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

¡there shall be habaneros!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

We could really use some help with Twisted's #Python #XMPP and #Jabber implementation. Could you DM if these terms of are of interest to you and if you have any spare capacity to review a little bit of code? It would be much appreciated.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny they've also got a brief mention about the institute's history with virulent racists, which may be more on point

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

half of the posts in r/claude are people realizing AI isn't actually very good, couched as "oh suddenly the models are just not as a good as the used to be"

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

Boy spiders and girl spiders do have some differences.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/19/the-queen-has-a-beau/

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elsua54 ("Luis Suarez") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/117118934751306123

"OpenAI effectively acknowledged today that it knows which features and attributes cause brain rot, addiction, and attachment — and that it knows how to turn them off"

"Brain rot is profitable because, as users are dumbed down and made lazy, they come to depend more on chatbots to function in their jobs and personal lives"

"OpenAI weighed user harm against its own profit and chose profit"🤮

Hmmm... We've been here before, haven't we? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #GenAI #SocialMedia

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susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

OMG I hadn't even thought about this part, the sudden demand -- that's the kind of thing that crashes a grid HARD

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

“The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, David Rhode, MSNOW’s senior national security reporter, said on Tuesday.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/hegseth-covered-up-the-real-reason-the-uss-lincoln-wasn-t-resupplied/ar-AA2atTwl

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

bee pollen

that... that isnt how bees work.

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

this is like you've squeezed a really unimpressive vegetable

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)") wrote:

My favorite instrument

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Yesterday I started reading Brian Merchant's book ‘Blood in the Machine’ which is about the Luddite uprising in Britain in the early 19th century and its connections to present times and it is getting me a bit worked up

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

CYBERDELIA! Sun Aug 30! "Kate, you're not going into that computer shit now, right?"
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/08-30.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #cyberdelia #electro #bigbeat #trance #cyberpunk #industrial #sanfrancisco

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• video: fa95ccc1a7a7641b.mp4

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Republicans are begging AI companies to start creating positive PR about datacenters because they are at risk of losing elections because the GOP is now the pro-datacenter party.

Who would have guessed there’d be negative repercussions from bragging about all the job loss AI would create?

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election

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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

So far I’ve scanned ~15k popular non-rust packages and found about 1% of them contain rust, that’s higher than I would have guessed

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ami_angelwings@urusai.social ("Ami Angelwings") wrote:

My favorite part of Portal is when Dagoth-Ur says "Now I have become the Resident Evil"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I'm going to write a blog post about this when I get home: at the AI exhibit nothing works. Chatbots that are supposed to be our friends and support our every decision lag into life, recite a canned joke, crash when asked whether it can access the internet. Claims that AI will make us more rational, solve disease and the rest of our problems are sandwiched between halfhearted stories of harm. Descriptions of technology with no positive use case, only harm, but nonetheless inevitable and a technological marvel.

Next door, a history of MITs involvement with the Apollo program includes a section on the precision and skill needed to do something we thought was impossible: "everyone knew the software had to be as error free as possible."

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

Fuck "going high" this election year. Drown them in their own fucking mud.

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Sarahp ("Sarah Perez 💙") wrote:

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Sadly I'm not at #ArcTanGent this year. Between moving countries and not knowing most of the bands on the lineup I figured I'd skip it, but I do miss it. I ended up getting into Chelsea Wolfe anyway.

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

Alarming update to story where trans couple were beaten because nonbinary (and AFAB, even) member of couple tried to use bathroom, harassed by men, trans woman comes to help, both are beaten, then they are imprisoned. It seems the trans woman in question has been transferred by the feds "as a political prisoner", more here https://bsky.app/profile/transvestigations.bsky.social/post/3mteohbqsqk2f

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
danielle@types.pl ("Dani ✨🐚") wrote:

@typeswitch @dysfun when you augment a type with return and a bind that’s a monad

jwz wrote:

Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today.

As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-2

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I just ate the worst scone of my life. It was war crime levels of terrible. It was as bad as the scone I ate in Copenhagen was good. That fucking scone brought back my suicidal ideations.

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dpsbot@mastodon.fixermark.com ("DPS Bot") wrote:

Take 1d12 website damage

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

if i sang "it's a monad" at you, which popular song is it mimicking?

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dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.).

That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change was made roughly 3 months ago. I care whether it was made before or after an email I'm looking at that said something relevant to the change.

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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

Imagine having a large enough budget that you can simply look at the database of ISBNs and say "buy ALL of them!" And what else could be done with a budget that sized.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

At the MIT museum. "Can we trust an AI pilot to fly in aerial combat" the text frames the problem as a technical challenge like any other. Predicting a high dimensional state space of pilot actions. An interactive exhibit, but broken. Unresponsive touchscreen. The voice of an AI assistant inviting to start the display chatters helplessly. The horror of algorithmic war needs tech support. We can't trust AI to run a museum exhibit, but we've already given it missiles.