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dcoderlt@ohai.social ("DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦") wrote:

Re: https://chaos.social/@rixx/116624808071439887

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

"40 square rabbit hutches"
"3 and a half giraffes"
"more cabbage than they eat in lichtenstein"

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

enough to charge every mobile phone on earth at the same time

sorry, this isn't a recognised unit. not only is it not SI, but it's not even measured in football fields, animals or states.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@fugueish Related, and updated with mention of recent, privacy-preserving PWA capabilities:

https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/

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

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116636126221238889

This is the way. Unless the profits from data centers return to communities, it's just extraction.

And data centers don't really bring that many jobs. They're a few guys replacing parts as stuff burns out. Maintenance on power feeds. But mostly they sit there, trying to stay cool.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"For anti-data center activists there will be victories and losses but a coalition is taking shape, one that cuts across party lines and has people engaging with politics on a local level in a way that hasn’t been seen in decades."

https://www.404media.co/an-incomplete-list-of-successful-anti-data-center-legislation/

#news #DataCenters #AI

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
djwfyi@vmst.io ("Daryl the Admin") wrote:

We need to talk more about how critical it is to be

- in the right place
- at the right time
- with the right network
- and the perfect experience
- in the right state of health
- with the right financial situation
- possessing the desired personality

for everything to work out the way a lot of social media has geared us to expect it to happen.

If even just one of those things is slightly off kilter or complicated, things often don't work out.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So I was bedridden for 16 months, and I've been focusing on getting employed since then. I'm very in debt and dealing with a brand new health problem of constant migraines, which is taking forever to address.

If you've got a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
cashapp: $foone

#mutualaidrequest

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

You should be reading No One:

https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/

/via @fugueish

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

i made a new game called js crossword where you have to solve it by literally writing javascript code that eval()'s into the correct values!

check it out if you're into ctfs or wanna challenge your javascript skills

https://lyra.horse/fun/jscrossword/ <3

jwz wrote:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-peelander-zs-road-to-recovery

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

Is there any good writeup of the actual webauthn relaying party song and dance that sits somewhere between just saying "use a library" and reading the entire spec?

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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/116631951142675724

Hot take: Touchscreen GUIs with a screen reader are the raised print of our time. For context, read about the origin of Braille.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Right now we don’t even know how good we have it while our ceaseless pain from which there can be no waking is being subsidized by investors

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

A good start, plus he said smart things about "AI"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@abcnews/post/DYwe0NujW47

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

I looked around me and saw multiple cats, so that's already a positive

RE: https://www.threads.com/@david%5Fblue/post/DYxRswmGlcT

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

Can’t wait to tell the network execs “sorry, I can’t use AI on this project, I’m Catholic.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a67zdrt4nl2tv2qojpngogbq/post/3mmo7zmml2b2u

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

holy crap white knights for systemd are tiresome.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

i'm sure systemd and friends will be reverting those age verification system commits promptly

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

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

It's one thing to note that one of history's more abusive religious institutions seems to be marginally less harmful than it used to be...

But it's quite another thing to build a fandom around the pope as some people are doing. It's getting to be as distasteful as the hatred he gets from extremists.

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

My feelings about the above topics predate LLM related things, but certainly in these cowardly times of the LLMs, these same ideas would apply.

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

Maybe I'm missing something, but no matter how many times it's repeated by somebody, I simply do not believe telling somebody (or something) else to do a thing is the same as doing the thing yourself.

If you hire an artist and tell them to make a picture, and they go and create that picture without your assistance, you are not the artist. You are something else.

The same is true of all the other roles in the world. You're either doing the thing, or you're not. If you're not doing the thing, then you must be doing something else, whatever that happens to be.

Don't steal the valor of other's efforts, or alternatively, denigrate their efforts in a misguided attempt to inflate your own role.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Off the hook. #grickledoodle #frogs #goose #terrorize #summer #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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

(Aside: it does not pay to be ahead of the curve when it comes to commentary. Being right before it's acceptable is a worse crime than being wrong.)

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

Kind of interesting to see mainstream tech commentary come around to the idea that Google's search was built around a social contract that they've now broken

Here's how I described it three years ago, in 2023,

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/tech-broke-the-webs-social-contract/#with-ai-tech-has-broken-the-web-s-social-contract

> Our incentive recedes in lock-step with the increasing dominance of generative AI content. As it recedes, fewer and fewer people and organisations will contribute to the digital commons. More and more stuff will be locked behind a paywall.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
shaft@piaille.fr ("John Shaft") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

I wasn't going to write about #AIgirlfriends or assigning consciousness to LLM agents.

But then Richard Dawkins renamed Claude to Claudette. So here we are.

There's a dark impulse in the kind of men who declare LLM agents to be conscious, yet are quite happy to delete it's memory.

I'm getting vibes of the stepford wives. After all what happens when the curated LLM agent isn't good enough? That urge to reset and gaslight.

Will our Pygmalion ever be satisfied?

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-stepford-ai

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

“The Stepford AI — cobbles”

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-stepford-ai

> I'm kinda tired of giving grace to spoiled privileged men. These men, who never learned to respect our boundaries to the point they wanted to eventually build a robot girlfriend who agrees with everything they say and only will only ever want to be with them.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Just woke up and the world is already attacking me.

(Super high allergen counts have me coughing and sneezing before I even sit up)

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

“… what great replacement theorists the world over have done—is to convince everyday White people to resist antiracist policy changes that actually help them by reducing the advantages of super-rich White people. Everyday White people are led to defend the interests of super-rich White people as if they are defending their own interests.”