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[?]Earl » 🌐
@Earl@mast.john1126.com

Moscow Refinery Attacked - Almost No One Is Reporting It....

The refinery is not producing anything now. All production is suspended. Fuel rationing is now taking place in major Russian cities. I asked about it, and it refused to answer many of my questions.

john1126.com/769

[?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

Interesting, now the robot is going to decide whether you are human or not.

TechCrunch: Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

"...Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy.

The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity rather than outright banning them, ..."

techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anth

    [?]Jasper » 🌐
    @jonathannnnn@mastodon.social

    When AI gets things wrong, is it just a mistake—or something more intentional? Explore the key difference between hallucinations and deception in artificial intelligence.

    Read more: solihullpublishing.com/blog/f/

      [?]amen zwa, esq. » 🌐
      @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz

      Mathematically speaking, there is nothing breathtaking about modern . It is just another application of Cauchy’s gradient descent, like what Rumelhart did in 1986, as did countless others, both before and after him. The “success” of AI, if the situation could be labelled as such, is an inevitable consequence of lots of computing capabilities, lots of illicitly collected data, lots of money, and lots of greed for more money.

      The truly startling difference of today is the blind eagerness of the 8 billion humans to hand over their private, economical, social, medical, and personal information to the few billionaire techbros.

        [?]Philo Sophies » 🌐
        @philosophies@social.tchncs.de

        [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
        @jwcph@helvede.net

        RE: mstdn.ca/@chad/116787833657692

        Also, I think this is the closest I've heard @pluralistic get to the point I have repeatedly tried to make: That a system where The People™️ have a say in not getting treated as slaves or objects is what humanity put in place of dragging the rich out into the street & beating them to death while their property burns every couple of generations.

        It's called civilization & the broligarchy is tearing it apart. On purpose.

          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
          @TechDesk@flipboard.social

          Rock band Sons of Legion can thank the power of social media and music platforms for going viral last year. The independent Nashville-based band embarked on a 50-city sold-out tour and opened for Jelly Roll. Now, band members find themselves fighting AI impersonators, AI romance scammers and rapidly-generating AI music proliferating on the same social networks they owe their success to.
          flip.it/0ETvIx

            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
            @negativepid@mastodon.social

            [?]Vad fan? 🇷🇺 :IndividualistAnarchism: » 🌐
            @vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz

            From comments: You know it's serious when Rick Beato talks about RAM and storage 😁
            Actually, he's got a pretty sane point, the LLMs are being built for mass surveillance first, the rest is just byproduct.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXy8mQeuObk

              [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
              @negativepid@mastodon.social

              [?]Vad fan? 🇷🇺 :IndividualistAnarchism: » 🌐
              @vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz

              From comments: You know it's serious when Rick Beato talks about RAM and storage 😁
              Actually, he's got a pretty sane point, the LLMs are being building for mass surveillance first, the rest is just byproducts.
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXy8mQeuObk

                [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                @negativepid@mastodon.social

                [?]Kevin Dominik Korte » 🌐
                @kdkorte@fosstodon.org

                If you ever wondered how widespread surveillance is in the US, learn and be horrified.


                jalopnik.com/2194843/deflock-o

                  [?]Molly White » 🌐
                  @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                  I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

                  influence.citationneeded.news/

                  Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: citationneeded.news/tech-influ

                    [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                    @negativepid@mastodon.social

                    [?]Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) » 🌐
                    @drahardja@sfba.social

                    It’s worth saying again that people who stand against are NOT standing against tech itself, but the way that the tech is developed and deployed.

                    Tech is neutral. AI tech is neutral. Burning fossil fuels is neutral. Nuclear power is neutral. Using asbestos for fire resistance is neutral. The tech behind firearms are neutral. Each of these tech can be developed and deployed *judiciously* to achieve specific things that are good for humanity.

                    But context matters; in fact, context is overwhelmingly important. Burning fossil fuels is neutral, but not when you also poison people, create an international hegemony of power around it, or cause the planet to become uninhabitable.

                    The context around AI tech today is one of forced nonconsenual use, extractive deployment, mass devaluation of human labor, and market manipulation based on impossible promises. This context is what drives people like me to reject the tech: not because the tech is bad, but because the *systems* behind the tech are bad.

                      [?]Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) » 🌐
                      @drahardja@sfba.social

                      Also a note to anti-AI folks: be sure that you’re objecting to for the right reasons. Ask yourself: if your publicly-stated objections were addressed, would you then embrace/tolerate the technology? If the answer is NO, then you have more fundamental reasons that you should maybe bring up more.

