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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm not exactly _blaming_ y'all, I understand why one of these topics is considerably more salient to considerably more people than the others, but it would help if you were a little more enthusiastic when I talked about discrete simulations or timezones or whatever

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

to be clear I am not (just) referring to Mastodon, three other avenues of maybe doing some community work today have resulted in yet more bags full of AI discourse

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

really wanted to take a break today from AI discourse to focus on Python maintenance but apparently I accidentally got the "oops all AI discourse" flavor from the Python maintenance store today

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

It's doesn't matter how much testosterone you have when you are completely full of shit

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

#HouseofTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A short post talking about character improvements in House of the Dragon.

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

#HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A short clip talking about Mysaria from House of the Dragon.

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

A few shorts I made today for my #HouseofTheDragon podcast.

I forgot how much I like making shorts. Maybe I should get a Loops account up and running?

Attachments:

• video: A short clip talking about episode 3 of House of the Dragon.

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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

"Microsoft talks proudly about reaching 100% matched renewable energy, but fails to mention that it just signed a 20-year fossil fuel deal with Chevron that blows its targets out of the water"

https://www.fastcompany.com/91573381/microsoft-emissions-rise-ai-data-center-boom-experts-get-worse

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

jetla

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

pfff you think 1-bit pixel art is cool check out my 0-bit pixel art

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

Whenever someone comes up to me at a conference and says "Hi Christine, my name is <$NAME> and we last encountered each other in <$CONTEXT>" I am *SO GRATEFUL*

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's getting really hard to get excited about new open source projects.

First there's the endless flood of announcements. Then comes the real disappointment when you open the repo.

The announcement is polished.
The demo is slick.
The codebase looks like three LLMs got into a knife fight.

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

If you work in frontend or on browsers, @leaverou's post on polyfills is worth your time:

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/polyfills/

/via @gregwhitworth

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

I have no working face/name pattern recognition and I am hanging out with you at a conference and I must scream

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
Coreyartus@mindly.social ("Coreyartus Imagery") wrote:

Earlier this week, I got an American Robin completed. This bird is slightly different than the famous European Robin that has become the namesake of so many wonderful characters in European literature (like Robin Hood and Robin Goodfellow). This bird is a bit more saturated in tone, with a darker crown.

Here’s the speedpaint:
https://makertube.net/w/iy4g4T9B7HB3CtH2aXMADA

Here’s the 11x17” giclée print listing on my shop:

https://coreyartusimagery.com/products/american-robin-11x17-limited-edition-print

I do all my work by hand in Procreate on my iPad Pro. And now I print everything myself on my own 12-color giclée printer, having just purchased it this last week. I do no use any generative “assistance” at any point in my process. I draw what I see the old fashioned way! #HumanMade

#art #MastoArt #IndieArtist #Prints #Birds #BirdArt #Robin #FediGiftShop

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

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

welcome to the petrodollar petrollercoaster!

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

For context: longships, the old Norse ships famous for Viking rowing, were coastal. So, the famous Viking raiders were largely local settlers robbing and murdering their neighbours. The ocean-traversing ships, knarr, primarily used sails. The Norse who crossed to Iceland and North America did not row there.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@isagalaev @nedbat I recognize that there are complexities here. Anyone with a device capable of responding to this thread is a consumer of conflict minerals. We are all likely wearing cotton that was produced with something a bit closer to slave labor than we should be comfortable with. Making the argument about *exactly* why "AI" is worse is exhausting, but even for those who disagree, I wish that a bit more of the burden were on them to remain curious about *why* their interlocutors disagree

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116925372169904810

@isagalaev @nedbat yeah, jinx

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

Kind of on the nose for the Norwegian fans to fake a rowing motion when they're at the world cup and cheering their team because their ancestors, by definition, never went out on the ocean-crossing knarr and instead stayed at home 😝

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

for the love of fuck can just one piece of core computing infrastructure not be AI slop maintained by some weird fucker casually justifying his decision with right-wing talking points like that’s just a normal thing to do

bitter lol @ “just fork it if you’re not happy” for the motherfucking linux kernel of all things https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116924101230198934

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Tempted to do some kind of linguistic annotation project to explore whether Mastodon responses really are more 'splainy than those on bsky and what rhetorical strategies differentiate "I agree and here is another example" from "I demand you be an audience for how smart I am"

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

This administration managed to take the joy out of diarrhea jokes. (I'll still make them; I have no other skills.)

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

can’t wait for the linux social warriors to jump down my throat for disagreeing with the kernel maintainer so toxic he had to go to therapy for it

and the therapy clearly didn’t work since now he’s spouting weird shit that sounds like a mildly rephrased fash conspiracy theory about the wokes

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
dngrs@chaos.social ("Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse") wrote:

@ariadne @whitequark
the fundamental problem of LLMs having no idea about facts or truth (while at the same time extruding confidently wrong text) remains unsolved, as a psychologist I continue to view LLMs as deeply unethical (in the sense that they're accidental master manipulators and nobody is immune to gaslighting). How do you (target audience: non-programmers!) distinguish "tool took 47 seconds for the job" vs "tool just extruded text claiming the job was done"?

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

it’s of course extremely convenient for the corporations that a couple of dickhead libertarians decided in the late 80s/early 90s that excluding extremely damaging influences and use cases from your license somehow makes it unfree, but maybe now that the jig is up and it’s being shouted into our faces, maybe we need to put our fucking feet down and exclude LLMs and the corporations behind them from our communities and from using our software

and then maybe we can go real wild and kick out the fascists and the people killing civilians too

these motherfuckers have gotten a massive free ride and now that they’re in a position of power (linus absolutely is, linux is finally a mainstream desktop OS for a nontrivial number of people) they’re taking it all from us

why shouldn’t we take back our labor?

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

I’m so glad that all of my memories of open source being a social collective were false actually

every bit of goodwill and advocacy and imagining that we can have a better operating system was wasted

because linus torvalds, the manchild who supposes he owns our labor and knows damn well nobody’s going to fork the kernel, took donations from some of the most far-right corporations in technology and is now on an unhinged rant about how being anti-AI makes you an SJW

funny how that works

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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.

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

all the jobs that pay the worst involve caring about people, and the inverse is also true