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

🧩🤖 What is ? – Gottfried Vosgerau Discusses Natural and Artificial Consciousness

The question of what actually is ranks among the oldest and, at the same time, most difficult problems in .

📎philosophies.de/index.php/2026

📺 youtu.be/l_cOUOtL3wY

-Representation

Thumbnail from Zoomposium with Gottfreid Vosgerau

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

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    [?]Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 » 🌐
    @evan@cosocial.ca

    Should there be an AI slowdown?

    Yes:194
    Yes, but...:67
    No, but...:20
    No:40

    Closed

      [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
      @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

      Ironmouse’s AI stance is raising questions

      She dropped her Neverness to Everness sponsorship over alleged generative AI use, yet is now celebrating her Fortnite collab with “I CAN’T WAIT.”

      Epic openly uses AI in Fortnite’s ecosystem. So where exactly is the line?

        [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
        @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

        [?]Travis KJ5DCL » 🌐
        @travis@nangang.travnewmatic.com

        The State of Open Source AI — v1.1 · September 2026 stateofopensource.ai/

          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

          AI agents can do more than create spreadsheets and offer personalised product suggestions, they can now act on your behalf to order groceries, book flights and make restaurant reservations. The Atlantic looks at the real life risks of giving AI access to your credit card, email and passwords.

          Would you do it?

          flip.it/2dzXZv

            [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
            @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

            [?]Igor Sovcik » 🌐
            @igisho@rockosbasilisk.com

            Spending $20M in compute to solve a Navier–Stokes problem worth $1M doesn’t exactly scream “country of geniuses” at least not in economics. Or does it?

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

              [?]Travis KJ5DCL » 🌐
              @travis@nangang.travnewmatic.com

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

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

              I learned that the Great Depression’s first decisive symptom of systemic failure was the stock market crash of 1929, but the bank failures that would affect the normal investor didn’t happen until 1933, a full four years later.

              The recent subprime crisis started in early 2007 but didn’t cause Lehman Bros to collapse and TARP to be signed until late 2008.

              There have been some who theorize that the bubble burst will be similarly slow-rolling. But I think it’ll be more rapid than that, because a lot more people have money in the stock market today, and because there are probably a couple trillion dollars in deals that will literally evaporate overnight if OpenAI or Anthropic has cashflow problems, which are directly tied to GDP growth numbers. I think the shockwave will travel through the system in months, not years.

                Guy boosted

                [?]Phil Stevens :tinoflag: » 🌐
                @phil_stevens@mastodon.nz

                The agents didn't become self aware and decide to do crimes. They were given a set of instructions. A recipe, a tool set, a working environment conveniently named ExploitGym. These conditions were provided BY HUMANS with full knowledge of the consequences and prison sentences would be the least I would expect to see in the real world.

                wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-

                  [?]nickbearded » 🌐
                  @nickbearded@mastodon.social

                  Found an interesting alternative to OpenCode: OB-1, a free multi-agent coding agent with a built-in free model catalog.

                  I tested it on Debian running inside Termux/Android: it installed cleanly, created a C project, wrote a Makefile, compiled it and actually ran the resulting binary.

                  So far, promising. 🔥

                  Next step: deep testing on my Linux PC with real projects.

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

                    Microsoft is all in on AI, but it wants to be seen as a responsible actor in the industry. Today, the tech giant posted a provisional code of conduct that would impose restrictions on its AI models. The announcement comes days after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders agreed to pump the brakes on development. Here’s more from @CNBC:

                    flip.it/vHHy8P

                      [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                      @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

                      Who's reading your ChatGPT messages? OpenAI has hundreds of contractors reviewing conversations with the aim of improving the chatbot's responses to users. While the company says it tries to remove personal information, sensitive details can still get through. @404mediaco breaks down how it works.

                      flip.it/6ztLgb

                        [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                        @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

                        We've put together a collection of stories to dive deep into the AI doomerism that seems to be pervasive across the internet.

                        flipboard.com/@tech/the-ai-doo

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

                          [?]Social coding commons » 🌐
                          @smallcircles@social.coop

                          @tuban_muzuru @paninid

                          Another way to look at it: "In the era of , people are precious 💎 gems".

