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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

the reason people bedazzle clothes is because they learned from RPGs that wearing shinier clothing makes them more powerful

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rl_dane@polymaths.social ("R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou:") wrote:

Silly #poll:

You have to choose one of the following three languages to code in for the rest of your life:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rsm92 ("RSM92") wrote:

It's amazing to see that #wasm , websockets, aswell #webgl and 3D js libs are running on @servo ! and quite smooth !

Give it a try to www.cad-viewer.com !

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

Wow, OK, but we won't have one of those until '29 at the earliest...

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm70d91rg7l4t

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations.

OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Now there are identifiable trends in cognition over the years but the truly well evidenced ones are almost always about SES and other types of effects that we know quite well (eg the less a society takes care of its children we will see that show up in their test scores etc)

But watch carefully for slippery chains of argument about any isolated cognitive capacity

This has been a methods PSA from your local psychologist 🫡

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

"Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community"

About DHH's new fascist Linux distribution and how it sucks up funding.

(Article title: Power grab)

https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117269852134694164

Not a surprise to me (or probably y'all), but I worry so much about those for whom this is surprising.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

I find it absurd that the em dash is now widely perceived as an indicator of AI use. I have used it since childhood; it is part of my writing style. Sometimes inserting a brief aside within a sentence, at other times emphasizing the conclusion of a thought.

In any case, I use em dashs deliberately, and I am absolutely certain that many other writers do the same.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

Journal: Stalling installing

Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22757

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

Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called?
A: The heart?
Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/14/i-know-there-are-differences-between-male-female-anatomy-but/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TofuTheSquirrel@piaille.fr wrote:

@tante agents are very good at writing code except that it must absolutely be double checked by an experienced developer, its poorly written, full of bugs, untested, infit for production, not monitorable and it doesn't scale. But BESIDES THAT, agents are very good at writing code.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

PRO-RED CHARGED IN ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY

#content_review #art #fediart #mastoart #inktober

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
GIFS_of_Puppets@ohai.social ("Muppet Show GIF of the Day") wrote:

Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF of Kermit the Frog with vampire fangs biting Vincent Price on the neck

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jessebot@social.open.engineering (":heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them:") wrote:

Please never feed anything I post into an LLM or AI of any sort. I do not consent to that.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117269628017204805

Please boost for awareness, if you run or know someone that runs a Pixelfed server, please tell them to update!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
faithisleaping@anarres.family ("Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋 :v_tg: :v_lb: :v_greyace:") wrote:

I saw posters this week that said, “If we lose, it will not be because we were outnumbered but because we were outorganized.”

The fascists have already figured this out. They realized they don’t have to agree about anything except their common lust for money and power and their loathing for other people. They don’t even have to agree on what they’re going to do with that power or who they hate. As long as they have that in common, they can disagree on damn near everything and work together to build a world in which only the fascists get a say. They’ll figure out the details later.

If we want to push back against ANY of it, we need to understand that it’s enough for two people to look at the bad thing and go “that’s bad”. They don’t need to 100% agree why or on how they’re going to push back.

And yes, there will always be people who are willing to chuck some other minority under the bus to try and win something for theirs. That’s bad. We need to push back on that.

But we also need to learn to work with people and not expect ideological purity.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

ATC LAUGHED AT MY REQUEST

Area: Austin, TX, USA
Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8
A: #afe60ede523
F: #f878e0b267f

#acars #vdlm2

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

Getting out of your own way when making video: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/getting-out-of-your-own-way/

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

Experiments in film emulation (and a few old photos): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/experiments-in-film-emulation/

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

"Getting out of your own way when making video"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/getting-out-of-your-own-way/

Pilot episode of a podcast/video thing. This time about how you stop getting in your own way when trying to make something.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
YvanDaSilva@hachyderm.io ("Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go:") wrote:

"Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in. A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility. Our results highlight how LLM adoption may involve nonlinear collective transitions with important consequences for cognitive autonomy." - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

#ai #research #noai #llm

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

New post: “Reconsidering the Apple Watch”

After wearing an Apple Watch for nearly a decade, Apple's weird choices with the Series 12 may finally kick me back into the normal watch world.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/reconsidering-apple-watch/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Mastodon admin life, Jesus Christ.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
deborahh@cosocial.ca ("Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦") wrote:

"To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver’s seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel. AI is sold as a way to wire the toy steering wheel directly into the corporation’s drive-train:

Seen in this light, bosses’ insistence that workers use AI makes perfect sense."

🧵1/2 …

- Cory Doctorow | Sep, 2026 | Medium

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-09-14-cult-taylorism-ctrl-x-it-out-a97c1d6fe6ae
#noAI

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

naval piercings are a bad idea because they let water in

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SQLAllFather@techhub.social wrote:

The new bag of peanuts has nuts that are tiny compared to what I'm used to.

The downside is that the nuts are too small for me to feel safe holding them while squirrels or chipmunks take them from my hand. These little guys are cute but not particularly dexterous or discriminating and the last thing I need is a scratch or bite.

The upside is these glorious cheeks.

#Chipmunk #Squirrels

Attachments:

• video: A chipmunk runs over and crams peanuts into his cheeks before racing away.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

I work in HR and was delighted at getting a management job in HR at Enron in 2000. In fact, I was so proud of where I was working that I got its logo tattooed on my upper left arm. I still have the tattoo but don't wear tops without sleeves these days.

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

security isn't something you can just sprinkle on top, it has to be designed in. you have to consider it at every point in the development lifecycle. if you're doing something with large security risks attached, you should even shock make a plan.

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

i am trying to work out how much is the right amount of fancy type theory features for something like a type theoretic c.

for example, so called first-class polymorphism where we can elaborate Maybe ({a : Type} -> a -> a). i just wonder how much this sort of thing can come up when you're essentially trying to be a better C.