@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza2026-05-19 06:49:26
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza2026-05-19 06:49:26
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-07-18 16:41:50
Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-19 20:10:55
As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/meet-the-c
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 23:59:24
How Trump became the accidental green president
Donald Trump
— a man who has spent his career joking about windmills, ripping up climate agreements and waging war on anything containing the word “green”
— is presiding over an accelerating transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the United States.
In May, solar power overtook coal in electricity output for the first time.
Energy storage and solar made up 91 percent of new grid capacity in the first quarter …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-07-19 01:38:53
How exactly does one darl?
I keep hearing people say someone is "darling" but to me it looks like they're just sitting around not doing anything in particular
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-07-19 12:55:25
Content warning:
I feel like I should somehow capitalise on all the buzz around what looks like a gods-awful adaptation of the Odyssey. But how? Anything sexy or kinky you've always thought Homer should have explored more?
#Odyssey #ChristopherNolan
@selea@social.linux.pizza2026-07-19 10:11:52
I did a test in Romania, #meshtastic vs #meshcore and here is the quick summary:
Over 250 Meshtastic nodes found, compared to 70 Meshcore nodes.
BUT
Meshtastic was basically dead, no one talked, or answered anything. I only got one message with the following - "test&…
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2026-06-19 07:32:34
So the big news here this morning isn't the historic Burnham win or anything footy related - I briefly saw a large bird fly through our garden during dusk last night - though it might have been a barn owl - but today the BBC has this news...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d21mldd…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-06-19 03:04:52
This is Tips, our local hellcat - don't let him trick you into thinking he's cute or anything
@joe@toot.works2026-05-19 15:54:33
I am a developer and I have never been told to use a cloud AI for anything. I was told to only use Copilot if I was to use one, though. That makes sense to me because copilot through the o365 tenant has extra data protections. I'm guessing that someone out there is uploading passwords and keys to a cloud AI.
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-05-20 15:09:40
When surveillance fanatics run out of arguments, it‘s always „If you don’t have anything to hide, then it shouldn’t be a problem.“
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-fl
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-07-19 11:56:59
@… Thanks for the reference!
If your business proposal is selling “metered intelligence,” ideally in an oligopoly, you’ll fight anything that could threaten this goal by any means necessary…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-07-19 11:56:59
@… Thanks for the reference!
If your business proposal is selling “metered intelligence,” ideally in an oligopoly, you’ll fight anything that could threaten this goal by any means necessary…
@nemobis@mamot.fr2026-07-19 10:00:57
Major search engines are so broken these days, that LLMs are better at producing deterministic results. I was looking for a document containing three strings, and got zero results. The "AI" chat immediately found it. This is not due to some language analysis feature (it was an exact match on English words, no declensions or anything needed).
Today again I was looking for a news article matching some keywords and got no results.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-06-19 08:42:02
from my link log —
JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-20 05:50:14
I reject the M/N spectrum.
I’m never ready to do anything serious before like 9:30-10 AM, nor later than 8 when my kid goes to bed.
I’m strictly a midday person.
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116432671170256220
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-18 23:37:21
blah blah blah knicks blah blah trump blah blah "we should all not go to work and fucking take this country back"
(okay, now you've got my attention.)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3molwhnfl6c25
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-19 09:11:08
91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-05-18 21:05:16
I posted something in a public Discord, it was a joke, nothing offensive or anything. (it was to do with an upcoming wrestling show)
One stuck up 'nice person' had to chirp in with "I don't like that joke"
Here is an idea, ignore it. Don't react.
As Ronan Keating said "You say it best when you say nothing at all"
Not all jokes land with everyone, but FTLOG, there is more than just **you** on the server. Grow a spine!
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-05-18 04:43:46
Still don't know what's happening with the wee one. There was a MEETING today but we haven't heard the results yet. I am leaving for Civic in an hour, and husband was planning to drop my friend and me off at the nearest Rapid bus stop before making his way north to pick up the wee one from preschool. Left a message at CYF explaining our movements and that we need to know what's been decided (if anything) but haven't heard anything yet. Interesting times.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 17:51:22
The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-07-18 21:16:36
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-20 15:15:13
Just finished "Fustuk" by Robert Mgrdich Apelian. Without exaggeration, it is a true masterpiece, an absolutely stunning graphic novel about food, family, and magical contracts that reminds me of both Witch Hat Atelier and Young Bride's Stories. The truly impressive part is that Apelian is every bit as good an illustrator and storyteller as both Kamome Shirahama and Kaoru Mori.
