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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

That "generated answer" could have been statically presented on an FAQ. You are wasting carbon budget for nothing

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

@soatok so I guess the question becomes:

Is Alan Turing fan fiction... Turing-complete?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S 🔜 EMF (📞 3735)") wrote:

Tomorrow I'll be at #EMFCamp if you see me please say hi! I'm probably going to be distracted and scatter braining all over the place.

I'm going to be giving a talk on Saturday at 14:50 in stage b titled "so you want to go to space?" I'm running a planetarium show after that, and there will be a star party (bunch of telescopes you can come and look through.) Its looking like it'll probably be Friday or Saturday night, but it's entirely weather dependent.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

As I sat, melting in the heat inside, even with AC, I looked out the window and the sky was a yellow orange. I went outside, thinking that I was taking the good gummies, nope, it was real.

The sky was the color of every scene in Soylent Green.

....and it was just as hot.

We doomed kids.

Smoke em, in air conditioning, while you can power one, cuz soon that comfort of AC will be unavailable because the data center next door will be hogging all the juice so people can make six fingered hands on people in AI generated images.

~K

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

And of course, the thumbnail:

#GameOfThrones #HouseOfTheDragon

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I done another podcast where me and my friends chat about #GameOfThrones / #HouseOfTheDragon

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 3 'Rhaenyra Triumphant' & episode 4 'Tumbleton'

https://oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260714-hotd.mp3

Unable to locate her enemies and facing demands from all sides, Rhaenyra learns King's Landing isn't what she anticipated. Ormund's invasion of Tumbleton forces Rhaenyra into a corner.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
oursisthetheory.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Ours is the Theory") wrote:

House of the Dragon season 3 episode 3 'Rhaenyra Triumphant' & episode 4 'Tumbleton'

oursisthetheory.uk/media/20260714-hotd.mp3

Unable to locate her enemies and facing demands from all sides, Rhaenyra learns King's Landing isn't what she anticipated. Ormund's invasion of Tumbleton forces Rhaenyra into a corner.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

How often do you buy gifts for friends and family back home when you travel?

#EvanPoll #poll #travel #gifts #GiftCulture

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪") wrote:

A shoutout to all plants growing through the concrete 🌺

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

VPNs are key to cybersecurity.

They keep young people safe online. Remote working possible. Journalists, activists and whistleblowers protected. Public WiFi use secure.

But, parents should talk to children about VPNs and ensure they use a reputable company that protects data.

Find out more ⬇️

https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116776718285610543

#vpn #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:

An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.

📷️ me

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Somehow I think China and/or Russia will reap the benefits of USA and Gulf States spending all their munitions and missiles in the Iran war. 🤔
#china #russia #iran #usa #geopolitics

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

KFC faces possible closures after cyberattack on Japan's Nichirei
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybersecurity/kfc-faces-possible-closures-after-cyberattack-on-japan-s-nichirei

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

Kenyan politicians are hiring armed people for as little as $4 per day to break up the rallies of political opponents and protesters and attack civil rights groups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/15/world/kenya-goons-political-violence/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #kenya #africa #corruption

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116923602374370310

when I used to speak at conferences in the US, I would look for construction sites nearby to find good food trucks… the street food where working folks were was always better than the lunches served at those events. same idea, just different cultures

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
airtower@woem.men ("Fiona") wrote:

A dear friend of mine is urgently looking for a job in Germany, so they (plus partner and two cats) don't have to go back to USA. They have a math degree, experience as software tester, and would love to work at a library or teach, but at this point anything that pays the bills is good. Fluent German & English. Currently in Frankfurt but willing to relocate.

Please message me if you have/know anything that might help! ​:neocat_pleading:​

#getfedihired #jobsearch

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nerdette@nerdculture.de wrote:

Interesting: #USAF #ae63dd 64-13217 is circling over the Gulf. Yesterday it showed up as #T38 #NORTHROP T-38 Talon only.
Today it says "Hex also used by KC-46A 22-46113"
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae63dd&filterDbFlag=military,pia,ladd
From the flying pattern it looks more like it's being used for refueling: https://shorturl.at/IvT8e

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

SaaS plans are priced assuming a business is successful

where's the shit tier pity plan for a one-man band scraping a living? (asking for a friend)

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

our shiny new ‘Forever War’. thank you so very much, President Bone Spurs. your bravery, as long as it is with other people’s blood and guts, is indeed a vision to behold. your cleverness knows no bounds:

“The United States can inflict devastating damage on Iran, but it cannot eliminate Tehran’s ability to disrupt shipping through the strait. Iran can impose severe economic costs by choking the waterway, but it cannot compel Washington to accept its terms. After more missiles are fired, ships attacked, infrastructure destroyed and civilians killed, the parties will return to the same negotiating table — only angrier and less capable of compromise.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/opinion/us-iran-forever-war-strait-of-hormuz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

“Mr. Blanche, who was previously Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer and now serves as acting attorney general, has placed the interests of his former client above those of the country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/opinion/todd-blanche-attorney-general-senate-hearing.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.x1A.8OHn.9UTxz%5FvTj1KM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

as an added bonus, tokenpocalypse happened, so now you've got to be quite dedicated to pay for frontier models to do work of any size.

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

i'm not having coroutines or goroutines, i'm having boroutines because that name isn't overloaded.

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

the thing is, even if these developers existed, they're literally telling a machine shit like "make no mistakes", or in the case of the hilarious phoenix agents.md, "you are a world class developer" and "you create unique and visually stunning designs".

i find it hard to trust the judgment of a person that can live with that much cognitive dissonance.

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

this idea that having a no AI policy is turning away potential amazing developers who want to improve your code is sort of hilarious.

aside from the fact that AI code is shit, this sort of pronouncement always comes in the wake of a load of low quality slop that had to be rejected because it was shit.

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

for is the universal looping construct.

for and goto.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PotDeFleur@ludosphere.fr ("Pyro") wrote:

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

Obviously model distillation exists, and every open model nowadays is released as a generation of different sized models. I would even bet that there is all the above demand-based, topic-based, and user-credulity-based serverside switching between model sizes. But the conspiracy theory functions even if there isn't. The ambiguity created by the AI vendors on this topic as well as the abstract token allowances in the subscriptions operates exactly like the kind of parallel channels of periodic reinforcement from other scambling art forms like mobile games: the gambler is aware the game is rigged in some way but incapable of knowing. The rigging demands explanation, and the house is not quick to silence any stories that accidentally provide explanatory power even if they're bad stories. There are multiple ways to be cheated, so while one day it's a nerfed model, the next its token allowances, the next its guardrails, and so on.

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

Oh and for the local models the conspiracy theory is hitting invisible censorship walls

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

So if you lurk in any AI subreddit, discord, forum, or issue tracker, its pretty obvious that the answer to "how do people trust these things when they make mistakes literally all the time and its impossible to know when" is that there is a general conspiracy theory that whenever the model does bad output it is the AI company nerfing their model on purpose: for anthropic, its that they are compute strapped. For openAI, getting sued or cucked. Google is that google just sort of fucks their own shit up all the time, same with Microsoft.

This kind of post basically dominates all of these forums. That systemic failures are one-off byproducts of the momentary malevolence of the companies. The gambler only complains about the house always winning when the house wins bigger than usual.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

When I redesigned my website, I added a statement about how I used (or didn’t use) “AI” on it.

I quickly learned that there were *so* many similar statements already out there, representing a wide spectrum of approaches and opinions. I learned a lot from them, so I thought I’d share a few of my favorites.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/folded-between-the-pages/