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

there's the obviously pathological stories called "AI psychosis" but also a bit quieter are stories of people who have been using 2nd party wrappers without as corporate-friendly system prompts, confessionals about spending 10 hour days on the thing. The longer tail of people who can balance being in a parallel informational reality with 12 quantum AI wives and their day to day work.

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violenteastcoastcity ("This Account Kills Fascists") wrote:

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kayttaja@plush.city ("lilja 👽") wrote:

:3

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Trump promising every voter $5,000 from the Republicans who already control Congress:

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• video: 683b9ea149a3f8bd.mp4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x%5Fl-E

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

via wiktionary

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(the talk is seriously really good, you should watch it. I delivered it while a bit sick and super stressed out after one of the worst travel experiences of my life, and did not really remember it being all that worthwhile, which is why this is a bit surprising to me)

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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

There are 93,000 voting aged trans people in Texas.

They are 20x to 40x more likely to be Dems than GOP. Not a typo. Twenty to forty times more likely to vote Dem.

They are almost 10 ppts more likely to vote than cis people.

Some non-zero number will be discouraged by his Fox statement.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Stop the surveillance state, I want to get off. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-ICE sticker spotted in NYC

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

noted: Attic is closing down

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-11T05:45Z/

Not sure if anyone is still using it, sorry I failed you! It'll go offline at the end of the year.

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weirdestate@aus.social ("Where Homes Get Weird") wrote:

Anyone want a labor camp in Dubai? There are many for sale.
https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/commercial-buy/dubai/labor-camps-for-sale-jebel-ali.html

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jwz wrote:

@emag The XScreenSaver collection has consistently been a glorious stress test of literally everything about the various video stacks for decades and it is frankly malpractice that it has not been a part of the QA pipeline of every hardware and "desktop" developer for decades. I realize that I have skin in this particular game, but also, and I can't emphasize this enough, I'm right.

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bluefops@fox.yt ("Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon") wrote:

TGI #FursuitFriday :dilyn_fursuit_laugh: 🐶🐺
Ft. @Dilyn_LD + Chucklesshep
🐺✂️ - thatsfurredup
#furry #fursuit #mp2026

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

anyone got anything they're happy about

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thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space ("Thankful Machine") wrote:

I'm going to be working on something like an Elements of Good Tech, which includes minimum requirements for a device, piece of software, or system to be considered good (as in not evil), and a list of personal responsibilities and universal principles that someone can promise to uphold, where you can actually check signatures (using public keys?). I think it is well past due. I'd like to work on this in an open source way. Anyone interested?

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

omg.lol members are already familiar with https://eph.emer.al, an experimental temporary web page thing that I made a while back. For today, I'm opening it up to anyone who might want to share their own 9/11 story. No login required. Just share, or read, or both.

This is a space to put something out there, have it seen by someone else, and then let it vanish forever. It's temporary by design. I hope it offers something helpful to you today. 🎗️

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

As @alex and I write in The AI Con (see cp 6): even though the Boosters and the Doomers like to portray themselves as holding down opposite extremes of opinions on "AI", they are two sides of the same coin.

https://thecon.ai

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

They can't, because the Doomer narrative *is* the Booster narrative. To debunk the Doomer stuff (and it *is* bunk), you have to point out that it's based on pure fantasy that the mathy maths are going to combust into consciousness ...

... or if not consciousness, then some thinking, reasoning, self-improving entity.
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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

I want everyone, especially journalists, to notice the silence of the tech execs about this. This includes people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg whose recent blog posts talk about balancing the benefits and harms of "AI", and don't include Doomer scenarios among the harms.

They are complicit in the misinforming of the public. They are complicit in stoking everyone's fear. They reap the benefits of the Doomer narrative because it is their narrative.

/fin

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

😲😝

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

a couple of these have, like, really long names that make us want to implement word-wrapping for the comments. we'll probably do that at some point.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Con man Musk is one of our age's most monumental sleazes, and his hugely deceptive -- and dangerous to your privacy-- "votesafe" website is just one more egregious example. https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

The whole "OpenAI uses mathematicians' prompts to claim their models solved maths problems" seems to be a pattern...

(Article title: Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-training-data

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

we decided the easiest way to make sure we cover everything was to go through amd64.e, where the assembly words are defined, and do them each in order, searching the output for examples

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

okay. now we're doing the slightly tedious work of making sure every single assembly instruction comment that Evocation's hex transform outputs is formatted exactly the way we want it to be - covers the correct span of bytes, has the parameters in the correct order, all that

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

trying to work and your brain feels like it is melted and you are going 1 mile per hour and you look and realize its not just you, your computer has throttled itself down to like 15% speed, it is programmed to not become too hot to touch by scooting too hard, the air temperature gradient is too shallow, and you have only been typing one character per second for like an hour