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Boosted by jwz:
christa@friend.camp wrote:

from NPR this morning (on radio):

official guidance from the state is to have mailed your vote by mail ballot by wednesday last week due to recent changes in postmark policy for elections snd slowdowns at usps.

if you haven’t mailed your ballot yet:
- go to post office and have them postmark it in front of you
- drop it off in an official ballot drop box
- turn in your ballot tomorrow at polling location and vote in person instead

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

don't get me wrong i have never not believed that it could ever really work out, but capitalism has been throwing money at it, doing absolutely everything to make it appear to work for long enough. the old adage is that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

well i ceased to be solvent a long time ago now, so i'm glad the market is finally going to feel some of my pain.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
abstractcode@eigenmagic.net ("Colin") wrote:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results but every single tech I've been told I had to jump on or be left behind has turned out to be completely ignorable. In many cases they've been dodged bullets.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

Is it a crime to induce system-wide economic collapse at the civilizational level?

The answer we came up with in 2008 was “No,” but I feel like maybe we should revisit that in the next couple of months.

We have to be able to charge them with _something_.

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

i'm actually moved to tears today by the way we're finally starting to win the war on AI.

finally i feel like we can win again.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
ohad@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

Happy pride!
Not my words ( @edwinb 's!), but my sentiment.
https://youtu.be/vqFyhWv0XYQ?si=8YH%5FskCbNIlM1m5V

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

good news everyone, anthropic just filed for an IPO.

such great timing, well done 😂

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

girl are you a continuation, because you are passing with style

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

now they would tell me I need to build it on AI

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

"Christine, you need to build your tech on a blockchain" - a bunch of people I ignored for a decade who now would never say that

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
stylus@social.afront.org ("Stylus") wrote:

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social ("Amber :neodog_box:") wrote:

@cwebber@social.coop small, fragile part you need for something but it feels good in your hand so you stim with it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I’d much rather just be comfortable and lazy than be proud of myself for my fortitude but I will take what I can get

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

by the way, i have recently gained some expertise in sandboxing and running local models. if your organisation is afflicted with AI and doesn't want to give it up, i can probably help with the only even vaguely viable for long alternative

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

for the third time this year I have successfully confronted an all-consuming phobia, one which results in week-long, unbearable panic attacks. not really possible without the staunch support of friends, family, and a cocktail of extremely powerful anti-anxiety drugs, but I did it nonetheless with all of those things

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

On our walk near Cardross we met a 95-year-old lady who invited us to visit her woodland garden. It is an amazing place, a wood full of rhododendrons and azaleas amongst tall trees, paths winding through it with bridges across a little burn, wild flowers, beehives, so many things to discover.

#nature #Scotland #garden #woodland
#bloomscrolling

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

(Also if anyone thinks this is me being snarky about Ms. Swift, nah, she's a generational talent and we all know it, and if you wanna be pissy about that, it's your karma, not mine)

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

Ms. Swift working toward her EGOT, I see

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/taylor-swift-toy-story-5-announces-1236764185/

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

a new uk prime minister called liz truss - you may not remember her

😂

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

the senior guy's attitude was that they truly believe github copilot is going to roll out their own model and go back to unlimited "because they own their own compute", he said.

😂

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

here is where the upset clanker fuckers are hanging out btw https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

The Month of Zig

https://jasongullickson.com/the-month-of-zig.html

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

i'm declaring today FIND OUT DAY

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

I stopped the running agent within SECONDS when June 1 was reached. It still cost $3.26

😂

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

so the only real question left is how many will bother trying to run a model on their own machine.

i think it's going to be fairly close to the roundest number

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to ("De Programmatica Ipsum") wrote:

"Reading this series of AI memos in 2026, which are written in a straightforward, tutorial style, gives one first the feeling that understanding the complexity of computers and programming languages might not be so difficult, after all. Then, one remembers that their current problem involves multiple programming languages and script files and YAML files and TOML files, and the effect is more like being Charlton Heston looking up at the Statue of Liberty."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/guy-steele-gerry-sussman/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.

https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eliocamp ("Elio Campitelli") wrote:

TIL:

```
if not path.exists(path):
return None

with open(path) as f:
f.readline()
```

can fail if the path is deleted between the first and the second block.

#Python.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein, RIP Ira
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/06/01.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

reddit are having fun