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

nutella rice

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

We can oppose the use of LLMs on an individual basis by just not using them. I do that myself every day. But after hearing multiple personal anecdotes bound together with the common thread of people feeling like they can’t be excited about an empowering solution to their problems, I think it’s time that we start thinking more about how we talk about this stuff. Because the sanctimonious approach ain’t it. It’s alienating and unproductive. It’s pushing people further into themselves.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I get that the large players in the LLM space are all horrible. I get that the tech is built with stolen data (my own data was stolen and put in there!). I get that we’re seeing record energy/water use and pollution from all of this. It’s all undisputedly bad.

But, like, if someone can take a source of suffering in their life and make things better with this tech, who am I to tell them that they shouldn’t? Who are you?

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praxeology@post.lurk.org ("Hart of the Wud") wrote:

Can anyone suggest some beginner-level books or videos about working sheet metal with hand tools?

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

After my 6th DM with a similar story, I’m starting to feel this deep sense of empathetic frustration. Imagine finding a solution to a significant personal issue, but you feel like you can’t share it with anyone because someone will inevitably show up to tell you that you’re a piece of trash for using [LLM] or supporting [LLM] or whatever. Or maybe, if you’re lucky, they’ll just tell you that you should feel guilty and terrible about using it.

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

Watched a preview of one of those low-budget documentaries that Netflix commissions just to fill the feed. This one was about Nikola Tesla.

It was full of AI slop. Every time they cut away from someone talking, the b-roll was just some AI generated depiction. It was really really bad.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Another follow-up after several more DMs, and I really need to share this observation:

There are a bunch of folks (at least in my own network) who are using LLMs every day, and are seeing solid success addressing very specific personal obstacles. Things that you and I might take for granted, but that others need a hand with.

They’re having fantastic success with this, but you’re not hearing about it. Why? Because they don’t want to get raked over the coals for using LLMs.

😕

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

good morning and welcome to the black mesa transit facility

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

Climate Change Concern Near It...

jwz wrote:

Global Tetrahedron.

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours: Imagine a roaring arena packed to the rafters with pathological liars. High above you in the nosebleeds are podcasters, screaming that you'll die if you don't buy their skincare products. Below, on...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6i

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein The Pound gets a retrospective
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/20.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@krutonium/116437893923133812

agentic cannabis, of course!

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

The funny thing is that people who actually _work_ at AI firms are not the same people here. Yes, there's a few fascists, and sama is absolutely an art-hating jerk who doesn't understand people or value, but you get a lot more of the systems-thinking, cares-about-humanity people at the labs.

That said, because these are ~~paperclip maximizers~~ businesses, not shipping isn't on the menu. "We hold back because this capability can cause harm" can only be a delay. Shipping will happen, because the structure is constitutionally built _to ship products_.

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

I see github is taking “a complex system always runs in degraded mode" as a goal not a statement about complexity

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

I’m always lost when I see time in AM/PM format.

Something like 12:10 AM is so strange, I always hesitate what is this 12 ? midnight !
Beginning the day with 12, so wtf

(sorry if this is so clear for you)

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

engine number 1, the only remaining engine

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Blossoms song: Joke About Divorce. You can't beat #16mm for music videos! It's such a good look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leH7G%5FsnJbA

#NowPlaying #NP

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camertron@ruby.social ("Cameron Dutro") wrote:

Found it

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

Flies, it is inadvisable to land on my house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/20/yum/

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

BlinkOn 21 OH: "C++ makes it easy!" (laudatory)

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

i think i'd like to meet this guy's computer, mine fails constantly.

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

as anyone who's ever owned a computer knows, sometimes they fail

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

itanic: intel's LOL

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:

'What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired'
~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

#Poetry

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

Accurate

RE: https://www.threads.com/@comixgail/post/DXXH2wuFPEV

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"No one wants to work, our turnover is terrible!"

Ok, do you pay a living wage?
"No"

Do you give annual raises more than 7%, the annual rate of cost of living increase?
"Also no, but-"

Do you give larger raises and bonuses to execs than to your workers?
"Well yes, but-"

Did you force people to stop working from home in order to justify the cost of maintaining real estate you own?
"I mean, we-"

Do you heavily invest in AI so you can justify massive layoffs?
"Like every other co-"

Do you ask your employees to pick up the slack for the people who have left?
"We had t-"

And did you install digital tools to spy on your remaining employees?
"Look we need to ensu-"

Sounds to me like people DO want to work, you've just made it unpatatable for them to work for YOU.

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

I've got 3 blog post ideas in the hopper but, between work and other demands for my time, I have no idea when I'll get to any of them

[internal screaming]

I should take a vacation or something but I'm booked solid until the end of June on client work hahahaha

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

Maybe I should add @fedify to https://pages.casa/ ??
But what this couple would improve, compare to a #gotosocial instance ?

#fedify #fediverse

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bud_t@m.ai6yr.org ("Bud Talbot") wrote:

I need a better #markdown editor for #Windows. What are folks using and liking? I'm currently using #VScode but I didn't think it's great for markdown.