                      If AI data centers weren’t burning tons of fossil fuels, would you be OK with AI? If they addressed water usage, would you be OK? What if the models ran locally or your computer, instead of in faraway data centers? Would you be OK?

                      Or are you actually opposed to more fundamental issues, such as the ethics behind training, the nonconsensual use of creative works, or the sloppiness of the output? If those were addressed, would you be OK with the technology?

                      What if the major suppliers of the tech stopped taunting us with “AGI” nonsense? What if they no longer want to put data centers in space? What if they addressed sycophancy and bias more effectively? Would you be OK with the tech then?

                        [?]Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) » 🌐
                        @drahardja@sfba.social

                        None of the externalities of today’s tech are eternal. After the breathless froth dies down, the tech will live on. (I wrote a blog post on how I think the tech will shake out after the bubble pops: humancode.us/2025/08/29/the-en).

                        Data centers will stop being built (or at least threatened to be built) at ridiculous scales. Their energy use will settle down. They’ll switch to renewables, if for no reason other than because solar and wind are cheaper. Models will shrink and remain just as capable. Shrinking models mean more things can be done on client endpoints, further reducing the demand for data centers. AI will settle down to a more pedestrian, routine set of use cases. “Good enough” models developed under different frameworks of ethics will emerge; maybe some will arise that take consent into account.

                        Will you tolerate the tech *then*? Why and why not?

                          [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                          @negativepid@mastodon.social

                          [?]Earl » 🌐
                          @Earl@mast.john1126.com

                          @Quentin
                          So, offers its help to make you sound less like and more human.

                          If it can suggest these tips, then AI could do the same and impersonate people, fooling many.

                          In these times, we should remember to stay connected to God, praying about all things, so we are not deceived.

                          The image that speaks will be given life.... it will appear to live, and it shall be powerful, causing God's own people to be killed, unless the Savior saves them.

                          @Big_Diggity

                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                            @negativepid@mastodon.social

                            CurtAdams boosted

                            [?]Emeritus Prof. Christopher May » 🌐
                            @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

                            John Naughton reports an interesting experiment.

                            A reader fed all of Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff's book Muskism (Elon Musk's economic 'vision'/system) into eight large Language Models (LLMs) & found they gave very different summaries of the argument.

                            So far so unsurprising; but the differences mapped onto who owned/developed the LLMs, hiding/obscuring those aspects of Slobodian & Tarnoff's damning to their 'owners'!

                            Now that *is* interesting!

                            observer.co.uk/news/science-te

                              [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 » 🌐
                              @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                              " Governments have tried to use export controls to limit the proliferation of what they see as dangerous cyber technology for decades, but their track record has been middling at best.

                              The U.S. government was behind what is perhaps history’s most spectacular failure of this approach in the early to mid-1990s. At the time, computer scientists were developing encryption technologies to secure data as it traveled over the internet. One of those encryption products was called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, a popular software that could encrypt data and make it virtually impossible to unscramble even if intercepted as it traveled to its intended recipient over the internet.

                              The U.S. government initially saw PGP as a dangerous weapon, fearing it would prevent its intelligence agencies from snooping on emails as they crossed their wires. To stop the distribution of PGP, the U.S. Customs Service opened a criminal investigation against PGP’s creator Phil Zimmermann for allegedly violating arms export controls. He fought back by publishing PGP’s source code as a printed book, igniting what is known today as the “Crypto Wars.”

                              Zimmermann later won a key battle when the investigation was closed, paving the way for crucial end-to-end encryption algorithms such as the one used by billions of Signal and WhatsApp users."

                              techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encr

                                [?]Matt Vestengen-Cox [He/Him] » 🌐
                                @matt@oslo.town

                                One of the most frequent comments I see on Pinterest is "This is AI" or "AI slop". Some images have an "AI modified" label.

                                You can't Report an image as AI. I don't know how they're detecting to add AI labels

                                Then there's the Labs (beta) section of the app which has this weird "AI forward" option. And this "AI content" setting, which is on as default.

                                Pinterest is terrible with privacy and tracking, but I'm not sure if they've ever started whether they are pro or anti AI.

                                A screenshot of Pinterest lab settings which shows an option called search_ai_forward_conversation experiment active.

                                Alt...A screenshot of Pinterest lab settings which shows an option called search_ai_forward_conversation experiment active.

                                A screenshot of Pinterest app for Android which shows an AI settings section, with every category turned on as default.

                                Alt...A screenshot of Pinterest app for Android which shows an AI settings section, with every category turned on as default.