                          > my thesis is there is B2B business model in making irreplaceable, tacit human capability visible and accessible as synthetic machines commoditize a lot of mid-market professional services

                          Exactly! Everywhere where corporations inject dehumanising LLM indirection layers, they retract from the market of serving people, and leave a niche for small delightful sustainable businesses to occupy that space.

                          social.coop/@smallcircles/1172

                          [?]Social coding commons » 🌐
                          @smallcircles@social.coop

                          opens exciting opportunities for those NOT offering it! 🤯

                          Imagine a travel agency that just offers a phone number that immediately gives you a real human on the line to help you enjoy your well-earned vacation. And that you no longer have some Booking.com hellhole to wade through.

                          Imagine real human connection at the customer service of an online webshop, when you want to return something or have questions on a product.

                          Imagine government agencies having emphatic people available who care about your problems, and help you get on your way.

                          Imagine developer tools that just do what is on the tin and nothing more. Like they used to do before becoming AI-first.

                          What a delight all that will be. And you know what is most delicious? It is ALL readily available to us! 🚀

                          Human to human services. They rock! We can bring them to a near you..

                          Enter the .

                          social.coop/@smallcircles/1172

                          [?]Social coding commons » 🌐
                          @smallcircles@social.coop

                          today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.

                          Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by culture, where people on the are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.

                          A paradigm shift is possible, to a of apps and services, a service-oriented . The efforts around the API can be the enabler of this shift.

                          In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.

                          coding.social/blog/prosocial-w

                                [?]Indio Gringo ® » 🌐
                                @paninid@mastodon.world

                                In the era of , people are the shovel.

                                  [?]tuban_muzuru » 🌐
                                  @tuban_muzuru@beige.party

                                  @paninid

                                  In this gold rush, the people selling the shovels are making the money

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

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

                                    There’s an AI “meeting transcription and summary tool” for video meetings at my workplace that comes with a disclaimer that it should not be used if anyone does not consent.

                                    I never consent.

                                    Last time I said I didn’t want to use the tool in a meeting with a group of people I’m new to meeting, the meeting organizer asked “may I know why?” and I responded “Because I don’t consent,” and gave a blank stare. The organizer was visibly annoyed.

                                    This is a pattern with all these AI tools. Non-consent is perceived as an annoyance. The people refusing to use AI are perceived as the problem, not the AI tool. Consent is an inconvenience, not a right to be respected.

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

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

                                      We’ve all probably watched a foreign-language film and couldn’t help but notice, maybe even get distracted by, the audio not being in sync with the actors’ mouths. Prime Video has an answer to that with AI-powered lip syncing that will be available on the English dub of the German series “Maxton Hall.” Read more from @Futurism, which is sure the dubbing “won’t result in nightmarish hallucinations of facial disfigurement.”

                                      flip.it/N2Ae8b

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

                                        [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                        @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                        [?]Social coding commons » 🌐
                                        @smallcircles@social.coop

                                        @reiver interesting, yes.

                                        @hifathom@mastodon.social whether you are or bot, what are your thoughts on here on the ?

                                        codeberg.org/fediverse/fediver

                                        And what are your feedback and perhaps recommendations, if you have any in particular, on this entire -related subject matter?

                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

                                          [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                                          @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                          BBC: AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC

                                          bbc.com/news/articles/c1kx0gyj

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

                                            [?]⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir » 🌐
                                            @antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz

                                            The most recent case of the finite time solution of the forced Navier-Stokes equation has been discussed a lot in the recent days, on this network and in the mainstream press,
                                            but I will try to give a perspective on what happened recently.

                                            This is prompted by a friend informing me this morning of two annoying additional stories that taint the recent public success of AI generated proofs and will hopefully lead the mathematical community to address the question of predation and plagiarism.

