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Boosted by jwz:
jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com ("Jack William Bell") wrote:

Speaking as an old, it's very nearly a daily experience for me to read an article, or even just see a headline, which makes me feel like I'm living in a future world written by Phillip K. Dick.

> Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/is-peter-thiel-the-target-of-pope-leos-gandalf-quote-an-investigation/

#WTF #AI #news #religion #Tolkien

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules she/her") wrote:

There are trans guys out there who record duets with themselves before and after a year on testosterone, and meanwhile I don't have the forward planning capacity to refill the icecube tray and put it back in the freezer.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
LALegault@newsie.social ("All the things she said.") wrote:

After months of me telling everyone Palantir wrote C-22 the Toronto Star finally released a report detailing the secret contract between the Canadian government and Palantir. They will execute the surveillance.
#Canada #privacy #cdnpoli

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ottawas-latest-deal-with-us-data-giant-palantir-raises-warnings/article%5Ffe486987-5e93-4b51-8c17-48b0a8f58e0d.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Finally some good tech news? #LastFM is now independent again.

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591/2

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116647290624409337

army of wheelchairs.

ARMY OF WHEELCHAIRS.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

YES. 11 WHLCHAIRS. SEND AN ARMY OF THEM.

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
A: #a710dd7befa
F: #fad1f863372

#acars #vdlm2

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Karl Bode") wrote:

it's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability

Uber burned through its entire...

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
twipped@twipped.social ("Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daily%5Femoji/116646965444414546

Uhm...

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

truth

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

okay apparently there is a whole '30 plants per week' thing, it's not just one person.

what the actual fuck?!

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

I try to eat 30 different plants a week

WHOAH

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:

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

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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.