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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

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

Her Majesty’s Office

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

stretch blit achieved

Attachments:

• gifv: witch portrait being scaled up and down over a 3d dungeon view background

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

If you can't trust the NY Post and Hal Puthoff, who can you believe?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/24/why-is-their-evidence-always-nothing-but-assertions-and-cartoons/

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

@cwebber The sooner it pops, the less destructive that "pop" will be. So "can't wait" kind of encompasses "I'm scared" to me.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So while I don’t think the bubble is going anywhere *good*, I also don’t think that I have any way to get a handle on what other surprises are still in store before something really bad happens: at the scale of resources sloshing around here, nobody really can

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In this vague hypothetical, there’s fifty billion dollars floating around in some skunkworks team at openai or anthropic or maybe even somewhere else, working on something that isn’t even an LLM, that adds some strange and truly useful new capabilities to their *product* without really solving any fundamental issues with this *technology*. I know I could do a hell of a lot of novel R&D with fifty billion dollars.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A world-historic pile of resources is being wasted in service of inappropriate and unsafe technology, but an even MORE world-historic pile of resources is being deployed around it. Some small fraction of those resources will probably be used to solve problems in surprising ways. Like, there’s a trillion dollars or so floating around in this bubble. Let’s say 95% of that just goes towards useless GPU datacenters and chatbots and it’s more or less set on fire.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116784839262285554

I should offer a universal caveat with all my AI predictions like this.

While I do think that something *like* this will happen, the straightforward collapse of the sector based on some of these fundamental scaling problems is not going to happen without anyone reacting and trying to stop it. Don’t short a cult, and don’t short an apocalyptic fireball of capital either.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:

Employers in March: Your salary, bonus, and eligibility for promotions hinges on demonstrating you use AI constantly. If not, don't expect to keep your job.

Employers in June: We are shocked, _shocked I tell you_, that employees have been frittering away our very expensive tokens on unnecessary shit like converting PDFs to slides.

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

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

New: here's how hackers broke into Madison Square Garden. As I was going through the data, I noticed a lot came from a specific OneDrive. I found that employees identity in the dump, found their LinkedIn. They work at MSG. Hackers confirmed they voice-phished them https://www.404media.co/how-hackers-broke-into-madison-square-garden/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
jadehopepunk@hachyderm.io ("Jade") wrote:

For the #LoRes Mesh project, we've decided to change from the GPL to the Anti-Capitalist Software License.

You can read more about our reasoning here:

https://lores.tech/blog/anticapitalist-license/

Essentially though it boils down to thinking that the Free Software movement's desire for "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" does not seem to be a good way to actually produce the society free from harm and oppression that we want.

#AntiCapitalistLicense #CoopCloud

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

I'm a 10x software developer, by which I mean I have programmed computers at least ten times in my life.

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

Also remember that this referendum is just on whether we should reopen negotiations. They're calling us treasonous just for the gall of wanting to ask the EU if they would accommodate our industries if we joined.

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

I took a week off work hoping I'd feel more inspired to do creative things after a short break.

But I'm not.

I have like, a half dozen blog post ideas cooking whenever I feel like writing, but lately that hasn't been often.

I decided to outline a fictional story that I'd been cooking up (hence the poll a while ago), but the more I think about it, the less satisfied I am with the current structure, so nothing is actually written yet.

There's a bunch of work to do on my cryptography projects... but I have had zero motivation to touch any of them.

The weird part is that none of this feels frustrating. But I'm kind of meta-frustrated at not really having anything to show for my idle time, outside of playing a few video games (some with friends).

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be ("ENIGMATICO :flag_bisexual: :flag_nonbinary:") wrote:

"You are about to start a side project"

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

I don't pray, but if I did, this is what I'd pray for.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/24/we-dont-think-enough-about-what-comes-after/

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

PJ Harvey's got a new single out, "Voyager":

https://pjharvey.bandcamp.com/album/voyager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzCjzFsGl%5Fc

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
selfcare@goto.toydragon.xyz ("Fedi Selfcare Reminders") wrote:

The universe is not transactional. You do not need to "earn" or "be worthy" of love and respect.

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

Bear in mind that due to our position during WW2 ultranationalistic rhetoric remained quite mainstream in Icelandic discourse and politics so the current surge in nationalism is starting at a higher baseline

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

“New poll: majority support reopening EU negotiations - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-06-16-new-poll-majority-support-reopening-eu-negotiations-478286

> When all survey participants are included, 44.5 per cent say they will vote “yes”, 39.4 per cent “no”, while 14.6 per cent are undecided.

Considering how quickly the nationalistic and borderline violent rhetoric here has been ramping up, I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the referendum

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

This President and his followers are an ongoing manifestation of the maxim “Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.”

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

In one of the most grim twists I can imagine, a datacenter shutting down due to climate change: https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80526.html

(via @avuko)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
null31@pl.gnu.moe ("Kaze") wrote:

Fill my tank with Debian, please

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

genders of my fedi friens (multiple choice, and for options not listed, "fill it in" by replying to this thread)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
pedro@social.pollux.casa ("Pedro 🦫") wrote:

J'avoue, j'ai quitté #Firefox sans culpabiliser.

Je vous explique comment et ce qui m'a poussé à le faire.

=> https://pedro.pages.casa/md/blog/j-ai-quitte-firefox-sans-culpabiliser.md

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

The flowers are blooming.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandone #concrete #nature #naturephotography #flowers #buttercup

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

Here is liberty.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #decay #abandoned #window #red #graffiti

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

yup

“Why should a middle-class nurse pay a larger share of her paycheck than a wealthy corporate lawyer? This is doubly unfair in an economy in which top earners’ wages, over time, have pulled far ahead of those of the average worker.

According to one estimate, eliminating the payroll tax cap would inject around $3 trillion into the program over the next 10 years. Lifting the cap so that all income is treated the same would generate substantial revenue that would extend the solvency of Social Security for another generation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/opinion/moreno-warren-social-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
avuko@infosec.exchange ("⠠⠵ avuko") wrote:

So, about all those AI datacenters that we are supposed to need...

Mon, 22 Jun 2026
Due to unprecedented and historically high temperatures in the region, it has become impossible to maintain the environmental conditions required for the safe operation of equipment hosted at the facility.

(Cogent datacenter in France)

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80526.html