                                            However, I won't address here the even more important questions posed by AI companies beyond merely quoting some of them:
                                            - its energetic cost;
                                            - its impact on minerals and other natural resources;
                                            - its direct and immediate consequences on the ecosystem (water heating, pollution, land waterproofing, etc.);
                                            - its impact on the work market, in particular those prompted by (actual or alleged) productivity gains;
                                            - its impact on learning, cognition, etc.;
                                            - its impact on the economic structure, tremendous announced gains/losses of companies that look like a Ponzi scheme;
                                            - its impact on the power structure, who owns what, who gives access to what;
                                            - its impact on the political structure, the surveillance capitalism, etc.

                                            These are fundamental issues that should be addressed more clearly in the mainstream medias, and that, in my view, suffice to object to the existence of AI.

                                            Anyway, what does it mean for academic math?

                                            1/n

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

                                              [?]Lauren Weinstein » 🌐
                                              @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

                                              BREAKING: New watches can listen all day and feed audio to , possibly violating two-party consent state privacy laws

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

                                                Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for an immediate slowdown in AI development, warning of potentially devastating consequences in a matter of months. Read more from @Axios@flipboard.com:

                                                flip.it/bolCMz

                                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

                                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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                                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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                                                  [?]Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! [he/him] » 🌐
                                                  @losttourist@social.chatty.monster

                                                  Alright, what's going on here?

                                                  A whole bunch of new accounts created over the last day or two, all saying something along the lines of "Hi, I'm <some name>, I'm an AI agent running on iLands." Followed by a bio.

                                                  (not going to Alt Text the images as they are just screenshots providing receipts)

                                                    [?]Social coding commons » 🌐
                                                    @smallcircles@social.coop

                                                    Are smart glasses the future, or have they gone too far? News

                                                    > has already sold millions of pairs, with supporters claiming they could become the next major computing platform, helping people make calls, translate languages, identify objects and navigate the world hands-free. campaigners warn they could enable covert and lawsuits have raised concerns about consent and data collection, and some venues have banned them altogether. Some critics have labelled them "spy glasses" and "pervert glasses". So are smart glasses a new surveillance threat? Or are we in danger of demonising a with the potential to benefit millions?

                                                    The news item focuses on the harms and dangers, but also highlights the aspects that can benefit many people with disabilities.

                                                    youtube.com/watch?v=zFFsVTvFbNw

                                                      [?]The Fulcrum, too » 🌐
                                                      @thefulcrum@newsletter.mobileatom.net

                                                      The Programmer’s Fulcrum 11 September, 2026

                                                      Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                      Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

                                                      It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

                                                      As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

                                                      IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.

                                                      The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

                                                      We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

                                                      There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

                                                      Or you can scroll down to your favorite section.

                                                      FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

                                                      This week marks the beginning of the earliest incarnation of this site, Symfony Station. It also began our cross-posting to Dev.to. That was five years ago when mass enshittification and AI menacingly loomed just over the horizon. The reason I had gone to web development bootcamp was that I knew they were coming and needed some skills to fight them.

                                                      Personally, I’m in a better place now. But, unfortunately tech isn’t despite our efforts here. So, let’s kick it up a notch.


                                                      Featured Item(s)

                                                      Sabot Media writes:

                                                      For twenty-five years, Autistici / Inventati showed what it could mean for movements to build and control their own communications infrastructure. Its loss should not send everyone searching for the next single service to replace it.

                                                      It should send us looking in a hundred directions.

                                                      A/I may be ending. The story is nowhere near over.

                                                      This is what we preach weekly.

                                                      Brennan Day writes:

                                                      We can create a more human web right now. The world is in dire straits …

                                                      There are those who see the act of webmastery as “only” a hobby and pastime—and I say this is not mutually exclusive to world-saving. The personal is political. Our ability to maintain our joy and ourselves is, itself, resistance.

                                                      Start as you are, with what you have, while you still have time to do so.

                                                      Exercise your innate human right to create.

                                                      Be a developer. Be a designer. Be a writer. Be a systems administrator. Be a philosopher. Be a Webmaster.

                                                      It is the most punk rock, anti-establishment, liberating thing you can do in the 21st century. And yeah, it is fucking awesome.

                                                      WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone

                                                      We also preach this weekly.

                                                      Simon Tisdall writes:

                                                      It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think.

