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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

He stares up at the sign, tears streaming. Arthur “Pantless” Jackson smiles. The search has taken him 10 years and to 14 countries. He opens the door. The clerk looks up from his phone. “Can I help you?” he asks. “Yes,” says Arthur, “I’m Jackson, and I believe you have my pants.”

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

“After lots of corporate shuffling, #Flickr ended up in the hands of a family-owned company, SmugMug, and they made the Flickr Foundation to preserve public photos for the next 100 years”

via @anildash

https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@WeirdWriter @kincat

For myself the giveaway is the "You're absolutely right!"; it's a common ChatGPT trope.

There's something about the style of the sentences too that reads as AI-generated to me. Em dashes, contrastive comparisons (apparently that's the formal name for "it's not x it's y"), and rules of three are writing devices common to both humans and bots, but AI seems to use them a lot, and in ways that are excessive and disrupt the flow of the writing rather than enhancing it. That's a significant tell for me.

There's also a level of breathless exaggeration that crops up from time to time in AI writing. This particular AI is incredibly deferential and contrite, coming across as rather insincere. It's not just sorry, it's so sorry it's going to change its entire development process for this one user. Somehow I doubt it.

Now you may be wondering how this kind of message differs from the average human-written corporate non-apology.... that's the neat part! They are not that different! This is, I expect, why business people have embraced the slop machine, it is not that different from the way they actually write.

As for why there's all those formatting errors.... no clue! It looks copypasted from an AI site but I thought even AI sites could handle proper line breaks.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Someday I will manage to ignore everyone who is wrong on the Internet and go back to programming

Someday.

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

I bought wired earbuds AMA

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

I've had this in my head for ages, so here you go.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

Hi. :ablobwavereverse:

I'm a professional computer geek in the Bay Area. I've been a sysadmin, designed and built networks, been a penetration tester, done security research, and incident response. I'm flexible enough to work as in aerospace engineering as well as computational pharmacology.

I'm still #unemployed.

I'm searching for a job, on-site or remote. If you're hiring, please DM me, or at least send me a link or two? Please?

#GetFediHired

Boosted by jwz:
Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs."

Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that.

They're gonna go in their bunkers... And then what? They all care about getting into the bunkers and never consider that the doors can be welded shut and the vents filled with concrete.

Boosted by jwz:
Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

LLMs can do a lot of the work people are tasked with doing on a regular basis, because a lot of the work people do is bullshit. The majority of what we do isn't to achieve any goal, it's a way to distribute just enough wealth to keep things calm while keeping us all too busy to actually make things better.

We aren't paid to make stuff or do things. We're paid not to riot. Elites used to know that. The fact that they've forgotten how the machine works is evident in its current implosion, and will only become more obvious as they forget the one thing that actually keeps them safe.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Now that's a protected bike lane. Why can't we have this everywhere?

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

You don't have to listen to the people who say they're "inventing the future".

They have a lottery ticket and it only pays out if you're a sucker.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pycon@fosstodon.org ("PyCon US") wrote:

If you've been coming to #PyConUS for a few years (or more!), you know how much this conference can mean to our community. This year, we welcome you to volunteer for a couple of hours and help make the magic real for someone else 💖

Sign up today ➡️ https://us.pycon.org/2026/volunteer/volunteering/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

OK, so with another two weeks of Claude experimentation under my belt, I can confidently say that we've successfully automated a McKinsey associate. Now, as for *why* we built an electric junior consultant to generate bad infographics and marketing copy, I don't know.

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

If you can, strive to be a kind person in the world.
Also, carry a large grumpy owl on your shoulder, for when the kindness thing doesn't work out.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@cstanhope My current workplaces squashes all commits in a PR on merge. I generally do not like this, because I often break a task up into smaller logical steps that are easier to review/undo independently.

However, it does have the nice upside of hiding all of my "fix lints" "fix format." "Update test" commits after the merge.

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

Right wingers are becoming less healthy in part because they "express less trust in their personal doctor and are less willing to seek care for non-COVID-19-related health problems" and also "people on the right with chronic illnesses are more skeptical than people on the left that medicines to treat those illnesses are safe and effective."

Science doesn't care if you believe in it, but if you don't believe in it you might not live as long.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

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

Embedded systems with limited resources really give you an appreciation of the stack, you know? I'm all, "OMG! Isn't it cute? Just look at it make efficient use of that itty-bitty memory! 😍"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
platypus@glammr.us ("Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]") wrote:

GNU Craig Maloney, a reminder you can still listen to Open Metalcast on the internet archive https://archive.org/details/openmetalcast?page=3&sort=-publicdate

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

Friday Night! Do you even compute, Bro? Master Boot Record! Performing live with Arottenbit and Crashfaster!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-15.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #masterbootrecord #arottenbit #crashfaster #chiptune #synthesizedmetal #symphonic #metal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• video: c2eb58a2b086d006.mp4

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

♬️ THE BLACK QUEEN at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 14, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-14.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theblackqueen #holywater #rebameyers #synthpop #industrial #ambient #darkwave #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: 6e6d9a1ccd8d47b3.mp4

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

An articulate take on fighting AI empires, with lots of useful links.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/may/14/elon-musk-sam-altman-ai-feud

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

LOL - These things are so easy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Martinelli@mas.to ("Martinelli :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

Ayer me enteré de que esto existe y ahora vuestro TL queda bendecido por el pulpo dumbo. Bona nit.

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

Regarding RB:[1] Checking out a recorded concert from Mezerg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRDWeq3zGU

I gotta respect a musician with three volumes of "Music to listen to" on bandcamp:

https://mezerg1.bandcamp.com/

[1] https://diaspodon.fr/@ayoli/116571518155687567

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

sorry for the few people I just spammed - a script did something unexpected, and I totally blame the script and not at all the author

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

okay moving followers on mastodon when moving accounts is all nice and stuff, but follow requests sure are wonky.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
denodell ("Den Odell") wrote:

Some browsers check what site you're on and render the page differently. Yup, you read that right.

TikTok gets special treatment. So does Netflix. Instagram. Even SeatGuru.

Safari and Firefox both do this. Chrome doesn't. There's a reason for that... Read on.

https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=browser%5Fquirks%5Fpost

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ayoli@diaspodon.fr ("☆✭★ คץ☠️ɭเ xD ★✭☆") wrote:

Matin / Morning 👋 ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

#matin #caféAnimé

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• video: Dans une pièce, deux hommes utilisent un vélo bardé de capteurs et de machines électroniques pour jouer de la musique électro. Ils utilisent aussi des éléments du vélo comme le faire tourner en roue libre ou jouer sur les rayons avec un archer. (source : insta : @mezerg)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Fluse@social.cologne wrote:

@dogzilla
This burn is beautiful. Here with added #alttext

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

(I actually try not to obsess too much. We're only human after all.[1] But the pressure is real.)

[1] I mean, sometimes I don't feel that way in comparison to others, but that's probably just how humans feel, right?