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I’ve read a lot of horrible news this last couple of years but this is maybe the worst? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premi…

Some of the first images made with my new ZV-E10.
Haven't really done any grading, mostly just the raw images, saved to JPEG on PC and done.
(side-note: Camera can do JPEG conversion in-body but it looks horrible)

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

And “Noor” by Nnedi Okorafor in which AO, a woman with some cybernetic implants resultant from a horrible accident as a child, goes on the run from authorities after a fight in which she defends herself from an attack by bigoted men who despise her for those “unnatural” implants.
As she flees into the Nigerian desert, she meets a nomadic cattleman, who is also in the run from the state for merely existing.

Noor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new scie…

AI generated github quizzes to validate pull requests. https://github.com/dkamm/pr-quiz
It's a clever idea, but I have a horrible sinking feeling that in two years we're going to be living in an Escher-like maze of Captchas and counter-captchas and infinite recursions of AI based arms races.

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

I'm looking for inexpensive linear actuators. I bought a $15 unit that uses an M3x0.5mm threaded rod and it's not horrible, but the effector has a lot of backlash. This has more stroke than I need; I only need about 65mm of stroke. But I wouldn't want to be particularly larger than this. Roughly 20mm x 20mm x 100mm would be my target envelope.
I'll fall back to using this with backlash compensati…

Took the front frame off to secure the little "handles" on the front of the PVM, didn't take too long and fortunately they just needed to be tightened up. I will need to clean out the interior of the PVM as it's accumulated quite a bit of dust and crap internally. It's not horrible, but it's not great either. Cleared off a spot for the PVM to live in the office as well.
#sony

Magats have already turned the Minneapolis mass shooting into an opportunity to attack trans people and Democrats.
News flash: If you think the shooting validates your hatreds, you are a horrible person.

I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.
What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?
What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?

Today FaSh and me discovere a very nice bagel place right around the corner of the Validad office, where we spent a hot day writing & deploying code: https://www.budapestbagel.com/ (horrible website, at least they have one)

Possibly horrible political idea I just had: double-blind congressional elections. After an election, neither the electorate nor the candidates are told the winner, so both go to Congress as if they were the winner. The only entity that knows the actual winner is the computer that tabulates the votes that their chamber of congress holds, so then everyone has to figure out the result of their respective elections by the results of congressional votes.

Just one of the many horrible and stupid errors the Democrats have made in the past 10 years was pushing this man out of the Presidential race.
https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/114724982697749746

Someone in the local Facebook group has posted an AI-generated image of Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the gates of heaven.
They've written "I will never forget horrible July 2025
Rest in peace 💙💙💙"
It has 171 Likes so far.
Boomers sure do love the AI slop.
And the idea that if there is a Heaven, Hogan would be going there.

One Stat The Raiders Must Improve in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-john-spytek-ashton-jeanty-mark-davis

An old friend's research is in the news. It's the kind of environmental science which is terrible and horrible to think about, but I'm glad someone is doing it.
Collecting those statistics on cetacean strandings is key if you want to know why it happens.
🌊🧪🦈🐟🐋🐳
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkr84d02ego

Am I a horrible computer toucher for hostnaming my MacOS bare-metal sandbox "cheddar" (as in "mac and cheese") and my Windows bare-metal sandbox "casement" (as in the type of window)?

Richard Murphy provides an excellent characterisation of where western society was at its best (for most people, but not everyoe), and how it fell into the increasingly horrible situation it's in now... and how we could return to a 'better way' - what he refers to as 'mixed markets'. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lrQh0_B…

Well I didn't expect my mother to be fixated on the idea that people think she's gay when I went to the hospital today 😄 I have a horrible feeling that as her mind succumbs to #MSA she's having boarding school flashbacks. While I can see the funny side of reassuring my mother that no-one thinks she's gay but that it wouldn't matter if she was, it's cruel if those days she's…

I realize I'm doing that horrible "post every once in a while and interact very little with other posts" thing, as if I were some kind of hotshot.
I apologize for this. It's shit behavior and it's not even helping my mental state.
Sorry.

#health #hypocracy

MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker
Donald Trump has spent the last seven months flooding our food, water, and air with all kinds of very real, very horrible pollutants, including numerous cancer-causing chemicals — the exact opposite of “making America healthy again.”

Got nerd sniped again...lol. Not a horrible problem and there's two ways to solve it.
#math #nerdsnipe

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski: “I’ve seen the clip. It's horrible. It is shocking at every level. It's not the America I know."
https://www.threads.com/@thetnholler/post/DK0Iv_2SvYt

Fox spirit? Oh haha, no. Nothing like that.
*horrible modem and printer screeching noises in the background*
I said we're haunted by a FAX spirit.

... With my luck, I'll find out that the company has some horrible secret by the time I'm done moving everything there.