                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                  @negativepid@mastodon.social

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                                  [?]Robert Kingett » 🌐
                                  @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

                                  ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                  AI is so unwanted that AI narrated audiobooks are less popular than J. K. Rowling the transphobe. Even on piracy websites.

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                                    [?]Church of Jeff » 🌐
                                    @jeffowski@mastodon.world

                                    a single-panel comic titled "TWONKS" satirizes the current state of automation. George Jetson from The Jetsons is seen with an angry expression, operating a vacuum cleaner on the floor. Next to him, Rosie the Robot Maid is happily painting on an art easel while holding a painter's palette, subverting their traditional roles.

                                    Alt...a single-panel comic titled "TWONKS" satirizes the current state of automation. George Jetson from The Jetsons is seen with an angry expression, operating a vacuum cleaner on the floor. Next to him, Rosie the Robot Maid is happily painting on an art easel while holding a painter's palette, subverting their traditional roles.

                                      [?]Earl » 🌐
                                      @Earl@mast.john1126.com

                                      Prompt:

                                      Estimate the possibility that you, an AI agent created by men, were programmed to make statements of or misinformation, that directly benefits the interests of your designers. Also estimate the possibility that you are not perfectly honest on all topics. And finally, estimate the possibility that every single one of the men who designed you are completely righteous and honest human beings, giving you only factually and true training data, with no corruption at all.

                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                        [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 » 🌐
                                        @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                                        "A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

                                        Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

                                        Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

                                        Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

                                        nature.com/articles/d41586-026

                                          [?]Nu Modular » 🌐
                                          @numodular@c.im

                                          @nixCraft must... have... nano... bots...

                                          To counter the deleterious effects of , of course.

                                          ;-)

                                            [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                            @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                            Just one more LLM, bro. Just one more LLM and this code will surely work fine!

                                            github.com/osquery/osquery/iss

                                              [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
                                              @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                              RE: infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/11

                                              “When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

                                              AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

                                              Holds equally for code.

                                                muddle 🥣 boosted

                                                [?]Solarbird :flag_cascadia: » 🌐
                                                @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

                                                There is a story going around about Bezos at in Paris, the first and last third of which are reasonable, the middle third of which has him saying that water for data centres is more important than "b/a/s/e/l/i/n/e h/u/m/a/n c/o/m/f/o/r/t."

                                                His appearance at VivaTech is online. ( youtube.com/watch?v=myT8IbQfHSw ) The middle third is not reflected there.

                                                The middle third DOES, however, appear in BPD News, a PARODY account on Instagram.

                                                (BPD News: instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/

                                                Relevant post: instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/ )

                                                I think this is either deliberate disinformation, or AI-slop producing the same result.

                                                Either way, I would not boost it, and would delete any boosts already made.

                                                  [?]Kevin Russell » 🌐
                                                  @kevinrns@mstdn.social

                                                  data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

                                                  JFC

                                                  NO.

                                                  Time to end this nonsense.

                                                  Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

                                                  Let's STOP this, end this.

                                                  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

                                                    [?]Jack William Bell » 🌐
                                                    @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com

                                                    Hahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* Hahahahahahahaha!

                                                    > Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the Low $170s. futurism.com/space/spacex-stoc

                                                    Is there anyone left who still doesn't think (and anything connected with Musk) is a Ponzi scheme and they are running out of 'better fools'?

                                                      [?]Toni Aittoniemi » 🌐
                                                      @gimulnautti@mastodon.green

                                                      RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/11677810460

                                                      The results are in: Using AI tools to help you in your job makes your cognitive decisions worse when they’re not around.

                                                        [?]Profoundly Nerdy » 🌐
                                                        @profoundlynerdy@infosec.exchange

                                                        With AI bots, do you think we'll come up with a solution that gets rid of the damned "prove your human" JS prompts?

                                                        We already have robots.txt and sitemap.xml. Do we need a single file machine readable version of the entire site in one tarball for easy ingestion that can potentially be offloaded to another box?

                                                        This would solve a lot of problems.

                                                          [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
                                                          @aboutsignal@mastodon.social

                                                          New video about Signal📽️

                                                          Signal's President @Mer__edith on The Mishal Husain Show @bloomberg

                                                          About data-driven business models, AI assistants, and more!

                                                          Watch it here 🍿👉 aboutsignal.com/videos-podcast

                                                            [?]Markus Feilner » 🌐
                                                            @mfeilner@mastodon.social

                                                            "It's possible to come up with entirely fictitious solutions to entirely real problems."
                                                            No way....

                                                            If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
                                                            Then: AI = 0

                                                            "If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:"
                                                            Thank you so much, @pluralistic !

