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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yassie_j@labyrinth.zone ("Yas-o-Lantern :baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: ") wrote:

Google Lens is brilliant. Just incredible. Before, if you selected a temperature, it would convert it for you.

Instead. It does this.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
skyfaller@jawns.club ("Nelson") wrote:

@lrhodes @cyberquixote No, you're fucking with me, is Bernie really listening to Eliezer Yudkowsky? We're boned

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fablesfables@peoplemaking.games ("Fae") wrote:

@clayote @pandora_parrot @gabrielesvelto @eniko Someone in an OS dev community said it best, I think:

"The hobby is the attention, not the [insert project here]."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

so still in 1973 the aeronautics and silicon asshats were lookinh for cheap laborers with sewing and fiber arts skills to work in their plants; AND THEY STILL WERE TREATING THEIR WORK AS IF IT WERE LOW-SKILLED, REPLACEABLE, INCONSEQUENTIAL.

because, imagine getting someone like mami, who was so traumatised by her years as a sweatshop worker, that getting paid $3 and hour was considered a godsend?

my mother was never told that she did at Western Digital was #engineering work…

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Amiga 40 has been really cool until now but there's just one thing that bugged me, and it's not something specific, but something I saw in other retro scenes too.

The (fortunately not frequent) use of AI-generated images.

Please, please, please don't do that. Finding one in this context feels like having the time of your life, and then suddenly stepping on some dog shit.

#Amiga40

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

do you know what i REALLY wanted to be when a grew up? A FASHION DESIGNER.

now, anybody who knows me from when i was a child (there used to be such a person here on Mastodon, btw) knows that i would say lawyer. that’s because that’s what i was scared into saying.

you see… my mother was denied a college education by my grandfather, who wouldn’t sign the papers for her to even go to their local UPR community college, so where did my Puerto Rican mother end up after high school?…

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha%5FJay/117382397216266564

that’s why #NASA hired teams of #embroidery #knitting #beading #fiberArts experts who all so happened to be not just women but mostly Native American, African American and Latinas. they were nicknamed the Little Old Ladies and without them there would be no Apollo program.

they won't even teach you in school that the LOLs were preceded by women who ―if they wanted a chance to enter college, a privilege only for men― they did so by being computers (mathematicians) for “real” scientists.

🧵…

Boosted by pixxl:
p@hj.9fs.net wrote:

#neverslop

Boosted by pixxl:
eri@mk.moth.zone ("eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing:") wrote:

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

Boosted by pixxl:
lachlanharrisau@infosec.exchange ("Lachlan Harris") wrote:

@404mediaco if LLMs are alive, then technically all computers are alive, and therefore able to be tortured

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
top_news ("News") wrote:

Pennsylvania health officials brace themselves as measles outbreak expected to spread

Most counties don’t have their own health agencies, and some specific population groups have low vaccination rates

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/04/pennsylvania-health-officials-measles-outbreak

#TopNews #News #Pennsylvania #Franklin #Werner

Boosted by pixxl:
CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk ("Prof. Catherine Flick") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117378117850915865

Hello, I’m an actual technology ethicist. This is weird and creepy but LLMS ARE NOT ALIVE OMG

The unethical thing is to treat them as if they are! Anthropomorphising LLMs does actual living humans far more of a disservice than even this weird creepy behaviour.

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

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117383523656423667

these incidents have poisoned relations with the populous of Okinawa

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
euronews@mas.to wrote:

Another day of mobilisation is planned for Tuesday. By then, 400 to 500 secondary schools are expected to remain fully or partially closed, including 24 that have been “burned or vandalised”. The ministry also reports that 78 education staff have been injured since the movement began. #EuropeNews https://l.euronews.com/Rzu3

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

If cops spoke like AI developers and AI users,

It wasn't me that shot you or my gun. It was a bullet with misalligned objectives.

#FuckAI #AI #AIHype

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
monkeydom ("monkeydom, Ar.T") wrote:

TIL that #Apple passwords defaults to allow websites to automatically upgrade existing accounts to use passkeys. O_o

Thanks to @iamkonstantin for the alert about it before something happened to my accounts.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:

I've noticed a few times online, people talking about the "No AI" crowd being highly annoying, but then not really clarifying the behavior that was bothering them. That's troubling to me! I'm against AI, and I don't like being annoying! But then it feels too delicate to ask the complainer, because that pretty much guarantees that if I wasn't being annoying before, I sure am now.

Well, this may not be representative, but I did just see someone elaborate this a little bit, and the answer is... "we try to run a software stack devoid of LLM contributions, on our own computers."

...

I'm at a loss on this one.

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

The Slopfree Software Index now has an RSS and Atom feed! :rss:

Thank you @bloody_albatross for implementing this feature 🎉

Keep an eye out on the URL, I may get a more interesting one soon! 👀

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

@db Importantly, the high profile people designing that world either have tokens provided by their company or comped by the labs as a promotional expense. Outside of some open source people, no one is actually spending hundreds of their own dollars per month on a very stupid personal assistant.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:

For #AncientSiteSunday the #Hellenistic theatre at Pergamon, #Türkiye, built in the 3rd century BC, alterations were made in the #Roman period. It's one of the steepest known ancient theatres. The capacity was about 10,000 spectators.

📷️ C. Bredfeldt

#archaeology

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

If watching YouTube videos has taught me anything about myself it's that I natively speak at 1.25x speed

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld") wrote:

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
jpfox@m.g3l.org ("Jean-Pierre Morfin Cholat") wrote:

Nouvelle version de #BackToTheMail

App Android, Linux, Mac, Win pour gérer des Groupes et Pages uniquement avec une boite mail... bye bye WhatsApp et Facebook

https://app.backtothemail.net/fr/open

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Oxymetheus@mastodon.world ("Oxymetheus 🇨🇦") wrote:

Brilliant and hilarious. I have that exact edition of The Elements of Typographic Style within arm’s reach as I type this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ck-NPqf2c8

#typography #design #fonts #comedy #GilbertAndSullivan

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JaniceOCG/117338020790423883

there is no way to unweave Black people from the fabric which is America. they have preached and fought and died for the cause of our freedom and nationhood since before we were a nation.

yes: *our* freedom

Boosted by pixxl:
michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

@nyrath

The whole thing is a scam.

It's like how five years ago, schools were being pressured to teach students "the blockchain" in place of actual computer programming. Only even more destructive & wasteful.

The next AI winter really cannot come soon enough.

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

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

RE: https://www.threads.com/@thebloggess/post/DeDO6MYmISy

Boosted by pixxl:
michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

My local newspaper relates a proposed "AI" policy for St. Paul Public Schools.

It suggests that high school students use slop in place of search engines and pretends the text generators are "like a really smart study buddy".

Require that the schools simply prohibit the automated plagiarism machines instead, #SaintPaul.

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

I have one friend from high school who calls me without preamble, and occasionally my agent, manager or lawyer will call unprompted. Wife and daughter call if I haven't answered a text. Literally everybody else schedules the phone call, usually via text, or just texts because it's so much more convenient. If my phone rings and it's not the six people above, I assume it's a scam. Even my dentist and doctor text these days.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@alex%5Ffoulke/post/DeCZlqCkbHe

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

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-wlXX1xhERLiGsGElbqZcKQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

the role Gov Shapiro took in all this idiocy is not good. the concept of “eminent domain” has sometimes been tortured out of meaning anything proper.