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

I actually wrote a related piece about this concept, about when and how bands become "Dad Rock":

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/09/in-which-i-both-decry-and-defend-the-concept-of-dad-rock/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rvps2001 ("Russia-Ukraine Daily News") wrote:

🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has announced the urgent delivery of PAC-2 missiles to #Ukraine for Patriot air defense systems.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1200676.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Rat racer on a boulangerie run.

A collaboration with @fpiatti who built & painted the car (and took these photos!) 💛
Tried a bunch of new things in terms of materials for this one! Really happy with how it turned out 😊

#MastoArt #sculpture #ModelCar #Racing #Rat

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

there, i fixed the name

export
lol : (0 stare : Void) -> a
lol stare = void stare

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

[END HISTORY RUN]

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

Today in History: Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and baroque composer, baptized, 1672

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

everyone knows "but if we ban LLMs the AI bros will just lie about them, so we should let them through" is a bad faith bad excuse and the person saying it knows that every time, right?

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

Today in History: Carlo Gesualdo, Italian nobleman and late-Renaissance composer famous for his radical, highly chromatic vocal music and his turbulent, violent personal life, dies in Avellino in isolation, 1613

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

Today in History: Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949

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

Today in History: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) born 1945 in San Bruno, CA

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

Today in History: Antonin Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841

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

That feeling when twenty years of cutbacks causes an undeniable collapse in Icelandic education and literacy and the education minister vows to fix it by, among other things, using “AI” to translate textbooks en masse.

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-09-08-nidurstodur-pisa-rauda-spjaldid-i-namsarangri-486373

> Inga nefndi nýtingu gervigreindar til að þýða erlent námsefni til að tryggja besta námsefni sem völ er á.

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

Today in History: US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974

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

Today in History: "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)

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

Today in History: Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925

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

Today in History: Richard ``the Lionheart'', king of England born in Oxford, 1157

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117235476116975345

The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

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

the 2026 software experience is betrayal

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“we’re only using LLMs for security reviews” oh thank god, you’re only using them for the sole reason why I’m bothering with your shitty OS at all

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
terrance_shaw@mastodon.world ("Shaw") wrote:

@soatok I’ve actually gone and Googled some of the folks that I’ve had similar interactions with in the past.

Of the ones I could find, most ended up in dead end jobs (per LinkedIn), and more than a few ended up in various sex offender registries.

So.

I think I’m okay with how karma dealt with them, lol.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

He’s got a tattoo of his ex

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

The UK has allowed our AI strategy to be written by someone who is now employed by Anthropic.

The Competitions and Markets Authority is headed up by the former head of Amazon UK.

While the ICO, our rather useless data privacy regulator, hired a senior executive from Google.

At this rate, if Bernie Madoff were still alive, we'd be asking the US if he could come run the Serious Fraud Office.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
GeePawHill wrote:

If LLMs constituted AI, they would be highly problematic, in terms of possible usages.

As it happens, tho, they don't constitute AI, not even a little bit. So we really don't have to hedge at all.

I don't use LLMs and I don't kiss boys who do.

They are not *merely* a scam, a giant ponzi scheme whose intent is 100% to move even more wealth from the poor to the obscenely wealthy.

They are also an ecological catastrophe, a financial destruction engine, and a complete and utter moral failure.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
GeePawHill wrote:

If you have so much tedious boilerplate that an LLM can reduce your workload, the problem is that your design and code require lots of tedious boilerplate, and that is not a problem you will ever fix without learning how to program better.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

School kids who report almost never using AI are getting so left behind that they're outperforming their peers on almost every metric. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i%5F73451bc5-en.html (via @aesthr )

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I think tomorrow will be the first Apple livestream I’ve missed in years (due to travel). This may be a good thing, really.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

between DHH, brodie, that fucking ex-googler Linux is Best guy doing an anti-Palestine disinformation campaign on fedi, lunduke, liam of gamingonlinux, linus torvalds himself… it really feels like a lot of the loudest influencers and personalities in this space are mask-off assholes up to no good, doesn’t it? it really feels like they’re doing that thing fascists do where they normalize casually doing horrid shit in a space.

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

question for Svelte enjoyers! am I doing it right?

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-08T11:43Z/

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

what a delightful story

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/science/92-year-old-mathematician-apprentice.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.%5FlA.2leM.xFuro0cq9fZz&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Deepest, darkest rural France has better Internet than I've ever been able to buy, for any price, in SF 🤦