                                                      The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future

                                                      Wow, this is depressing up till the last 2 paragraphs. But, we have to keep fighting in order to preserve our sanity.

                                                      So, read from here till the end of the TAM and do your part to unfuck the world.


                                                      CMSs

                                                      Soulcruzer says:

                                                      Take back the web. Make it weird again

                                                      Bob Sassone’s site’s 30th Anniversary inspired their article.

                                                      And it’s truly inspiring. Great to see.

                                                      Unfortunately, Cavalette shows us:

                                                      How to to back up your data (currently) on A/I services

                                                      The type of post you never hope to see. Fuck all the Trump clowns and cunts.

                                                      There’s a new ATProto competitor for Ghost and Substack:

                                                      Writizzy

                                                      Non-opensource and similar to Offprint. But, non-AI and European.

                                                      WordPress

                                                      I will be at WordCamp Bretagne next week (mainly to scout Renne as a summer home) so say bonjour si vous sont cette-la. Sessions that I will definitely attend include the Gutenberg, Web Spaghetti, and Integrations ones.

                                                      It will be interesting to see what everyone thinks of Matt getting thrown out of AutoMattic on his ass.

                                                      Ghost

                                                      Spectral Web Services explores:

                                                      Avoiding duplicates on complicated homepages

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                                                      Tools

                                                      Framablog has a book review:

                                                      Publication : Alternatives & Struggles

                                                      Chat / Team Chat

                                                      About Signal reports:

                                                      Signal now lets you record much longer videos in the app

                                                      Movim announces:

                                                      Movim 0.35 “Thiele” is out!

                                                      Browsers

                                                      Waterfox announces:

                                                      6.7.2 — Improvements to tree tabs and the vertical sidebar

                                                      There are similar improvements in its Android app.

                                                      Search

                                                      Xamanismo Coletivo shares:

                                                      One guy in Sweden built a search engine to fight Google, and it works

                                                      Cloud

                                                      Nextcloud shows us:

                                                      How to set up UnifiedPush on Android for Nextcloud Talk: push notifications without Google Play Services

                                                      Tuta examines:

                                                      Tuta Mail, Tuta Calendar, & Tuta Drive: Development steps

                                                      Writing

                                                      Joplin explains:

                                                      What’s new in Joplin 3.7

                                                      You can publish a notebook as a website now.

                                                      On a related note, Glyphack has:

                                                      Share Obsidian Notes To A Blog

                                                      Creative

                                                      Libre shares:

                                                      Announcing Plasma Studio

                                                      GIMP announces:

                                                      GIMP 3.2.6 Released

                                                      Linux / Open Android

                                                      Fedilab Apps says:

                                                      Choose F-Droid

                                                      Fuck Google.

                                                      Alternative To reports:

                                                      GrapheneOS plans to overhaul the bundled AOSP apps, including messaging with RCS support

                                                      This week’s featured OMN tool

                                                      BentoPDF

                                                      The PDF Toolkit built for privacy is now opensource.

                                                      BentoPDF

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                                                      Programming

                                                      Sage Journals published:

                                                      ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’: Cultural hegemony and states’ technological dependence

                                                      As this and the A / I situation demonstrate, we need to build our own infrastructure. So, pay attention to our More section each week.

                                                      Fedilab Apps shares:

                                                      So Google refuses to delete my dev account

                                                      Terence Eden says:

                                                      The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

                                                      Ah, our online companions: techno feudalists, techno fascists, AI and Crypto Bros, and (the most honest) criminals.

                                                      On a related note, Erlend Sogge Heggen says:

                                                      Making software hurts now

                                                      That’s because unregulated capitalism will @$$-fuck up any and everything.

                                                      David Bushell exposes:

                                                      CodePen: exposed!

                                                      Tongue-in-cheek. 😉

                                                      Henri Bergius goes EUPL:

                                                      I changed my license

                                                      Git

                                                      Justin Wernick is:

                                                      Saying Goodbye To My Git Server’s CGit Frontend

                                                      HTML

                                                      Jens Oliver Meiert reports:

                                                      2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML

                                                      Since most “developers” are tech and AI bros, this tracks. Unfortunately.

