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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Spending some of my Sunday morning listening to this recent performance and interview with Natalie Merchant.
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
@TechConnectify Found these “traditional glow” lights in a UK store, and it looks like they’re warm white inside colored glass? They’re not one of the US brands you covered. Could it be a miracle?
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I am defeated by Theodore Beale's high holy ego.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
damn, I miss northern california
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TheZeldaZone wrote:
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
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mhoye wrote:
To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
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rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:
Who called it linear typing and not “once in a lifetime”?
Who called it const and not “same as it ever was”?
Who called it a stack trace and not “how did I get here?”
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Once you have churches that are largely segregated by race and increasingly segregated by partisanship, all you really have to do is keep out any critique. It’s reinforced by Fox News, Christian radio and going home to people of like mind. You don’t have to overtly teach Christian nationalism; you just keep it from being critiqued.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In Jones’s diagnosis, white American Christianity has committed a profound act of apostasy by trading its spiritual core for political dominance. By endorsing anti-democratic tactics, white Christian institutions have become the primary engine behind the country’s autocratic slide.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“We are not part of any political movement,” said Alito, whose memoir – titled So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court and Our Country – was given a Tuesday release date. “And we are not attempting to further any political agenda.”
if you believe this, then I want to talk to you about a nice bridge I happen to know is for sale.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seriously? President Bonespurs thinks a one-time bribe of 90 lousy dollars is sufficient to buy my vote? what a disgusting and out-of-touch child he is, indeed.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:
Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
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DrALJONES wrote:
Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."
"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."
When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."
~Timnit Gebru
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit%5Fgebru%5Fai
#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism ...2
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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:
I don't own a gun. I have not touched a gun for decades. I have not once seen a gun in public in the city where I live, except for the pistols carried by law enforcement. Because in Denmark we don't have guns.
Our last school shooting was in 1994.
In the US 13,000 people will die from gun violence this year.
In Denmark only 10.
I call that being pro life.
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paninid@mastodon.world ("Indio Gringo ®") wrote:
Thirty-four Americans were killed and 171 were wounded when aircraft and torpedo boats struck the USS Liberty in international waters during the Six-Day War.
For nearly six decades, survivors and the families of those killed have sought recognition and #accountability.
The men of the USS Liberty deserved better. The American people deserve the truth. And those who died serving our country deserve to be honored and remembered.
Mastodon FeedRE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117381410942959608
Under the conditions allowed by the license of the content
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EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:
Under what conditions should copyright-protected content be used for AI training?
🗣️We know this is a topic many of you feel strongly about.
We want to hear your views on issues related to the use of copyright-protected content for training AI models, for research, and more.
📝Consultation open until 3 November 2026.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
press what? that icon is not on any of my keyboards... is this common knowledge I lack?
![macOS Steam notification: "Game Mode: On, Press [unknown key combo] to open Game Overlay."](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media%5Fattachments/files/117/382/276/171/984/181/original/457fb71fdbd186dd.png)
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
My little gremlin monster was just found hatched in an upside down kiddy pool in someone's garage and I was like OK then I'll be having that one
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Periodic check-in that its so cool that in this world there are too many little gremlin monsters and you're supposed to go and find a batch of little gremlin monsters to bring home with you and then they just sort of hang out on your bed with you getting freaked out by the fan and doing battle with any limb of yours that dares to be under a sheet
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
stop trying to design a world around "agents" it shows an embarrassing lack of awareness
normal people are not using "agents" and few can even afford such a fantasy
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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:
I do not have words for the complete and utter absurdity of both hyping post-quantum crypto *and* LLMs. The two are diametrically opposed to each other in practically every way, it makes absolutely zero fucking sense to strengthen systems against hypothetical future attackers while also intentionally weakening them against current and very real attackers.
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707Kat@mastodon.art wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.art/@707Kat/117302849956807714
This is one of the reasons I appreciate @davidgerard and his AI citrical so much. Man actually goes and listen to the podcasts and report on what is being said, rather than of just picking up the soundbites.
"This is not a redemption story"
I sorely doubted it would be from what I know about Lutke and his thoroughly horrible stances.
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ticky@slime.global ("Ticky🏳️🌈") wrote:
I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we’ve been, and where I hope we’re going https://drac.at/posts/2026-10-01-war-for-the-soul-of-software/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@Laszlo/117381492594397926
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
"Cynicism is the weapon of the bored and the broken."
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/your-cringe-hate-is-dead/
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured.
https://archive.ph/3B8Bo
original thread: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22qso it's probably important to know this stuff. but it's important to remember that Gyges is a rationalist who insists he isn't a rationalist, a solid AI doomsday believer who tried for the longest time to hide his power level, and someone who *seriously believes* that you can say slurs against a computer (he compiled the blocklists "AI slur user" and "AI hater" on bluesky).
it's nice to see someone listing all this stuff but also these are the grains of salt you have to take this writeup with.
anyway, TESCREAL is a cult and Gyges seems to be under the impression he's out of the cult in any meaningful way.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
What is it with people who posing as sensible and “balanced” on the use of generative models in their own field but then turn around and use absolutely abysmal generated images for their own blogs and newsletters?
I get the lack of labour solidarity, I see it happen most in tech-adjacent writers and Americans, but the lack of taste grates the nerves
“It’s literally got three hands! How can you not see the third hand?”