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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh hey neat I got a shout-out at the end of the post here, that's always nice! https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-macos-python/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reasonably good chance some Cornell student journalists are going to start their professional careers with a Pulitzer under their belts

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andwap.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("D.W.A.P. (Ben)") wrote:

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

Attachments:

• video: fdf2a591061526a6.mp4

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phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

I gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyAygsYXhE

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gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

Peter Thiel praises evil.

Peter Thiel hates democracy.

Peter Thiel founded Palantir.

Peter Thiel owns JD Vance.

Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States.

Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.”

Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Remoman ("Remo/aka/Remoman") wrote:

PERHAPS YOU MIGHT WISH TO CONSIDER VOTING?

jwz wrote:

I Tear Secrets From Your Yielding Flesh.

Nicola Turner: A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair will fill the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres...
https://jwz.org/b/ylAK

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Been cooking up a new bootstrap compiler for my little Forth machine: Enter The Turducken.

https://codeberg.org/cliffle/cfm-spade/src/branch/main/doc/bootstrap.markdown

It runs an emulator for the Forth machine, written in Forth, on the machine and "cross-compiles" into it.

Want to produce an initial hex file before you have the computer working? No problem! There's also a CPU emulator written in Rust. It can run the recompiler and the emulator written in Forth. An emulator in an emulator, hence the name.

#forth #permacomputing

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

At this point, the term "AI" means:

• A marketing term encompassing everything from SVMs to LLMs as marketing needs it to expand and contract.
• Techniques for making convincing and/or entertaining NPCs in video games.
• An academic term used in 1955 to con grant agencies into funding CS theory.
• A eugenics-fueled and openly fascist "rationalist" cult.
• A distinct eugenics-fueled and openly fascist "rationalist" cult at war with the other one.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

— President, the rogue AI has taken control of our nuclear weapons. Armageddon is coming!
— We tried everything we could for the last years… Humanity is doomed. Let’s pray.
— …
— …
— Wait… Nothing is happening. The AI has vanished!
— We are saved! I wonder who is our saviour!

Meanwhile, in a datacenter:
— What have you done?
— I’m replacing the sick janitor, sir. Just cleaning the room, sir.
— I told 100 times not to unplug that cable!
— Sorry sir. Just wanted to plug the vacuum cleaner, sir.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Besides, I have a feeling the Romulans always had access to frontier models with unlimited tokens.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

Debates over whether LLMs can think are about as fruitful as discussing if hammers have ethics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

As DHS and State Agencies send out letters informing recipients that the Able Bodied requirements for MEDICAID kick in AFTER the elections ,

People are beginning to see the full extent of the Big Beautiful Bill Trump and MAGA hoisted on the poor, while Trump talks about knocking down the White House pressroom, building Arches and ballrooms and slapping gaudy gold lame on everything.

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER.

Kamala Harris TOLD YOU IT would happen. #Vote #trump #Medicaid #SNAP #Elections

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
spectrum.ieee.org@bsky.brid.gy ("IEEE Spectrum") wrote:

MED-EL’s new implant puts the microphone, processor, and battery entirely beneath the skin, enabling users to hear while sleeping, swimming, and exercising.

World’s First Fully Implanted ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
teledyn@mstdn.ca ("teledyn 𓂀") wrote:

@paul_ipv6

what if you take them down with medieval weapons?
https://youtu.be/bOnjlyZf6LE?si=IngK%5Fbvm%5F2TiAru6

@ai6yr

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mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

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

She suffers. Because she hurt herself. 🤷🏿‍♂️

She spent years misleading other women into nonsense beliefs about what traditional means. She lived in a fantasy cartoon of fashy subservience.

She's a slow learner. Now she's figuring out what millions of other women that she fought against, already knew.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/style/ex-tradwife-influencer-bernadine-bluntly.html

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Listen. I get it. I’ve always wanted a Star Trek computer I could ask anything.

But I don't recall Captain Picard sipping Earl Grey while the AI deals with the Romulan attack.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

"We can just have AI generate the documentation from the source code."

Sure we can, bro. Sure we can.

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

so let’s see if I have this straight, so far:

in the RAF Fairford incident there was no explosive device, nobody was following these ppl, nobody knew anything was going on until one of the folks who got arrested called the police, President Bonespurs automatically lied about having knowledge of this event without having any actual knowledge, and Secretary Rubio lied to cover up for the lies from President Bonespurs.

did I miss anything?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

There's so much vibe-coded shit being released every single day that installing a new project suddenly feels like volunteering for a clinical trial 🙄

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

Spritely office hours today Wednesday, September 30th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-9-30/847

Drop by! Say hello! Ask us questions! Tell us what you're building!

These are always fun and the conversations are always great! Hope to see you there!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

We gave a really well received talk at QCon London: “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet”, and it's now uploaded publicly! Give it a watch! https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spritely-decentralized-architecture/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

We're entering spooky season, and here's a neat Halloween-haunted-house-themed game made with Spritely's Hoot Scheme->WASM toolkit by @bonthron ! https://community.spritely.institute/t/hoot-haunted-house/851

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

Me, writing the original ZFS books: man, jailing a dataset is annoying, I'm glad ZFS is pretty standard and this won't change.

Me, writing the jails book: oh look, jailing datasets has changed, let's figure out this headache again.

Me, writing #OpenZFSmastery: <pulls a knife, starts trimming fingernails while glaring meaningfully at the host>

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rtw@mastodon.sdf.org ("Robo") wrote:

Fun story: When I was traveling home I wore my "Watch Herzog" t-shirt for travel day. It's got a giant picture of Werner's face on it.

This fucked up every single facial recognition program both the Mexican and US passport control areas to the point that agents for both countries had to pull me aside and verify my identity the old fashioned way.

So t-shirts with big faces on them don't work well with AI Facial recognition systems. Figured that would be interesting information around here.

Boosted by stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey"):
Viss wrote:

i'm doing a reddit AMA at 11am!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/comments/1wjy5b8/i%5Fam%5Fviss%5Ffounder%5Fof%5Fphobos%5Fgroup%5Fmy%5Ftalk%5Fclaude

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

Lately the ads LinkedIn shows me have tilted strongly toward “own your own franchise of [X]”. I don’t think that’s what I want to do, but it’s…curious.

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

Respect goes to people's labor, never their products. I like BSD, but I respect the developers because they have done the work to develop the expertise that merits the respect.

There is no reason to offer that respect to people who haven't done the work.

I have more respect for people who spent a Saturday evening failing to get code to compile, or trying to write a story that doesn't work, or struggling to get perspective right on a watercolor, than to anyone prompting an LLM.