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krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

This is so good.

https://discardpile.pika.page/posts/the-endless-temptation-of-claude

"Sometimes you know that you can do something, but should you do it? “I can do this, but I choose not to.”

On your death bed, nobody is going to care about how many features you pushed on git."

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mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

welp.

I was told this morning by a colleague who wanted me to consult for their startup (of six people, which they are the founder/CEO of) that one of their investors vetoed the contract we had worked out because, and I quote,

“he’s a fucking luddite who slanders AI on his blog”

chat, I’ve posted links to anti-LLM pieces

at least I have something new for my bio

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

A clip of me commenting on @jococruise about being banned in a school library went up and I thought I would share. Pay no mind to the attire (it was pajama day on the boat). The first 90 seconds are about me, it's the rest I think is important, where I talk about the real harms book bans inflict on authors who are not like me.

https://youtu.be/ya1ylFb9E%5Fk

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

And learning that your brain is constantly lying to you about what you see

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

So much of drawing is taking a concept and going "what marks do i need to make on the paper to express that concept"

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

Was pretty bored and turned it into drawing practice

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

so glad i spent a lifetime getting skilled to put up with this shit.

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mattwilcox@mstdn.social ("Matt Wilcox") wrote:

The garbage that happens when you treat HTML and CSS as an "output target" instead of its own actual thing.

Everyone can see this is a pile of inefficient noise. A layman can see that; it is self-evident.

How come "smart devs" twist themselves into contradictions to believe it's not?

This is *one DOM node*.

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

i hate to rattle the donations tin, but we've got a fuckton of bills stacking up and still no work. please be generous cause we're pretty fucked :blobfoxheart:

https://ko-fi.com/dysfun

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

one of these, i was recommended by a friend. i got a follow up email a couple of months later asking if i even applied, because he'd not only heard nothing, but they'd hired noone at all and told him that he should ask clod for help doing more than one person's work.

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hiisikoloart@writing.exchange ("hiisikoloART") wrote:

LLM's don't treat their users equally - and this new study proves it. Another great reason not to use AI products.

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/41259

#AI #FuckAI #NoAI #Study #LLM #inequality

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

Time to open my "For You" feed and find out whatever insane opinion about publishing is going around today

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

basically, even when i apply for a job now, i don't believe it actually exists by default. certainly most of the places who've actually bothered to interview me don't seem astonishingly interested in actually hiring people. especially not people with lots of experience.

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kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for, despite fears over the growing environmental cost of the AI boom, a freedom of information request has found.

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

Team Ferret

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DczeV6mleXk

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com ("jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

With the #Stripe CEO also donating 1 million bucks to Eurofascist extraordinaire #DHH's foundation, our business will be moving away from Stripe, in favour of Mollie.

This was already planned, but now it's become imperative.

If you're on Stripe, consider switching to #EU based #Mollie:

https://www.mollie.com/payments

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

That's rails requests, after two layers of CDN caching too (cloudflare and apisix)

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

thisisfine.gif

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

what's it been good for? getting invited to do talks with gushing audiences. that's about it.

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

cause like i totally tried for a bit of that out of desperation and noone wanted me there either. but maybe i just wasn't faking being into it hard enough.

well no, even the believers can't get jobs.

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joannaholman@aus.social ("Joanna Holman") wrote:

@frogglin I get frustrated by the uncritical promotion in the workplace of mindfulness as though it’s a safe, fun and beneficial for everyone practice. It is indeed helpful for many but some people getting extra focused on their thoughts, feelings and sensations without mental health professional guidance is going to be really unhelpful. Then there’s that mindfulness doesn’t solve external/structural issues like say the strain of being forced to do too much overtime

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

just caught up with the only person who has gone mad for LLMs and i still call a friend.

he doesn't seem to be affording life either. almost as if even if you embrace satan, there are still no fucking jobs for you.

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

Achieved holiday: forgot what day of the week it was.

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cararemixed ("Cara") wrote:

While not every AI user is fascist (some are truly naïve and why I speak up), the boosters frequently end up with some awful ideas about getting along with blatantly fascist people. Calling AI a fascist artifact is not at all inaccurate.

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cararemixed ("Cara") wrote:

I left 1Password months ago due to prioritization of AI feature integrations which made it a lot harder to trust as a closed source engineering team. Funny how these kinds of vibechecks almost always end up shaking out to reveal even more troubling positions.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Woah!

"RSA-260 has 260 decimal digits (862 bits) and was factored by Eric Lu on September 3, 2026."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA%5FFactoring%5FChallenge

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 3rd 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Finding a deterministic reproducer is really hard, and it's dependent upon window size, but it's usually a text document that's a bit taller (but not that much taller!) than the displayed window, then editing the whitespace at the end of it; deleting or adding new lines, etc.

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kate@aus.social ("Kate Bowles") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/117191284126597966

This whole essay series on imagining possible futures is fantastic. Very much appreciate the work of DAIR this morning. @timnitGebru

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

"The community must be the author of its own world."

In the latest from our speculative essay series, Adio envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and instead designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations.

https://dair-institute.org/blog/whose-categories-whose-ai/