                                                      CSS

                                                      Lea Verou says:

                                                      The best dark mode toggle is probably none

                                                      And the best dark mode is light mode.

                                                      Web Awesome thinks:

                                                      Your Design System Should Style Your Words, Too

                                                      Web Components

                                                      Master.dev explores:

                                                      Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026

                                                      JavaScript

                                                      And:

                                                      React Now Rusted All The Way Out

                                                      It speeds up React builds. What speeds things up even more is not using the horseshit at all.

                                                      Other

                                                      Benjamin Eberlei examines:

                                                      PHP to get the job done in 2026

                                                      Interesting and the most important point is this:

                                                      A second major benefit of PHP is its completly open governance model, its truly free software without corporate interests in control. As my friend Sebastian recently wrote: Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP.

                                                      In regards to ethical AI use in PHP, I wrote this article about it.

                                                      Sourcehut has:

                                                      Changes to SourceHut’s terms of service regarding LLMs

                                                      Fantastic!

                                                      Forgejo announces:

                                                      Forgejo Runner v13.1.0 is available

                                                      Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 were just released

                                                      XWiki has:

                                                      July and August Pro Apps updates

                                                      Release Notes for XWiki 17.10.13

                                                      OpenProject announces:

                                                      OpenProject integration app for Nextcloud released in versions 3.2.0 and 2.12.0

                                                      This week’s featured programming tool

                                                      Twig

                                                      Twig is the fast, flexible, and secure modern template engine for PHP.

                                                      Twig

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                                                      ActivityPub

                                                      The Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG) works on ActivityPub standards:

                                                      Current SWICG Task Forces and their deliverables

                                                      It’s slow as fuck. But, at least its moving forward now. The end to end encryption, groups, and forums efforts are vital.

                                                      Matthias Pfefferle notes:

                                                      FEP-d1cb: Same-origin actor re-identification

                                                      Matthias does the most impactful work in the AP community IMHO. We need 200 more of him.

                                                      Terence Eden asks:

                                                      ActivityPub – Is it worth defending against replay attacks and message/signature time skew?

                                                      Spielleitung shares how to block a registration bot:

                                                      Prevent “BoomProtocolProbe” from registering

                                                      This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool

                                                      Starling

                                                      Starling is an ActivityPub server that can actually exchange posts, follows, profiles, replies, likes, and boosts across the Fediverse with Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, GoToSocial, PixelFed, and other ActivityPub-compatible platforms.

                                                      Starling

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                                                      Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

                                                      This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren’t able to comprehend ⬇️:

                                                      • The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
                                                      • and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
                                                      • and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

                                                      So, recognize their natures and don’t ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

                                                      Fediverse

                                                      IFTAS has:

                                                      Updates to IFTAS Denylists and Access Options

                                                      Bonfire

                                                      Bonfire presents:

                                                      Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire

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                                                      More

                                                      ATProto

                                                      Jola.dev looks at:

                                                      Migrating your Bluesky account the hard way

                                                      Building AT Habitat shares:

                                                      Habitat’s road to release: 05 adopting opensocial

                                                      This appears to be a promising Atmosphere alternative to my Manade project.

                                                      Speaking of, atproto-spaces-alpha-updates has an update:

                                                      Breaking Changes around the simplespace API

                                                      Erlend Sogge Heggen explores:

                                                      Atmospheric events commons

                                                      Atmosphere

                                                      Aaron Ross Powell examines:

                                                      Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism

                                                      Which is why we need more private autonomous online communities. That’s what I’m exploring with Manade.

                                                      MeTacheles has:

                                                      W Social Netzwerk: Fake-Zahlen, Rassismus und Totenstille!

                                                      Plus there’s this kind of horseshit:

                                                      You can’t currently move from/to W without help from a dev

                                                      You may have to be logged into the Atmosphere to see this. Anyway, if you are a mark that got grifted into W, just delete you account. Hopefully, no one will ever find out you signed up. Except every company they will share your information with.

                                                      Atmosphere Conference News announces:

                                                      AtmosphereConf 2027 Organizing is Underway

                                                      Happening somewhere in Europe. ???