In the author's note, Apelian says "So I asked to make the story I always craved growing up: a tale of Middle Eastern joy and magic that speaks to diasporic culture and how those of us within it relate to our two worlds." He succeeded at that goal abundantly, as far as I can tell, and has produced a truly impressive work.
Images are rough pictures of a few example pages showing very cool panel construction, lots of detail, and both dynamic action and expressive faces. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the second image here is one of the most powerful pages I've read in a while and the way it uses gutters demonstrates a beautiful mastery of the comics medium.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@Neybulot@pawb.fun2026-05-18 22:24:49
Legit question, but my mother got me some cologne sampler thing for some reason (probably wants me to not be single and figures it will help) but apparently colognes are for things other than dates?
Do people wear this stuff during furry conventions and shit? I've never known any roomies during cons to do anything but shower and wear deodorant.
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-05-19 20:52:35
I actually spoke to not one, but three sewing machine repairmen today! 😵💫 I didn't plan it that way... But it happened. When I spoke to the third, it turned out he had been sitting next to the second when I called him in the afternoon. A strange, small world, apparently.
Anyway, they were all in consensus, even the one not trying to sell me anything: this machine is the shit. And I was very lucky contacting them at the right moment to get first dibs on it. So... #NewSewingMachine
#sewing
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-18 16:51:37
2025 NFL Draft QB film study: Can Cam Ward continue to improve in year two? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7366418/2026/06/18/cam-ward-titans-qb-film-study/
@yeold@social.linux.pizza2026-05-20 13:01:22
Seems like LabWindows does actually work with windows 11. It was workplace policies that messed up the kernel drivers.
I wonder if IT will ever do anything about it if I report it?
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-06-16 15:09:32
Meanwhile, the person who murdered Renee Good in cold blood hasn’t been charged with anything, and is walking the streets.
The people who murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood haven’t been charged with anything, and are walking the streets.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-18 04:16:08
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-06-20 07:04:06
Home alone with no plans? That’s me today. Just seen my wife off to work, and now I’m sitting at the computer with a large mug of coffee, and it’s kinda nice to know I don’t have any pressure to do anything. I will get some things done around the house, probably, but I’ve no obligations today
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-05-18 00:58:55
The Butlerian Jihad famously includes the phrase
"Thou shalt not make machines in the likeness of a human mind"
But if I were starting off today, I would say "thou shalt not force the human mind into the likeness of a machine"
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1165
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-06-17 20:27:55
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-19 07:11:08
90gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 19:57:25
Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-17 02:07:40
So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure
@Simone21@mastodon.social2026-07-17 19:13:40
One of the saddest slogans ever: Make America great again.
America always was great. It was the land of our dreams.
Since Trump, it's a nightmare.
America was our friend.
Now, it's who we thougt to be our adversaries who speak the truth and you can't believe anything that Trump says.
Our world is changing.
Europe hopefully will grow up very fast.
And I pray that our world will be more peaceful, egalitarian and democratic in the future, anywa…
@doktrock@toad.social2026-06-15 19:02:26
#Dylan on life on your '80s, New York Times
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-12 19:30:43
'Anything necessary': Trump won't rule out sending troops to polls (Matthew Kupfer/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/anything-necessary-trump-wont-rule-out-sending-troops-to-polls/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p78#a260512p78
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-20 01:58:52
How to get a package removed from #Gentoo?
1. Add a new #NIH dependency.
2. The dependency turns out to use coherent.build. Nightmare! Oh, wait, apparently coherent.build generates source distributions that use flit.core (understandable; coherent.build is unusable).
3. The dependency depends on chardet (the project famous for GPL copywashing). Okay, technically it works with the older version, and the dependency is optional with poor person's fallback, so I guess it would be fine.
4. But hey, this package is not used by anything, and the last package using it in Gentoo was removed in 2020, after not being touched for 4 years already. Also, that package is not maintained upstream since 2017, so I guess there's negligible risk of it ever coming back.
#Python
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-05-17 09:15:15
I hesitate to share anything from the SWP but this is a fair assessment.
One correction: Greater Manchester buses aren't in public ownership. Like London, private operators have franchises within the regulated system managed by Transport fro Greater Manchester.
Public ownership wasn't an available option but it is one to campaign for, so surpluses come back into the network rather than exiting as shareholder profits.
The many faces of Andy
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-17 05:22:55
Spencer Pratt is a continual f-ck up who's never run anything & literally burned out his last hustle.
