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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

@pancakes copy-paste from where I got it;

> sorry was quick to post. the source is many on bluesky and in different forums that are for VRC. apparently what is going on is the following (take with grain of salt as all I can confirm is worlds being taken down like A link I will post when this is posted.)

> 1. VRC updated their TOS pointing out that furry and adult content are expressly banned.

> 2. a few "normal people" groups learned that and started mass reporting furry worlds, models, and users.

> 3. it is mainly focused on worlds and models right now.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

Banning furries is like killing all the canaries in the coal mine, or killing a core species in a biodiversity

This is gonna tank VRChat so hard

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

Lmao VRChat banned furries and sexual content

lol. lmao.

Edit: most likely not directly, and/or this is a harassment campaign, but still

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

surprise twist: right now I mostly want to talk about programming instrumentally, my secret insidious goal is to have mental health good enough to actually finish this monster post about AI so I can be _done_ with it, but having to look at and think about AI in my extremely limited free time has driven me too insane to do so

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd love to be on here chatting about programming

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

or hey here's another one, a little more popular even, maybe it'll change a little bit about how you think about modeling workflows https://pypi.org/project/Automat/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

or maybe this one, this is also a good one, I hear it's even going to be lightly featured in a tutorial soon. It hasn't seen a lot of production use yet, nothing at scale, but it's simple enough that I'm confident that any issues will be minor and can be fixed quickly

https://pypi.org/project/dbxs/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

hey if you're a python programmer and you're sick of everyone posting nothing but AI all the time do me a favor, check this out and give me some feedback, give me something to reply to that's just about python code and API design and an interesting problem space

https://pypi.org/project/fritter/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

went to listen to a podcast today. title looked like it was about a thing I'm interested in, not another AI jump scare. in the car so I can't read the description. hit play. literally the first two words were "when OpenAI…"

(a subtoot because I'm not hating on the podcast hosts here, you gotta cover what's topical, but holy crap is this ever reaching a fever pitch)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I keep wanting to say stuff like "saying that 'AI is just a tool' and 'no matter what tool you use you're responsible for what you put into production' is the same dumb-as-rocks argument that 'there's no such thing as bad programming languages just bad programmers' and 'C is safe as long as you're careful' and it's dangerously close to victim-blaming" as if the latter argument is over and the industry is not chock full of people who still wholeheartedly believe the latter two statements

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page https://lobste.rs/s/njcvka #browsers #satire #vibecoding
https://github.com/scosman/cursed%5Fbrowser

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Some optimism as a counterweight to, well, everything.

https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
offby1@wandering.shop ("Chris is.") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@LAcon/116528709912868061

I’m proud that my work (https://nomnom.fans/) is helping to make the #HugoAwards happen again this year. When you vote in the Hugo Awards, or download the packet, you're using software I wrote. It's open source -- a rarity in convention software, but in my opinion, so critical to the trust we must have in the process -- and made with #Python and #Django and many other software libraries that are also freely given to the developer community.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
phildini@wandering.shop wrote:

I did a sidequest this week, inspired by @dash to mitigate some of the namespace risks presented by #llms, #agentic coding, and #mcp servers.

The result was SquatGuard, planting plastic flowers to protect the hive.

You can read about it here: https://phildini.dev/slopsquatting-for-good

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

Okay, while these are still infection-like symptoms, I discovered my heart rate has been around 90 bpm since Sunday. Making an urgent appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning. Yikes.

jwz wrote:

This fountain is not going down without a fight!

Flames erupt as crews dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain:
https://jwz.org/b/yk69

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

Hey, how are you today? You good?

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
GeePawHill wrote:

So. Advice time, two parts:

1. Follow cool and interesting people, and follow the cool and interesting people *they* like, too.

2. Talk about and share *anything* you think is cool and interesting, regardless of whether or not it's your main thing.

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

Well, good for her. We should all be able to say who we are.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@people/post/DYAYuLZlEUu

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Underbark. Looks like this was done by some bugs who used to live under the tree bark.

#photography #darktable

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

browser.ml.chat.menu=false

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@agentultra @dysfun Have been using LibreWolf for a couple months now and it has been nice and AI-free. (I just have to remember to *reduce* some of its security paranoia each time I install it on a new machine. 😆)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Position is where you are.
Velocity is how blurry the trees look out the window.
Acceleration is how hard is your back pressed against the seat.
Jerk is how much your head hurts and how soon you eventually get carsick.
...
I don't know how to describe any more derivatives by time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk%5F%28physics%29

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

tired: model collapse
wired: pivot to goblins

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116529480901253401

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

oh good, firefox has brought back some more ai shit in the update. my joy is unbounded, can't think why noone trusts moz

jwz wrote:

@jscalzi How did I know he would look like a dollar store Wilson Fisk

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:

I express that a little differently though:

_Defaults are not neutral. They enact political values._

Looking at Chrome's example from yesterday's news, its default of downloading a 4gb model file to each user enacts political values including

* Everyone should be paying for unlimited bandwidth

* Everyone should have large storage devices with lots of free space

* Conserving energy doesn't matter

* Conserving bandwidth doesn't matter

* Pollution doesn't matter

* Consent doesn't matter

* Disclosure doesn't matter

* Usefulness doesn't matter

* The user doesn't have the right to delete unwanted material from their device

One default, embodying and imposing right-wing political values. Be rich, be profligate, be wasteful, be disrespectful, be subservient to the tech oligarchy, be docile.

Look into your software and ask whose interests are being served by it and whose interests have been deemed unimportant. Its core politics are embedded in that.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

At this point it seems like it might be easier to announce when GitHub is up

Boosted by jwz:
verymetalsite ("Henri Verymetaldev") wrote:

@jalefkowit

Highly overrated, would not recommend.

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

Meanwhile, this asshole

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/business/mamdani-taxes-real-estate