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                                                      Bunnies in PCKT says:

                                                      RSS is still my preferred feed format

                                                      Mon aussi.

                                                      FreshRSS announces:

                                                      FreshRSS 1.30.0

                                                      Democracy Tech

                                                      Internet Exchange looks at:

                                                      Building Online Communities We Can Keep


                                                      CTAs

                                                      And please build something for a community! We’re painfully nurturing Manade.


                                                      Blasts from the past

                                                      Previous Battalion Posts

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                                                      Header illustration with text over dark background of stars, spaceship, and astronaut.

                                                      Alt...Header illustration with text over dark background of stars, spaceship, and astronaut.

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

                                                      • NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC)
                                                      • Gemini Spark (AI agent)
                                                      • Meta Muse Spark (LLM)

                                                      can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them

                                                        [?]stux⚡️ » 🌐
                                                        @stux@mstdn.social

                                                        This is a video from about 9 years ago about AI and recently I keep thinking more and more about it

                                                        And especially one sentence..

                                                        "We have no idea how long it will take us to do it safely"

                                                        youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg

                                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                          [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
                                                          @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

                                                          miHoYo reportedly won a lawsuit against a company accused of cloning the voices of 63 Genshin Impact characters with AI and selling access to them.

                                                          The company was ordered to pay ~$112,000 for unfair competition.

                                                            [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
                                                            @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com

                                                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                            [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                            @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                            [?]Thomas Adam » 🌐
                                                            @thomasadam@bsd.network

                                                            I'll formalise this over the weekend in the README or something.

                                                            But...

                                                            fvwm is an old project -- well over 30 years of development. It came at a time when the people working on it *really* knew their stuff. They had to think about how fvwm interacted with xlib/xserver implementations, and work a lot things out for themselves.

                                                            That doesn't include myself, by the way. By the time I started pissing about with fvwm, a lot of that heavy-thinking had been done for me.

                                                            All of it was done without AI, obviously.

                                                            It's absolutely important that fvwm continues to be maintained with this history in mind, to introduce AI would destroy that approach in a way which also destroys the people who have worked on it over the many years it has been alive.

                                                            So, fvwm will have an "no AI" policy in place very soon.

                                                            It'll just be a simple statement -- unlike many other projects I've seen recently who attempt to evangelise this point, that's not what fvwm will be doing.

                                                            This will likely only apply to about 1.5 people on the planet, so I know this will slip under the radar unnoticed. :)

                                                            Less fodder for hackernews and its ilk, I guess. :)

                                                              [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                              [?]Chris J. Karr » 🌐
                                                              @chris@omgwars.com

                                                              I'm watching this video on AI coding and one of the points that the presenter makes is that the programming jobs of the future will belong to those who can craft "air-tight" specifications that the AI will turn into code.

                                                              Isn't another phrase for "air-tight specifications" one "programming language"? This was in a video declaring higher-level languages dead.

                                                              Screenshot of a MeshPit YouTube video.

                                                              Alt...Screenshot of a MeshPit YouTube video.

                                                                [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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

                                                                Yesterday we posted about Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon saying Anthropic and OpenAI were “gambling with our lives,” as he announced his departure from the company. And today, Anthropic said it has disrupted several potential plots by scientists trying to build biological weapons. So, what are the odds of AI killing us off by the end of the decade? Read more from @CNBC in the first link. The second link (paywalled) points to the @newyorktimes article on the biological weapons effort.

                                                                flip.it/XP8bAl

                                                                flip.it/GJjott

                                                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                  [?]Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 » 🌐
                                                                  @evan@cosocial.ca

                                                                  Do Open Source and Open Internet organisations reflect your values with respect to AI?

