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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
plexus@toot.cat ("Arne Brasseur") wrote:

It's kind of infuriating how, as soon as you try to do good, you're held to impossible standards.

People are shit and companies are shit all the time and nobody bats an eye. But do volunteer work for your FOSS community, start a project that tries to do things more ethically, just be visibly not shit, and people left and right come out of the woodwork to point out all the ways in which you are not being absolutely flawless and perfect, and all the work that needs doing that you're not yet taking upon you.

The people actually doing the work are also the people who are being asked to do even more, and who are being critised the most. It's a really insiduous pattern and we all need to be better at recognising it and squashing it.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've tried to mess with the bots by sending them never-ending streams of garbage. It saturated my server's 2 gigabit connection. It did not reduce bot traffic at all. They clearly have more bandwidth to waste than I do.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/117291912937658483

This is one of the reasons that despite my strong feelings I think we need patience and grace for a lot of maintainers. Particularly the ones who have been good on DEI, good on CoCs, good on technical excellence, good on compassionate processes… if they are bad on AI, I'm not going to pretend that's good, but also maybe it doesn't obviate decades of otherwise massively self-effacing service to the community, and *continuing* service even using a harmful tool

Boosted by jwz:
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

The crusaders.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark") wrote:

“Don't even get me started about how expensive it would be from a compute and capital perspective to train new generations of models on cross-sectional images with >GB files sizes, cross reference those models with the underlying clinical data, gain regulatory approval for mass access to imaging data, and the inevitability of model drift as new generations of imaging hardware and procedures continue to roll out.

Oh, and legal liability, which would require a congressional act of god to immunize them from.

Trust me: I will be doing this field for a long time to come, and you too will be doing yours. Do not believe these out of touch plutocrats.”

#NoAI

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark") wrote:

“In the meantime, some of the interviews with the billionaires are just mind numbing. Jensen Huan on Ezra Klein last week seemed to suggest that the task of automating our field had essentially been completed. Ross Douthat interviewing Dario Amodei claimed that it's well-established that AI can read a "scan" better than a radiologist. Don't forget Geoff Hinton saying in 2016 that AI would replace all radiologists in 5 years...

These people have zero idea what we do. And If they have zero idea what WE do, then that means they've got zero idea what anyone else does. Rather than being the first ones to be replaced, I contend that we are canaries in the coal mine for this technology and why it will not wreak the havoc that our billionaire overlords are hoping to scare everybody into.

They are just too far removed and self-satisfied to realize how incorrect their predictions are. Not to mention how useless their technology is in the real world when lives are at stake.”

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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark") wrote:

“I'm truly just blown away by how little impact AI has had in our field, even when it comes to pure diagnostics.

My hospital employs a limited number of "models" for basic tasks like pulmonary nodule detection, and even then they suck to such a point that I stopped using them early on in my residency.

Beyond that, I have never heard of anything remotely approaching the point of analyzing CT, MR, US, PET, or catheter angiography accurately and producing a complete report.

The technology is not just in "early stages"...it's plainly nonexistent. And the "cutting edge" research that I review ain't exactly making much progress (it's usually for much more banal bullshit, like fixing reporting errors, and triaging critical findings...which is all well and good, but only modestly impactful in the setting of a true clinical workflow).”

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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark") wrote:

So, about AI taking all those jobs… this from a radiologist on Reddit.

“Real talk here in radiology

Just need to get this out there, since some of the interviews and opinions I have heard about the state of radiology are just unmoored from reality...

I am a senior resident in diagnostic/interventional radiology with a background in applied ML research from the pre-LLM era. I also review papers for a leading medical AI journal.”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Assistant Registrar.
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum.
The University of Chicago.
Job Summary: The Assistant Registrar reports to the Museum Registrar and the Museum Director and leads the ISAC Museum's imaging and rights and permissions program.
Pay Range: $56,000.00 - $62,000.00
👇
https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Chicago-IL/Assistant-Registrar%5FJR35347-1 #globalmuseum #museumjobs #museums

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

New, by me: The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/hackers-stole-millions-of-us-military-personnel-records-during-months-long-data-breach/

Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20260930193237/https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/hackers-stole-millions-of-us-military-personnel-records-during-months-long-data-breach/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
muzeum ("Muzeum") wrote:

Danny Galieote - Shit, I Chipped a Nail (2012)
#art #museum

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

"He announced the creation of an Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him and advocated for more Christian chaplains in the military."

Pete Hegseth preaches the righteousness of armed combat and robot soldiers in ‘State of Force’ address | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-military-academy-speech-jesus-ai-b3059354.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FluentInFinance ("Andrew Lokenauth") wrote:

JUST IN: Meta is using AI data centers to claim research tax credits, according to the NYT. Its total research credits reached almost $4,000,000,000 in 2025 alone.

It also counted Mark Zuckerberg’s $4.1 billion compensation as research spending to claim a $355 million tax break.

Apparently when you’re worth $2 trillion, a data center is a science experiment and your CEO’s $4 billion payday is research.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.

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

well this is something. an early burglar alarm that calls the police. yes that is a record player on the top

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

alright cool i now have a full on egress chain that skips all the safety features! let's see if this one pays out!

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

tell you what though, simply label your code as being slop and it won't half stop those annoying contributors beating down your door.

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

that's servo, the one that turned away AI contributions, apparently struggling under the weight of human contributions.

so you know, that's an interesting factoid to store away.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
tvanderlippe@fosstodon.org ("Tim van der Lippe") wrote:

@servo is currently experiencing luxury problems: because of so many new contributors helping out, our CI time has increased significantly. Before we could merge within 45 minutes, now the average is 3,5 hours.

Based on our analysis, the MacOS runners are the bottleneck. To add more of these runners, extra funding is needed.

If you want to help out Servo, consider donating at https://opencollective.com/servo so we can improve our CI time. Thanks everyone for their interest in the project!

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

For anybody interested, I published a #11ty #Eleventy theme/template/starter based on my plaintext blog:

https://gitlab.com/brennankbrown/plaintext-11ty-starter

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
Techcrunch@flipboard.com ("TechCrunch") wrote:

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All About Apps @all-about-apps-Techcrunch

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
xiann@mas.to ("sticky comics 🚴‍♀️🚶‍♀️✍️") wrote:

The 3 stages of accountability for a privileged white male #comic #privilege

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
qualia@floofy.tech wrote:

immaculate timeline harmonization @kirakira

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

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

RE: https://ottawa.place/@Dianora/117362725612195716

apple pi

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

A thought I had while out shopping on the AI cult/"true believers":

They don't necessarily believe in their own narrative that chatbots are intelligent or progressing towards intelligence.

What they fundamentally believe in is The Singularity.

What they think they need is to rob humanity's resources long enough for their chatbots to *get lucky* and vomit out something that's capable of the "recursive self-improvement" they believe is possible.

Saying they believe we're on the right path is just a justification for hoarding the resources.

Much like religious fanatics throughout history, they want us to believe ridiculous things about their god for the sake of organizing social and economic structures that will make their god's power real.

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

RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/117351158833680652

"At only about 310 miles (500 kilometers) across, Enceladus is about the size of Arizona and is believed to have a liquid water ocean beneath its frozen shell. While that alone doesn’t make it special, geyser-like jets erupting from its surface ice spray water from this ocean out into space, allowing spacecraft to sample its composition."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

#python 3.14.8 is out, you should upgrade

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

and, on that note, it's that time again

Boosted by pixxl:
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

It’s all just big tech buying datacenters and hardware from each other while investing in said loop

It’s a disastrous circus 🤡