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

“Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/funny-but-serious-chieng-issues-an-ai-warning-to-grads/

> “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It's no secret there's a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting "AI" on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/

#GeneralDevelopment

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

British painter Iain Alexander said #Trump himself endorsed changes to his original design, such as adding the colors of the US flag & a logo commemorating the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
…No living person has appeared on #US #currency since 1866, when it was #outlawed after the image of a mid-level #Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Starting last year, 2 political appointees at the #Treasury Dept— US Treasurer Brandon Beach & his snr adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, acc/to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because #federal #law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.

#Trump #vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

#Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The printing director who resisted the effort said she was [coincidentally] “reassigned” last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History May 28, 1912: Fifteen women were fired from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company, in Philadelphia, for dancing the Turkey Trot. They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy. The Turkey Trot was a fast dance, generally danced by the members of the youth counterculture, to ragtime tunes, like Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. The Vatican denounced the dance. Conservatives tried to get it banned. Some dancers were fined by the courts for “disorderly conduct.” In 1913, a conservative reaction song was produced called the Anti-Ragtime Girl. In 1963, Little Eva (of Locomotion fame) recorded a tribute to the Turkey Trot called Let’s Turkey Trot.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dance #dancing #censorship #racism #sexism

"Even the Place Where the Turkey Trot Originated was Trotless and Quiet."—1914 cartoon by John T. McCutcheon showing no dancing even at the Barbary Coast, San Francisco, a demonstration of the dance's dramatic decline in popularity. By Cobb, Irvin S. (author); John T. McCutcheon (illustrator). - Roughing It De Luxe. New York: George H. Doran Company., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4836167

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SarahKite@jorts.horse ("Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🪁 🇵🇸") wrote:

In The Night Kitchen
by Meowrice Sendak

low light photo of a kitchen, probably at nighttime. there is a task light on over the stovetop, and there is a grouping of cats with glowing eyes: two are on the countertop, and three are in an upper cabinet, one each on three separate shelves. all are looking toward the camera with a light source behind the photographer. the cats look as if they were having a secret satanic meeting that their owner walked in on

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

The 2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks call for proposals is now open 🚀

We’re making close to €600 million available for researchers to work abroad, acquire new skills, and collaborate with leading scientific teams around the world.

Europe’s scientific talent is world-class. We intend to keep it that way.

Find out more: https://link.europa.eu/h9w4k3

Handwritten blue text on a white textured background reads: “Great science starts with great ideas. We are determined to support both.” In the bottom-right corner is the European Commission logo featuring the EU flag.

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

computer!!!!

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brittcoxon@mastodon.art ("Britt Coxon") wrote:

The Bees don’t care that it’s a weed. https://britthub.co.uk/the-bees-dont-care-that-its-a-weed/

My garden is full of happy bees. No such thing as a weed.

#Art
#illustration #plants #sketchnotes #wildflowers #creativeToots #artistsOnMastodon

The Bees don't care that it's a weed.

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nathell ("Daniel Janus") wrote:

Programming in #Clojure on the #reMarkable, the way God intended.

(Better video and a writeup coming soon)

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EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Today, we have imposed a €200 million fine on Temu under the Digital Services Act, for failing to identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform.

The evidence at our disposal indicates that consumers in the EU are very likely to encounter illegal items on Temu.

🔗https://link.europa.eu/YFcf6y

Visual graphic with a purple-to-blue gradient background covered in a faint pattern of binary code zeros and ones. At the top, there are five large yellow stars arranged in a semi-circular arc, reminiscent of the European Union flag. In the center, bold white text reads "Fine imposed on", followed by the word "Temu" inside a solid yellow rectangular box, and continues below with "under the Digital Services Act". At the bottom center, the official white logo of the European Commission is displayed.

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

New IEA report confirms what we've been yelling about: this isn't a normal digital industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4fda38df-523c-46f5-ae75-49481abdc8fc/WorldEnergyInvestment2026.pdf

a chart shwoing data centre growth

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

RE: https://toot.wales/@rosie%5F108/116652263241829510

Duck pervert strikes again.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Beautiful ducks.

