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JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Old MacDonald had a Theremin

Boosted by jwz:
mdhughes@appdot.net ("Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647") wrote:

Jughead tells you to reject slop:
https://archiecomics.com/bite-sized-archie-293-sacred-vs-slop/
#ButlerianJihad

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

This shit would not be possible without the kind of passive boosterism that lets this nightmare seep into the water supply and keeps the bubble afloat.

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

RealDoll the sex doll parent company bought by the roving husk of a cryptocurrency/metaverse capital demon pivots to selling hyper-realistic silicoid AI teaching robots to public schools on the Seneca Nation reservation, causing the state to spend $60k per doll they don't have to perform generational damage to already marginalized kids. That's a real consequence of the kind of world all the AI ghouls with a kind face are running cover for.
thread: https://bsky.app/profile/jgcarpenter.com/post/3mqptnudhmk2b
Blog post: https://jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?blogPost=a-companion-robot-company-just-landed-a-classroom

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
detention@beep.town wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: dont you ever evercompare yourself to me okay

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

it feels like everyone with even the most remote, faintest security inklings has been screaming 'SANITIZE YOUR INPUTS' and a bunch of folks went .. NUH UH. not only are we gonna not sanitize shit, we're gonna invent a tech that CANT TELL if something is input or output! NYEAH!

and now it runs everything

jwz wrote:

Welp. I reinstalled Debian 13.5 from Raspberry Pi Imager, and Overlay worked. Then I did "rpi-update" and Overlay no longer works.

Hooray.

FW_REV:7a0137617dd4a8496e566d23c01219923c409a79
BOOTLOADER_REV:aa33b8dc7cee51de4b75580095521dea50407d6e

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Programming languages are all like different buildings:

- C++ is an abandoned factory that's somehow still in production.
- Go is an operating room.
- Rust is a nuclear power plant control room.
- Python is a university campus.
- Java is corporate headquarters.
- JavaScript is a bouncy castle. On fire.

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

@glyph @evan There was a lot I debated putting into the post, but thought it was long enough! Including that article! But eventually you gotta just press publish and move on.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:

“We report the unexpected discovery that octopuses possess structurally unique ribosomes that enhance the accuracy of protein synthesis compared with ribosomes from all other tested animals.”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734654v1.full

#octopus

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

@cwebber we direly need to flip the script: it's rude to submit slop. it's rude to not disclose your contribution is slop. it is not rude for the maintainer to ask. i am so done with people copying and pasting slop to answer questions instead of putting rigor to their work.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

give a man a fish, feed him for a day. teach a man to read the subreddit about aquarium maintenance, bankrupt him for life

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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*

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

"We're not asking you not to post about US politics. We're just asking you to use a content warning. We're being very reasonable, and your refusal to do so now that we've asked is unreasonable and hostile"

Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't clear. Fuck you.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116930257443900705

Hearing more reports of spam from this guy. Looks like he's crawling Neocities pages and targeting email addresses found there, and he's hit some omg.lol members as well. Super gross.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Megan Fox") wrote:

you kids wanna see a dead body

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Karadur_Zero@tech.lgbt ("Karadur Zero :v_pan:") wrote:

For this #fursuitFriday check out this amazing picture taken of me at a con. https://www.furtrack.com/p/1837690 Me in a partial walking forward with my bandana showing behind my lanyards with badges on them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Arguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.

After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller
—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one.

FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR:
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first major federal law to restrict immigration based on race or nationality.

It banned nearly all Chinese laborers from coming to the United States for a decade;

it also blocked Chinese immigrants who were already in the United States from ever becoming naturalized citizens.

The premise was:
If you were of Chinese descent,
you were incapable of ever becoming an American, on account of your race.

The law was born of widespread
anti-Chinese sentiment.
It was passed amid a decade of growing repression and violence against Chinese immigrants in the Western United States,
which resulted in massacres s
uch as those in L.A.’s Chinatown (1871)
and at Deep Creek in Oregon (1887),
as well as many otheracts of violence in the region before and after the bill was made law.

And then as now, economic precarity laid the predicate for virulent nativism.

The late nineteenth century was a period of significant economic and technological upheaval owing to industrialization, job displacement, and the country’s evolving geographic footprint
(including the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, which relied heavily on Chinese and Irish immigrant labor).
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-law-from-1882-is-not-that-racist-chinese-exclusion-act-smithsonian

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
donmoyn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Don Moynihan") wrote:

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots."

Well, dots connected:
www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

@jsonstein @ethanschoonover (Heinlein) + (Asimov) + (Lovecraft) + (cat) is very similar to our bookshelves, although our cat is far too big and our shelf gaps too narrow to support such a cute intrusion. :)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@cwebber @evan Rereading and mulling this over and the "vibe bobsled" is exactly the phenomenon I'm thinking about constantly right now. It's very difficult to express to boosters that I *agree* that they *feel* productive, and that there are even external metrics that they show that they *are* productive, but that this is different than achieving one's actual goals

jwz wrote:

@glyph "An off switch? She'll get years for that."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am vaguely familiar with the concepts involved in routing but every single thing in this UI makes me think that i'm going to accidentally nuke my entire network and have to go plug in a JTAG cable to get it back

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

Poster at the wizard police station reading "IF YOU SOOTH SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

apropos of this, can anyone share a tutorial where I can click on a device in a Unifi client device list and just nuke its ability to make outbound connections? there are several devices that have very useful functionality as LAN devices but should never, ever be able to talk to the outside world

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

thank you to whatever engineer at LG is protecting us all from surveillance by making sure that if you leave your webOS™ Smart™ TV™ accidentally connected to a network it will _constantly_ pop up helpful messages telling you about all the amazing features and apps and OS updates you could be getting, over the content you're trying to watch. I might not have noticed otherwise

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

Some context on the top thread behavior, a person might naively think "why not just log every single message surely that's just a line at the end of whatever get messages() function exists" and that turns out to be stupendously wrong. First of all there are a million get messages functions. Second, there is a tension between the thing being able to work at all (needs to roundtrip all the messages to retain context because anthropic can't backend for shit apparently) and appearing as a well behaved consumer product (needs to hide all the intermediate messages and "thinking" that happen before a user visible message). As a result there is lots and lots and lots of code, some of it routing through the model itself, that strips, censors, and filters the messages before they are logged anywhere.

Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. Thinking text is vastly more voluminous than output text, I don't have numbers open but 10:1 is a decent ballpark. Some of that gets returned to the client, some only happens on the server.

So anyway that's why its possible to drop messages at all, its a byproduct of keeping the scam going.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@cwebber @evan Needless to say, I emphatically agree.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@cwebber @evan Given that I was heavily quoted here I am surprised that you didn't cite this one! https://blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-review-for.html