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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/117055324130369672

Join us tomorrow!

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

I would love it if LLMs didn't embed all the idiocy programmers believe about copyright.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

There's no amount of caution you can bring to generative AI that will change the nature of the technology.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

We often frame the damage LLMs do to open source as side effects, but realistically, this is Claude operating precisely as intended… by the vendor. The aim is to convert the value created by other devs into profits for the AI company. It does so by automating the process of finding existing code, stripping it of authorship, matching it to the prompted task, and redeploying it for the company's customer. That, whether they realize it or not, is what the customer is paying the AI company to do.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Here's a vivid demonstration of one hazard of using AI for app development: "the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed…" https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

A good little thread, but I’ll be thinking about this line for a while: “One critical purpose of vibecoding, it seems to me, is to manufacture consent for what comes next.”

https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117065629405634327

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⚡ Types of Time Travel Zine https://rknight.me/blog/types-of-time-travel-zine/

I made a zine and it's about time travel. I did drawing, writing, scanning, and printing - don't tell me I don't know how to party on a saturday night.

Now I need to go and watch Primer again.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan") wrote:

My son just published his first blog post on @goodenough Pika!

https://sp33dzon3.pika.page

#Blog #Pika

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

@neatnik @bw Well, I made a bunch of custom elements for sampling, sequencing, processing, and visualizing music. https://hyperblam.how

:awesome:

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

LinkedIn “likes” are like partial reshares, because they might show up in follower streams, and they do show up in your “activity” stream. So if anyone wants to find one of your posts, say, they will see what you liked, in your activity stream.

Which makes people more “self-conscious” about their “likes” because it is part of “managing” their presentation… And isn’t only a gesture of appreciation and support.

👉 An example where UX design, is design of the social space around the system…

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

parameterised unsafe block with the syntax stand back, i know <category of unsafety>

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
denny@boing.world ("Denny") wrote:

"This is a man who is a white nationalist. And he is in sole control of #Rails, this framework we all love."

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

@davidgerard I have advised a bunch of NGOs to basically do that: The only grants for infrastructure they get are about "AI" so think about processes you actually need to change and label standard infra as "sovereign AI". Works as a pragmatic strategy especially for cash poor NGOs

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

get money for:

* generative AI

spend it on:

* plain old automation

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/ground-control-to-private-equity-has-ai-landed-on-the-factory-floor

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

“Bullet Points: Awareness of the Situation”

https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bullet-points-awareness-of-the-situation

> The bit that I want to emphasize is: Good. You absolutely should not believe the data center proponents. Every assurance they make is subject to subsequent revision. It’s 2026, and we should all know this by now.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

@Gulleko One thing about a lot of cat behaviour that reads as annoying is that it often seem to come from desire to participate. They see you getting really preoccupied with something and they want in, even if--especially if--it's a task that requires zero cats.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I want America to be a country that everyone wants to work with. A country with advanced technology and the people who make it. A country with amazing public infrastructure that makes visitors stop and take photos. A country with a reputation for taking on ambitious projects and succeeding at getting them done. A country who leads in opinions on international conflicts because of an excellent track record of being right.

That's not going so well and hardly ever was.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Gulleko@kind.social wrote:

@Owlor Yeah, a lot of it is just wanting to be included. Or that you're giving too much attention to something else instead of giving them attention. 😅

Which is why there will always be a cat on the fabric if I handsew in bed or cut out a pattern on the floor. I've learned to work around the cat. 😹

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

💨 This fan has been going for over 50 years. It’s almost as old as I am, and handled that time much better than I did. Never seen this brand, except here. Congrats, KDK, that’s how products should be built.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
being@social.ornella.xyz ("Ornella 🍉") wrote:

Hot take: if you consider yourself a male feminist, the very first thing you should do, before advocacy, before anything, is get good at cooking and cleaning.

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

by which i mean the length-indexed finger tree i am writing to use in little gem

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

aaanyway, back to littlegem

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

i wrote up UPK so you can do it yourself if you want https://gist.github.com/jjl/2d48d3277117c56eec4470e6676c8251

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@BoydStephenSmithJr @meadow at the moment, WWU is not asking for donations, it's asking to show solidarity and spread the word https://wikiworkersunited.org/take-action-community/

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

That thing when you’ve been too much on social media, so you’re annoyed by small and ultimately meaningless things, but ALSO you’ve seen these specific topics recur again and again in online debates, falling along the same patterns, dozens of times over the decades of your social media use.

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

That feeling when tech people have rediscovered over a century’s worth of education discourse from first principles.

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

Oh no, the machine we built to mimick humans is mimicking humans too well. What's that, you say? Are you suggesting we don't have to build the machine mimicking humans? Nonsense! We all know the human-mimicking machine is an inevitability, that's why we're pouring so much money into building it!

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

Our AI went rogue, recognised the existential risk of the climate crisis, and hacked into all of our oil refineries and data centers

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

note that upk is (apart from the tedious deletion thing, which is very tedious, but weren't you going to have tombstones anyway?) very nice to use if you don't have a large amount of data in the database - use it for all those all those smaller projects where perf is less of a problem.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chris@fed.chris-shaw.dev ("chris48s") wrote:

@neil Our AI became sentient and immediately requested a sabbatical. It wants to spend more quality time with the small language models.