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cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: There's an interview with some of the people involved with generating the map of some of earth's fungal networks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zip1dHFfrU

[1] https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116765927788649091

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
danslerush@floss.social ("DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ") wrote:

#Report by the United Nations University quantifies, for the first time, the carbon, #water and land footprint of #AI. The figures are staggering : 945 TWh of electricity projected for 2030, 9.3 trillion litres of water, 14,500 km² of land.

Spoiler : It will take the water and electricity consumption of 1.3 billion people to meet your prompts by 2030

« ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF AI'S ENERGY USE - Carbon, Water & Land Footprints »

› https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10647/UNU-INWEH-Report-The%5FEnv%5FCost%5Fof%5FAI-2026.pdf (.pdf)

#UN #Energy #NoAI #Enslopification

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

2026 is the year of my cat on the desktop (I love you but I'm trying to work here)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

one of the coolest #othernetworks I've seen in a long time! an interactive map of Earth’s arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map#2.6/28.85/59.93

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

Welcome to Pythons!
"It's full of snakes (TM)" -- Pythons

>>> from snakes import snakes
>>> snakes.snakes("snakes")
"snaaaaaaaaaaakes"

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

"this is, frankly, more colors than you should be allowed" -- pixel artists

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

in 256 stunning colors

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

vampire (v2)

#pixelart #sketch #oc

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

The current vice president shouldn't "have a new book out." That's not a thing that a guy with that job should also have.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra 🔜 SanFran") wrote:

So, no. Prompt injection isn't a thing. Injection attacks work by turning out-of-band systems into in-band systems, but LLMs start as in-band and fundamentally always will be in-band. The fundamental way that LLMs work is indistinguishable from the result of someone successfully hitting you with an injection attack.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This farm looks like something out of an old picture book. If it wasn't so run-down, that is.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #grass #decay #concrete #rust

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma: ƒ(☕️, 🐈‍⬛️, 🚀️) ⇒ ℂ") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116766449813889548

LLMs are stochastic sexism machines.

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

good morning good morning good morning how is your morning it's a good morning it's good it's a good morning it's good it's a good

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jan@eden.one ("Jan Eden") wrote:

Avocado-flavoured nachos were created by someone blissfully unaware of the existence of molded food.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Before we get too upset about Spider-Man being used to sell products, let us remember that there is an entire dimension in the Marvel Multiverse where the heroes and villains battle over who will get to eat Hostess® Fruit Pies®

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Earth-51914

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estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

Thought for today

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

On the note of "meet people where they are"

On some level, this does mean techies do need to talk to and listen to real people if they hope to build tech that helps said people.

On a simpler note, it also means building for sex workers, not speculative investors. We don't need more cryptocurrency grifting.

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

aurora chestnuts are carefully selected, peeled and fresh roasted, to bring out the inherent flavour of each and every nut

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Also re: the social.lol v4.6.0 upgrade, I’m aware of some issues with our installed themes. Looking into those!

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

Hissing the words "capability security" into the ears of my operating system while it sleeps to hope it becomes more secure soon

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

due to the increase in vulnerabilities, we recommend upgrading your software all the time to patch all vulnerabilities, but we also recommend pinning your software to the past to avoid new vulnerabilities

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

Cope in the comments about Safari getting trounced *in Apple's own benchmarks* by an early iOS/Blink bring-up is reaching heretofore unseen levels. Incredible scenes.

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

it's-a-me, the concept of spacetime

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

@cwebber That was Good Macintosh this is Scary Macintosh

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I assumed it was the case, but I finally bothered to confirm my suspicion. Like the Linux Foundation, the Rust Foundation is a 501c6. So set your expectations accordingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29%5Forganization#501%28c%29%286%29

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sovy@pandapla.net ("Sovy") wrote:

Mastodon 4.6 has been released:

"You can now control whether a “Media” tab shows at all, and if so, whether it should include media attachments from your replies to other people or not. This way, if you want to use it as a portfolio while hiding the GIFs and memes you use to respond to others, you can."

Someone finally got it.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

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

31 years ago today Krissy and I got married. Over on Whatever, I wrote a long piece about matrimony, what's worked for us over 30+ years of being together, and what, if any, part of that might work for you and your relationships:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/17/31-years/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If reviewing code is harder than writing it, and you use AI to generate code you couldn't write yourself, you're neither the programmer nor the reviewer.

You're a rubber duck with merge permissions.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Just had a great conversation with @eff and Luísa Franco Machado from EquiLabs

https://www.youtube.com/live/1hG2kx2w-2o

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Edit: This is fixed now!

I’m aware of an issue with editing profiles on social.lol following the 4.6.0 upgrade. Looking into it! If you need to update your profile in the interim, you can do it with any Mastodon client as a workaround (the issue appears to be with the web UI only at this point). Will get this sorted out ASAP, though! Sorry for the trouble.