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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
maya@social.seattle.wa.us ("maya ⛓️") wrote:

oh my god we are a THIRD of the country???

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/american-transportation-revolves-around-cars-many-americans-dont-drive/

(via @aphyr)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If you are an enthusiast yourself who is interested in a sustainable open source culture, you should consider maybe dedicating some time to help a no-AI project you like fend off such people. Allowing this kind of direct abuse to take place with no pushback from your faction kinda tars you all with the same brush.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Thankfully my maintenance portfolio exists in a backwater of obscurity and irrelevance, so I am able to think about this from at least a *partial* remove from the immediacy of the catastrophe. But even I can see a plethora of evidence—like the above—where it really looks like the extruders turn people into aggressive, unrepentant assholes. At least, they create a constituency of unrepentant assholes who are also LLM users.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

One of the very difficult tensions around this problem is that the extrusion enthusiast culture itself is deeply obnoxious, bordering on predatory. So enforcement of boundaries may sometimes need to be pretty confrontational. And it really shouldn't be incumbent upon maintainers themselves to need to constantly re-litigate basic project policy in every single PR, because that is a recipe for burnout. As a recent and striking example, consider *this* disaster:

https://toot.cat/@zkat/116410545300488665

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The way that this is written strikes me as wildly over-optimistic and dangerously credulous towards slopmongers' claims about capabilities.

But.

I think in the mold of "try to be kind, not to be 'nice'", we do need to engage with the realpolitik of a slop-haunted world. We cannot accept extruded text in our projects for a whole host of reasons, BUT, we do need to have patience and grace for the extruders themselves, to help them understand how to participate.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I will be able to tell if Google starts taking user consent seriously when I see a UI element in YouTube that allows me to categorically filter any video that is:

- just a clip of a popular TV show or movie
- a "for X minutes straight" supercut
- "with no context"
- a guy doing extremely straightforward copyright infringement by monetizing their narration of a commercially published comic book because comics aren't in content ID
- someone just reading a reddit post out loud and chortling at it

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Look at what happened with Claude Code. We learned via the source code leak that the whole thing is a Rube Goldberg machine of shoddy regexes and Markdown snippets telling Claude to lie, and yet proverbial moments later, Anthropic announces a new product that *totally works this time I swear* and all of a sudden discourse about AI tools "working" is completely reset.

Getting stuck in that discourse loop opens you up to being perpetually distracted from the far more important ethical problems.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

Over at Unbreaking, we’re starting to write about the design and technical work that goes into the project. And I loved @markllobrera’s writeup of how and why we introduced sidenotes to our issue pages: https://unbreaking.org/blog/tech-note-sidenotes/

The events we’re chronicling are overwhelming, but the reading experience shouldn’t be.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech

freebooters.uk/media/20260413-freebooters.mp3

Chris and Drew chat about the possibility of leaving this channel behind.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

I'm terrified that these lifeforms corrupt our knowledge-creation process, making it impossible for us to know what's true and what isn't. I'm terrified that these lifeforms have conquered our apparatus of state - our legislatures, agencies and courts - and so that these public bodies work *against* the public and *for* our colonizing alien overlords.

18/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:

Being a creative little weirdo is an act of resistance.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116415287153075804

How can a federated network be down?

Oh wait 😆

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Call for Contributions: #LOCO2026

2nd Low Carbon Computing workshop (10-11 Sept, Lancaster University).

https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/

DEADLINE: 29 May 2026 AoE.

FULLY HYBRID EVENT:

The workshop is either on line or in-person both for speakers and attendees. You can deliver your talk either on line or in person.

The workshop adheres to the LOCO Charter:

https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/charter/

and the LOCO Code of Conduct:

https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/code-of-conduct/

Please share to help us spread the news.

#FrugalComputing

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
andnull@social.nouveau.community ("... and and and and ...") wrote:

I really like how watching the uxn channel on the concatenative discord has really left a permanent mark in my brain. Me and the rest of the mods basically let it operate as an automous zone in the discord. I even had it muted for the most part. Unbenounced to everyone outside that channel however, an AI booster and vibecoder had joined.

In a matter of a month or so, he killed the whole channel. Strangled it with his refusal to think. Every word someone said was feed straight into an LLM. Then, thrown back at chat cause the LLM could predict the correct code, and he could understand anything.

