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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Multi-Track Fursuiting?!

Last month, I attended both DEFCON and Megaplex. If you're not familiar with either event, here's all you need to know....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/08/multi-track-fursuiting/

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

at airport awaiting flight west, Transportation inSecurity did not blink an eye at the radio transceiver and associated electronics in my carryon bag. amusing how much I was concerned … to the point of putting a copy of that FCC license in the bag

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

I think it might be high time I start learning to draw boxes

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
balinares@furry.engineer ("Balinares") wrote:

It's fascism o'clock everywhere and meanwhile the world is like "yes but what if we can run God on Nvidia cards?" and I don't know, I'm just so tired.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social ("Nazo") wrote:

@0xabad1dea This is interesting because the result of this seems to be some pretty excellent fear-mongering that I suspect is the biggest reason so many things (like the Linux kernel) have decided to integrate such tools into processes that really shouldn't have them directly integrated. These things fire off so many "critical warning! Dangerous! Be scared!" warnings that people kneejerk into panic.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tmw@ioc.exchange ("tmw 🌈") wrote:

my cat when i try to pet her after i've been petting other cats

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
h5e@tech.lgbt ("Hanneke") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117237284464854551

well that is certainly a way to put those words together and form a sentence

i don’t think we *needed* that sentence, per sé, but it exists now and can no longer not exist

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zip@furry.engineer ("Zip") wrote:

@soatok
That shirt is absolutely wonderful!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
whyrl@furry.engineer ("Whyrl") wrote:

@glyph @soatok The sort of person who would say "chatbots are harmless fun" would also say "don't use ouija boards - those are dangerous!!"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

when.... the....

"Nyquist sets the floor. The hardware sets the number."
that's a-Claudespeak!

when the
"Voicing is load-bearing. The critical differentiator is the cadence."
you're LLM!

When
"Outsource-maxxing escapes the trap. The goal sequence is trivial."
you're a Claude....

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

My cat speaks in a demonic language to her favorite toy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/09/cat-and-familiar/

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
orsinium@fosstodon.org ("gram") wrote:

My job now forces me to use LLMs, so I'm looking for an engineering team to join that still remembers how to write code.

https://orsinium.dev/

1/2

#NoAI #GetFediHired

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

THE DARK TOWER: THE ARTIST'S DOOR (2004)
Oil on Panel - 28" x 18"

Patrick Danville, the magical artist, draws the door into existence. Note the 2 brushes on the doorknob. The marks of the tire treads on the ground are a callback to Susannah’s trike, depicted in another painting THE DARK TOWER: KA-TET.

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/dark-tower-artists-door/

#fantasy #illustration #stephenking #darktower

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

AGI any minute now.

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

Blow this abomination up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/09/a-call-to-action-for-the-post-trump-era/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place ("imp (hiatus arc)") wrote:

Please pay attention because this is the most important #Skateboarding post I will make this year! MY CITY IS FINALLY GETTING A COMMUNITY SKATEPARK!!!

An actual home, place to call ours, to be safe, to exist!

As it stands Harare Skate Club is trying to raise $3000. I have got into touch with the organisers and I will be on the grounds with my moms car to help when construction starts! PLEASE SUPPORT US

https://tributejar.com/campaign/harare-s-first-skatepark

#MutualAid #Crowdfunding #BlackMutualAid #Zimbabwe #Africa

Attachments:

• video: a tiktok showing the skateboarders of Harare, Zimbabwe navigating harsh environments and having to skate in places with cars and no meaningful skate architecture. the narrator then proposes the project at hand to build the first fully open community park in the city of Harare. They are looking for monetary donations, and even materials (bricks, cement, etc) or shovels.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

I think the important thing to remember about science and engineering research is that even if we perfectly understood the rules of reality (we don't, and probably never can) we still wouldn't know all the implications of those rules. The laws of physics seem to allow for practically infinite combinations of stuff. We simply do not know what is possible.

So even if you don't value knowledge for the sake of knowledge, you still shouldn't laugh if someone wants money to study, like, parrot intestines, or slime molds, or rocks, or stare at an empty patch of sky with a radio telescope, or just seeing what happens if you mix a bunch of random chemicals. The universe's possibility space is so wide that it is impossible to know ahead of time what will turn out to be "useful".

So if a passionate and knowledgeable nerd wants to explore something silly, the right decision is to give them money and a pat on the back.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
707Kat@mastodon.art wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arteesetica/117232280941609264

The European Union have deadline for public responses about generative AI and the arts on the 11th of September.

Artists and people who care about art. Let your voice be heard before then if you haven't already.

PS: If you aren't from the EU but would like a story about displacement and harm in the arts to come forward I'm making a document to send in today or tomorrow.

Please share the story with a link to a source below.

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors%5Fen

#mastoArt #artist #noAI

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
trisweb@m.trisweb.com wrote:

@GossiTheDog

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

the OTHER interpretation you could take from this result is that if OpenAI DIDNT steal the human labor outright by abusing (read: using exactly as intended) its access to customer data, then they just said "if we hear about anything happening, we will shoot our trillion dollar information gun at it until something sticks, claim victory, and kill your ass for fun afterwards"

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

the audacity to publish that nightmare fucking script as a way to do anything, i'm offended on an aesthetic level but also there comes a point when the amount of disrespect you have for people crosses into an attack. are you telling me you won't give me a --goblin-mode flag like an adult. god forbid a girl edits a file. instead you want me to pipe the config through jq and grep into a temporary file every time i launch your program? the standards have slipped so low that a company that wants to be valued at a trillion dollars will post an absolute mess like that anywhere on its corporate domain

Boosted by pixxl:
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

When reading about these companies and these ventures it seems very much like money isn't real.

