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

I'm on Bluesky quite a lot and there is always discourse ABOUT the service. On Threads, while there is quite often discourse ON the service (especially in writer circles, jeez, you guys), I don't really see a lot of discourse ABOUT the service. Am I missing it, or does Thread just simply not elicit the same sort of agita that Bluesky apparently does by existing?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What I found was _not_ a thoughtful, careful response. What I found was the founder of Kagi saying:

“Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reason we do not have innovation any more.”

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/5

Well shit. That is the reddest of red flags.

4/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I think this is a key insight about the AI psychosis we are seeing exhibited by big tech CEOs.

The further you are away from the work, the more you assume it’s trivial for Claude or ChatGPT to replace the worker.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Porn scenario or horror story? It's from the Bible, it can be read either way.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/24/sex-tips-from-the-bible/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
koos@mastodon.green ("Koos") wrote:

Things that intelligent, computer using people have often asked me:

- Where is the meeting? (in the calendar's location field)
- Where's the document called so and so? (gDrive's search isn't that bad)
- Where are the meeting notes? (in the same place as all other meetings)
- Can you update the spreadsheet with these numbers?
- Can you remind me to do that thing tomorrow?

I think software people underestimate how much people dislike computers and don't care at all for automation.

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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead"

And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally

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MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

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

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

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quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406

When you look at this graph, remember that the UN WFP reckon with just $40Bn a year, they can end world hunger by 2030.

Mind bogglingly large amounts are being spent on sparkling autocarrot, with massive increases in GHG emissions, horrendous impacts on water systems. And yet. For a fraction of the price we could literally feed the world.

Imagine waking up and thinking the world needs more AI, when you have the capital to just feed everyone, and still be stupendously rich.

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I’m very glad Rudy Giuliani is out of the hospital, because that means there’s a tiny chance he’ll see the mean things I said when it looked like he was going to die.

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

The people who are like "we just need to use "Ai" appropriately!" may as well be saying "Ebola is only bad if it's not managed properly!"

Neofascism acculturated basically everyone in the West, since they were kids, to falsely associate moderation with maturity.

We are *extremely* lucky that the people trying to shovel paleofascism and "AI" death cult technology down our throats are possibly the least capable human beings ever to hold power for 10 generations.

Like, *extremely* lucky.

jwz wrote:

Ever since I added substackcdn.com to my blocklist, I have learned how many bloggers have solved their "substack nazi" problem by just hiding it behind their own domain.

Spoiler: it's a lot.

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

@Pepijn Also, something very similar to the plot hook actually happened in real life!

Except the boys didn't go Mad Max on each other - they set up a commune where they tended a garden, kept chickens, maintained a permanent fire and even built a makeshift gym. When one of them broke his leg, the others set his leg, divided his work shifts fairly among themselves and tended to his health while he recovered.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

something no one needs: which fascist podcasts are preferred by the people shopping for the same kitchen utensils as me on Amazon

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

@axbom @blaurascon and before anyone asks me to recommend an alternative: I recommend running screaming into the woods. that is my recommendation for a search engine. don’t come at me for “being unhelpful”, this isn’t an advice thread but running screaming into the woods and becoming part of nature is the best advice I can give you. you’re welcome and/or fuck you.

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

Lord of the Flies. A story about a bunch of kids who turn into utter inhumane shitheads when faced with hardship. When first made to read this book I vehemently argued it was unrealistic: a book-with-an-agenda by a religiously conflicted person arguing against the idea of innate human goodness. The teacher at my catholic school gave me a zero as “we’re reviewing the story, not the intention or Christianity”.

I think about it every time the news reports about someone being "surprisingly nice".

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micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

https://isaiprofitable.com

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

I swear StrongDM's AI dark factory propaganda is actually just trying to create a market for their product.

Turns out if you let LLM code agents run amok, you need a whole API gateway to control what they do.

Guess what StrongDM sells.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Regarding the Raptor Lake bug I received a couple of messages from confused users that had read articles on Tomshardware and Neowin. They asked about erratas and microcode updates which puzzled me, because that was part of my early investigation into the bug and we know that the failure is not caused by a known errata and microcode updates cannot fix broken CPUs. So why did they ask? As it turns out it was slop. Both articles are 100% slop full of confusing and inaccurate claims.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

I haven't read either site in ages but I can confidently say that you can stop reading both Tomshardware and Neowin. If they're willing to put out this kind of slop with blatant mistakes in it you can assume the rest of their reporting is also slop, and will likely be either misleading, confusing or flat out false.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

beware of EU-washing https://blog.avas.space/eu-washing/ #Privacy #Tech #EU

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

STOP FINDING THINGS

* WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
* YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
* Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA "RANDOM PAGE"
* "Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS FIRST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

(This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

* "None of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with the letter 'K'."
* "Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
* "Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need."

"Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn't generated"

They have played us for absolute fools

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlS18DU2jU

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay wrote:

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
be@floss.social ("illegal instruction") wrote:

I cannot imagine how much it fucks up kids to simultaneously be told "don't plagiarize!" but also "YOU MUST USE THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE. IT IS THE FUTURE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT"

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be@floss.social ("illegal instruction") wrote:

When this bubble pops, I fear the worst long term consequences of it will be on today's generation of children whose education it interfered with.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I think it would be interesting to explore the possibilities of having a network of local search hubs via our various library systems. There doesn't have to be a single search service, or to put it another way, let local communities decide how to best tailor their search for themselves instead of relying on a handful of wealthy people with dubious motives using non-union employees deciding for us.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

(Yeah, I know it would become a political thing with certain dipsticks tryin' to police whether people have access to knowledge about their own bodies and minds or whether queer folks exist or whether slavery is bad and the people who practiced it were not the nicest folks ever, but we can't avoid those dipsticks. We just have to defeat them as best we can.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure we could run internet search as a public service as an extension of library services. 🤔