Cowboys TE looking to bounce back from historically horrible to new $70 million contract https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/05/cowboys-jake-ferguson-player-profile/84029202007/…

The USA is doing so much damage to our long term economic future every week. We elected the wrong people. They have been destroying the USA.
It isn't a couple big failures. Many absolutely horrible confirmations of extremely unqualified people. Then hundreds of policy decisions every week causing immense damage.
Those seeking jobs are going to be harmed the a great deal for decades. Our health is going to be severely damaged for decades. Our finances are going to be damaged f…

@… Ooof, that sounds horrible. Even more reason to rest though! (Can I recommend playing Cats Love Boxes, if you need to stare at a screen?)
Hope you feel better very soon.

For anyone who is getting fed-up with the "e-bike" riding couriers who make all cyclists look horrible, turns out the main company leasing them is HMP Bikes and is trying to call them Class 2s when they have stubby little pedals you basically can't use. They are taking advantage of immigrants.

Yes, San Francisco Does Have an E-bike Problem. But It’s Specific to a Type of Bike (and Rider)
Food app delivery drivers on their glorified e-mopeds have brought a certain danger to San Francisco's bike lanes.

“Look over here and not at the man behind the curtain” is especially horrible when “over here” is nuclear subs and “man behind the curtain” is the pedo-files, terrible jobs numbers, and a tanking market due to the idiotic tariff deadlines collapsing.

#Matplotlib has a lot of "image comparison tests" that are horrible fragile. Technically, most of them permit some deviation from the reference images, but quite often I've been getting higher RMS than that. So for a long time, we've been maintaining patches that increased the tolerance in tests, and regularly either had to be rebased and updated for new tests.
At some point upstream started adding conditions permitting higher tolerance on non-x86_64 platforms. Of course, these changes forced me to rebase our patches. Curious enough, my previous overrides often happened to be close to the tolerance given for non-x86_64 platforms.
Today, it finally occurred to me that instead of updating the patch once again, I can try dropping it entirely and just sed-ing all `platform.machine() == 'x86_64'` with `False`. And guess what — down to 3 failures (related to TeΧ). And I don't have to spend 15 minutes manually doing what effectively accounted to the same thing.
#Gentoo #Python

Today I managed to buy a replacement buckel for the lap belt of my tramper backback at Bergsport Schwanda. I really like speciality shops where you can just drop by while cycling through the city (which makes it rather easy to not shop at horrible websites owned by proto-facist billionairs).

Even though they had their accounts reinstated, I wouldn't be surprised if their details got added to a database of suspects - the effect of which may never be made directly apparent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8kjdz9nr3o

Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules
It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.

I finished Jim Butcher's The Olympian Affair this morning and very satisfying it is, an Airship Punk, Victorian aesthetic in a post-post-post-apocalyptic world, crystal magic and horrible beasties.
He orchestrates battles and one on one fights with wit, peril and purpose.
I hope it's not quite so long between the Second and Third of the Spires series as it was between the First and Second.

I have a Casio A168 that I never usually wear. Summer is comming and I made a FrankenCasio with my W-800h. 😂
I like the result.
Maybe It's horrible for others.
#watch #watches #casio

If you ever wondered how the Romans got to be such horrible people that they staged gladiator fights and animal spectacles, just look around.

Think twice before considering artificial turf for your lawn - it's harmful to the environment and human health. Natural alternatives are the way to go for a sustainable and eco-friendly garden. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Homeowner met with warnings after considering harmful landscaping plan: 'Do not do this'
Adding artificial turf to your lawn may seem like a great idea, but it's actually a horrible one for both the environment and your wallet.

Danielle Smith, Alberta Premier, goes full “why aren’t you grateful”.
Why can’t any of these horrible people ever show humility.
I guess they wouldn’t be horrible then….
“Alberta Premier Danielle Smith demanded Friday the fire-stricken town of Jasper apologize and retract a report criticizing her government for its role in last summer's devastating blaze.”
Maybe Jasper should become part of BC.
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateemergency #wildfire #jasper https://apple.news/Adfo5AU6BRJGI0H1vYFmsWA

Hrmm, I think I'm going to do a bit of work on the MOS6502 emulator. I still need to implement interrupts and get those ironed out. Not 100% sure how I want to do it, but figure it shouldn't be too horrible. Also, I improved the docs as well because I couldn't remember how to compile the assembly code...lol
https://github.…

one day i will get around to fixing this tiny horrible video output window but for now i am enjoying one of the greatest games ever made in my crappy #MegaDrive #emulator :)

Is (#)Fdroid still horrible at user interaction?
(#)FdroidPublicRelations...
I got signs of this when they were like:
"If you do this or that we'll block you"...
that is highly immature behavior by an official account.
#FDroid #FDroidProblems