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

It's been a hell of a week for "having rights" (especially while "not being a citizen")

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

oops there go all your rights if you have any interactions with ICE, did you really need those though

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

:mastodon: social.lol has been updated to Mastodon v4.6.2+glitch.

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

what is the computational cost? what is the social cost? and what is the cost of a world whZERO VALUES RETURNED FROM CONTINUATION

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

scheme programmers know the value of everything but do they know the cost of (values *unspecified*) vs (values) for operations run for their effect

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

remember fellow cs practitioners: the value of composition over curling into a ball and crying

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
synte@toplap.org ("Syntəl8") wrote:

Protestors (sane people):
- we really need to do something about climate change!!

uk govt:
- there is a simple solution to this - ban protesting! Genius!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

On its face there's nothing wrong with the idea that the world could use a little more positivity. It's just anyone who goes out their way to make that point almost always has just dog shit politics.

The second Rainn Wilson announced that dumb-ass positivity book I just knew he was *that* kinda person. Now he's going around saying The Office couldn't be made today because of woke.

Jesus fucking Christ shut the fuck up.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

It's a fair question

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

@cwebber have you heard about #pastagang ?

https://pastagang.cc/paper

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

https://pastaverse.codeberg.page/nudel/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

I kind of love the anti-data centre movement

We never got to vote on whether AI got shoved down our collective throats

The extractive class decided that for us, and the disappointing centrists in government obeyed

But if your local city council is discussing it or something, this is one of the few places where regular people can actually throw some sand in the gears of industry that are crushing us all

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

"how can they somehow make something worse than being stuck on hold for an hour after half an hour of navigating a maze of twisty little phone tree passages, all alike"

my friend, let me introduce you to the AI customer service chatbot

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

the colonial settlers of the uncanny valley

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Check out my new stand. Camp it to my desk and MagSafe my phone on. Love it.

So I got my stand, mic, natural light, and my first topic. 🎉

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116811332427801862

Dang. If I wasn't already gainfully employed and if I lived in Germany, I'd be all over applying for this. Seems like a dream job -- I bet somebody in my network would be great for this, though. STA is doing the Lord's work; I hope they find someone great.

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

Bad news: I misread, it is not yet fixed in Guix

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

“Do more Europeans die of summer heat than Americans die of guns?”

https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-america-europe

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

“How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

softbank guy: "eggs do not lay eggs"

trans people: "oh no it totally happens"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
evelynf@counterforce.social ("Eve ✧ taur time") wrote:

A niche transgender entry for Make a Terrible Comic Day! This was gonna be two panels but I made them in haste and bungled the second drawing! Whatever. I love having permission to toss something off. What are you gonna do, tell me it's terrible? Frig off, fake jerk I just made up.
#MakeATerribleComicDay #MakeATerribleComicDay2026 #butch #trans

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

So to summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost ten thousand dollars, all applications will forever be frozen to about 2025 design and implementation (because that’s what vibe coding outputs), power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer in the first place.

Explain to me again how this is progress?

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

Blender & Traces from 1995 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreHFveYdDg

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

Time to add currency formatting styles to the .ods spreadsheet file (which I'm making manually in code). Not really the thing I wanted to learn today, but it's the thing I am learning ;P

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
annaghughes@mastodon.online ("Anna Hughes") wrote:

I've debated posting, but after the Montreal shooting I think I should.

I have an anonymous stalker harassing me on Bluesky. He repeatedly says he has weapons and is plotting to kill people, among other things.
I've tried my local police, FBI tips, Bluesky safety, Columbus Ohio PD (where I believe he is). Nothing is happening, so I'm requesting help here.

If there's anybody who works in cyber safety or handles stuff like this and you think you can do something, I would love to chat.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Looks like I pulled the trigger on a new mini just in time.

Bottom: maxed out 2012 mini
Quad core i7
16GB Ram
256 GB SSD, 1TB spinning rust
$1500(+?) when new
Stuck on Mac OS X 10.15
621/2153 geekbench single/multi

Top: Cheapest m4 mini available
10-core CPU, 10-core GPU
16GB Ram
512GB storage
$699 (student discount)
macOS 26.5
3788/14725 cpu single/multi
37720/57252 openCL/Metal

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

*hiss*

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

Oops, flatlined. https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org%5Fdiet%5Fresults.html

Well, that's ok. It happens. There was a celebration of someone's birthday and things have been stressy etc so I def ate more than I have been. Back to it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The new tech industry lifecycle:

Embrace - We love open standards!
Extend - We added a few tiny improvements nobody asked for.
Extinguish - Oops, your thing is incompatible now.
Enshitify - Aaaanyway, here's a subscription tier for the features you used to have!

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

If AI is conscious, then so is Age of Empires II

Here's how someone built the fundamentals of an LLM in the classic video game, breaking down the whole 'are LLMs conscious' debate

Watch and subscribe here for more every week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlWJTM18z3E

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• video: 72c70a7e453bb369.mp4