@grumpybozo@toad.socialFor Now.
There’s a glitch in the model here because Disney or whoever can easily mix original work with AI-created work in such a way that the amalgamated works are protected. AI isn’t copylefted: it doesn’t infect works that it is linked to. @…
@david@boles.xyzThe Unfinished Work: Why Artists Demand Proof of Life
A playwriting teacher of mine once said something that has rattled around in my head for decades: "You can write a play, but it doesn't exist until it finds life in the first production." The Chair of our department disagreed with that assertion, and vehemently so. The script is the work, he argued. The text is complete in itself. The playwright's obligation ends when the final period strikes the page.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt's been a rough week because so many computer things I wanted to do just were too difficult, didn't work, or I ended up spending (wasting?) too much time on them.
Some things did work though, and I learned a lot. Some of what I learned is that computers and certain companies (and people) suck, but there's always a way around things that don't work.
@servelan@newsie.social'I can cancel the vote': Rand Paul threatens to sink Mullin for hiding 'classified work' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mullin-paul-classified-work/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudge orders sidelined Voice of America employees back to work (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/voice-of-america-back-to-work-00833388
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p103#a260317p103
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialSome workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeEarly testing of the $40 USB microscope camera: i need to work out a better mount than the piece of trash it came with but the actual image isn't half bad for the price. I can definitely make this work for recording/streaming.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Steely Dan:
🎵 Dirty Work
#SteelyDan
https://saintgrumpy.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-work-steely-dan-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IvTwPCCjfZczCN2k4qPiH
@frankel@mastodon.top
@stefan@gardenstate.socialDoes Resistance Work?
A recording from Joyce Vance and Ruth Ben-Ghiat's live video
https://joycevance.subs…
@hynek@mastodon.socialIt’s rare that I get excited about a big tech acquisition but Motion VFX are very well regarded in the Final Cut Pro scene (I own a few plugins myself) for high quality work but they’ve been clearly struggling financially lately, as shown by their switch to subscriptions-only. Hope they’ll be able to continue their work and Apple’s offer just got way more interesting.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaQué tiempos cuando todo el mundo decía que el Metaverso era lo mejor del mundo y había venido para quedarse ¿eh? https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow does the NFL franchise tag work and which players are candidates in 2026? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7052910/2026/02/17/nfl-franchise-tag-process-2026/
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWhere should I work next? :elmo_fire:
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou can and should say no to demands to work on unethical shit.
@vrandecic@mas.toGreat call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaThat is f*****g stupid. When there is bad weather like that it should be work at home and stay off the roads.
https://flip.it/ROgm38
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialEarthy Retouches 💄
地标的装潢 💄
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSPRING BREAK UNDER SIEGE: Democrats' Reckless DHS Shutdown is Forcing TSA Officers to Work Without Pay and Holding American Travelers Hostage (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/17/spring-break-under-siege-democrats-reckless-dhs-shutdown-forcing-tsa-officers-work
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p101#a260317p101
@zachleat@zachleat.comit’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHow does the NFL franchise tag work and which players are candidates in 2026? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7052910/2026/02/17/nfl-franchise-tag-process-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-clinches-aws-deal-bid…
@bourgwick@heads.socialfantastic work by @… about the current state of political music & why people looking for people strumming guitars might be looking in the wrong place. will add: a big reason #folk music & protest became entwined is 'cause it was…
@robpike@hachyderm.ioYesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. All in the interest of a pointless decision to (re)implement the general 𝚪 function using the Lanczos approximation, but totally worth it for the experience alone.
The internet, the good old internet, is a treasure trove for this kind of work, especially but not exclusively wikipedia@wikis.world.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@brichapman@mastodon.social
@shriramk@mastodon.socialTIL that age 22, JM Coetzee, armed with degrees in english and math, moved to England to work as a *programmer*.
Thank goodness that didn't last!
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIt’s important to distinguish two different hypothetical ways in which gen AI can constitute a massive wealth transfer:
Scenario 1, “LLMs are the new petrochemicals:” Gen AI is actually effective for all sorts of tasks as advertised. It becomes a necessity for economic participation / useful work / whatever, and ownership of the data model and/or data centers thus means control of high-value resources.
2/
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThere's parties that always want to build or widen highways while not spending enough on maintenance of existing ones, blocking road pricing, and trying to keep taxes low.
In the Netherlands, they're finding out that this doesn't work. Tens of billions needed for maintenance now.
https://nos.nl/l/2606596…
@cdarwin@c.imVoltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work.
