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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz Love it. I, too, am a goblin

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

babe, what’s wrong? you’ve barely recorded any footage on your toothbrush camera

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Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

I generally try to cw things as "misinformation" if im making a joke that's facetiously stating an incorrect fact, cus you you never know who' might stumble onto it without context and every so often I end up in a scenario where I'm making whats definitely a misinformation-style gag, but it's not necesserily an incorrect statement, and that's how I end up with CWs that just says "Information".

jwz wrote:

@glyph Apropos of nothing, a certain project I am associated with has an agents file in it now and I don't think anyone has noticed it yet.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz sigh. probably. I don't think any of them are making claims about their interactions being human-written.

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Billthoo@mastodon.art wrote:

The Inktober52 2026 prompt “Wonky”
Ink

#Art
#Ink
#Inktober52

jwz wrote:

@glyph When I swear at people, that is locally crafted, artisanal anger. They should treasure it.

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ketanjoshi.co@bsky.brid.gy ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

The amount of oil use avoided by EVs in China in the first half of 2026 is the same as the amount of oil USED BY THE ENTIRE UK

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

jwz wrote:

@glyph It's a certainty that the "unhinged rage" was a 5 word prompt that they just expanded and pasted. They don't even care enough to use genuine anger.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz as ever, "plonk" is a complete sentence, but I am just baffled by the fact that this is happening repeatedly now. never seen anything like it before in literal decades.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The thing is, in both of these cases, a comment like "hey man, not cool. I didn't like, I'm trying to follow your policies" would have very quickly gotten a "my bad, we are a little overstressed here. thanks for working with us and sorry the policy wasn't clear". But instead, 3 pages of shit about how the models are actually good and competent and excellent and just because you're a MAINTAINER doesn't make you the ARBITER of what is GOOD OR NOT

jwz wrote:

@glyph 1. Wannabe is trying to bluff their way past the bouncer without paying by projecting confidence and pretending to be important.
2. "Don't you know who I am?" "No I do not. GTFO."
3. Double down. There is no benefit to honesty once you have committed to the bit. Admitting "you got me, I'm nobody, my bad" does not advance the con, and precludes further cons.

Nothing new under the sun.

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pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

who up despairing about their employability in an industry they find abhorrently revolting

despite an early all-consuming passion for the machines and their fascinating puzzle-like abstractions

and contained within them the potential for good and connection and community-building

and a compulsion to increase your symbiosis with them

there are so many of us

we are not the industry

i bet we rival whole cities in population

there has got to be a way to concentrate our collective will

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Any other maintainers seeing this? Just ridiculous explosions of verbosity, emotive language, and for some reason sales pitches from OpenAI or Anthropic (like literal quotes from the system card) trying to defend their usage?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I say "botlicker" because these _claim_ to be humans using LLM tooling, but this is EITHER some low-grade AI hypomania (very bad vibe sickness but somewhere short of AI psychosis) or they're actually just clankers and this is the same thing as whatever was happening with that OpenClaw bot that started harassing the matplotlib maintainers. Other signals lead me to believe that these are *probably* humans, but the tone is so similar to that case that it seems weird.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

[1]: 2 recent example cases: case 1, I screwed up once and said that a PR didn't have tests due to the "new contributor" check causing Github to fail to run CI, but the coverage check ran anyway, leading to a lot of "no coverage" annotations; case 2: a co-maintainer accused the botlicker of lying about usage due to a disagreement about the usage of first-person pronouns

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So here's a weird thing that keeps happening:

1. botlicker shows up to open source project and pushes some slop
2. overwhelmed / exhausted / fed up maintainer slightly mischaracterizes their usage[1].
3. botlicker absolutely EXPLODES in an unhinged rage, demanding an apology, often repeatedly in multiple forms even if one is already offered.

…

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carlton@chaos.social ("Carlton Gibson") wrote:

Thinking about the SUPER COOL! prebuilt-cpython effort.

"Don't we need Framework builds on macOS?" 🤔

Quickly followed by a:

"WTF is a Framework build exactly?" 🤔

"I'm sure @glyph wrote about this"

A quick "site:blog.glyph.im Framework builds" — search DOES still work folks, at least sometimes! — And here we are:

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/09/python-macos-framework-builds.html

Thanks, Glyph 🎁

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

pez dispenser neck slotting out spider silk bricks. load them into my loom manifold. my body is a confetti cannon pseudopod, shooting streams of woven silk at the front, burned off in the back from the laser truss, the vapor trail that hazes my ass stage. i don't crack my knuckles, i shuffle the bead bones in my book-lung projections like a deck of cards. become a subterranean fungal rhizome driving a pair of mothra twins as our avatar.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Interop 2027!

perhaps this time browser vendors can pick from the ever growing backlog of issues that were closed as "wont fix" 🙃

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

the plutocrats have such boring dreams. why would you want to upload your brain and live forever on linkedin. i would be funding research into getting fuckin borged out. piston muscles, steam lungs. hot swappable endocrine cartridges, microbiome SoCs. spider leg loadout with the nuclear powered trampoline feet. holographic pussy, jack in the box dick. darude sandstorm at sonic boom sound pressure levels as a mode of propulsion. kirby gut cloning vat so i shit miniature clones of myself themed like the things i eat. t shirt cannon colon, souvenirs for the fans.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we saw Weird Al in concert. that was pretty great.

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

as many times as i have heard it, i still do not know how exactly she does the guitar sound at the beginning of SHELL ( OF A MAN ). it is a guitar, yes, it is plucked, yes. there is also this extremely narrow and crisp delay that makes the pluck of the string sound almost dragged, like you have wet sandpaper on your fingers. but that isn't all that's going on and i can't tell what else makes it sound so damn crunchy and swingy, like it makes the intervals positively boing.

it has the feeling like the guitar is an old wooden truck on a dirt road. the rest of the sound design here is also top tier she is a fucking genius

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

bout that time again. the five thousandth time where i put on this album, reach "you loved me differently, I loved you all the same" and immediately burst into tears
https://sayagray.bandcamp.com/album/saya

#BandcampFriday

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

so remember all those years I spent saying that the people in charge of big foss projects were elitist creeps who were, ironically, mostly interested in being the arbiters of what software you are and aren't allowed to use on a computer, and building cults of personality and dogmatic quasi-religions around licenses to keep themselves relevant and powerful despite being deeply odious?

you'll have to excuse me for gloating but I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

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

do i reach any #phonetics #nlp people? is CMUDict still the big english/IPA lookup table?

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unlofl@mstdn.social ("Mr. Scam Likely") wrote:

"Move fast and break things!" I yell, as I smash through the fence and into the side of a data center in a stolen garbage truck

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leaf@sunny.garden ("Leaf 🍃") wrote:

C. J. Cherryh 38-book bundle!!!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-cj-cherryh-daw-books-books

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BobWilliams@mindly.social ("Bob Williams") wrote:

But deep down, he knew trying to be funny on Mastodon was just another really, really effective way to avoid finishing his project.

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neriman@wikis.world ("Nemoralis") wrote:

Wikimedia Foundation staff have voted 158–14 in favor of union representation 🎉 🎉🎉

WMF says it respects the result and will proceed with good-faith collective bargaining.

Huge thanks to everyone who helped spread the word!

NLRB results: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740

WMF: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/09/03/us-staff-unionization-vote/