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

Once again, a sperm whale cannot swallow a person, who lives.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/28/revisiting-whalefall/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXuzoMTx4s

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

am I going crazy or has macOS 27 broken copy (⌘ + C), like sometimes it just doesn't copy stuff! idk maybe 5% failure rate? thought it was my keyboard but it's happened on multiple now

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

I made the mistake of checking the news.

An account of someone who has been unemployed for 4 years and struggles with constant rejections (much like I have done) next to constant hand-wringing over how the government pays young people too many disability benefits.

I feel trapped in the system too; I would like to work but I have no clue who would employ me after so many rejection letters. I get the impression that thanks to fatigue, ASD, and ADHD, I can't work conventionally without burning out but I might be able to cope with unconventional ways of working. But what employer will employ someone who needs adjustments when they can just employ someone who (a) doesn't need those adjustments and (b) who doesn't have a CV gap?

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

oh good, my bank's app now tells me which crypto is spiking today right underneath where it tells me my 'net wealth'.

yes none of that's at all a slap in the face when you're broke.

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

“Software Drives People Insane – The Gospel According to Graybeard”

https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/

> And yet somehow the process of producing this stuff can turn perfectly ordinary adults into b-tier Bond villains.

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

BR408 my beloved :8bitheart: #trainContent

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

If I create a script that finds all of the username: admin; password: letmein devices connected to the Internet, can I escape prosecution by claiming my AI agent has gone rogue? :neocat_thonk:​

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SaraSoueidan@front-end.social ("Sara Soueidan") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl%5FZimmer/117345065655681591

“The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.””

[Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist] “disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years,” he said. And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”

—

AI companies stealing people’s work and claiming that their AI is making new discoveries. How long before humanity stands up to these companies?

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

Need glasses to find glasses :neocat_angry:​

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wafflesies/117344650710263089

what we see right here is an example of a cat-in-the-middle attack.

EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! :aaaa:

very adept at injecting random keystrokes. :ablobcatmaracasevil:

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

For once, woke up without being awfully fatigued, yay!

now to convert that into working on the work backlog that piled up

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

idk why people keep telling me my instance is broken.%20it looks fine to me

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

I've lost friends over the years. It never gets easy. But I try to make sure people know how much I appreciate them. (I don't always succeed.) Because you never know if it's the last thing you'll ever say to them.

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

Judging from how folks talk about a fur that passed away recently, as heartwrenchingly sad as that is, it's also a little inspiring.

If one could touch even a hundredth the number of lives he did, in such a positive and uplifting way? Then you're doing incredibly goddamn good.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
neliger@social.neliger.com ("Neliger (Tisha Tiger)") wrote:

Empathy is that thing that makes you suffer every day, even when you’re feeling fine!

Put that way, it sounds like something harmful, and yet it’s essential.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

I hate the 'make X Y again' snow-clone and honestly I think less of people who use it

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

also blogged: Shin honkaku

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/shin-honkaku/

— I discovered a niche sub-genre and it inspired me to design a book cover!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dominick@indieweb.social ("Dom DeLorenzo") wrote:

This @pluralistic interview contains the most clear-eyed explanation for the Hugging Face attack I've heard. It's a much needed antidote to the breathless sensationalism surrounding LLMs.

https://youtu.be/nTqCVJFr7XM

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

Y'know what? Who needs sleep anyway?

...

meekly, "I do......"

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

blogged: Leaving them behind

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/

— small but significant change to my AI policy and content going forward

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

wait i broke something...

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

px in CSS ≠ a pixel on a display.

This is something that is obvious when you think about it at all, but many people seem to gloss over it. I was explaining it to someone and figured I’d be best to jot it down: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260928-0515

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

here's an hourly dump of the skills:
https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/muse-skills

which might be interesting, because meta added a patch to a skill to encourage the bot not to commit people to be home to sell something to someone without ever telling them that, as @jdp23 showed me over here: https://bsky.app/profile/wolven.blacksky.app/post/3mwk4o3ct7k2e and this prompt text was added between my latest dump and the current state: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t5atl3zfywjjcsutabwimnk4/post/3mwkid4dtps2n

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This post will do exactly nothing to stop the flood of such replies. But a man can dream. And now at least I can just drop a link and move on.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I got tired of being told that, as a skeptic, I don't know anything about how to actually use an LLM, that I just need to use it more in order to understand the workflows. I understand the workflows. They are either too dangerous or they don't exist.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

New Blog: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

I feel like it's been a minute since we reminded folks that cis people don't spend much time wishing they were a different gender. Sorry babe.

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ BROOKE CANDY + VIOLET CHACHKI at DNA Lounge starting now!
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

this code is so awesome

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Fool's Expertise
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/fools-expertise/