One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThank you to the kind person behind the anonymous account who keeps DMing/forwarding me screenshots of interesting Twitter posts about my work a few times a year, but then never responds. You know who you are and I truly thank you for your service! 🙏
As much as I appreciate it, unfortunately I can not go back to that place [if this is partially meant to lure me back] and I'd much rather wish for people still there due to various network effects and social pressures to organize them…
@jake4480@c.imHad a weird, difficult Excel/report issue at work yesterday. Wifey figured it out in just a few minutes. What she did would've taken me HOURS to figure out. She's so amazing.
Basically, it was a column full of thousands (13,000 , until I trimmed it to 8000) of 8 digit IDs that needed to be condensed to one cell, with only commas and no spaces between them (in order to be able to paste them into a form on a website, to generate ANOTHER report). She did it with a series of TEXTJ…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeKoh, who defected to South Korea in recent years, provides a rare window into Kim Jong Un’s digital warriors, who have managed to infiltrate hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, according to estimates from Google’s Mandiant division.
https://www.ws…
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaIt's weird to drive home from work and see the morning rush start.
@aardrian@toot.cafeClient explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialLooking for a CSIO (Chief Stop It Officer) position for my next career move. The organization comes to me with some wacky idea, and after much consideration, I say, "No, Stop It!” and we all go back to doing normal-ass work.
Send only serious offers my way.
Update: For a bit extra, I'll squirt your department leads with a water spray bottle.
@brian_gettler@mas.toIf you have to take on the acting chair role, there are worse times to do so than reading work.
#academia
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldNew SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialFor people that use LLMs regularly this is probably not a surprise. In my own environment i have seen examples where for example Gemini 3.1 (paid version) is very good in creating math excercises, customized to your need/demand. There is large potential for GenAI in education.
"Our work provides large-scale field evidence that student-chatbot interactions provide valuable signals for proactively optimizing and personalizing student learning."
@crell@phpc.socialIf your #CSS works fine in Chrome, but results in white-on-white colors on Firefox, then your CSS doesn't work fine, and whoever leads your CSS team needs to go back to their bootcamp and start over.
It's 2026. It's simply unprofessional to have that kind of basic color scheme failure in *any* browser.
#WebDev
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io"Rework is almost free so we shouldn’t make an effort to prevent incorrect work from happening."
Holy fuck, don't let these people
near any of my transportation, finance, identity, or healthcare infrastructure.
https://lobste.rs/s/syv21m/dangerously_skip_reading_code
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgTalked to the teen (away at university) for almost two hours. ❤️ Thankful that that is possible even when I'm away on a work trip
@primonatura@mstdn.social"China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban"
#China #Environment #Rivers
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialBeim Besuch in Paris fordert der US-Energieminister Chris Wright von der #IEA ihre Klimaarbeit aufzugeben und sich allein auf scheinbare Energiesicherheit zu konzentrieren. Wright kritisierte die IEA dafür, dass sie dem Klimawandel Priorität einräumt und nannte dies "politisches Zeug".
my take:
Wer alte Atomkraftwerke reaktiviert, Fracking propagiert, Windkraft und Solar stoppt…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialAn excellent, in-depth blog post about the challenges of making home energy management work for consumers.
https://es.catapult.org.uk/insight/making-home-energy-management-work-for-consumers/
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://sfba.social/@cowperthwait/116094253654738191
Seriously consider him. He's one of the most thoughtful and skilled marketers I've ever worked with, who actually understands the work deeply and not just throwing out suppositions that might be true without checking.
@veit@mastodon.socialEU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…
@UP8@mastodon.social😈 Enzymes work as 'Maxwell's demon' by using memory stored as motion
#enzymes
@joe@toot.worksMy nephew told me that he's upset that they gave him a stunt double for his high school musical. He was looking forward to doing the wire work himself.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotThere are some REALLY GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS on this app!
Such a joy to see their work, every day.
@nelson@tech.lgbtOne of the best innovations in personal computers has been the rise of scalable UI. Everyone now expects to be able to zoom something to make it larger, or for higher density displays to work correctly and be clearer. That was unthinkable 15 years ago. We have Apple's push to Retina to thank for that.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukIf REM sleep cycles are ~90mins, hth did anyone think that an 8hour sleep aim would work?
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Must Give Rob Leonard the Tools to Work With https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-give-rob-leonard-tools-work-with
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo I got two shitty cameras today and both don’t work 😭
Can’t win them all, unfortunately a fact with old electronics.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)
https://www.
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… maybe something with a diamond ok it needs work but there is something there
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSummary of the recent optimization work in ngscopeclient (not counting core/driver stuff, just filters)
I'm now making a pass through the entire filter library in alphabetical order removing some deprecated APIs, adding error reporting, and doing trivial GPU optimizations where I find them but not spending more than a few hours on a filter unless it's something like the CDR or eye that is really critical.