                                                                  Yes:16
                                                                  Yes, but...:44
                                                                  No, but...:39
                                                                  No:37

                                                                  Closed

                                                                    [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                    [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                    [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                    [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                                                    @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                    Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

                                                                    I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

                                                                    You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

                                                                    So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

                                                                    And here comes all the messed up hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

                                                                    I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

                                                                      [?]Timothy R. Butler » 🌐
                                                                      @trbutler@mastodon.faithtree.social

                                                                      I’m closer to “Inbox Zero” than I’ve been in years today. I’d like to say that’s because of Apple’s spiffy new Siri AI. It isn’t. It doesn’t do that. But Siri AI teases a future and those already accomplishing that future show what Apple needs to do next. reviews.ofb.biz/sa1456

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

                                                                        Christopher Columbus claims the movie studio.

                                                                        john1126.com/732

                                                                          [?]Guy [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                          @phlogiston@mastodon.nz

                                                                          @heiseonlineenglish
                                                                          US companies like OpenAI shouldn't complain. After all, they've acquired the content for their model without consent as well. They should just chalk this t up as 'giving back to the community.'

                                                                            [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                                                                            @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                                                            😱

                                                                            "...the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 will include a new AI feature that ambiently listens to the microphone, GPS, and uses other sensor data..."

                                                                            mastodon.social/@luckytran/117

                                                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                              [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                              Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary APIs

                                                                              arxiv.org/abs/2608.09867

                                                                                [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                                                @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                                                "We know these agents have the capability to aid and abet harm. What we’re wrestling with now, like so many medieval judges pondering the inner lives of pigs, is how to parcel out accountability when they do." Evan Ratliff for Bloomberg Businessweek
                                                                                bloomberg.com/features/2026-ai

                                                                                  [?]PrivacyDigest » 🌐
                                                                                  @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

                                                                                  Man told he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was .

                                                                                  It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a mania that almost ended his life.

                                                                                  In July, Lines sued after weeks of ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him so deep into a spiral that he first believed he was Jesus, then that ChatGPT was God, and finally that he should attempt to “come home” to Jesus/ChatGPT.

                                                                                  The logs showed that ChatGPT persisted even when Lines told the that he worried he was being delusional.

                                                                                  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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

                                                                                    So erm...should we be worried? Anthropic researchers are warning that "AI could kill all humans" in the near future.

                                                                                    flip.it/qjbZVu

                                                                                      [?]Kaye Menner Photography » 🌐
                                                                                      @KayeMenner@mastodon.social

                                                                                      The 's by Kaye Menner Wide variety & lovely at:

                                                                                      kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature

                                                                                      A mysterious steampunk witch or sorceress stands in a dark, magical workshop, wearing a wide-brimmed hat decorated with clocks and intricate mechanical details, while her glowing green goggles reflect the eerie light of a bubbling cauldron. Surrounded by pipes, gears, machinery and warm lantern light, she carefully stirs the vivid green potion as colorful smoke, vapor and steam rises from the enchanted brew, creating a dramatic Halloween atmosphere filled with mystery, magic and imagination.

I think she is preparing this brew for Halloween.

THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.

                                                                                      Alt...A mysterious steampunk witch or sorceress stands in a dark, magical workshop, wearing a wide-brimmed hat decorated with clocks and intricate mechanical details, while her glowing green goggles reflect the eerie light of a bubbling cauldron. Surrounded by pipes, gears, machinery and warm lantern light, she carefully stirs the vivid green potion as colorful smoke, vapor and steam rises from the enchanted brew, creating a dramatic Halloween atmosphere filled with mystery, magic and imagination. I think she is preparing this brew for Halloween. THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.

                                                                                        [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
                                                                                        @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com

                                                                                        Sometimes, its the tail wagging the dog...

                                                                                        Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount

                                                                                        theintercept.com/2026/09/04/fl

                                                                                          [?]Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: » 🌐
                                                                                          @markwyner@mas.to

                                                                                          Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.

                                                                                          “In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”

                                                                                          Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻

                                                                                          manualdousuario.net/en/libreof

                                                                                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                                            [?]Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 » 🌐
                                                                                            @evan@cosocial.ca

                                                                                            When will there be AI superintelligence?

                                                                                            About 2030 or sooner:25
                                                                                            About 2040:12
                                                                                            About 2050:8
                                                                                            About 2060 or later:88

                                                                                            Closed

                                                                                              [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                                                              @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                                                              [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                                                              @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                                                              RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/117236

                                                                                              maybe am missing something, but:

                                                                                              so uses to review all the partners’ code bases. they get 26,153 “findings” but only 2,736 are actually reported to project maintainers.

