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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

welcome bluesky users! nice to see you all again, I hope things have improved since the last outage and we can encourage you to stick around, don't hesitate to say hi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Frank") wrote:

I ran this poll 2 years ago and 90% of the correspondents on mastodon told me there were no required AI usage at their workplace.

I would like to ask the same question again in 2026:

“Does your workplace have any AI related requirements, either as major project goal, in performance review, or with usage analytics tracking, against your own will?”

Boost welcomed.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.

“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.

His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.

But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.

A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.

Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1

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

“A Good Time (2020 Remaster)” by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/z6TZ77GKo2b

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

Out-of-touch plutocrats are doing Mamdani's work for him, and it's glorious:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/0b6b57ff-dea0-430c-bc61-104b61bc2c31

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Ideally you would give the new AI product a distinctive name that clearly articulates where it fits in your overall product strategy. Something like "Eyestab" or "Footgun"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
woof@aria.dog ("Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: ") wrote:

@somebody @nelson @floralia im gay

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
somebody@tech.lgbt ("Dataline") wrote:

@nelson @woof @floralia 100%. I'll add that the final boss of this is that rebellion for its own sake even forms a kind of reaction or conformity. This is one of the stickiest wickets imo. There's a reason for the sort of perennial arc people go through from "mother knows best" to "fuck you I'm not cleaning my room" to ultimately a kind of stoic wisdom that neither bends to authority nor attempts to establish its own sovereignty, basically just existing. Parenting has taught me a lot about this, recognizing that sometimes my authority is needed to prevent a complete derailment but that in those cases I should wield it with a feather's touch.

jwz wrote:

"Joy", which they have rebranded as "Economic Impact..."

'How Could You Be Against Joy?': Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund: Crypto billionaire Larsen -- who is currently spending tens of millions of dollars to prop up moderate...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6Z

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tyalie@chaos.social ("Sophie Tyalie (☎️ 7098)") wrote:

"Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide!" it's a bit back to the basics, but I find it gives a good overview and description of modern MCU features like pipelining, SIMD, caches, SMT, ...

Maybe somebody will find it useful ^^

https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Anyway, if you are an institution that has made the jump from the hellsite to Bluesky, consider this a reminder as to why POSSE is important. Thanks to providers like MastoHost, it's fully possible to pay for your own social media infrastructure, and to not tie all your fortunes to a single transphobic company.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Yeah, I'm gloating over Bluesky being down. I know it's a bad look. I'm just happy that a company that adopted AI to piss off trans people they didn't like, that platformed Jesse Singal over and over again, and whose CEO tried to invent a new transphobic slur is eating shit today.

Bluesky is a transphobic company, I do not like them at all, and I am not sorry to be happy about their loss. I am sorry for the collateral damage that has on everyone who depends on Bluesky for a living.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It has just been pointed out to me that the tool everyone is using to make fun of GitHub for turning into a flaky slopware service is itself slopware.

https://github.com/mrshu/github-statuses

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

I agree: fuck the rain gods with a pitchfork

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

okay i've finally figured out what smells weird about this bullshit ai thing they've done.

so the obvious thing of course is that it's an ai client. and it's for enterprises? god forbid mozilla build something for ordinary people.

the less obvious thing:

• developed by the for profit division of mozilla
• using a grant from mozilla?

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

It's a good sign when the orb weavers start showing up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/16/tetragnatha-the-long-jawed-orbweaver-or-the-stretch-spider/

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

a useful read

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.bVA.e8vJ.1M0ctLNWhibY&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

(fuck agda, particularly fuck ulf and andreas, but also fuck the ai bros and jesper)

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rootwyrm@weird.autos ("RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:") wrote:

@zzt IBM, Canonical, Torvalds, and Systemd Dipfuck are falling all over themselves to implement total surveillance at the kernel level. I expect by next week, grub will refuse to boot past an 'Enter your birthdate' prompt.

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

lol, if potential contributors are deterred by a ban on ai contributions, that's almost certainly a good thing, why the hell would you think otherwise?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
joshchen@types.pl ("Josh Chen") wrote:

https://github.com/agda/agda/pull/8507

"We are concerned by these developments", "negative effects of large language
models (LLMs) on many individuals, our society, and our planet", "surveillance, censorship, discrimination, labor violations, climate and ecological impact, impact on the hardware market, and centralization of power by Big Tech"

Here's the thing: the actual honest statement is more along the lines of "DESPITE these negative externalities, some of the core team are not willing to develop Agda without the use of LLMs".

Maybe this is counterintuitive, but I am much less inclined to feel judgey about such a statement, than about one which pays lip service to negative externalities while obviously not caring about them in any meaningful way.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

With a friend or rando, you can just say "Hey, can you stop wasting my time with that?" or ask "Are you interested in a genuine conversation here? Or should we stop talking?"

But at work, where LLM mandates are becoming commonplace, ...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://c.im/@blueorangeblue/116416264014964812

In the primitive hobbitsian state, there is no government or source of moral authority, and persons revert to a primitive state of taking long lunches and lots of naps

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Imagine you're having a text chat with someone about whether you should paint your bike shed red or blue. You type out a couple bullet points to make your case. Then they copy-paste 5 paragraphs of AI drivel to make their point.

They haven't even had time to read it themselves, much less write it, but they expect you to rebut it.

Wouldn't that feel like a big "fuck you"?

It feels the same when someone asks me to review AI generated code.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pq1r@tech.lgbt ("Arik") wrote:

@kirtai @soatok There can't be an organised transition, since there's just no way to force the Internet at large to transition to another protocol.

But today, finally, after 27 years since its drafting and almost 9 years of it being a proper standard, it's ubiquitous at the OS software stack level, at least for anything that's not a cheapo IoT device (which is a bit ironic since IPv6 was supposed to solve the emergence of a multitude of IoT devices).

My ISP provides IPv6 out of the box and when I check my currently established connections on this box, I only have IPv6 connections to addresses external to my local network. Pretty cool.

I think the only reason IPv6 is not adapted sooner is because we keep inventing ways to avoid doing it because of some perceived need for backward compatibility. I think that this is a self perpetuating problem - hosts won't configure for IPv6 because IPv4 still exists, and that keeps the demand for IPv4 going.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Yeah, Fedi has its problems.

But at least most folks are good about using the CW feature most of the time.

(I can't comment on alt-text usage on either community, but I'd imagine it's more commonly used here.)

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

$30m an hour: big oil reaping ...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
privacyguides@neat.computer ("Privacy Guides") wrote:

ICYMI, be sure you catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, @eff Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Cindy sat down with us in Ann Arbor, MI to discuss her work, the origins of the EFF, her latest book “Privacy’s Defender,” and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Watch now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc

#EFF #Interview #PrivacysDefender #CindyCohn #DigitalRights #Privacy #Security #Law

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The cool thing about bsky being down practically all day is I didn't have to accidentally observe completely untagged content for other people's kinks that squick me, which (due to not being tagged) bypasses my muted word list.

So who's to say if it's good or bad?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

yes :Froglet: