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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz vile. I want to quip about this but I got nothing; it’s just vile. Hopefully every single one of these cowardly dimwits is unseated soon.

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

As always, the usual caveat, I have no special expertise and am a total noob. I try to communicate degree of certainty but sometimes don't get that quite right, and so in this case I want to be clear that it looks like corporate espionage to me but the error bars around that are humongous.

jwz wrote:

SF Democratic Party loves Flock:

The SF Democratic Party [sic] voted on Wednesday to continue its support for Flock surveillance cameras: Two major resolutions were in front of the party's 31 members -- 13 of whom were absent -- on Wednesday. One,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5F6

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

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325293459803287

This is I think the most consequential thing I think I found in the muse VM, or at least the thing that would be most worth following up on. there are no other plain string matches I can see for what uses it, I'm looking in the binaries now, but the comment seems to indicate pretty clearly that a) meta uses anthropic's models internally, presumably to develop the thing (the code, comments, and skill text reek of claude), but also b) they use some kind of internal proxy that intercepts and proxies all requests to anthropic's API. the only reason I can think of for doing that would be model distillation.

jwz wrote:

Techbros literally out here trying to disrupt the fraternity rape-house:

Today these so-called hacker houses are driven by missions, like the advancement of humanity, and have become critical nodes for the AI industry. Residents are often startup founders or engineers working at OpenAI or Anthropic. Rent can hit $10,000 a month for a room. [...]

"This is a new golden age," Nixon said, according to the court documents.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5F4

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

please, as a favor to me, do not post dunking on Last Ditch or the weird backlash against them. I do not think that their community is by any means healthy, but a bunch of immunocompromised lesbians in rural massachusetts is going to be a group of people in extremely difficult circumstances. if they are lashing out unproductively because the literal *only place* that they could go outside to find community is no longer safe for them, that is not funny.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I cannot imagine a better possible ad for this movie https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/117334958822607349

jwz wrote:

In the annals of hobbies I wish I did not have: just spent 2 hours expanding and optimizing my AI-matching RewriteConds.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

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robpike@cosocial.ca ("@robpike.io") wrote:

@sundogplanets Welcome to the club.

https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s

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

@glyph @xgranade we wish to see your fan-dub

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

we are taken with a sudden urge to implement hair physics

we'll try to file that desire away to pull it out in a month or two, when we've circled back to a project it's relevant to. not much use right this moment.

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

there's, you know, a standard of friendliness and willingness to listen that we hold ourselves to, but it's hard work. that's all.

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

if we've snapped at any of you, that was the reason, we just weren't running at capacity, couldn't put on the performance that is humanity. sorry about that.

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

(programming is the last thing to go. we can write and debug code quite effectively even during aphasia - which we experience every night because we take a med that does that, for bipolar stuff. programming is very, very deep in us, we still have it even when everything else is stripped away. so that's why we've been productive on that front.)

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

sigh okay, our instinct around publicity was to keep this quiet, but we'll feel better if we say it

we've been dealing with COVID symptoms all week. mostly cognitive. it's starting to let up, but it's been a journey. we've been able to deal with it because we have a lifetime of experience at functioning despite various impairments, it just hasn't been fun.

please keep masking, everyone. for the sake of the people around you. yes, the ones who are themselves not masking and don't deserve help. please.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AilurusThePanda@meow.social ("Ailurus, Ryūki & Júzǐ") wrote:

Come and get a red panda hug!

📷: malcompard (x)

#FursuitFriday #Furry #Fursuit #AilurusThePanda

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bettycjung.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Betty C. Jung") wrote:

The Snarkening
Presidential Venn Diagram

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

RE: https://mastodon.au/@26pglt/117334858081938575

see also "Don Juan in Hell" (aka Act III of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%5Fand%5FSuperman#Act%5FIII%5F/%5FDon%5FJuan%5Fin%5FHell )

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

I try to remember this, because I get bit in the a$$ when I forget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies%5Fof%5Fdistributed%5Fcomputing

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

the entire fediverse could be recreated by handing out semaphore flags and zines on how to use semaphore flags to send and receive messages and decent enough weather for people to go outside and see who else is outside with semaphore flags

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

holy shit. after 5+ years of asking for these, i just realized jason uploaded the missing BBS documentary interview tapes to IA last september

among the new uploads, i am beyond thankful that @tomjennings's interview is *finally* there!

https://archive.org/details/bbs%5Fdocumentary?sort=-publicdate

#bbs #retroComputing

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
simonzerafa@infosec.exchange ("Simon Zerafa") wrote:

@WeirdWriter

Every YouTube Channel does have an RSS Feed, as you might know.

Not a perfect solution but it might help.

https://channelsurfer.tv/tools/youtube-rss-feed/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
heathen_cat@furs.social ("Heathen 🐈") wrote:

@evacide
This really explains why most products in tech don't have a "no" option.

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

In every community, there are predators. And how that community deals with high-status predators says a lot about them.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/24/tech/silicon-valley-sex-assault-list-with-over-100-names-circulated-warning-female-tech-workers-of-predators-to-avoid/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stejfs_photos@mastodon.goeg.dscloud.biz ("Štejf's Photobox") wrote:

Furciety meet -Oer-Erkenschwick 05.2026
Furciety meet -Oer-Erkenschwick 05.2026

#Furry #Fursuit #fursuiting

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

Labeling domestic data center protests as hostile foreign propaganda is standard imperial maintenance. The state criminalizes discontent whenever tech capital needs more power.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign?triedRedirect=true

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ninlyricbot ("Nine Inch Nails Lyric Bot") wrote:

I do not want this
I do not want this
I do not want this
I do not want this

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Thinking about this a bit more, the reason that this confuses me so much is that it's not asking me for anything. It's not the spam I'm used to that's trying to scam money. It's like... it's trying to be helpful (in the most mansplainy way possible, but whatever). But it's a program, a racist pile of linear algebra (as "The AI Con" so beautifully puts it).

Is it trying to get me to reply and train on my email responses? This is so fucking weird.

Anyway, fuck AI, time to snuggle goats.