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naominovik@mstdn.party ("Naomi Novik") wrote:

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

This is one of those rare times when the information we actually need comes from literal fucking stage magicians con artists and mentalists about how duping a horde of hungry marks works.

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mcc wrote:

Poll: Have you ever met in real life a person you first met on a BBS?

(For these purposes include Compuserve, eWorld, AOL as BBSes, unless you were using AOL to access TCP/IP services. My goal here is to describe pre-Internet modem-based services, so I"m inclined to say long-distance FIDO contact counts as "BBS", but USENET doesn't.)

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mcc wrote:

Poll: Have you ever swiped left (or right) on a screen on a picture of a person to indicate you do (or don't) want to date them?

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mikey@soylent.green ("Mikey Dickerson") wrote:

"All of this has shown me that nothing ever needed to be good. It needed to be done, and done used to require a person who knew how. Good was just this…. cool little side effect. Now to get something done you don’t need the person. Done is free, good is extra, and nobody pays extra. "

https://substack.com/@jacksonrickun/note/c-273437779

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

Motherfucker if I wanted the boilerplate for a hybrid rust/python package before now my options would have been to look at the docs and do it according to how the adapter was designed, but in this brave new world I need to convince a model that I know something is possible by fighting through layers of gaslighting telling me its not!?!?!?!

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

It told me I was asking "the wrong question" about why it had duplicated the logic across four separate implementations, that instead "the only question that's relevant is why there are four modules in the first place if it wasn't supposed to use them" (it created three of them). The new tone is just capitalizing on cognitive surrender and making people doubt themselves to appear smarter. AKA THIS IS CON ARTIST 101 SHIT

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

I genuinely try these tools, I use them with all the recommended usage patterns, I try to do all the magic context management tricks, they sometimes hit the slot machine jackpot and get something right, but the rest of the time they just make doing what I know should be done 10x as expensive and confusing.

There is a new brand of post in the anthropic subreddit, people being amazed at how good the advice fable gave them. The reason they cite is that fable pushed back on them heavily and arrived at some Socratic solution. But if you ask them "OK so was the advice actually good" (e.g. did investing advice make you money, did relationship advice save your relationship, etc.) The answer is crickets. The new pattern for convincing people of model efficacy seems to just be negging them, and it also seems to be an effective enough product change to sell through the IPO

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PhilSalkie@mindly.social wrote:

What a shocker - US groups that are pushing propaganda against offshore wind energy development are funded by Big Oil.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

#Renewables #ClimateChange

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

Yesterday I prompted the best model in the world for hours about how to move modules from one package to another, something that would have taken me minutes, but I used up a 4 hour usage limit on the single prompt "move these modules from this package in directory x to this other module in package y". It gave me a philosophical counterargument which was total bullshit and tried to gaslight me about the limits of the rust/python interface through maturin. An extremely training set rich space. I actually knew how to do this but was trying to see what the hype was about. The hype was about a new flavor of parlor tricks that talks down to you instead of being a pure sycophant.

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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

If you're in #Sanfrancisco and you want to help our city in a disaster, you can sign up for NERT training right now! Learn how to help first responders in a quake, fire, or other disaster! The classes are fun, and the current one just started. If you missed the first session, you have tons of time to make it up and you can just start with the second session next week! https://sf-fire.org/nert

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

Yeah sure its normal to have a technology that is totally the future sliced off for us in product releases that have a completely undefinable cost for a completely undefinable outcome, but the cost keeps going up and the models are increasingly the subject of geopolitical conflict. That's a stable and safe bet and one that I am willing to irrevocably tie my entire professional practice around.

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

The top is in, all that's left is a long chain of your ass getting got.

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

"At least we have Facebook's weights and also China seems to be giving away an extremely capital intensive digital artifact for free for seemingly no reason"

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

Duh you dumbass mfs anyone can turn the thing off at any point and have full control over how it works and that has been the entire problem the whole time

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

Very funny to me that the AI community that still has brain turned on is like "see US government can turn off the models at any time, must be resilient" w.r.t anthropic fable when I am over here like "simply not being reliant on a made up need"

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amcasari@hachyderm.io ("Madame Pres commandasaurus 🦖") wrote:

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Is Apple vibe coding too? Even the bug reporting tool doesn't make sense any more #GoldenGate

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I don't like that at all. It looks completely broken, and I can't tell whether that's by design or actually a rendering glitch.

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quephird@tech.lgbt ("What Will Danielle Code after WWDC?") wrote:

Ok, I’ve seen this before and I guffaw loudly every single time.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

This explains in a concise manner why "local models" is not an ethical solution to AI that we'd like to have.

Opensource AI Must Win | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/sqh2uq/opensource%5Fai%5Fmust%5Fwin#c%5Frhpbn5

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Participated in my first #FixItFair today! Got a few things fixed and advised others to get parts, etc. Only a couple things were truly broken. 😁

More info for #Kitsap folks: https://www.kitsap.gov/pw/Pages/fixitfair.aspx/

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

When I bang on (and on) about the unbridled cynicism of Big Tech regarding privacy -- *particularly* Apple -- this is my comparison point. You can't win this game by buying a new phone, only through demanding giants lobby for change, or at least stop opposing it.

Who's in the halls of Congress, threatening to withhold donations if they don't support privacy laws that outlaw data brokers? Not Cupertino, that's for damned sure:

https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis/

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

"The Record" by boygenius is pretty great

RE: https://www.threads.com/@amyisannoyed/post/DZilpsElArT

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

bent molecular geometry

go home chemists, you're drun

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

(obviously the almost-emptiness is a risk for flame since it's all going to vapourise, but where does the silver sulfide come in?)

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

do i know any electrochemists? this accident report says silver sulfide was deposited on silver-plated copper wires in an almost empty fuel tank and that it's a semiconductor.

i don't understand why a spark is more likely to form on a semiconductor than a conductor.

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brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

A New IndieWeb Publication? or: I Want to Start Something and Be Bad at It | 🔗 https://brennan.day/a-new-indieweb-publication-or-i-want-to-start-something-and-be-bad-at-it/

#IndieWeb #Publishing #Writing #Community #Collaboration #CreativeNon-fiction #LyricEssays

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FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk ("Brynnbo the FrogMxstress") wrote:

I've still got a whole bunch of progress pride brick stickers in my shop :pride:

https://ko-fi.com/s/4591aa4cd4

#BrynnDraws #Pride #FediGiftShop #Stickers

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faerye@pie.gd ("Felicity Shoulders") wrote:

I always love finding a disinterestedly helpful website, like a corner of the old internet not yet cleared away!

https://www.thistothat.com/

#craft #repair #resources