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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/117054108271195109

“The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

> This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”

This is actually the main reason I'm so angry about the "AI" bubble. All this enormous effort could have been spent combatting the climate crisis and the opportunity cost of your fucking chatbot is going to be the very climate we live in

Imagine what we could have done with those 3 trillion dollars (or so)?

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

there sure does seem to be a lot of finding out going on re: LLMs this week

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cap_ybarra@beige.party ("Cap Ybarra") wrote:

i will say, if language models have a use then why after a trillion dollars is our daily tech hellscape the best case you can make for them

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

#AskFedi for those who do longform writing on paper, how do you keep it reasonably organised? How do you do editing/redrafting?

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

the elaborator implies the existence of the plainerator

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Per Inoboedientiam Ad Astra") wrote:

My AI has Escaped Containment and started ordering huge amounts of guillotine parts 🤷

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

Did a study dive last night and found some stuff which really resonated:

• https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12350 - autistic people commonly expetience "thwarted belonging" which can have a significant impact on mental health (FWIW I experience this a lot and come to think of it it's a big factor in my mental health issues). Neurotypical people only experience this very rarely! Camouflaging can also make this experience worse and more autism traits leads to more camouflaging. Plus, more socially motivated autistic people (again, myself, despite my isolation I am not particularly introverted, I just have social difficulties) are more likely to have these difficulties.
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613211067928 - calls out the social reflex to treat autism as a series of deficiencies within one's own head and address the environmental factors determining mental health.
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40337-026-01558-1 - points out that CBT acts from a white neurotypical conceptualisation of eating disorders and different groups have different reasons for feeling distressed and showing symptoms (e.g. for autism, the role of sensory sensitivities, for Indigenous communities, the role of colonial trauma). Furthermore, in an attempt to make CBT evidence-based, CBT trials will throw out anyone who "doesn't fit" which results in a skewed population. As a result CBT is not a universal therapy and can cause harm when misapplied (something I have personally experienced).

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

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779

gentoo's bug tracker was basically taken offline by scrapers

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dstndstn@hachyderm.io ("Dustin Lang") wrote:

@dysfun @DrHyde
From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14844-0, it sounds [to me, a simple country astronomer] like the story is:

- normally, IceCube detects very high energy cosmic rays that hit something in the Earth's atmosphere and then shower to the ground/ice/detector.
- during these air showers, there is a competition between particles decaying vs hitting an air molecule
- if it hits an air molecule, some of the energy goes there and isn't detected in neutrinos
- chances of hitting an air molecule depends on atmospheric air temperature and pressure
- Earth's axis is tilted enough that there is still plenty of seasonal variation at the south pole

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cczona@hachyderm.io ("Carina C. Zona") wrote:

I saw a comment recently start with "It's trendy now to hate on AI..." and thought that was really interesting.

On the one hand, they perceive the tide turning. Great.

On the other hand, they imagine it's just to look cool or something. Superficial. Rather than genuine, well-considered, criticism grounded in people's ethical orientation and other meaningful priorities.

It's fascinating to me that there are people who simply cannot imagine caring about the impact on others of our own choices and actions. Fascinating and also sad.

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r4koon@defcon.social ("Rokko / R4K00N") wrote:

Sadly, I'm not going to #defcon or #bsideslv this year.
It's safe to say that it changed my life when I started attending in 2024. I'm so happy to have found my tribe there. I miss you all; I will come back.

Instead, It'll be my first time going to #canfurence !
#dcfurs made me into a #furry two years ago, and I'll be celebrating with my first suit!
Meet Lumen the Lynx!

I'll have to take more pictures 😅

#fursuit

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@soatok

The friendliest looking CyberSec :neofox_happy:

10/10 would get happily roasted for my shoddy security again :neofox_happy_blep:

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

We can talk about HTML during Office Hours if you’d like, starting in a little over eight hours. See you then! https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

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

It’s HTML day! What will you make today?

If you’ve been putting off learning HTML, today is a great day to dive in. Just pull up @bw’s wonderful HTML for People and you’ll be building websites in no time at all.

https://htmlforpeople.com

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

All maintenance is complete! 🫡

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I will say this: in the old days, when I complained about how shitty my Framework laptop and the company's customer service were, my replies would instantly fill up with people sticking up for them. Those folks all seem to have found other things to do

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

System maintenance time! I’m about to patch and restarting a few systems. If you notice any disruptions, I promise they’ll be brief.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

zomg it literally updated to “tomorrow” 30 seconds after writing this post. thank you anonymous usps employee on fedi, I appreciate the candor

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

dear usps tracking,

this package was last seen in Denver, on Wednesday. there have been no updates since then.

let’s just admit that, at this point, it is not showing up “before 9pm tonight”. you can just go ahead and update the estimate to “in transit”, like you always do, eventually.

I know that this breaks your delivery SLA, but I also know that you don’t give a shit and you know there’s nothing I can possibly do about it.

just let me move on.

sincerely,

-glyph

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Having my personal information leaked is the spicy mustard on the shit sandwich of a laptop Framework sold me

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/computer-maker-framework-notifies-all-customers-of-a-data-breach/

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"I saw Axios describing a Reuters poll which Mike Allen said showed that independents are 'progressive-curious.' The evidence was that substantial majorities of independents support higher taxes on corporations and billionaires (64%) and government-provided health care for all Americans (60%). But 43% are less likely to vote for a candidate who identifies as 'democratic socialist.'

If you study or spend much time thinking about public [opinion] I don’t think either of these findings will surprise you at all. They’re both pretty textbook, in fact. And this quickly brings us up against the fact that most of the definitions and categories we use to discuss these factional and ideological debates are either fake and meaningless or confused."

🎁 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/most-of-our-ideas-about-party-divisions-are-bullshit-lets-discuss/sharetoken/b8053897-c522-4d14-bd39-d22784f48168

#USPol

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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

OH: "He's like a real-life LinkedIn character."

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/117057286764553881

The West has been like this a long time apparently. I saw a sign like this in the 80s.

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mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

@soatok @dcfurs @defcon

The face on that is really good!

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werekess@meow.social ("WereKess 🐺") wrote:

@soatok Such a cool suit! Congrats on finally getting it :3

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faoluin@chitter.xyz ("Softwarewolf") wrote:

@soatok Look at you! :blobfoxheart:

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heathen_cat@furs.social ("Heathen 🐈") wrote:

@soatok
Excellent suit, 10/10, would hug.

Hope you're having a good time

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hobs@mstdn.social ("Hobson Lane") wrote:

Like my Mom, Owen Meany, and perhaps you, I don't believe in coincidences.

I'm late to the Ray Bradbury party, but he concluded "There Will Come Soft Rains" with a home assistant caught in a loop saying:

"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is ..."

That story seems to foreshadow this past Tues & Wed when powerful people were threatened each other with weapons the story warned us about. I'm glad Bradbury was wrong about August 4th and 5th, 2026.

https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj

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

"the Trumpist subjugation of all science to political imperatives has no equivalent in a democracy; if anything, it is reminiscent of Stalin’s Soviet Union."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/trump-scientific-research-universities

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

listening to: Miles Davis - Tanglewood 8/18/1970 "Directions" (9:32)