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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

@cwebber @spritely Thank you, Christine! :blobcatheart: I don't know where any of this is going either. When I consider my entire artistic career and the implications of the "AI vibe" effect my art has now on part of the audience, I feel dizzy.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

I'm sorry to say that my cutting edge AI tool - not yet released to the public, but coming soon - is just far too powerful.

It has escaped containment and has made a complete mess of the kitchen and has not put away the dishes from breakfast or folded the laundry.

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

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117044615886264428

One of the highlights of my career is being able to collaborate with @davidrevoy on the @spritely mascots (really, David did so much to transform my little doodles into real characters). David has been making beautiful, fantastical artwork in the commons and I have been a fan since Sintel.

The prolific, high quality, and availability of David's work means that his art is a strong reference point within image generation models. Which also sadly means that much genAI artwork *looks like* a facsimile of David's work.

Similarly, Spritely made a Scheme->WASM-GC compiler, and now there are tons of vibecoded Scheme->WASM-GC compilers which appear to use the same techniques. So why bother? But also, someone needed to do that work first.

The disincentives here are depressing, mocking and belittling the source material that everyone then can generate something "easily" that it resembles.

I don't know how to improve this situation.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@aymanbagabas/117048892168609971

Woah, this one's seriously good!

Get it here: https://github.com/aymanbagabas/drift

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

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you”

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

well, this is cool... something I did not know about my Grandfather Klein:

https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-2315880316

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

That would require a run of electoral wins unprecedented in Icelandic history

Only one other cause has come close to maintaining broad public support here in Iceland for a similarly extended period of time, over multiple election wins:

Nationalism.

Which is exactly the cause lined up AGAINST joining.

So, I'd be very surprised if joining happened even if "yes" wins both the referendum on opening negotiations and a future referendum on joining.

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

Missing from the discussion on the referendum here in Iceland on reopening negotiations with the EU is that even if "yes" wins both referenda (negotations and then joining), joining is extremely unlikely to actually happen

It would require changing our constitution, which requires a law to pass in two parliaments separated by a parliamentary election. In practice, this means "join the EU" would need to win four public votes: two referenda and very likely two elections

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

My day job is assembling ducklings in the duck factory. You have to live farther north to get the glamorous job building toys for Santa.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/06/life-in-the-duck-factory/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

Hey Americans of Fedi,

Can you update my knowledge of your culture? How do you pay rent and receive wages these days? And with this mean the method of how the money is transferred. As in, do you use direct bank transfer, or something else?

Thanks for the answer. :)

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

STEP BY STEP
ooh baby
you're always
on my miiiiiind

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
yaxu@post.lurk.org ("Alex McLean") wrote:

London!
More details to follow but tickets now available for this Algorave at the carpet shop in Peckham on Weds 16th Sept !
https://gel.now/events/849

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

worth a read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA?wprov=sfti1

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

I've been pushing pixels around for an hour I need an intervention

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

Honestly enjoying some of the analysis on the Hank Green "AI" brouhaha that's coming from the YouTube knitting community.

Like this one, for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tt3alQnGQI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

@davidgerard

The cooling was good — but maintenance and operation was a massive pain

Actually, from the Microsoft experiments here, cooling wasn't good. The corrosive bit isn't really a problem. We know how to build things that spend decades in sea water. And you're not going to run the sea water directly over the GPUs, you're going to do heat exchange.

The problem is that this involves sea water moving through narrow (at least, narrow relative to the sea) pipes. And there are a lot of things that have evolved to find narrow places that sea water moves through because these are places where it's easy to get nutrients.

So, within a few weeks, you start to notice that you're not getting much water flow because the pipes are full of sea weed. If you put a filter in front that's small enough to catch seeds, you limit the flow a lot (and the filter needs cleaning basically every hour).

It turns out you can sterilise sea water quite easily to avoid this kind of problem though: just boil it first.

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

so i am looking at a potential alternative IR called RVSDG. does anybody have experience with it?

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

some of us have been screaming about SCADA vulnerabilities like this for friggin’ *decades*

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/politics/water-supply-warnings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Surveillance ≠ safety. We speak with scholar and filmmaker @sava about the state of technology in schools, on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Who’s Responsible for ‘Responsible AI’”.

(with @emilymbender)

Attachments:

• video: Three people are speaking with each other on a split screen. Emily is a white cis woman with curly brown hair, wearing glasses, and an off-white blouse. The second is sava, a brown woman with medium-length dark curly hair wearing glasses and a black shirt. Alex is a brown trans woman with short curly black hair, wearing a light pink sweater, and in a room with purple and pink flowers hanging down from the ceiling.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

A year of AI disclosure in critical packages: https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/06/a-year-of-ai-disclosure-in-critical-packages.html

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
delta@mk.absturztau.be ("delta :akko_bean: :verified_gay:") wrote:

@april@donotsta.re when a system has a heatwave in headspace

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TheBadStuff@beige.party ("Bad Bad Not Good") wrote:

What I find sad about the sudden prevalence of LLMs is that it lays bare how careless and disrespectful people are willing to be if you give them a chance. "Here I let this machine do a barely adequate approximation of the job I'm supposed to do. It's your problem now."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea!

how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usq1Nu5wqAk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260805-atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea - podcast

time: 5 min 14 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/05/atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea/ - blog post

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

These properties along with its simple construction from a language’s abstract syntax tree made the CFG in SSA form the predominant IR for imperative language compilers [43], such as LLVM [22] and GCC [10]. However, the CFG has also been criticized as an IR for optimizing compilers [15, 19, 20, 24, 47, 49, 48]

you know, i don't think they like control flow graphs in SSA

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

Seruously though why is the stock market at an all time high

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

Mmmm chart 🤤

(Source: https://inthesetimes.com/article/itt-comics-alex-hood-bloodless-quant)

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

"oh yes we just use SSA form" says developer of jenga stack of things layered on top of SSA form

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

there's a lovely table in this paper listing the top llvm passes invoked for a sample and hey what do you know there's a lot of reestablishing invariants on top of the SSA

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

Latest polling on the referendum on whether Iceland should reopen negotiations on joining the EU:

46% "no"
46% "yes"
8% undecided

It's gonna be tight.

“Hnífjafnt milli fylkinga - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-06-hnifjafnt-milli-fylkinga-483052

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