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

my wife is visiting our old friends & favorite places on the Left Coast, and I am jealous

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NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art ("Nick East (Indie Writer)") wrote:

If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

@galacticwriters @writers @books @fantasy @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @keepwriting @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#TomGauld
#WritingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

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

@baldur I have seen "AI" skills asked for for IT roles in sectors outside the software industry.

But I haven't systematically counted it and I could be exaggerating the extent in my head due to existing biases

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

in order to do even basic exploratory programming, simply do an exhaustive and exhausting amount of research into whether or not any of your core dependencies are a fucking scam, hope that none of the ones you choose randomly gets a complete rewrite into a slop version of themselves, and have a devastating amount of anxiety over whether or not your ecosystem is owned by a corporation that designs the systems that enable genocide, on purpose, that is their only mission statement

ezpz

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everton137@vivaldi.net wrote:

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane%5Fai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

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

argh. i had a neat idea for using roaring bitmaps to store a free space map. then i remembered i need to store values with them.

...and that my nodes are somewhat smaller than page sized so a free space map won't necessarily lead to being able to reuse all the space.

one way around this is to rewrite the entire page contents, meaning the previous block can be freed up in its entirety when other transactions cease to be reading it. it seems you need either periodic compaction and the metadata to power it, or you need a continuous process.

lmdb solves this by having the (single) writer do maintenance as it writes stuff. so i'm going to just use that model because it will suffice for my purposes. but that means doing a page at a time. which is sorta fine, but then it makes me want to do continuous compaction (relocate nodes to be more favourably arranged for traversal) and i'm still not sure what the best algorithm for doing it in this context is.

leaf nodes are the problem - if you do a naive thing of say making a page able to store two levels of node (a subtree of height 2) then you can end up pushing leaves off into their own individual pages. given that leaf nodes are going to tend towards small, you're now multiplying the space required.

i have ideas about how to fix it, but i haven't sat down and worked it out yet.

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susam ("Susam") wrote:

Don't Roll Your Own ...

https://susam.net/do-not-roll-your-own.html

#blog #post #webdev #programming #technology

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

AI investments, domestically and abroad, are supported by a federal government intent on the idea of AI dominance. The US AI Action Plan has signaled that any limitations placed on tech companies, including those addressing harms to workers, would be deemed an impediment to innovation, instead opting for industry-led self-regulation, a tightening fusion between public institutions and private sector tech companies. [...]

At the 2026 World Economic Forum, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, asserted that advances in AI would eliminate the need for most immigration to the US. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang echoed this sentiment, stating that “AI immigrants” (as opposed to actual immigrants) were the solution to labor shortages in industries like manufacturing and health care. [...]

https://datasociety.net/library/last-place-in-the-ai-first-economy/

Reading "Last Place in the AI-First Economy"
via: https://labor.dair-institute.org/

The only reason that you would set an amount of wealth that is impossible to recoup on fire to force a technology is if you are assured that you are too big to fail. That the project of gutting labor power, dissolving the capacity for people to make sense and organize together, and concentrating information itself into so few hands could be so stupendously extractive that it renders all the wealth accumulated so far irrelevant.

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clarinette@mastodon.online ("Datarainbow Privacy Assistant✅") wrote:

https://grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/the-backlash-against-ai-is-real-and

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aesthr@wandering.shop ("Æ.") wrote:

I finally managed to read @tante's excellent article:

AI is a Fascist Artifact

It has almost all the points that are on my mind as well regarding these systems, and a few more. Great overview read about "AI" as a political project.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

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

“"Employers Want Applicants with AI Skills": How Hearsay Manufactures Reality — Sonja Drimmer”

https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/5/22/employers-want-applicants-with-ai-skills-how-hearsay-manufactures-reality

> Of all the ads for positions I clicked, none said a single thing about “AI.”

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

“OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/

> But “operating income margin” was not great

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

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paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:

I spent some time today going into a rabbit hole of the SpaceX IPO. Thought it was a space company. Turns out it’s a small telecom company that's propping up a space company (not very well at that) and the entire thing is being dragged down by the crappiest of the AI companies.