But for most people, money is very real. I have this theory about the cognitive capacity allocated to financial decisions.

A person like me shopping at Dollar General for groceries makes many financial decisions and thinks about how to allocate money with far more care than Nvidia does when trying to find a place to park their obscene glut of cash.

Smart economic decisions make markets work.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
aCrownOfMoths@mastodon.gamedev.place ("[screaming moth]") wrote:

Hey Fedi void, I got laid off from Niantic (of Pokémon Go fame) a little while back, and bills are starting to make me sweat, a lot. I'm a senior technical artist, damn good at 3D, but skilled at almost every gamedev discipline, and I really need some remote friendly paid work (I'm NZ based). Part time, full time, short term or long term doesn't matter.

Art portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/loths/albums/648835

Itch page:
https://acrownofmoths.itch.io/

#getfedihired #freelance #jobs #fedijobs #gamedev

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
ronanmcd@mastodon.green ("Ronan") wrote:

"you may hate data centers and be scared of what AI is going to do to society in general, but as these things get even more humanlike, most of us will establish an emotional bond with our personal agents"
"we’ll probably spend more time talking with it—and, because there are a finite number of hours in the day, less time talking with people"
Urgh #noAI
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

"Is that encryption load bearing?"
"No, it's emotional support cryptography"

Boosted by pixxl:
bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

@fionafibration "Nature recently published a study finding that a *majority* of peer reviewers are using LLMs, and the anonymity of review seems to make it nearly impossible to fight."

This kind of thing is making it easy for me to give up on a science career. Yes, I've done nothing else, and no, I have no other options, but I'm just done. Too many of the people I thought were in the truth-pursuit business with me have turned out eager to use leaded gasoline to truck the child laborers into the sweatshops to paint asbestos with radium. I can't deal with it. I'm leaving.

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

why did nobody tell me about the gpt 5.5 goblins story where training for a nerdy voice as a consumer feature caused it to talk about goblins all the time. why did nobody tell me that the wikipedia page says "they had to make it not talk about goblins so much. anyway that was when it started to submit a lot of security patches." nobody told me that the official way to restore goblin functionality was to launch codex by stream patching the system prompt in a hidden models cache config

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.5
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

Boosted by pixxl:
fionafibration@mathstodon.xyz ("barbie's dream house of leaves") wrote:

This seems to be blowing up and I've had some friends both within and outside of maths ask me what I mean by all of this being a false promise, or by LLMs "reward hacking" publishing incentives, so I wanted to write something addressing that directly.

The current system only really rewards proving something nobody has proved before. Proving something is rewarding *because* when humans do the trial and error , we discover things and develop new ideas and figure out why existing approaches fail and how to mend them. we develop mental models of mathematical objects, we create constructions which get tested over and over to determine if they're useful and flexible, we figure out how to reframe existing proofs in new frameworks and ways of thinking. Counterexamples particularly are often very instructive, and turning counterexamples into obstructions that can be resolved is a major way we advance maths.

The end result of "X is true/false" is NOT the point, but the publishing system has managed to survive despite only rewarding these things because when humans do mathematics we end up doing all the other stuff along the way. It may have had negative effects on expository writing and pedagogy and careers, but it still kinda functioned.

However, I think we have seen these publishing incentives are not surviving contact with LLMs, and the important conceptual work is all being offloaded to people who will not actually get any kudos or credit or career advancement for it, because they didn't prove a novel theorem. They "just" did the fuzzy work of contributing to our shared knowledge, but that work is actually what doing maths means! It's not just creating a library of true/false statements!

(4/3) sorry

Boosted by pixxl:
fionafibration@mathstodon.xyz ("barbie's dream house of leaves") wrote:

Ok I know I wrote (2/2) but actually, there's more! Co-yay!

This doesn't even begin to get into some of the other ways that LLMs are damaging our field. Peer review has become a wasteland of LLM-assisted "review" and LLM slop contributions, and it's a lose/lose as both ends of the process have more and more slop to sift through in order to do what they are supposed to do. I don't have too much experience with this but I hear over and over again how bad it is right now. Nature recently published a study finding that a *majority* of peer reviewers are using LLMs, and the anonymity of review seems to make it nearly impossible to fight.

The effects of LLM usage by students is still very poorly understood but all the anecdotal evidence right now points towards it massively decreasing student understanding & learning and making grading far more difficult. In my personal experience teaching, the students who used LLMs seemed to lack a very basic engagement with the material and would often reproduce superficially correct-looking output from LLMs, while being completely unprepared to participate in or take away anything from a conversation about *why* it is incorrect.

The absolute horror stories I've heard from students I know who Are in courses with LLM-generated course materials seems even *worse*, and I know numerous students who have reported ridiculous and unsustainable rates of errors in lecture slides as well as nonsensical homework & exercises. I don't think it's very easy to learn a new subject when you have to do the academic equivalent of information warfare to verify everything you're being taught.

I don't know what to do about these issues, but I hope that we talk more about it.

(3/3)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Multi-Track Fursuiting?!

Last month, I attended both DEFCON and Megaplex. If you're not familiar with either event, here's all you need to know....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/08/multi-track-fursuiting/