So his next hustle is you, Los Angeles. Take it from Brad Wollack.
#LosAngeles #Mayor
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-06-16 20:09:15
Man am I glad that I jumped ship off anything #ArchLinux-based 😅
What a hot dumpster fire the uncontrolled #AUR is, wow...
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-13 14:07:01
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-06-18 12:04:04
I may be able to get a similar engine for the mower for €100-150 if the guy at the mower shop can actually get it off the machine it is currently on in an amount of time congruent with its value. Failing that, we're looking at €800-1200 for a new unit to fix a mower I paid €1400 for. Brutal.
Ireland is a small, isolated market. You really feel it when trying to get anything that isn't the most bog-standard commodity product.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-05-16 03:09:50
Anything new on the #EpsteinFiles front tonight? Yeah? No? I didn’t think so. What’s up next? So far we’ve had a #war, some #UFO noise, the
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-19 17:11:08
96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-06-18 04:29:28
Just a reminder that the author who ghost-wrote “The Art of the Deal” expressed regret for writing it once Trump turned to politics, apologized profusely for helping to create the illusion that Trump actually knew anything about deal-making, and argued that the book should be recategorized as fiction.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 20:33:42
Monday's killing in Biddeford Maine
—at least the 11th that agents of the nation's anti-immigrant death squads have committed in the U.S. since the start of Donald Trump's crackdown
—has been met with public outrage,
but nothing indicates that the federal government thinks anything went wrong at all.
As is its custom, ICE told lies about its victim, calling Duršn Guerrero an "illegal alien" in its statement
and suggesting that agents slaught…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-17 18:13:30
"…Every filthy stupid thing that happens is happening in the open, now: Captains of industry line up to shake Trump's hand at…big birthday party he threw for himself…every new blast of rank & ancient bigotry or proudly pig-stupid backwardness arrives w/o euphemism or qualification. Trump is not just figuratively walling himself off from…DC, & glowering down at its residents, he is literally doing all those things."
@jon@henshaw.social2026-06-16 13:52:08
I could probably filter out almost all link-building spam messages by just matching "DR{n}"
I don't know one person I respect who knows what they're doing in #SEO and uses the made-up DomainRank as a reference for anything.
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza2026-07-17 07:15:00
I was scanning the headlines this morning for pictures of the Musk Starship's latest big bang and disassembly, but there wasn't anything. Seemingly launch was cancelled at the last possible moment and no new launch date set.
What's happened to "move fast and break things"?
https://www.…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 11:22:58
Here are the scenarios from our 2018 meeting notes:
- Cyber-attack
- Earthquake (FEMA or KC)
- Wind Storm/Power (KC)
- Critical Power Failure
- Pandemic Flu (KC)
- Hurricane
- Chemical Accident
I think we ultimately eliminated "Chemical Accident" as "not something we could do anything about" and "Pandemic Flu" as "too big." Funny that the last one turned out to be something that we had to take care of anyway.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-11 03:07:05
"I’m not looking to renew it," Trump said at the White House. "We don't need anything that Canada has. We don't need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have. They have to treat us better."
Trump says US might not renew North America trade deal | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-might-not-renew-usmca-2026-06-10/
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-06-16 14:09:18
I turned on mobile data on my mums android phone; sheesh makes you realise the crap that's installed. When anything appears/pops up I have to figure it out - and then figure out how to turn it off. Gone are Motorola app suggestions and google news suggestions - wtf make people get notifications for those?
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-06-15 21:50:21
In my defense: I responded to an explicit request for explanation.
I would never dream of explaining anything to Wendy Nather without such clarity.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-06-14 12:03:06
someone explained to me why they had three instagram accounts and i really didn't get it. like, a private one (sure, whatever) but then a... secondary private one (was the first one for friends and the other for family?? you're not even a public figure, what does public mean in this context??)
recently i met someone with 4 instagram accounts (this person was a cis white man who didn't transition or had multiple names or anything) and i just... didn't get it. Like, wh…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-06-18 17:11:08
203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-14 16:52:22
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-06-09 19:40:29
Raiders QB Kirk Cousins on Brock Bowers: 'Is there anything he can't do?' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/06/09/raiders-qb-kirk-cousins-on-brock-bowers-…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-06-15 04:35:01
AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
The author of Java property-testing tool jqwik did not want AI coding agents using his project. So he told them not to.
