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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117016420622784045

Today!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

lol I went down a RAG/semantic search rabbithole one time and it was soooo cool until I realized this has existed for **decades** and you can just implement elastisearch. difference was this took me a couple days, not many months and thousands of dollars. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vd0m4w/comment/p15jssv/?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=mweb3x&utm%5Fname=mweb3xcss&utm%5Fterm=2&utm%5Fcontent=share%5Fbutton

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

A BIG fucking RED FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by conman Todd Blanche.

The DOJ is saying the felon rapist insurrectionist can commit massive financial crimes and fraud in new order that reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

THIS IS IN YOUR FACE CORRUPTION. Hitler did this too.

#Congress #usa #news

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

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

I'm gonna get a hair cut and bangs and get my hair dyed purple today! I am really excited :O

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

helo

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
boxobark.ing@bsky.brid.gy ("Boxo McFoxo") wrote:

Are the increasingly powerful Chinese models in the room with us now?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

It's even small enough that I can make octaves with my tiny hands! And, more importantly, drag it with me to whatever next residence I take up

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I am now the proud owner of a MIDI controller and I have found out how to finagle it (with some difficulty) with LMMS

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gregkh@social.kernel.org ("Greg K-H") wrote:

In which I explain how I will treat LLM generated or assisted patches for the Linux kernel drivers/staging/ subsystem going forward:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026080354-skater-urgent-31b2@gregkh/T/#u

(hint, not allowed, except for security bugs that you can prove actually fix something by testing the issue on the actual hardware the driver controls.)

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

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-wants-the-power-to-stop-the-public-from-suing-polluters/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business

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

Today I found a open source thing for doing _exactly what I needed_ but then it didn't work and I inspected the source code and found that it uses services that are no longer online.

Turns out it was all vibe-coded and the LLM referenced services that are long dead presumably because the training data ends with 2024 or so and it just assumed the services are still up.

The person doing the vibe coding didn't bother to check. Now the code is up on Github and you get recommend to use it by search engines. Great stuff.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

they forgot to include any spiders, so what's the point?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/too-few-spiders-too-much-technobabble/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbcVceufbk

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113866093397576803

What is it like to work at FLOCK what is is like to work at palantir? What is it like to work for ICE... not on the ground but doing their website, or their payroll?

I posted about this just after the election and this interview reminded me of this post. I think the interview shows how this can happen.

Don't let it be YOU who helps build this monsterous machine.

I'm mad he worked there but glad he's speaking up now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYYpLC9u5I

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

you don't need a ph.d in neuroscience to be a decent human being and comprehend the basics. (I do actually have a ph.d in neuroscience, though.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/you-can-be-a-scholar-of-the-bible-and-still-understand-basic-neuroscience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecyqKkcFsI

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

@Robotistry @cwebber yeah, the right place to solve this is in the weights, but as @cwebber pointed out, there is a lot of incentive for the labs to not do that.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
DigInfFund@mastodon.world ("D//F") wrote:

Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/

Quick summary:
The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring the assumption that peer production (in #foss is inherently democratizing, without romanticizing, but closely observing, what replaces it. (1/x)

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

geminiprotocol.net domain name has expired, the registrar, namecheap, invites the owner to renew it.

I hope it will be renewed by the original owner.

http://geminiprotocol.net/

#geminiprotocol #smolnet

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117028612143894864

kitty needs a space suit

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

want to torture someone (like me) who loves XML Schema? ask them for a regex that will handle URLs…

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

the view on Thursday from Shell Beach, Jenner California:

if I hear someone say “needs more study” one more time, I may [redacted] them.

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

RE: https://toot.wales/@ndw/117031470602952104

truly maddening to deal with this over the years… All Hail Norm!

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

Fastmail’s EU data storage option is now available! They’ve published a blog post with all of the info on how it works: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Paraphrasing an email from a security company : We copied one of your blog posts and turned into an advert for one of our products. Please add a link to our blog post to the end of yours. 🥉

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mikarv@someone.elses.computer ("Michael Veale") wrote:

RE: https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/117009744087358555

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page:

EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2
UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+

Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance

https://homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/laws/index.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
taedryn@anarres.family wrote:

Any time you see "New package, same great product!" marketing on something in a store, I guarantee they just shrinkflationed you hard.

This package used to hold 56 pads for the same price as what now gets you 40. The individual pads are not materially different.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Kjaerulv ("kjaerulv") wrote:

'It's imploding. The take is that he's a decent stock picker but didn't hedge properly and was way over-leveraged. So $45 billion turns into $10 billion. These are the kinds of things you see as a bubble starts to burst.
I've seen a lot of memes on the AI forums I follow, many in the AI community say "AGI is already here, we just don't realize it yet." I would counter that "the AI bubble pop is already here, we just don't realize it yet."
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/the-ai-bubble-is-already-popping-we-just-dont-know-it-yet/5282004

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
orrickle@sfba.social ("Orrock LXXXVI XLVII") wrote:

@mashagessen so glad you’re boosting Bryan Stephenson

A couple of months ago, I visited Montgomery, Ala., where an organization called the Equal Justice Initiative is undertaking a very different project. It is telling the story of Black Americans. The E.J.I. has so far built a lynching memorial, a Legacy Museum, a vast sculpture garden and a public square with a permanent exhibit on the civil rights movement. Each element of the complex, which is still growing, is as powerful as any museum or memorial I have visited.