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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117104620902770314

what if i told you wildfire smoke is a human source of air pollution

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There's no gift to Putin that Trump will not sign with kiss.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lll7zvn0o

jwz wrote:

We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. "With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That makes it hard for victims to sue.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-t

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org ("Michelle") wrote:

Please
Let Joy
Be what
Deranges
Me next.

#poetry

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

H is getting very close to done on this one. She puts so much work into these as her form of meditation and they are stunning when she’s finished.

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
partridge@outerheaven.club ("Elven male specimen") wrote:

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

Can you count all the monarchs?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/16/i-havent-seen-this-in-a-while/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

This knocks out the sidebar which recommends new videos. It's particularly useful for me when I'm recording footage of a YouTube video, because I don't want recommendations I haven't vetted showing up in my own videos.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like literally they just got the form factor *slightly* wrong https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Riot%5Fprod

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this has been on my mind since I've been thinking about UNATCO a lot lately
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ice-shock-gloves-torture-compliant-technologies-jeff-niklaus/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(okay it _has been_ false for other websites in the recent past, see the other fork of this thread)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Paris_Action.mp3

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

bring back Looking Glass to ask me the question "why is the supposedly super cool McGuffin for this level lying right next to the corpse of a beloved character whose horrific mangling suggests exposure to an ontologically evil thing that I've been hearing about since the start of the game". I am tired of Ed ZItron and Futurism asking me this question

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

in 2027 I want MORE grim horrifying environmental storytelling in immersive sims again, and LESS grim horrifying environmental storytelling in real life

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh. oh no. no no no no no

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

to be clear: this is false. the website is secure. I can connect to it over https just fine. but Safari keeps telling me I can't, on a bunch of different websites.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why do I keep seeing this. what changed. I'm so tired. I have so much other stuff going on. I just want my computer to work

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

The switch to Axon, which is not yet widespread but appears to be increasing as people oppose Flock, signals what might come next—cities entering contracts with another company which has faced less scrutiny and backlash.
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I've been hearing about how datacenters can cause consumer electricity bills to rise. For example, in Ohio bills have increased by about 50% since 2020 while the national average is about 25% (also bad) Ohio has by far the most datacenters of any state.

But the increases aren't just about inelastic supply and increased demand.

Datacenter companies tend to reserve more power than they use. Sometimes a lot more.

Now that's suspicious. That's weird.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social ("Amber :neodog_box:") wrote:

real. fuck your ai overview

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

tired: "he's pivoted to agentic engineering"
wired: "he's vibe-coding all his projects now"
inspired: "he's in his slop flop era"

Boosted by dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

When the book-burning by GenAI/LLM companies was revealed, the defences of this were "oh the books aren't rare" and "oh they're only buying books from pulping companies that will be destroyed anyway".

Neither of these is true. The AI companies are buying bulk orders of obscure titles from ordinary booksellers:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/15/uk-ireland-booksellers-suspect-ai-companies-bulk-orders-data-acquisition

None of these are bestsellers, and none of them are checked to see if they are archived anywhere. But they *will* be physically destroyed by the AI companies after sucking out all the info from them.

#GenAI #LLM #AI

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I have craftily tuned my own highly-localized text-generating intelligence in a such a manner that it can easily defeat any watermark detection scheme, and as a bonus it is also highly power-efficient, running as it does on Coke Zero and snacks

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/people-horrified-busted-anthropic-watermark

Boosted by jwz:
airspeedswift ("Ben Cohen") wrote:

Bluesky has been down for hours.
Me: goes to mastodon wondering if anyone knows why
Mastodon:

Boosted by jwz:
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

:thaenkin:

#Bluesky

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joshua@emarhavil.com ("Joshua Wise") wrote:

What, if anything, is vibesickness?

On Thursday, @chrisamaphone and @simrob and I were talking at dinner about the concept of “vibesickness” and trying to put our collective fingers on what, exactly, it is. We were settling on the concept of “the thing that happens to someone when they spend too much time interacting with an LLM, and they become like one inasmuch as they forget how to think and analyze in depth on their own”. Or writing that is indistinguishable from an LLM, or people who depend on them for even simple writing tasks that they would otherwise have done without thinking about it. To borrow a phrase from the mechanical purée of text, it’s not psychosis compose-hyphen-hyphen-hyphen it’s subclinical, but it’s just sad.

I was explaining this to someone else recently, and I went back to look at the primary sources for this term – @cwebber ‘s piece on the Vibe Bobsled, which, in turn, cites a @glyph toot. I was surprised at the usage and definitions there! It feels ambiguous, especially in @glyph ‘s original toot: does vibesickness refer to all of the rest of us survivors becoming ill at the sight of what the world around us is turning to (“sick of vibes”)? Or does it refer to the thing where you know it when you see it, and a specific person has become vibesick by prolonged exposure to a neurotoxin (“sick from vibes”)?

Fediverse, please resolve this question for me, in the form of a poll. (And, if it’s the former, what’s the word I want for the latter, especially given that “psychosis” is a defined technical term that does not refer to this?)

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

OK, I hear your points, but hear me out. Sure, I created a horrible abomination from dead men & stolen brains, which now walks among us & murders as freely as you throw a child in a well, & burns down a forest per day of unlife.

But if I didn't do it, someone else would, maybe the JAPANESE, & you don't want that. There's no way to avoid the coming future of reanimated dead flesh, you don't want to be left behind, so just let my monsters choke you to death now.

#ButlerianJihad #ai

jwz wrote:

Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"

I had some cards printed up.

These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.

Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-o

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I think it says something about my career that so many reviews of my novels start with something along the lines of "This book absolutely should not work, AND YET..."

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
skeuomorphology ("Dan O'Hara") wrote:

It seems to me that we've just had a very British lynching.

A vast mob of people, accompanied and incited by the whole span of the UK media from the Sun to the Guardian, treated academic integrity as some kind of hobbyist bloodsport and hounded a man to death.