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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
everton137@vivaldi.net wrote:

Am I overreacting in my thoughts, or is Trump openly laying the groundwork for a coup in November?

P. S. I know many people here is aware of the danger. My concern is whether the press, civil society, and political movements can do enough to stop it.

#USPol #Democracy #coupdétat #Putsch

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

okay, this is wonderful
#Cats #Likho

https://downtownlongbeach.org/event/likhos-15th-birthday-celebration/

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

Can we trust Torrhen Manderly?

#HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• unknown: A video about Torrhen Manderly from House of the Dragon.

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

I'm going to start offering weekly office hours open to all omg.lol members. Pull up a seat, ask questions, get help, or just hang out and chat about whatever. We'll use Jitsi for voice and do screen-sharing and stuff. Should be fun! (And hopefully helpful!)

I need to find a couple of times that will cover as many timezones as possible. Open to any input on that! But I plan to share a schedule soon (and of course can change it as we go based on feedback).

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

Calling it "the shittest possible implementation" is funny, but it's actually a useful primitive.

look, bot, if I call my code shit, I don't want you to tell me it's great, actually.

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

i just told it

the k key on my keyboard is broken. please mentally insert the letter 'k' as appropriate so i don't have to keep copy pasting it.

and then proceeded to write a long technical message entirely without the letter k.

Got it—I mentally restored the missing ks while reading. [usual bad response as if nothing was weird]

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
aleemshaun@social.lol ("Aleem Shaun") wrote:

@neatnik I blocked anything by and about said narcissist and fascist and stopped paying for anything by 37 Signals awhile ago, so won't read it. But I'm reasonably confident it will include his desire to return to the 'good old days' when the brown and black people knew their place. I last wrote about his views here: https://aleemshaun.com/posts/on-difference-and-belonging
And determined to never waste any more energy on his ignorance, so I'm stoked he's appeared in my feed again 😂

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

A barn with broken windows.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned #rust #barn

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

good news, i can choose which of two wrong responses was better to help improve chatgpt when it's wrong

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

ok, the rumour is that zuck is going to try and compete with anthropic and openai by charging a quarter of the price and subsidising with their ad revenue.

which would be fucking hilarious actually 😂

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The funniest thing about that post is that nobody even questioned the 2 GB browser tab.

Somewhere along the way we all just accepted that as perfectly normal.

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

(oracle has agreed to build hundreds of billions of dollars of datacentre for openai and if openai don't pay their bills, oracle will be fucked)

Mastodon wrote:

RE: https://graz.social/@linos/116935715739512526

Congratulations @pfefferle and @activitypub.blog, and thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for all the ways you support the #Fediverse and #SocialWeb 💝

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

I genuinely think people need to accept that we may lose oracle

and wouldn't that be a pity? :blobcatangel:

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/116936684114562753

should be filed under under “Consider Felines”, but not by Iain M Banks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital ("Foxes in Love") wrote:

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/822392026707492864
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Be ready for when Trump tries to sabotage the midterms: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/966594/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

"What's so wrong about trans people having to use different bathrooms?"

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChlorideCull@fuzzy.systems ("Dusty :blahaj:") wrote:

important: when microsoft open sourced comic chat, they also released comic sans under the MIT license

https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat/blob/f53e4b6e8e2bce7dbf3ddc7e8f12dd55591f7b17/v1.0/shared/comic.ttf

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

going to try coining a new term

there's a genre of LLM usage side-effect where someone will start being ever so slightly more impatient, less curious, less able to think critically (by which I mean examine problems from multiple perspectives, use empathy, use doubt as an interrogative tool), more reliant upon LLMs for basic tasks. it's subtle but I think it's pretty clear in a lot of cases. but calling this "AI psychosis" is hyperbolic and probably pretty inaccurate.

may I propose: "vibesick"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@cwebber thanks! as far as I know this was indeed a glyph original, quite intentionally trying to popularize it https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116428330599900610

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

Don’t repeat the same mistakes

Make newer, more bewildering mistakes

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

@cwebber

Here's another way "LLMs are in the air and you can't not breathe them" manifests: if you are a librarian, you index texts so that people can find them. But LLMs keep generating texts that look like human ones to such a degree that they will fool an automated indexing process. No one wants to find the LLM texts since they are slop, but -- if you are a librarian, your index still fills up with them so the human ones can't be found, even though you've never used LLMs.

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

Thanks to @glyph for some good quotes and also the term "vibe sickness", though I am not sure if that is @glyph who coined the term or not.

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

Faulty towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

Reflections on how and why the use of genAI tools pulls even those claiming they will be principled towards their use to withdrawing from their understanding and participation of the creative process

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116936520891550956

This is as good a time as any to remind HEY users that you can save 20% on your first year of Fastmail thanks to a super cool partnership between omg.lol and Fastmail: https://fastmail.com/omglol (it’ll say 10% at the top of the page but you’ll get 20%!)

That same partnership also lets you to send email from your omg.lol address (and is the only legit way to do that). 🦄

Fastmail is the best. I’m heading into my 14th year with them and it’s been wonderful!

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

You know what, if you're a US citizen, it's a good day to check your current voter registration status/update your voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so:

https://www.vote.org/

https://vote.org/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

let's fuckin goooooo

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
wimi@social.spejset.org ("🍉 wimi") wrote:

#FensterFreitag och jag har gjort något jag aldrig gör annars. Jag har klonat bort en grej och det var nazi-propaganda i ett av fönstren. Ville ju visa den fina husväggen med fönstren.

#Photography #darktable #Mural

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
qdot@buttplug.engineer wrote:

long long man is 64-bit