@ChrisWere said "you're spying on their date. Like some sort of duck pervert"

#nature #ducks #duckdate

A lovely pair of ducks by a pond, lots of lush greenery.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

"The best resourced ones have the worst priorities."

On AI policies, loopy humans, bloated sequels, B2B mythbusting, and alphabet soup.

https://loudpoet.com/2026/05/28/five-things-may-28-2026/

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's only called "Agile" if it comes from the Agile region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling chaos with a standup meeting.

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

good morning, glory

purple flowers

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Tony Blair collaborating with the oil industry to look at how AI can reduce the impact of global warming

(Spoiler: every skeleton gets an ID card)

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

My mom was looking for browser alternatives the other day and I suggested @Vivaldi. Now she's a fan.

But she keeps calling it "Valdi" because that's what it sounds like in Icelandic and in Icelandic that's short for the name "Valdimar"

So occasionally when commenting on the browser's set up process and the like, she will switch to "mom voice" and call the browser "Valdimar"

And I instinctively think to myself "Oooh, Valdimar is in TROUBLE!" 😆

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

RE: https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661

“LinguaCelta: The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community”

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

> The second reason I see LLMs, in particular, as a line in the sand is that using LLMs has a pervasive influence on the quality and the content of what one creates.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This is how the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue

There is no conceivable way to break even for the AI industry—let alone to repay an investment that requires $2Tn a year from now to the end of the decade. That's about 3% of the entire planetary GNP. Just to break even.

To avoid a write-down of these assets, major Al model providers would ideally generate a return on invested capital (ROIC) of about 25 percent, Sommer said. (That's about what Amazon, Microsoft, and Google tend to earn on their overall capital investments.) On the other hand, if the returns fall below 12 percent, institutional capital loses interest - there's better money elsewhere, Sommer said. Below 7 percent, you're in write-down territory, which is "an unmitigated disaster for all of the investors in this technology," Sommer said. To reach that bare minimum of 7 percent, Gartner forecasts that large AI companies would need to earn cumulatively close to $7 trillion in AI-driven revenue through 2029, which is close to $2 trillion per year by the end of the period. In order to achieve "historic returns," the providers would need to earn nearly $8.2 trillion in the same period.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hth@androiddev.social ("Hrafn") wrote:

While western/central Europe deals with a heatwave, Iceland has yellow warnings in place for... snow.

I mean I've experienced midsummer hailstorms in downtown Reykjavík my whole life, but a snowstorm this late in the year is new.

Perhaps there should be a marketing push for "cooling off" trips up north.

A map of Iceland with little over half of the island colored yellow, indicating areas that have yellow weather warnings.

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

is alpha the only really truly batshit platform re: reordering?

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

“Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy”

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/

> Generative AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert, and the failure arrives in two shapes. The first is when novices in a field are able to produce work that resembles what their seniors produce, faster or more advanced than their judgment. The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in. The two failures look similar from a distance and are not the same

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

“How can I help you? | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/05/26/how-can-i-help-you/

One of the smartest persons I know in publishing is available for work.

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

“The AI Bubble — No One's Happy”

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

> The buildout is underwritten by an implicit guarantee that none of the people who made the bet will be the ones who pay for it.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
niki@mouse.photos ("squeaks at u :ace:") wrote:

birdwatching is so easy. you just look at a bird and that's it. no further steps necessary, you won. there are birds everywhere and you can look at them

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JonasJRichter@pnpde.social ("Jonas R. (er/ihm)") wrote:

@0xabad1dea Re: 2) there are other image libraries beyond Wikimedia Commons that host images available under various free licenses. A simple starting point is https://search.creativecommons.org/

Some free licenses require naming the source/creator (e.g. all CC-licenses with "BY"). Get acquainted with the license for an image you want to use, and respect the conditions.

Expect that searching for a fitting image (and re-searching its license terms if you're not familiar with it) takes time. It's worth it.

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lina@vt.social ("Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!") wrote:

@0xabad1dea Or just do what half of Japan does, visit http://irasutoya.com/ and pick out some cute clipart!