Then he went one step further: he added a message to the tool's output telling those agents to delete jqwik tests and code. […]
🧑💻
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-17 17:45:11
Just finished "Landing in Place" written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir. A beautiful and emotional story that has a lot of great complicated perspective on wearing hijab, plus a lot of Egyptian historical and cultural details that I didn't know anything about. Some really interesting discussions about protest and revolution too.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-07-15 19:52:06
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-05-16 12:27:29
Weird saddles.
#biketoot
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:19:08
"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-07-17 23:13:21
I had to use Windows 11 today to play a particular game that doesn't work 100% on Linux, and before I could even play, I was just chatting with a friend when the Network stack decided to take holidays...
Just gone, couldn't get it back and had to reboot (Back into Linux ofc)
That ends my gaming for the night...
I mean, how do you break while literally not doing anything that would cause it to break...
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-06-19 17:11:08
183gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 18:34:53
After Russia interfered in the 2016 election,
our intelligence agencies made detecting foreign interference in our democratic process a priority.
In past elections, members of Congress have regularly received briefings on how nations such as Russia and China monitor our elections,
and what, if anything, they’re doing to interfere in or influence them.
Those updates are generally classified,
but after elections,
a declassified summary is typically release…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-06-17 08:42:03
from my link log —
A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
saved 2019-08-25
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-20 12:01:08
127gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 11:08:23
Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-20 04:11:08
107gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-18 00:35:26
Although a whole lot of Americans increasingly use AI in their daily lives,
most of them have neutral to negative views about it, new research reveals.
Only 16% of Americans think that AI’s impact on society during the next 20 years will be positive, Pew says,
while around 40% say that it will have a negative impact.
A vast majority of people (67%) don’t believe that the U.S. government will do anything to meaningfully regulate AI.
A similarly skeptical cohor…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-05-20 06:51:08
83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-07-15 20:19:50
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 11:59:58
RE: #DearLazyWeb (#Anarchist lazy web): does anyone know if anything like this already exists?
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 17:35:47
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116936511964259539
Treason, of course, is punishable by death potentially,
which is all part of the point of the President's accusation.
He wants to intimidate news media to not report anything that doesn't please him o…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-05-19 17:01:08
96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-05-20 14:51:09
83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-04-20 05:11:08
163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-16 18:16:12
Qatar and Iran are separated by the Persian Gulf, a body of water, at a distance of about 119 miles.
Trump had the audacity to claim otherwise even next to the country’s ruler,
and it’s not even the first time.
In October, Trump told reporters on Air Force One,
“They’re literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar.
You can walk it in one second. You go ‘boom boom,’ and now you’re in Qatar, that’s tough territory”
—to much ridicule online.
Has no one bo…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-17 08:17:08
Content warning: systemic violence against children and parents, talking about racist shit
Folks in the US right now: Government secret police are still kidnaping people off the streets. A huge chunk of GDP has been dumped into an unprofitable grift. The entire economy has collapsed, except for the part propped up by building data centers that nobody wants, using loans based on no collateral. Basically the entire upper class have either been actively involved in child sex trafficking or ignored it. The president is a pedophile who started a war he can't win to distract from the fact that he's in the Epstein Files. No one can afford anything. People can't even afford diapers. Do something, or this country is going to explode.
Democrats: What if we elect a guy with a Nazi tattoo?
US Government: What if we crack down harder on the people who are resisting those secret police?
US Cops: What if we murder a baby?
Edit: Adding a CW. There are a lot of marginalized folks who are already overwhelmed and don't need a reminder.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-17 01:53:31
Governor Josh Shapiro here.
Take it from the guy who took Donald Trump and his allies to court 43 times after the 2020 election
- and won 43 times:
Trump can say whatever he wants.
He can sign his name to anything he wants.
He doesn't control our elections.
𝗛𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆.
Here's the problem:
Right now, the Governor's office is the very last line of defense against a far-right takeover of the most important b…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-12 07:49:15
The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-06-18 02:41:08
190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-06-17 22:11:09
190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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194gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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189gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-05-17 16:01:08
136gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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209gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 16:50:21
Donald Trump's ability to avoid accountability for the many previously inconceivable actions he's taken as president often seemed premised on two essential elements:
First, his every scandal was in the open for the world to see;
if the coverup is always worse than the crime, don't bother covering anything up,
which fed the second premise:
Create so many scandals such that the public couldn't keep up with any one egregious abuse of the system.
Ne…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-16 21:21:08
247gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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245gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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253gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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255gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-15 16:11:08
218gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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249gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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243gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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155gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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158gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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