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

what was it good at? rubber ducking. and with the huge caveat that you have to know the material well enough to know when it's bullshitting you. if you don't you're fucked.

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

incidentally if you missed it, i did in fact give it a real honest go for a month, trying to make it do something useful. it utterly failed. like catastrophically badly. and it made me miserable (although it did make me laugh sometimes with how bad it was)

the only way they are scaling the model to better results is by increasing parameters, which means more gpu resources. and size is increasing faster as time goes on, while gpu prices are going up faster as time goes on

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wisegreyowl@mastodonapp.uk ("WiseGreyOwl 🌍 🦉") wrote:

It would take about 2,738 years to spend £1 trillion at a rate of £1 million every day ... to put this into context.

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nafiri@sk.petalgarden.link wrote:

we should allow folks to be endogenic because i don't think anyone needs a justification for managing their identity a certain way, as long as it's harmless to others (which it is)

i could add to that by saying "it would have been a lot harder to realize i was traumagenic if i hadn't allowed myself to be endogenic first" or whatever, and i think that's still true. but i don't think it needs to be true because it should be enough to just accept people for who they are

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

I was just reading this fun report by an ai company about how bad AI is in practice.

and as it transpires, all the smart people i know who think AI produces a crap product are not wrong. it comes out in the figures, which you can't dodge forever.

because let us remember that this is an attempt to pretend the sky is green and we only have to look up to see that's not the case.

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

reading: AI Economics for Dummies

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

I'll think of this every time someone tells me I'm being "left behind". Enjoy shovelling mule shit :)

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

i have gotta stop going to sleep early, i wake up early when i do that.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

@jonny I realize I'm probably going to be saying this until I die, but their first mistake was thinking of that freely available software as their "supply chain".

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Let’s stop saying ‘world’s first trillionaire’ and start saying ‘world’s *last* trillionaire’

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Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

In related news, 27 year olds have also seen roughly half of cumulative man-made greenhouse gas emissions happen in their lifetime.

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CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:

"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.

To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."

This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Album of nothing // https://fberriman.com/2026/06/12/album-of-nothing/

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wren6991@types.pl ("Luke Wren") wrote:

When I hear someone say "agent swarm" or "orchestrator", all I can think of is "we finally built the Man-Month, from the famous book, The Mythical Man-Month"

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

I love this comic. Unfortunately I don’t know who made it!

There are SO MANY people here in Silicon Valley who I *know* can afford to swap out their Tesla, yet they refuse to sell it and stick these stickers on instead. All of them are complicit.

#comics #art #humor #tesla

Edit: @sky found the artist! It’s Kiku Hughes: https://bsky.app/profile/kikuhughes.bsky.social/post/3mno4f5u2ac2b

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vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

everyone is tuned into the main event tonight
https://www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880quUg

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

what kinds of things do you reap, are the same ones you sow? what the fuck this is bullshit

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

"Mythos and Fable are just too powerful. U should be scared. Frankly we are scared"

"Wtf why is this happening guys it's safe we have guardrails" https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

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

"Oh yeah the water dispenser has a sparkling water option, but the CO2 tank is low, so you can only carbonate it with carbon monoxide for right now"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

When you see them pumping the flame and crisping up the pastor tube before slicing it off you know you're in for a good time

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I don't got nothing profound to say except thank that LORD for the TAQUEROS and eating an armload of TACOS on the curb and being temporarily unable and unwilling to move because of being drenched in sun and grease.

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megsouth@c.im ("Megan") wrote:

It feels like we’re living in separate realities.

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Today, Saturday 13 June, is World Gin Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/gin-day/

Also, International Axe Throwing Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-axe-throwing-day/

And it's happy 40th birthday to American fashion designers and former actors Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Kate%5Fand%5FAshley%5FOlsen

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange ("Eldritch kcarruthers") wrote:

Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/antarcticas-west-coast-missing-an-area-of-sea-ice-the-size-of-france-as-temperatures-peak-20c-above-average

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My CPU cycles have produced a thought. You're welcome. 'malware': [Common] Malicious software. Software intended to cause consequences the unwitting user would not choose; especially used of virus or Trojan horse software.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/malware.html

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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

EU has opened the first accession negotiation cluster with Ukraine and Moldova, launching formal talks on rule of law and core reforms.

Von der Leyen called it recognition of wartime progress. Zelenskyy called it a “strong step for Europe.”

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/12/eu-opens-accession-talks-cluster-for-ukraine-and-moldova/

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MissGayle@urbanists.social ("Miss Gayle") wrote:

We need an immediate law passed in Congress that the US Postal Service is required to delivery all mail to everyone, all the time, no exceptions, ever. All mail it receives must be delivered to the intended recipient, period. Violations get 50 years in prison. No parole.

Someone should point out to republicans that if this admin can order mail to not be delivered to democrats, the next admin can order it to not be delivered to republicans.

#Mail #MailInVoting #Democracy #CivilRights #USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funcrunch@me.dm ("Pax Ahimsa Gethen") wrote:

Today is the 10th anniversary of the #Pulse nightclub massacre in #Orlando. I attended a vigil that night in #SanFrancisco; here's my blog on it:

https://funcrunch.org/blog/2016/06/13/we-will-not-be-silenced/

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cormac@hachyderm.io ("Cormac") wrote:

I like to think that @jwz would be glad to know that this RV selling something at the side of the road is safe from submarine attacks.