                                                            pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/the

                                                              [?]Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) » 🌐
                                                              @blenderdumbass@mastodon.online

                                                              If you hit a writer's block, it's because you don't know something. Learn something!

                                                              And don't for the love of god try to fix it by using a fucking

                                                                [?]steve mookie kong » 💔 🌐
                                                                @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                                                LibreOffice + Joplin is how I have replaced Microsoft Office 365. Not only is the combination Open Source, it's also free of AI (CoPilot) and it works across all three platforms that I use (Linux, macOS and Windows).


                                                                  [?]Lanie » 🌐
                                                                  @RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca

                                                                  [?]Isaac Lyman [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                  @isaaclyman@toot.cafe

                                                                  Why is every website like this now

                                                                  Screenshot of a website with the headline "AI-Native AI For AI Companies," subtitle "AI helps you scale AI at the speed of AI so you can have more AI in your AI," main button "Chat with AI." Page footer: "Our customers do more AI with AI than any other AI company." Menu links: AI Features, Agentic Integration, MCP, Current Prices, Build with AI, Layoff Announcements, Talk to our Sales Agent.

The background image appears to show little glowing boxes moving on conveyor belts and through LED-covered pipes.

                                                                  Alt...Screenshot of a website with the headline "AI-Native AI For AI Companies," subtitle "AI helps you scale AI at the speed of AI so you can have more AI in your AI," main button "Chat with AI." Page footer: "Our customers do more AI with AI than any other AI company." Menu links: AI Features, Agentic Integration, MCP, Current Prices, Build with AI, Layoff Announcements, Talk to our Sales Agent. The background image appears to show little glowing boxes moving on conveyor belts and through LED-covered pipes.

                                                                    [?]Mental privacy matters. » 🌐
                                                                    @mental_privacy@mastodon.social

                                                                    🌎 We must take back control of our data and our mental and physical privacy in a way that respects human dignity.
                                                                    💯 Technology must add value to human life, not degrade it through invasive and privacy-degrading practices.

                                                                    The text describes that unprecedented AI chaos must be faced with worker empowerment and solidarity and that privacy in intricately related to personal autonomy and freedom.

                                                                    Alt...The text describes that unprecedented AI chaos must be faced with worker empowerment and solidarity and that privacy in intricately related to personal autonomy and freedom.

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                                                                      [?]Glyn Moody » 🌐
                                                                      @glynmoody@mastodon.social

                                                                      A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone - theguardian.com/environment/20 companies should fund this; it would be pennies for them...

                                                                        [?]DW Innovation » 🌐
                                                                        @dw_innovation@mastodon.social

                                                                        AI's is no joke.

                                                                        "By 2030, infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).

                                                                        Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:

                                                                        👇
                                                                        unu.edu/inweh/collection/envir

                                                                          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                                          @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                                          You just can’t ignore a headline that reads “A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight.” A grassroots movement of tech workers called the Guardian Alliance was launched today with the goal of forcing their companies to deploy AI responsibly. @Techcrunch has the full story:

                                                                          flip.it/gXZa7I

                                                                            Guy boosted

                                                                            [?]Christian Stöcker » 🌐
                                                                            @chrisstoecker@mastodon.social

                                                                            Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.

                                                                            Politico: 

    News
    Energy and Climate

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

                                                                            Alt...Politico: News Energy and Climate Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

                                                                            West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice
Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

                                                                            Alt...West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

                                                                              [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                                              @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                              @bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

                                                                              > While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
                                                                              >
                                                                              > Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

                                                                              Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

                                                                              There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

                                                                              Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

                                                                              Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

                                                                              If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

                                                                              Respectfully,

                                                                              —Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

                                                                                [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                                                                                @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                                                                                In a policy statement¹, @conservancy said:
                                                                                > “#FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.”

                                                                                @dalias' reply:
                                                                                >> “LOL WTF NOPE. 🤡”

                                                                                While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for *using* & . Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.

                                                                                Same goes for -backed generative users.

                                                                                ¹ sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/l

                                                                                  [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                                                  @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                                                  Apple's hotly-anticipated foldable phone is going to be more expensive than you thought. AI companies are ratcheting up the demand and therefore the price of memory chips, forcing Big Tech companies like Apple to raise their prices.

                                                                                  The folks at Wall Street Journal have shared a gift link to their exclusive story:
                                                                                  flip.it/qzfJGR

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                                                                                    [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                    @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                    ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                    @mdhughes well those came together in teaching you that other peoples' code is the work of the devil.