Eventually everyone grew so tired they began leaving. One fucking person leeched off a whole community. Never. Again. Ever inch you cede to LLM contributions in your community is another step towards its implosion. There is a reason so much of the art community has vehemently rejected whole sale.

But programmers need their new toys. And programmers demand every space follows industry trends and recommendation. And programmers cannot handle the idea of someone saying "no, we don't do that here". Cause nobody gets to say No in the software world. Things are always forced to evolve, consequences be damned.

I made the mistake once. I will not be making it twice. Do not help build the new car depedent infrastructure or everything you care about will be paved over.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

For my birthday my wife gifted me this wooden specimen box from American Type Founders, circa 1960.

Some all time favorites, including Franklin Gothic in here.

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

No, the "lab leak" hypothesis is not credible, and it is only promoted by certifiable loons.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/16/the-loons-have-been-handed-the-control-of-science/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AF0AJ@mastodon.radio ("Wes AFØAJ") wrote:

My dad (KØBG for those who don’t know) gave me more than an interest in ham radio… He also gave me insane curiosity and near-zero fear of taking things apart. Comes-in handy when one needs to replace the tired battery in a 20-year-old iPod, or my early first-gen Nintendo Switch (which also had a noisy-ass fan that needed replacement). Both now much happier.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Yesterday I had the incredible opportunity of giving a presentation for the service numérique of the French Ministry of Culture, as part of their experiment with the Mastodon instance @cercle

My talk: "The Fediverse: the original promise of the internet"

It was super inspiring to listen to all the talks of the participants, from the @palaisdetokyo to @LeMuseum. And the results of the poll by @imacrea were fascinating! I will write more soon. For now: THANK YOU for having me there ❤️

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

amazing… a politician who has actually read some US history:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/nyregion/mamdani-sewer-socialism.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.bVA.D0MS.QdKs4F8fCpSe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org ("Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶") wrote:

"Modern AI is fundamentally dependent on corporate resources and business practices, and our increasing reliance on such AI cedes inordinate power over our lives and institutions to a handful of tech firms.” (Whittaker, 2021)

Whittaker, M. (2021) ‘The Steep Cost of Capture’. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4135581 (Accessed: 6 July 2025).

#AI #BigTech

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

They should invent a kind of nap where you wake up and you aren't tired anymore

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

I do not want to "take back tech".

I want something new to grow from the needs, utopias and desires that a community focused on a convivial life develops.

"Tech" as a social structure might not be salvageable.

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

It occurred to me while I was writing my most recent blog post that we don’t talk nearly enough about how and why PayPal incubated so many of the worst people in tech and technofascist politics. What the hell was going on there?

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116414897025610603

"Tech" wasn't /taken/ from us. We just never were willing to realize that it did not include us except as powerless users and customers.

Love for "Tech" is kinda like being in an abusive relationship.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ewie@social.lol ("evie") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@ewie/116397646037353137

It's finally out! This watchface is my first time developing for the Pebble (or any embedded system for that matter), and went from concept to product in 12 days for the Pebble Spring 2026 Developer Contest. It's written entirely in the Zig programming language, which was a joy to work with except when the Pebble SDK gave me trouble (it's not officially supported). It features no AI code. All the bad code came straight from my own brain.

https://apps.repebble.com/ae80da4fd2d54efc9e907b11

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mattburgess@infosec.exchange ("Matt Burgess") wrote:

Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.

So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?

Here's a list of what I have so far:

*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*

https://docs.proton.me/sheet?mode=open-url&token=EG60KWHEDG&linkId=JnZzdChtiOV5FlG3GkJNcuUXn55S6jH59La%5FpFtdHaC-A0Fu0I5v4vbOrD6zTZUa-x6JD-qG-C7AGIhus3pnhw%3D%3D#7P2AL5m6PPzT

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #europe #tech

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

This is a great (and horrifying?) piece about how Sam, in preparation for her marriage, was pulled into the bridal algorithm. Her experience of social media changed completely overnight https://www.404media.co/wedding-planning-algorithm-weddingtok/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

@soatok I hope they accounted for ML-DSA's signature size when planning to add all these JWTs.

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

When things are looking awful, I tend to go running to see everything worse.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/16/need-something-to-counter-the-signs-of-spring-stat/