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

I wrote a blog post about my first year of working on @servo entirely funded by monthly project donations: https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/

i'm very pleased with what I've been able to accomplish, and it means a lot to me that there are enough supporters to make this possible. If you are one of those individuals, please consider this a virtual high five!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/us-data-centers-set-to-burn-more-natural-gas-than-most-nations

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

Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalists
Coxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everything
Coxon: nailed it

found by https://bsky.app/profile/cabernet.bsky.social/post/3mvlmmzpkas2v

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

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@maximilianhenning/117279582879295881

Von der Leyen really is an easy mark for tech bros.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emma@orbital.horse ("ƒ: 🪿️→ ℝ") wrote:

Okay, the thing is that this sort of sex cult stuff is not new to Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley is just a repeating cycle of it.

There was all the wack-ass stuff around Keith Henson and extroprianism (who were convinced their clones would throw a party hundreds of thousands of years in the future on the other side of our galaxy) who spent a lot of time getting into fights with another cult, the Scientologists. But hey, you got those big O'Neill space colonies that Gundam borrow.

The Valley's biggest fear is death.

https://bsky.app/profile/faineg.bsky.social/post/3mvlgfb5jus2c

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
yatil@yatil.social ("Eric Eggert") wrote:

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/117279308406121475

This is why you write text alternatives yourself. Saying “AI will do it” makes blind people reliant on gatekeepers. Imagine if in the US models would think of ICE Agents as “sensitive content”. This tech is not neutral even as it pretends to be it.

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

@dukeboitans @craignicol

so the rationalists love their chatbots

but in many years they *all* write like that *all the time*

it can be hard to tell when it's an LLM assist and when they're just fucking like that

for people who loathe and fear the imaginary AI, they sure do love the real ones

fortunately they put useful warnings on their hypertrophies blogs, like slop images, so you know not to bother reading

you wanna know who likes ai slop art, it's these guys

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
KaraLG84@dragonscave.space ("Kara Goldfinch") wrote:

From iOS 27: "Intelligent Image Description can’t describe this image because it may contain sensitive content."

wtf Apple.

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

“NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax”

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/nvidias-ai-climate-hoax-report/

> With that in mind, we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025’s use of NVIDIA’S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos ("Jean ") wrote:

<3

#BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #birds

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Sugui@owo.cafe ("Sugui 🪻") wrote:

Breaking the rules with style :blobCatThinkingSunglass:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joannaholman@aus.social ("Joanna Holman") wrote:

My dearest Kmart, where did you conclude one might wear this peculiar creation?

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

I've been making horror games for Five Years.

You will soon be able to download all of them for free on my Patreon.

Link for more info: https://www.patreon.com/CatTrigger/posts/cattrigger-games-169284293

#indiegames #horrorgames #gamedev

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

love a good margin-trim!

will Interop 2027 make it useful? 🙏

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/09/15/remove-start-and-end-margins-with-the-margin-trim-property/

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

noted: quick review of my iOS & macOS 27 experience (it's meh)
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-16T05:01Z/

jwz wrote:

Records of Enemy Surveillance: The red squares are Flock cameras. They are networked devices with cellular radios and solar panels which read license plates via machine learning algorithms. Police have access to the full network of cameras, and have...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5Fp

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

I have found it, the one true use case for LLMs that isn't spam or nonsense: generating nonsense to defend your mental wellbeing against nonsense that someone using LLMs has thrust at you.

jwz wrote:

We Must Create the Shit Machine.

Pete Reynolds: The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as: Business things. Other...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5Fn

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
expiredtoken ("Expired Token") wrote:

@eniko Today I discovered my employer replaced a purpose-made, pixel-by-pixel, hand-crafted drawing on a blog post my teammate wrote by a LLM-generated image. Reason? Consistency across articles. Yup, all articles look shitty now, well done. No heads up, no ask, just the violence of a personal work thrashed.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

I’ve had quite a number of people tell me to stop bringing up ‘politics’ in my writing. For example, when I’ve decried Elon Musk and DHH when mentioning X (Twitter) and Omarchy, respectively.

Plainly, no. I will continue to mention injustices and wrongs. Tech is political – especially now.

The only people that are helped by staying quiet about bigotry, racism, fascism, xenophobia, etc, are the bigots, racists, fascists, and xenophobes.

I’ll call it out where I see it, and I urge everyone else to do the same.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements (2011) earns my undying respect because it's a rock documentary in which

a) no member of the band speaks
b) no song by the band is played
c) no album cover is shown
d) all the interviews look terrible

Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, and viewable in full on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP%5FgMDq91Y

🤘

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/117277252530877642

not to put too fine a point on things,

but causes - and people - who are labeled as "political' in discussions are not being labeled as such consensually.

'cuz gods know I don't think my existence should be a political topic, but apparently the fuck it is, which means that people who follow such bullshit rules can (and have done) arbitrarily exclude me from consideration,

and That's Bad.

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

details, details

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

we walked in the fog near Jenner today, and it was glorious

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

- the SwiftUI Settings app car-crash continues unabated; searching and then selecting an item still resets the selection in a really weird way, many preference items just fully cannot be selected at all any more from search (for example, "Manage Virtual Interfaces"; click on it, nothing happens)

- and speaking of virtual interfaces, apparently VLANs just apply to… all physical ethernet cards now

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
soller@floss.social ("Jeremy Soller 🦀") wrote:

If you hate DHH and vibe coding, come help Redox. Here he is throwing a temper tantrum over our no-AI policy:

https://x.com/dhh/status/2097559561993326752

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

- sometimes the menubar just … fails to update, if an app has no windows? Alt-tab to Messages from Mail, the menu bar still says "Mail" but if I hit ⌘0 I get a Messages window (and *then* the menu bar updates). Or hit ⌘? and get a menu-search of Messages menus, but it still doesn't update until I get a result

- iCloud profile pictures have disappeared permanently

- once again every app needs re-authorization to make LAN connections

- user notification actions just don't work 80% of the time

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

Related to Baklava Code I used to say "A Maze of Twisty Abstractions, All Alike" I do not remember if I thought of this or is I got it from someone. Well, Duck, Duck, Go says noone said it before!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: I'm sorry. That cat is just too danged cute!

[1] https://fedi.fraw.st/notes/ar6y2r3bs3230ocq