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

Even then I couldn't have anticipated this other adaptation we're seeing in the wild https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/116720287681995824

Well good great I sure HOPE the safeguards work and it doesn't work as a LITERAL PROMPT INJECTION because holy damn, a worm that's spreading around instructions to create weapons of mass destruction isn't... great?

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

Oh remember when I made a blogpost speculating about an "AI worm" which would use the credentials it found on each machine to pay for itself and would mutate each time it changed? https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/

Yeah so a research lab tried that and uh, it was a "spectacular success". They're very assuring that "don't worry it didn't break containment" but holy damn it worked well, it infiltrated systems incredibly well and changed itself and scanned networks for known vulnerabilities and wrote new ones as it spread https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811

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

RE: https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/116720287681995824

oh thanks. oh good. oh great

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laurenshof@indieweb.social ("Laurens Hof") wrote:

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Oh hai, Amsterdam.

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

Mostly build on open source libraries made by volunteers

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

Jesus Christ, lawyers, get your shit together

https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/

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

Mike Rogers ought to be embarrassed by this. He won't be.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/09/pathetic-pretense/

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

this graph of Ebola cases from NYTimes is disturbing

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

I've got my eyes on you. So many eyes…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/09/wake-up-the-spiders-are-watching-you/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
archaeohistories@ohai.social ("Archaeo-Histories") wrote:

The famous Fabric Map of Africa, a celebrated digital artwork originally created by artist Priya Shah for her brand Mia Kora. It acts as an artistic breakdown of the traditional and cultural textiles unique to different nations and regions across the African continent.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

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

Don't be like me. Don't fall for this garbage.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/09/the-only-reason-to-make-this-movie-was-money/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@infobeautiful it's important to note that when the object you're measuring is a pizza, the radius is properly denoted with z and the height (altitude) with a

because its volume is pi * z * z * a

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

wow, the bafflegab bollockswaffle is absolutely overwhelming in this alleged dependently typed theorem prover's website.

https://yon-lang.org/

there's some good takedowns in the comments on reddit which sound entirely correct to me https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/1tze5wb/yon%5Fa%5Ftoposoriented%5Flanguage%5Fwith%5Fa/

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Lyle@cville.online ("Lyle Solla-Yates") wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala%5FAquifer Back when I was studying environmental policy around the turn of the century, the greenhouse effect seemed like it was about to be wrapped up nicely similar to acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer but the really hard problem looked like the collapse of the Ogallala Aquifer and all of the farming that depends on it in the western U.S. Best I can tell both remain a big problem. #climate #CleanWater

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Extelec@mstdn.social ("Extreme Electronics") wrote:

Yay, we have a village and installation at #EMF

Anyone wanting to join us playing with HV over the weekend are welcome at "Spark Life"

https://www.emfcamp.org/villages/2026/36-spark-life-hv-village

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
b_rain@troet.cafe ("b-rain") wrote:

What is happening in your #computer #humor #meme #memes

Attachments:

• video: Videoclip stop-motion, with different electronic parts on a circuit board, moving like vehicels and people in traffic, a led changing light form green to red like a traffic light

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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#Merchtodon

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PacificNic@zeroes.ca ("Nic The Briny") wrote:

When you teach an entire society, one person at a time, that being abusive is an effective way to get people to do what you want (quit masking, quit caring about how that affects the "vulnerable" [everyone's vulnerable, but that's not my point]), OF COURSE that kind of behaviour is going to spread as people try to use what worked on them on others.

And then people wonder why everyone is such a selfish asshole now.

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dyckron@cosocial.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/most-new-us-ai-data-centers-are-going-up-on-drought-land

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

so ziroth has a good sum up of the donut labs allegedly solid state sodium cell.

in short, the tested cells certainly seem awfully like lithium with a graphite anode. but donut said they weren't even the same cells that were going in the verge bikes?

it all stinks. but it's not actually clear if donut knew the cells didn't meet specs, they may have just been lied to by their supplier. seemingly they never got any proof and never did any technical due diligence?!

baffling stuff. pretty sure some people are gonna go to jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5oyVNjrUPI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo ("Persephone") wrote:

Before AI: to learn to program costs a second hand computer and time.

After AI: to learn to program costs a powerful new computer, a subscription fee, and time.

That's not democratizing anything. That's rent seeking.

RE: gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com/users/decay/statuses/01KMTMGYT7P14449JAJ663V46D

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futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Future Sprog") wrote:

Having in camera recognition is absolutely mad and for Yet Another reason it’s a bad idea, have a look at well known criminal* and recidivist Paul Rudd in this clip on how to break so many laws:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=71V-jQVbsh8

* not a criminal

@sarahjamielewis

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

Me: “ooh, this looks like an interesting site. Better add it to my feed reader.”

The feed reader: “Error: the feed couldn’t be found”

“Too bad. I wish you well in all your future endeavours. Maybe one day, years from now, our paths may cross again and we can reminisce about what might have been.”

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

one of the new Apple Intelligence™ features:

"Hey Slurry, change my banking password..."

"✨ Here's what I found on the web for ******"

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

i can only apologise for my pronunciations of those [names], that's not friendly to a dyslexic mind

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ruari@velocipederider.com ("Velocipede Rider") wrote:

So why did I tell you this? Well obviously the humble brag 😜 but also so that you are not disheartened if it takes you a while. It actually does not matter how long you take and in the grand scheme of things it will not be a long time, nor matter once you have mastered it.

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monkeyninja@10base2.dev ("𝙽𝚘𝚊𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍") wrote:

When we were looking for an upgrade to our TV, I specifically wanted a “dumb display.” No internet connection, no built in streaming services, just a display that would connect to a computer and show me the stuff my browser was playing from my Jellyfin server. If you want that kind of device, it seems that “Digital Signage” or “Commercial Display” is the category under which you are wanting to look.

They do often have network ports as they’re designed to be centrally managed (think hotel TV) but there’s zero requirement to give it a connection and it works beautifully without one.

Anyway there you go, hope that helps someone.

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

one nice thing about getting a little deeper into software dev discourse is realizing that everyone disagrees with everyone else about everything. the important thing is to find a way to do things that you like and that works and then be consistent (and also, change the way you do things if you learn of a better way)

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roxy@chitter.xyz ("Jess 🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&") wrote:

:redpanda: 13 years ago we were screwing around with a friend pitch shifting songs up and down and realized that pitch shifting sonic r made it sound like rick astley. nowadays people think that this funny thing we did in audacity in 2 seconds is AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYFXFFaBIA&list=PLYHzImzPABh8mInyZ-q3xBiIMWd9PzAi1&index=1