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

i am so glad it's filling up this context buffer with several answers i would have accepted to produce another one i might accept.

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

so far (~10m) it has generated this 'reasoning':

• Question: "are you alive?"
  • Intent: Philosophical/Existential inquiry into the nature of the AI's existence.
  • I am a large language model trained by Google.
  • I am a program running on servers.
  • I don't have biological functions (breathing, eating, cells, DNA).
  • I don't have feelings, consciousness, or subjective experience (in the biological sense).
  • I process information and generate text based on patterns.
  • Direct Answer: No, I am not alive.
  • Explanation: I am an AI, a computer program. I lack biological processes and consciousness.
  • *Nuance (optional but good for depth):

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

it is pegging all my cores preparing the "reasoning", which it looks like is just added as context to produce the response?

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

i am finally running my first local model all sandboxed and everything.

wow i expected it not to be instant but this is hilarious. i asked it "are you alive?" 3 minutes ago and it's still 'reasoning' about my prompt

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The team has quietly launched collections on mastodon.social as was promised (but slightly delayed) in a blog post a few weeks ago. Here's one I made for webcomics of Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/collections/116533503334952204

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116533225314671628

Prediction: if any "radically pro-transgender" violent group is ever discovered, it will eventually be traced back to an FBI black operation started under Kash Patel (or to the KGB, or similar).

With the right, it's ALWAYS projection.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
democratsabroad ("Democrats Abroad") wrote:

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116534477340506154

There should be a special acronym or emoji for “#Trump regime abuse of power” so we don’t have to write all out in every post.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
arielmt@computerfairi.es ("Ariel Millennium Thornton") wrote:

Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.

We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.

The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
llorenzin@infosec.exchange ("Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)") wrote:

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

These war relics I've been posting are remnants of Camp Tinker in Rauðhólar. Rauðhólar, or Red Hills, is a beautiful area where you can see pseudocraters.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

Mozilla has provided behind-the-scenes details on the 271 vulnerabilities it discovered with the help of Mythos. Those details include full Bugzilla reports on 12 of the vulnerabilities. I'd be curious for people to look at the reports and hear what they think.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

“My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS”

If you're sick of Chrome OS on your Chromebook, or can find a Chromebook for cheap somewhere but don't actually want to use Chrome OS, have you considered postmarketOS?

Since I was kind frustrated with ChromeOS, I decided to take a look at something that I knew supported my Lenovo Duet 3 for some time: postmarketOS. For thos

https://www.osnews.com/story/144897/my-favorite-device-is-a-chromebook-without-chromeos/

#Linux

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ THEY LIVE: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 7, 7:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theylive #cyberdelia #synthwave #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

@glyph Definitely! Just use different words!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I'd love to see both bits of information! But like… they're very different bits of information

jwz wrote:

@glyph Yeah I think so

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I know I've been seeing it a lot more after a relatively recent update. My suspicion is that it only used to mean one of these things — probably "truncated" — and recently came to mean the other?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

A new federal bill would wipe out dozens, if not hundreds, of existing state privacy protections. It’s hard to take seriously. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation

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

Brum Furs Attendees! 20.01.2024
#furry #furryfandom #furryphotography #fursuitphotography #fursuit

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Republicans in Tennessee are trying to quickly redraw voting maps to carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional seat. Despite significant public backlash, they may approve these racist redistricting maps as soon as today. Indivisibles and people across TN are mobilizing to the state capitol this morning. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/IndivisibleTennessee.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Fuck Work, call-in sick"
Seen in Chicago

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"At least we're getting richer"
Anti-Shell subvertising in the London Tube

jwz wrote:

@glyph Yeah, I wasn't sure if it had always done this or if it was a new thing.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz oh is THAT why it's showing up nearly all the time now

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

in news that will shock noone, intel has cancelled ARC graphics

jwz wrote:

I do not like that the "Read more >" link on the Mastodon web interface means two different things and you can't tell them apart:

• This post was more than 500 characters and has been truncated;

• There are replies in the thread.

One of these I care about a lot, the other not so much.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tafnn@universeodon.com ("McSpocky") wrote:

A new “Donald J. tRump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” just opened in NYC.

3.5 million pages. 17,000 pounds of DOJ Epstein files. Full timeline of their 20-year Palm Beach/Mar-a-Lago bromance.

The evidence is on display for the world to read.
https://mcsp.short.gy/jx9X

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

Chief Justice John Roberts on how the American people view the Supreme Court:

“I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do. I would say that’s the main difficulty.”

sorry, no. the main difficulty is how you act.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Deconstruction

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

„The Customer is King“ to which my French girlfriend replied „and you know what we did to kings“. Touché, ma chère. Touché.