I then spent even more time researching how one shorts an IPO…

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Geri@veganism.social ("Totts") wrote:

Imagine being sentenced as a “terrorist” by a judge who:

- Bans you from explaining to the jury why you took action

- Bans you from mentioning genocide, weapons, Elbit systems, murdered children

- Bans you from mentioning to jurors that they can acquit you as a matter of conscience

- Issues a retrial after a jury found you not guilty on the most serious charges

- Attempts to prosecute your barrister for telling jurors their legal rights

- Lies directly to the jury about their right to find you not guilty (jury equity)

- Calls for the arrest of multiple people outside your trial for holding paper signs

- Bans the press from reporting on the facts of the trial and sentencing

- Doesn’t take any action against ministers and politicians that prejudice your trial

- Doesn’t oppose media outlets who broadcast selective outrage during your trial

- Hides from the jury the fact that you will be sentenced as a terrorist if found guilty

- Sentences you as a terrorist without being charged with, or found guilty of, terrorism

- Receives a promotion immediately after the trial concludes.

Imagine that because that is precisely what Judge Justice Johnston did to the #Filton6

#PalestineAction

If this makes you mad, you may wish to attend their sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court Jun 12th

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artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay wrote:

Assisted-by: GNU sed 4.9 <sed@gnu.org>

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Lower Value Human Capital") wrote:

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

remember that microsoft forces its staff to vibe code, so they're now forcing everyone onto the model that everyone has noticed is shitter.

microsoft's uptime is already not great...

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ionchy@types.pl ("electric eelchy aquarium :eel:") wrote:

:dragncoolmlem_hacker:

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

looks like microsoft is not going to pay for claude any more for its staff.

it seems that they enabled it hoping that people would prefer copilot, but nobody prefers copilot.

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

new idiom dropped:

chartering a private jet to go grocery shopping

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

A kind person said to me this week words to the effect of "Neil, I love talking with you. You make chatting so easy!"

And now, dear reader, I - someone who is not a very people person - will share with you the two secrets of my critically acclaimed prowess:

1. "Oh {wow,cool,my,yes,no,oops,dear}, tell me more about that!"

2. Listening - genuinely listening - and asking questions.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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kolombiken@front-end.social ("Kolombiken") wrote:

Sometimes it feels like the birds in my local park get tired of me trying to take photos of them while they’re high up in a tree or inside a thick bush so they just start posing in the open.

Like this robin: Ok, take a photo! Are you done? Good!

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116622777554557863

ACARS has all the emoji you need, you just spell it out in words

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TheZeldaZone ("Zelda 🎀") wrote:

Politics can see complicated, but there are a few universal truths that can make things a lot easier:

- The guys trying to ban/burn books are the bad guys. 100% of the time.

- The guys trying to restrict voting are the bad guys. 100% of the time.

If you're in America...well, that's really all you should need to vote in any general election. Study up for the primaries, of course.

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exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

hanging out

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("<>") wrote:

Medieval very good friends burial site discovered

800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burial

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/800-year-old-hugging-skeletons-are-genetically-confirmed-as-polands-only-medieval-same-sex-double-burial

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mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

@Testoceratops Dangit, I'm sorry that happened to you. Thank you for raising awareness of the issue.

It looks like there's an auto-detector to help decide if an image is likely to induce seizures (https://trace.umd.edu/peat/). I wonder how tricky it would be to integrate that into my Mastodon server for my own uploads.

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Testoceratops@disabled.social ("Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I wrote this important thread, please read if you can and boost for visibility. :boost_ok:

Here's how to react if someone is having a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in front of you!

Different situations are taken into account to give as much info as possible.

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Testoceratops@disabled.social ("Burn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Irregular reminder to please CW flashing lights and fast colours changes to keep Fedi accessible. /soft

Had a seizure yesterday while checking my TL, and haven't been able to do anything all day due to how exhausting tonic clonic seizures are.

It'd be really nice if you could be careful with it, especially if we're mutuals. Not only for me, but for all seizure prone folks around.

Thanks if you care! Sending love and strength, if you want any.