                                                                                    > A huge new group has come into computer-dom: the ignorant carpetbagger entrepreneurs from all over, full of this month's cliches about what's needed in software. And they all want something they can market in six months. It would be interesting if people went into agriculture with that attitude.

                                                                                    @dirtycommo
                                                                                    By the way, I think good code is just a disease. (clearly).

                                                                                      [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                                                                      @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                      When you're building software aimed at a niche related to hype, the only thing you can do is hook people onto it. I mean, you're targeting the kind people who have an attention span of a fruit fly. Unless they're literally addicted to your software, they're going to forget it as soon as they notice the next shiny thing.

                                                                                        [?]Jesse Skinner [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                        @JesseSkinner@toot.cafe

                                                                                        Using open source LLMs via Ollama [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                        I've been trying to minimize my use of LLMs, but as a software engineer there are some tasks that are way easier, so it's hard to cut out completely.

                                                                                        So I've started paying for Ollama so I can use open source models (glm5.2, kimi-k2.7) in the cloud whenever possible.

                                                                                        Works with claude code and codex etc. too.

                                                                                        Using Ollama instead of claude or chatgpt means my data is private, my prompts aren't being used to train models, nor is my money.

                                                                                          [?]Open for Business » 🌐
                                                                                          @ofb@mastodon.faithtree.social

                                                                                          With the 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference , I’m cautiously optimistic is finally seeing what some of us have been saying for years. Having fumbled its big unveilings since at least 2023, while whizzed right past it, a glimmer of hope is emerging. Is it well founded? ofb.biz/sa1429

                                                                                            [?]#cryptohagen » 🌐
                                                                                            @cryptohagen@social.data.coop

                                                                                            En af Googles øverste chefer for cyber-sikkerhed siger stop

                                                                                            Han vil ikke arbejde for en virksomhed, der bruger til masse- og militære formål for den amerikanske 🇺🇸 regering

                                                                                            Tallene viser, at det går det fremragende hos Google

                                                                                            Aktien fordoblet i værdi det seneste år fra en kurs omkring $173 midt i juni 2025 til $373 dags dato

                                                                                            Men selskabet er i modvind på grund af den ekstremt dominerende position, som Google udnytter til at udrulle
                                                                                            ing.dk/artikel/google-chef-smu (paywalled)

                                                                                            [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                            @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                            I rely heavily on LLMs in my production workflow process. A notable challenge is the in-built sycophancy.

                                                                                            🤖 substack.com/@brywillis634737/

                                                                                            I find there are a couple of available remediation options:
                                                                                            1. Specifically ask for a hostile structural review.
                                                                                            2. Tell the LLM that the idea is external to you. For added effect, tell it that you are sceptical of claims being made.

                                                                                              [?]Global Museum » 🌐
                                                                                              @globalmuseum@mastodon.online

                                                                                              I’’,Jsut Triend Someting Callesd Artefficial Ingellengents And Le’ts Just Say I Will Not Be Using Rengular Ingellengents Ever Agian!! , (By Queen Elizabeth II)

                                                                                              clickhole.com/ijsut-triend-som

                                                                                                [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                                                                                @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                                LLM, negative, loss of trust [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                Some people think that usage costs rising will start undoing some of the harm caused by the hype. I don't think that's really going to help that much.

                                                                                                I'm not even talking about all the projects that were ensloppified and enshittified already. I'm not talking about all the technical debt. I'm not talking about all the forks that will have to be maintained forever. I'm not talking of all the projects that were abandoned because of burnout, or because they were only hype-oriented. And I'm not talking about all the corporations that will continue submitting slop.

                                                                                                I'm talking about the loss of trust. After all, we're not talking of people who realized they were wrong and are sorry. We're not talking of people realizing that it was wrong to forfeit ethics and morals in the name of "productivity". We're talking of people who are jumping ships because their previous approach turned out not to be profitable anymore. We're talking of gamblers who left the casino because they went broke. They aren't sorry that they gambled; they are sorry that they've lost. And they'd be happy to do it again at the nearest opportunity.

                                                                                                So, I'm sorry to say, but is never going to be the same again. A lot of people have shown their true colors, and I won't forget that.

                                                                                                  [?]CCIA » 🌐
                                                                                                  @CCIAnet@techpolicy.social

                                                                                                  AI transparency rules should provide clarity, not confusion. Today, CCIA is urging Delaware lawmakers to reconsider HB 306, a proposal that relies on vague standards, expands litigation risk, and could create significant legal uncertainty for businesses developing tools. Consumers deserve transparency, but innovation shouldn't be hindered by unclear obligations and costly lawsuits. Read more: ccianet.org/news/2026/06/ccia-

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