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

Trump seems to think Venezuela & Cuba are basically the same situations. I think Trump is going to order an attempt to kidnap Castro, as an attempt to shore up MAGA popularity in Florida in this midterm year.

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

breakfast

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

Comparing the pre-2022 web with the current web is fascinating.

Sometimes I notice LLM writing quirks before 2022 and go "oh, yeah, sometimes people just write that way". Sometimes there's a mysterious adoption of LLM writing quirks coinciding with when LLMs got more mainstream. I notice older writing tends to be much more information-dense. Sometimes I see LLM patterns in text I have no reason to believe is LLM-generated, simply because That Style is absorbed into people's brains now.

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gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

"But behind the headlines, lies the truth: AI is taking all the cash from the biggest names in the market. In fact, in just five quarters (2025 through 1Q26), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Oracle (ORCL) burned a combined $563 billion in free cash flow (FCF)."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/05/20/ai-is-devouring-all-the-cash/

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

@devilslattice a number of things including but not limited to:

• expressing design intent
• verifying that specific workflows work as expected
• verifying that specific failure modes occur as expected
• controlling for regressions

but not including:

• describing how the current implementation happens to work without any input from its designers

(except in cases where you have a legacy system you're trying to replace and have to reproduce its behavior exactly, which is not the case here or pretty much anywhere else this AI-produced garbage would be posted.)

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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Spotted on the tube

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wizbean@tech.lgbt ("christina wizbean") wrote:

@ShadowJonathan the IT department is the powerhouse of the cell! :ablobcatwobwork:

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ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

If you think about it, IT really is like the deep state

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wizbean@tech.lgbt ("christina wizbean") wrote:

I enjoy watching cyberdeck builds, but I'm unlikely to build one of my own. I think a cyberdeck should have a specialized use case, not just to be used as a toy or novelty computer. What use do I have for a pocket or briefcase computer? Maybe I'll build one once my laptop dies, if commercial laptops happen to become prohibitively expensive.

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i wish the tech industry would just collapse already

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elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:

File under: AI Resistance

I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.

I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:

"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."

Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!

#AIcritique #AIhype #NoAI #AIresistance #AI #books

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

“Losing Focus | Tim Kadlec”

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2026/05/losing-focus/

Linking to this exclusively because of the following quote from a YouTube interview with Notion's head of product

> I don’t think the quality of software has increased all that much in in the past 12 months. I think maybe the amount of software has, but it’s very, very hard to find software that’s reliable.

Even the tech mainstream is beginning to notice the major decline in software quality

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

(iOS autocorrect keeps getting worse. Now it’s constantly “correcting” text that was actually correctly entered into something incorrect.)

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

So, because of an extremely dumb comment by one of the nuttiest pro-“AI”nutters of tech that I’m not going link to because I myself deeply regret having accidentally seen it, I have to ask:

How do Americans think the Vietnam War ended?

(Damn you autocorrect)

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

okay the unique feature of his language so far as i can tell is you can construct a string literal and get the compiler to insert it as code. like eval, but for compile time.

as somebody who once inherited thousands of lines of messy code that created a new script and evaled it at the end, can i just say that no?

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

developed by Jonathan Blow

oh, wow, i can't remember the last time i lost interest this fast.

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

rust is eating the industry. most teams should stay away

how about you look at what you're doing and then decide what the best language to be doing it in is?

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acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

COFFEE MAKER 509 INOP

Area: Southampton, UK
Type: Airbus A321neo
A: #ae2b3fdd82f
F: #f567ebddeed

#acars #vdlm2

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i feel like the code is pretty clear about its intention

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/what-are-self-defense-laws-in-japan/#summary

In east Asia, many countries have very heavy restrictions on self defence, and in many cases you can expect to also be arrested and maybe charged if you cause injury to your assailant.

It’s much better to run away.

It’s changing a bit in some countries like Korea and China though.

Sharing because work tells me it’s #AsianMonth

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/what-are-self-defense-laws-in-japan/#summary

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

"skill" and "skillset" in the context of LLMs is absolute doublespeak, this is DESKILLING

now I'm seeing (once) respected web folk, many considered educators, promote Google's "modern web" shite

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vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means.

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260521-0440

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116608737040776147

Each time we offer a billionaire to the ocean another forest heals

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Boiled clergy. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian, MS. Douce 134, fol. 85r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

jwz wrote:

WordPress "AI" Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh.

WP 7.0 was just released and apparently this is the "AI" release. Is there a patch to excise this cancer from core, or is there a bugfix-tracking fork that I should switch to instead, or should I just never upgrade again, or what?

https://jwz.org/b/yk7j

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("ratatouille as a service") wrote:

@aparrish as a data scientist who "retired" in 2023 it has been wild to see the entire industry go bananas for this stuff. it's like if every doctor simultaneously just started doing homeopathy because it was faster

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

reading: "On Google declaring war on the Web"
https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/

and what Google think you'll be willing suffer: "Ad Infini­tum"
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

never too late to degoog!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Anyway give DBXS a try and if you like it (or any of my other open source work or writing) consider giving me $1 on https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now that *you* know these things, how do you get the other engineers on your team to keep *remembering* these things and migrate your application to move its queries to the appropriate scope? Do you write some kind of complex linter that scans your code's ASTs to try to find new runtime-defined queries and forbid them? With DBXS, you don't have to; you *have* to pre-declare your queries within decorators, at import time, so they all end up neatly arranged at the right execution time.