducing platform that can make another one of itself from a pile of dirt, even if it's like, special dirt, that might scare me a little bit. but an overlord hive-mind that requires an uninterrupted global high-purity helium supply chain just to make ONE more of itself is supposed to be a threat?