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

🌶️ hot take: more than 5 tabs is a skill issue (vertical tabs: also skill issue)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

If we take #Trump as the baseline, then ChatGPT-3 has already achieved superhuman intelligence.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TwilightSaint@meow.social wrote:

Stay curious!💙 Keep an eye out for the wonder that's all around you!

#fursuit #fursuits #furry #furries #fursona

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Here’s @GovBillLee & Frank Strada making national news for all the wrong reasons again. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

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

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/117364187350249356

good

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

RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117365779233892089

yup

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workchronicles ("Work Chronicles comics") wrote:

(comic) Presentation Hell https://www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-presentation-hell-8f5

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sethmlarson ("Seth Larson") wrote:

Time to upgrade your #Python versions! 🐍🛡️

3.14.8, 3.13.16, 3.12.15, 3.11.17, and 3.10.22 were just published and contain significant security fixes (8 CVEs) including 1 critical and 2 high severity fixes. Thanks to the PSRT and RMs for coordinating.

https://blog.python.org/2026/10/python-31022-31117/

#security

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
froomkin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News") wrote:

"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.

‘We are losing our soul as a n...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

A lot is riding on Michigan voters this election.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
liberalcurrents@mastodon.world ("Liberal Currents") wrote:

"The future of warfare will be defined not by war but by 'neither peace nor war:' states of conflict characterized by endemic raiding, diplomatic posturing without resolution, and an increased unwillingness to distinguish between military and civilian targets." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-of-the-cutting-off-way/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
craignewmark ("Craig Newmark") wrote:

I think Asimov invented AI safety (Three Laws Of Robotics) and also Wikipedia via Encyclopedia Galactica.

@greatdismal.bsky.social invented the AI police aka Turing Police.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years,
in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.

Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026,
according to an annual monitoring report,
after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow.
The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022
and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%.

What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates,
leading to the disintegration of glaciers.

They’re really just falling apart.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollution-europe?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117365682032395873

one can only hope

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

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

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/117365342719070400

grrrrrr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eliasulrich@hachyderm.io ("Xamanismo Coletivo") wrote:

"The new #documentary "Reading the World" profiles #PauloFreire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. It draws on rare archival footage of 1960s #Brazil and weaves together the memories of farmers, students and educators who took part in Freire's culture circles, his method of teaching adults to read in as little as 40 hours by drawing on their own lives, communities and experiences. At the time, Brazil's illiterate population was barred from voting, so education also opened the door to political participation. The experiment was abruptly halted in 1964 when Brazil's military overthrew President João Goulart in a U.S.-backed coup that led to Freire's imprisonment and exile."

https://youtu.be/Clc1o-34UIo?is=9Z6JX59ks5k-i1On

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HxxxKxxx@det.social ("Harald Klinke") wrote:

Machine vision is not simply teaching machines to see.
It creates new conditions of seeing: from convolutional aesthetics and synthetic data to algorithmic observation and cultural bias encoded in visual systems. This new handbook offers a compelling vocabulary for understanding AI not only as technology, but as a transformation of visual culture itself.
#MachineVision #AIAesthetics #VisualCulture

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6191/The-Aesthetics-of-Machine-VisionCritical-Terms-and

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

A simple clever trick

Attachments:

• video: An old kids toy where Octo from SpongeBob is put into a Halloween casket and you can shift half the casket making it seem his body is in half

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hrbrmstr ("hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪") wrote:

I have never seen this warning on a GH page before. And the fact that GH gave in and put it on the "AI Torture Chamber" repo after mass complaints on X from idiots who think LLMs are sentient tracks with the absurdity of this timeline.

(404 Media reported the story today)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wadus@hachyderm.io ("Juan") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month

@timnitGebru trying to keep the conversation on point

Boosted by pixxl:
mcc wrote:

To answer the article's question: It is unethical to run a program that "tortures" an LLM because in order to do this you must run the LLM and it is unethical to run an LLM 🤷‍♀️

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

brb writing 'blue juice' on the toilet bleach

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

LAV NOT TAKING BLUE,JUICE.

Area: Burlington, ON, Canada
Type: Bombardier CRJ900
A: #adb09ef085e
F: #fb4228b493f

#acars #vdlm2

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

I hadn't considered the hot soup pot laid out by Chicxulub before.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/01/mmmmhot-soup/

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

Anyone else have random pre-2022 media collections and at the time it felt like data hoarding and now it feels like a rare treasure trove of guaranteed human works?

I have this for electronic music and Hetalia fanart

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This is the new Siri AI

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

“80% sér­fræð­inga nota gervi­greind í starfi og 67% segja hana auka af­köst - Viska - stéttarfélag - Viska”

https://www.viska.is/um-visku/i-frettir/80percent-serfraedinga-nota-gervigreind-i-starfi-en-vinnuveitendur-standa-langt-ad-baki

If you don't read Icelandic, then basically a supermajority of Icelandic experts with a university degree uses and loves "AI". Which feels accurate tbh. It feels largely impossible to find an “AI” sceptic in the wild here. People hate datacentres, though 🤷🏻‍♂️

IIRC Viska is a union for those with degrees who don't have a more specialised union to join.

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
lukasrotermund@social.lukasrotermund.de ("maschinenstuermer") wrote:

I love the smell of a fresh project.

... without rotten pieces of LLM slop.
... without fingerprints of nasty right-wingers, Nazis, fascists, transphobes, homophobes, racists, harassers, abusers, white-supremacists, misogynists or capitalists

https://forgejo.lukasrotermund.de/lrotermund/httyp