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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bloor@bloor.tw ("🆎") wrote:

It is interesting that something of a meaningful grassroots backlash is happening towards AI generated imagery.

A cafe did an entirely AI generated "poster" on facebook, and 50% of the comments were like : "AI slop", "can't you do photos of real food?", "wouldn't trust this place if they can't get real photos". etc

Interesting change of winds.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

The crisis of software development comes from two contradictory rules:
- Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we must only learn by shipping
- There's no time for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time

Bosses thought #AI could break this contradiction. But synthetic insights and vibe code don't actually enable faster discovery & delivery. They are a (poor) alternative to doing these things AT ALL.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-fake-double-diamond-is-dead-the-real-double-diamond-is-immortal

#tech #softwareDevelopment #UX #UXDesign #llm

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

The Nobel shines a light on optogenetics.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/05/it-looks-like-its-nobel-season/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jeypawlik@comicscamp.club ("Jey Pawlik 🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Hey I'm Jey, a nonbinary comic artist! My specialty is autobio and character-focused short stories.

I've got two completed webcomics under my belt (Dead City & Gender Slices), I'm posting comics every Tuesday at https://topazcomics.com plus bonus content at https://patreon.com/jpawlik

I also make monthly comics for @OhJoySexToy

My portfolio: https://jpawlik.com
My art blog: https://jpawlik.com/blog

Since I moved servers, you find my old posts at @jeypawlik@mastodon.art
#MastoArt #Comic #Webcomic

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

“The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-fake-double-diamond-is-dead-the-real-double-diamond-is-immortal

> AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.

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

i did an outside. it was very outsidely.

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

noted: harassment & web speech APIs 🫩 (we can't have nice things)

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-10-05T14:32Z/

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

God fucking damn it, don't use the hallucinating autocorrect to research the election. For starters every single city, county and state has sample ballots and information about what's going to be voted on. Reliable information is not difficult to find.

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5977852/ai-chatbots-midterm-election

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

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

NEW: Following our investigation with The Frontier, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste.

We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-disposal-well-plugged?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Water #Safety #Health

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

Hokkaido stayed Japan's most attractive prefecture for the 18th straight year, a survey found, with the cities of Sapporo, Hakodate and Otaru in the prefecture ranking as the three most attractive municipalities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/05/japan/hokkaido-top-prefecture-ranking/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #surveys #sapporo #hakodate #otaru #tokyo #osaka

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

“This is for everyone” or “free-for-all”?

The web has shifted from its original open, sharing-focused vision toward concerns over protecting vulnerable populations, copyright and AI data usage, and centralized social media that obscure data sharing and provenance.

Pierre-Antoine Champin and Viivi Lähteenoja will lead a mini-workshop at TPAC2026 in Dublin to explore new forms of data governance, data ownership, and decentralized alternatives.
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/567
#w3cTPAC #DataGovernance

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

a useful analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/magazine/supreme-court-congress.html

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

okay, this is disgusting

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸") wrote:

@grigs they had! Both me and @cwebber did hours of interviews. They were really fun and interesting and mostly didn't get to the airwaves.

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

Off to hell with you, pedophile, you will not be missed

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/obituaries/dennis-hastert-dead.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.GVE.8SdK.Y2VASwlysE-M&smid=url-share

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

How many people use desktop widgets on macOS? I started out ignoring them, then added one or two, and now probably have too many. (Well, four, but one of them is really big.)

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
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.

https://link.europa.eu/JbhGpG

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe") wrote:

WSL: Windows Spiced Latte

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("SpookyEmily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎃👻"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

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

Don't support these web publications.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/05/have-you-ever-heard-of-bbm/

Boosted by pixxl:
dangerdyke@translunar.academy ("sparrows (doll arc) :flaglesbian::neoamazonia::vriskasip:") wrote:

the way AI bros talk about people who dont jump on the bandwagon getting “left behind” reminds us of the way evangelical christians talk about the rapture and being saved

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

LLM-generated grift emails do get funny. I just got an email saying my podcast, Out of the Software Crisis https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out-of-the-software-crisis/id6814465241, was a smart way of building a product around software industry crisis and that I was early to that opportunity. 😝

(Several decades late, by my account)

Boosted by pixxl:
Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:

Here's a word we should add to our dictionaries:

vericide

noun
ver·​i·​cide (ˈver-ə-ˌsīd)
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of truth

One of the chief uses of generative Ai is large-scale vericide.

vericidal (ˌver-ə-ˈsī-dᵊl)
adjective
: tending toward or producing vericide

Generative Ai is an inherently vericidal technology.

Spread the word.

Boosted by pixxl:
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

I an really tired and sick of this AI stuff where handful of extremely rich folks telling rest of us that we should accept job losses due to AI, theft of all data, environmental damage, less clean water to drink, increased energy costs and inflation for the benefits of AI slop.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
overflo@23.social wrote:

Here have some raveioli
As a treat.

Good night fedi.

Attachments:

• video: Just raveioli doing what they do.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Honestly everything happening right now makes so much more sense when you consider how influential LessWrong and Slate Star Codex were amongst the Silicon Valley elite and techbros in general. They all think it’s part of an insane prophecy.

If you don’t know: basically they think that if they make AGI they’ll live forever because mind upload. Or even be resurrected. And yeah this is all bizarrely tied to New Atheist movements. You wouldn’t even believe me if I explained it further.

I am simplifying it. But the actual philosophy sounds MORE insane trust me.

Boosted by pixxl:
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Asking a software developer why they didn't just vibe-code their project is like asking a LEGO enthusiast why they didn't just buy the finished Millennium Falcon.