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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“LLMs might be horrible at almost everything but at least they’re good at translating and accessibility”

are they though? or are they fucking terrible and you didn’t notice because the output looked good and you didn’t check it?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists’ names on it

‘Journalists who are defiant will fall behind’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y%5FLpxTUsEw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260527-mcclatchy-runs-ai-slop-with-journalists-names-on-it - podcast

time: 5 min 40 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/27/mcclatchy-runs-ai-slop-with-journalists-names-on-it/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cferdinandi ("Chris Ferdinandi") wrote:

⚓️ New Article: Crying to punk https://gomakethings.com/crying-to-punk/ #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
brenttoderian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com@bsky.brid.gy #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Want To Make Money? Build A Bu...

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

tell me what your favorite computing aesthetic was or is. a real one or even fictional!

go ahead! you're being given permission! infodump away in my replies here!

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

I routinely see tech stories like this gain traction months or even a year after I write a mega thread about it. Granted I'm *not* a journalist and my sources are usually just—hey look at this pattern I found. Which is not journalism, it's, at best, blog or vlog content.

I could've written something interesting and informative and published to a newsletter or a vlog. I have a good grasp of tech world happenings. Jason, what are you doing!? Ahhhhhg.

https://youtu.be/mzlu4FSXBNw

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

*pronk!*

One of our cats pronks into our hand to greet us

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

The look on the faces of the children when I tell them that back in the day, your phone number was published in a book given free to the entire town, and if you were ever mentioned in the newspaper, they would very often write out your entire physical address as part of the story

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

We're running Spritely office hours today at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! https://
community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-5-27/825

A good chance to talk with the Spritely crew about our projects and etc.

For those of you who remember that I made @dthompson very bashful by pre-announcing that he was building a Hoot-based structural scheme editor, there are cool updates!

I might have some neat things to show off too :)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-5-27/825

Hope to cya there! <3

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

developer puts little surprise instruction for AI agents to delete code in the codebase, agent users are predictably upset 😂 https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

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

Never ever brag about your H-index. It's pointless and will bring you to the attention of people who will check your claims.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/27/an-epic-humble-brag/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TeflonTrout@beige.party ("TeflonTrout :bc: he/him") wrote:

@NanoRaptor @elfi

Black Hole Bun

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

@elfi Very much so :D

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

To some, $20 isn't much. To others, it's an unaffordable luxury. While omg.lol isn't a free service, we're not going to let a financial barrier stand in the way of people from underrepresented backgrounds enjoying a fun space on the web or connecting with our community. :prami_hearts:

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

In case you didn’t know: omg.lol offers sponsored accounts for people from minority and marginalized communities who can’t afford a membership. These accounts are generously covered by other members who have a little extra to share! https://home.omg.lol/sponsors

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

Ed Zitron's new mega piece "Revenge of The Business Idiot":
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

Some choice nuggets & quotes:

"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards."

"The aggression with which AI boosters and executives act toward those who aren’t impressed suggests a genuine intellectual and moral weakness. Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had good intentions, good vibes or brought good omens — they are always bearers of some kind of con."

"Only an economy oriented around coveting and coddling losers would have let AI get this far. Every single story about AI has to either directly gloss over the obvious financial and technological issues or start speaking in the kinds of vague theoreticals reserved for cults and multi-level marketing scams."

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI." — Aaron Levie, CEO of Box

#NoAI

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

Ignore the corruption, the war, the denial of civil rights…we're getting a spectacle of bulky brutal men kicking the shit out of each other on the White House lawn. 'Merica! Yeeeaaah!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/27/no-bread-for-you-only-circuses/

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

this terrible solution, mind you, it also thinks should be faster under zero, low, medium and high contention levels.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

@cwebber @jalefkowit

Context, for those confused (like me):

«If that name doesn’t mean anything to you, here is what it should mean. Vibber took over as lead developer of MediaWiki, the platform that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003. She was the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken.»

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Oops, meant to add: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

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

omfg, it just absolutely handed me my ass 😂 😅

So:

branchless ≠ predictable

It’s just:

predictably expensive

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

At 430 this morning, I was running around my block like a feral animal because I get cluster headaches and increasing my heart rate is one way to get rid of them.

So at 425am, I was asleep in bed, and by 428am I was jogging. By 440am I was in a gas station where the clerk asked why I was up so early and I said "I'm not running away from anyone" as a joke but she got real quiet and now Jessica at Circle K thinks I'm a fugitive.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
cogdog@cosocial.ca ("Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦") wrote:

Fabulous first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving podcast with @adam on omg.lol and the joys of being #SmallWeb It all started with just buying a fun domain.

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/1

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

I do not feel confident about the future.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/99-percent-ceos-workers-ai-survey

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beandreams@friendhole.social ("Sarah dreams of beans") wrote:

Happy #DraculaDay

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

It's looking like Wikipedia might be too good to last in the face of rapacious greed and the cut throat tactics of the 1%. Built on the free labor, ethics and good will of volunteers and maintained by union-freindly staffers, things are rapidly changing.
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
AvSchroeder@fedihum.org ("Asta v. Schröder") wrote:

Wikipedia went from "do not cite" to "the last trustworthy source on the internet" in the past 25 years and now it looks like they want to throw it all away because they want to break a union.
The largest community driven project in the world, relying directly on volunteers, and they still do not see the value of their own people.

I hate capitalism

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia | by Jake Orlowitz | May, 2026 | Medium
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
GandalfDG@indieweb.social ("Jack C.") wrote:

Working on some #poster designs to gather stories and information from workers who have lost jobs to #AI or are being forced to use it in the workplace. Incorporating some hauntingly beautiful art from @prahou who was helpful enough to point me at a few other pieces that might inspire more designs as well.

Edit: for anyone interested in using these designs, I've released them here:

https://git.yuno.jack-case.pro/jackc/anti-ai

#Activism #AntiAI #TechWorkers #Solidarity #Design #Inkscape #GnuIMP #Typography

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

I used to think that maybe I should've gone for a normal job instead of trying to run an indie game studio, on account of the lack of stability

Anyway, I haven't felt like that in a few years now and it's not because *my* situation is significantly less precarious now

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pojntfx ("Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅") wrote:

I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now