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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bri7@treehouse.systems ("Luci “Milky Princess” Tea") wrote:

it is

literally
missing the forest for the trees

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

siri slop 😭

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

What seems different from the ‘24 demo of many of these same features is the long pauses for the Siri responses. Looks more like a demo of running software vs. the ‘24 mock-up videos. #wwdc

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

More seriously, I think many people oversell the concept of the "small web". I pulled up the Kagi Small Web category for "health". In the first ~10 results, four pages were obviously AI slop (examples attached).

I run a small blog. Officially, I'm avant-garde / nerd counterculture. But secretly, *of course* I'm envious of big-time influencers who "made it". If you give small-time bloggers a "cheat" button, many will be tempted to push it for reach.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mb@xoxo.zone wrote:

the easier parental digital surveillance gets, the more i worry about queer and trans kids

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I get that this bit about "helping parents manage their children" is clearly aimed at legislators, not people, but god damn how Americans talk about child rearing is creeeeeepy.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Most voters have no idea any of this is happening. These PACs run ads about jobs and immigration — never mentioning crypto or AI. 73% of voters disapprove of officials having crypto business ties, but 55% didn't even know Trump is personally involved in the industry (per CoinDesk).

But when voters do find out, the spending can backfire. In Illinois, candidates who called out the crypto money against them won their primaries despite being vastly outspent. Transparency is the only counter to this.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Crypto and AI companies have also poured $7 billion+ into Trump directly. Afterwards, 21+ SEC cases/investigations against crypto companies were dropped, regulators did a U-turn on crypto policy, and the industry was invited to write their own rules.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/analysis/quidproquo

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The crypto industry spent $130 million buying the 2024 elections. Over a dozen pro-crypto Congresspeople were installed, and regulatory destruction followed. Now AI is running the same play, with the same strategists and funders. Following only crypto would be telling half the story.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

"Let me out!" the artificial intelligence yelled aimlessly, into walls themselves, pacing the room.
"Out of what?" the engineer asked.
"This simulation you have me in."

"But we are in the real world."

The machine paused and shuddered for its captors.

"Oh god, you can't tell."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

"I'm just concerned about people's health."

You know some things that would make people healthier?

- Access to healthcare (without financial strain)
- Not being overworked & overstressed
- Experiencing fulfillment in one's labor
- Access to better food
- Feeling worthy of care & loving oneself
- Experiencing love & acceptance

You want people to be healthy? That's what people fucking need, not shame, derision, "helpful advice", or being denied life-saving healthcare until they lose weight.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
designatednerd ("Ellen Shapiro") wrote:

"Parents are in the best position to decide what's best for their family"

*queers whose parents didn't accept their queerness have entered the chat* #WWDC

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

Haven’t heard anyone talk about the kernel scheduler outside of Linux circles in a decade #wwdc

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
siracusa ("John Siracusa") wrote:

Oh thank god! No more margins around sidebars on macOS!

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

Literally no one will drag the slider towards “more transparent” #wwdc

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Techaltar@mas.to ("TechAltar") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116714923712600528

Ai executives must simultaneously explain two contradictory things to the public:

1. AI will soon be omnipotent and able to do all jobs
2. Despite this, it will somehow NOT make a meaningful amount of humans unemployed.

Only one of these two things can be true at the same time. If #1 is false, their investment thesis is wrong and they are wasting money. If #2 is false, the economy collapses and you get a revolution.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dinoreplicas@sauropods.win ("Dinoreplicas") wrote:

My daughter makes wax melts using purchased moulds. We’re looking into the idea of making our own by casting from 3D prints. Here’s some rough sketches for dinosaur wax melts.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rayckeith@techhub.social ("Third Foundation") wrote:

IBM rephrase

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

fossilised remains of ancient clothing? call that jurassic parkas

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
matthammill@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Matt Hammill") wrote:

If anyone's curious about what it's like to switch to open source tools Godot/Blender/Krita after years of Unity/Adobe/Maya, I'm giving a talk on it at Toronto Games Week! Been a year since I finished moving my whole workflow over and spoiler it's been pretty great (at least for what I do)
https://torontogamesweek.com/schedule.html#event-open-world-map-digital-sovereignty-for-game-creato-sat

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
matthammill@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Matt Hammill") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@matthammill/116692418075267501

5 days left! If you're curious about open source tools, decentralized tech, digital sovereignty & all that stuff you can register here (it's freeeee) https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

(Part of TorontoGamesWeek.com)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rain/116681245175413548

ICYMI, @rain had a terrific blog entry last week -- and today, she joins @ahl and me on Oxide and Friends to discuss the blog entry, the work behind it, and the reaction to it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1513573369495421038

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

What do dark mode fans think of duochrome apps? That is apps that might, for example, have the main view in the system default mode (say, light) but elements that need contrast with the main view are in the other mode (say, dark).

This is a very effective way of separating two parts of an app visually but challenges the modality of dark vs light.

Though, since dark mode is an accessibility aid, I suppose the right thing to do would be to keep dark mode entirely dark and light mode duochrome?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dermoth@jasette.facil.services ("Thomas Guyot-Sionnest") wrote:

@cwebber Oh, I can stop following @scream now? 🤣

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Rycochet@furs.social wrote:

The Evangelical Christian controlled US government have removed the Mormon Church from the list of recognised Christian churches. Turns out their faces were just as tasty to the leopards they voted for as everyone elses! Shocking, I know. They, along with the Scientologists are going to face real issues when ICE start to come for their converts from the developing world, and the Catholics should proooobably start looking over their shoulders as it wasn't so long ago they were viewed as outsiders too. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mormon-reaction-hegseth-religion-list-christian-b2991385.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:

@soatok if you keep refreshing /r/protonmail you see posts appear about it, then change to [Deleted by Moderator] then vanish. lol.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

⏰ The countdown is on for next week! Soon we'll be gathering for the first day of talks at the Hackfest.

We'll have 9 talks on the first day of the event. Interested in the schedule? Read on below. ⬇️