None of these are what I would consider "done". I'm f…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…
@servelan@newsie.socialMullin claims he’s done classified work — but the FBI says otherwise: senators - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/markwayne-mullin-2676286348/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialHow many times will I screw up the size of a hexagon in @… I'm pretty sure it's every time... I probably need to add a calculator to my code.
For now this one seemed to work:
https://www.omni…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/wga-west-staff-strike-ahead-of-amptp-negoti…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @cdarwin@c.imIf Democrats in Congress have any chance at
reining in how
Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates
under Trump,
⭐️it’s right now.
Lawmakers in both parties and both chambers are set to work over the weekend
to try to reach a
👉deal for funding the Department of Homeland Security,
which includes ICE.
Like other federal agencies, DHS is set to run out of funding by Jan. 30,
and lawmakers are racing to pass bills to ensure all ag…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialWhy don't fridges come with built in batteries to work when there is now power??
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI woke up angry today.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams is a liar, who is bad at lying.
“Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: ‘Chased? I wouldn’t say that. They followed him until he crashed.’”
Wouldn’t say that? How about: ICE was committing crime (their standard procedure), someone died, they’re the killers. Your people killed a school teacher, Williams.
Have the day you deserve, you apologist scum.
@bourgwick@heads.socialdepartment of things that make me feel like i'm having a stroke: the long island railroad killed round-trip tickets. if i'm visiting family overnight, i now have to buy 2 1-way tickets that only work on day of purchase. #nyc
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThis is a test of @altbot
Sprague Lake in snow.
Retrying altbot
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…
@jake4480@c.imThanks to @…, I'm now the owner of a Steam Deck! 🤯 Just loaded 100 games on it from the collection, and now the true test, as many are older indies - only a few of the ones I loaded are sure to work. 😂 But testing them all and finding out will be interesting.
#Steam
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThis is a good short-form video series about how LLMs technically work, I think a good thing to watch whatever your stance on them is or isn't
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPA3GFqdHv_rzpz99mtKO6MRe6BYyEiPH
@crell@phpc.socialCompilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… Aw, dang. Really sorry to hear it — really appreciated your work over there ❤️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioGetting so may loan scam voicemails that my voicemail box was full
Maybe Apple could work on that instead of Liquid Glass
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has repeatedly startled the world by applying 19th-century methods to modern security problems, like a latter-day William McKinley.
Sadly for Mr Trump, the world keeps startling him in return.
Time and again threats and shows of force fail to work quite as expected, leaving his officials unable to hide their puzzlement.
On February 19th, days before America and Israel pounded Iran, Fox News interviewed Steve Witkoff, Trump’s all-purpose diplomatic fixer.
Mr W…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI got a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad running QMK last year, mainly for a potential project for a client which didn't pan out so I decided to start using it.
Sadly, it's a piece of shit that bricked itself for macros, so I have a macro pad that cannot macro.
I have a way to make it work (hack!) but it's a pain in the ass.
I want to blame the hardware and not the firmware for this. Seems like it might be an EEPROM issue since even reflashing does not fix it.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Let's just…admit…if your wrists get in the way of ICE zip ties, if your lungs dare to breathe…our chemical weapons without written permission in advance, or if your body and face get in the way of ICE munitions, that was illegal of you. So if you're really honest with yourself, you deserved it and have no one to blame but yourself. People who follow laws don't get targeted by ICE, as being a target is a clear indication of criminality on the part of the target."
…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIsrael Keeps Killing Key Iranian Leaders. Will It Work? (David M. Halbfinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/middleeast/israel-iran-leader-deaths.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p57#a260318p57
@servelan@newsie.socialA pox on whoever gave this order.
Onsite gunmen force MSF to stop work at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/gunmen-onsite-force-msf-to-stop-work-at-gazas-nasser-hospital
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAutomattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/wordpress-com…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI've setup an account on https://listenbrainz.org and told it to import my 130,000 listens from last.fm . I wonder if it will work!
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I think I’m the wrong person to give this feedback to, I don’t work on the model sharing web site 😅
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBaidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/baidu-ta…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI want to stop hearing tech people whining about how they don’t get to pick what their employers want from them and it’s not their fault their employer requires them to work on evil projects
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/
@cdarwin@c.imWhite House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”
“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… y’all are doing amazing work 🏆
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe thing about ranting about other social networks is: it's not helpful to anyone other than maybe some temporary catharsis.
The way to get people to move off one social network to another one is to be super welcoming and make it easy—not to chastize or judge or gatekeep.
And most importantly do the hard work of recruiting. Go to that other network and convince people there's better places.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhat’s in it for people who work for the big tech companies who enable one morally bankrupt thing after another for decades on end just to make the billionaire owners richer?
Is that truly fulfilling work?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocuments: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/
