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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CactuarJoe@retro.pizza ("Cactuar Joe") wrote:

"I see you're working. Have you considered sitting with a cat instead?"

#cats #catsofmastodon

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

"LEARN CRYPTO FROM THE SCRATCH"

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116494413944452758

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Some mornings I just can't going until I put on some Freddie Mercury, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdBb9Slu1A

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

it is starting to seem to me that the Secret Service Agent was wounded by Secret Service pistol fire, not the shotgun used by the idiot who charged through that perimeter control point. some of the video from there looks like a cartoonish “circular firing squad”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Alairthephoenix@pounced-on.me wrote:

@DeltaWye I hate that this is usually the solution instead of fixing the root problem, or worse, not even looking for the root problem.

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

Oh Mullenweg exploded again.

The thing is: He criticizes processes and slow pace (which one can do) but his solution basically is no process and just winging it. Which - given wordpress runs millions of people's websites - is just childish and irresponsible. It's the classical "strong man" argument.

Wordpress' processes might be problemattic ( ;) ) but that also stems from lack of vision and lack of establishing modes and spaces for experimentation where people are not afraid that Mullenweg is gonna publicly shit on them for not loving LLMs enough.

The problem is still weak leadership. Who is the leader again?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
joshsutphin@wandering.shop ("Josh Sutphin") wrote:

Tech these days: "You have to work from the office so you can have serendipitous interactions with your colleagues that we replaced with the AI that you have to prompt from the office." 🤡

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

[Kate Bush passing Sisyphus for the fiftieth time] on your left

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

The Bees Are Happy

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Every time I create a moderately boosted toot:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

How it's going out there... From Reddit.

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

You've seen the Prisoner's Dilemma problem before right?

Congratulations from now on when you see it you're playing the iterated version.

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

My only quibble is that I am (again) paraphrased as if I talked about "AI" as a thing, or used "AI" to refer to language models. I'm sure what I said to Holly Baxter here was "language models" have these uses. I've asked for a correction.

In general, if you see me quoted/paraphrased in the media and the term "AI" is outside the quotes, that's gonna be a journalist mis-paraphrasing me.

/fin

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

"Technologies of isolation" is due to @hypervisible , but even if I'm careful to tell journalists that, they don't necessarily include the attribution.
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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by Holly Baxter

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news-humanize-chatbot-conscious-b2963788.html

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
zwarich@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jonmsterling

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
feistyduck@infosec.exchange ("Feisty Duck") wrote:

Cryptography & Security Newsletter is out! In this issue:
- ECH Is Done, But Can We Make It Work?
- PQC, Cryptography, Privacy, PKI and more!
https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue%5F136%5Fech%5Fis%5Fdone%5Fbut%5Fcan%5Fwe%5Fmake%5Fit%5Fwork

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

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

good, the days of “Dem Party Leadership” deciding for the people who gets to run should come to an end immediately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/janet-mills-drops-out-senate-race-platner-schumer.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.e1A.3kca.yELgd51F7AoW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

One final push to finish the term…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/30/last-gasp-of-spring-2026/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screenshots-and-voice-samples-without-governance-6973c48f03a7

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“The passion for, devotion to, and identification with work would be diminishing if everyone were able to work less and less.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/correct-attitude

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

#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.5 is available

• Optimize profile loading
• Change default posts filter on profile page, due to gotosocial performances
• Display media of a profile in a gallery
• Manage new post failure
• Add profile banner image
• Add DEBUG_MODE constant in config.php to log api calls
• Fix link to account in snac2 user mentions
• Add 'Here since [date]' in profile page
• Display nested quoted post (if available on the instance)
• Add quoting post feature
• Add card preview of links if provided by the instance
• Add CW field in reply
• Add font family selector in prefs
• Correct Apache .htaccess help in README
• Display [locked] info on profile page

Source/download

Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse #nojs

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
pcdevil ("👾 Attila Gonda") wrote:

👋 Hi, I'm looking for work!

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- a detail oriented #frontend senior engineer with 15 years of experience
- proficient with #JavaScript & #TypeScript, #CSS, #Vue, TDD
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- a collaborative environment between eng + product & design teams
- a #Bonn based (onsite) or a Germany / EU-based (remote) company
- ability to learn and grow

🚫 no crypto, big oil, gambling, gen-ai, web3

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#FediHire #GetFediHired

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

good way to start the morning

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-ol-grateful-deadcast/id1522914723?i=1000764648546

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, exceedingly pure") wrote:

I'm sure some people will find my tone here confrontational:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144851/the-day-i-logged-1-in-every-2000-public-ipv4-visualizing-the-ai-scraper-ddos/

Get used to it. I'm going to be even harsher not just on the companies making "AI", but also on people choosing to use it. You know what you're causing, and you choose not to care.

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

People really be like "we can make it easier for police to catch criminals if we just all assume everyone is a criminal!"

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116490168884007581

Making a note of the phrase “right now, the instrument to make LLMs possible are through an industry that is ecologically harmful, exploitative, and devoid of accountability” for future use.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

@stefan_hessbrueggen @joshisanonymous @Iris Oh yes, totally! There are applications where ML or even LLMs might provide a specific use case. In a constrained context, it may make sense to provide a machine translation or transcription, as long as we understand the boundaries of what it can or can't accomplish, and why...

But right now, the instrument to make LLMs possible are through an industry that is ecologically harmful, exploitative, and devoid of accountability. For example, creating an interface to LLMs that mimics human behavior (i.e., a chatbot) is irresponsible, at best...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/116487778402803336

Okaaaay, scaling is absolutely an issue, but how much of this is due to MS so heavily pushing Copilot?

This is what they wanted!