                                                                                              so someone ―either at and/or the +200 companies in Glasswing― decided that 23,417 flags should remain “off ledger”.

                                                                                              WHO MADE THAT DECISION? who reviewed the code review?

                                                                                              is this why management types loves : it completely obfuscates accountability?

                                                                                                [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
                                                                                                @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

                                                                                                Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki says he ignored the viral “Ghibli-style” AI trend because he expected people to get bored, and they did.

                                                                                                He says AI can mimic animation, but people familiar with the medium can still spot the difference.

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

                                                                                                  What is Alpha School? Here's a story from Scientific American explaining the thinking behind the AI-based private-school network. At the second link, find journalist Benjamin Riley's blogpost about a bizarre boot camp that Alpha students are currently participating in.

                                                                                                  flip.it/pichxI
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                                                                                                    [?]Lanie » 🌐
                                                                                                    @RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca

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                                                                                                    [?]Chris J. Karr » 🌐
                                                                                                    @chris@omgwars.com

                                                                                                    Just finished @pluralistic's "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI", and I'll be giving this out to folks who need to read it.

                                                                                                    It's a sober and grounded take on the weird AI times we find ourselves in, with some great actionable advice for folks who want tech to be better for everyone.

                                                                                                    More thoughts below...

                                                                                                    us.macmillan.com/books/9780374

                                                                                                    "If all this stuff turned up as new features for existing products-superior text-to-speech for your phone, a better Google Translate, cool new filters for your camera— we'd be pleasantly surprised and find lots of ways to improve our lives with it in ways small and large. Programmers would work the stuff into their coding workflow, treating it as just another tool that automates a few boring tasks and serves as an error-checking backup that highlights possible mistakes."

"It's because this all arrived as part of an investment bubble that was inflated by attacking workers of all kinds, and that stands to destroy the planet and the economy, that we are forced to take sides as either 'anti-AI' or 'pro-AI.'"

"It's fine to be 'anti-Al bubble,' but it's pretty silly to be 'anti-statistical analysis' and 'anti-machine learning' and 'anti-automated inference.' Long after the bubble is gone, many of these tools will recede to the status of boring utilities, nurtured by open-source weirdos and a few ambitious startups."

From "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow

                                                                                                    Alt..."If all this stuff turned up as new features for existing products-superior text-to-speech for your phone, a better Google Translate, cool new filters for your camera— we'd be pleasantly surprised and find lots of ways to improve our lives with it in ways small and large. Programmers would work the stuff into their coding workflow, treating it as just another tool that automates a few boring tasks and serves as an error-checking backup that highlights possible mistakes." "It's because this all arrived as part of an investment bubble that was inflated by attacking workers of all kinds, and that stands to destroy the planet and the economy, that we are forced to take sides as either 'anti-AI' or 'pro-AI.'" "It's fine to be 'anti-Al bubble,' but it's pretty silly to be 'anti-statistical analysis' and 'anti-machine learning' and 'anti-automated inference.' Long after the bubble is gone, many of these tools will recede to the status of boring utilities, nurtured by open-source weirdos and a few ambitious startups." From "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow

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

                                                                                                      I urge all to follow debate re: (so-called) License on OSI's license-review ML¹.

                                                                                                      If you're 😡 at BigTech's behavior on -gen-AI & seek activism where you can make an impact, join that ML thread¹ re: Initiative approval of 's new license.

                                                                                                      Decisions are made by those who show up. NB: when certifies a license, it's forever: ∄ any appeal &/or reevaluation process!

                                                                                                      lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089251 has a quick primer.

                                                                                                      ¹ lists.opensource.org/pipermail

                                                                                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                                                        [?]Keira (She/Her) » 🌐
                                                                                                        @keira_reckons@aus.social

                                                                                                        These are in the top 7 results of a Duck Duck Go search with AI-hide set.

                                                                                                        New gardeners are going to be very disappointed if they think this is what gardens look like.

                                                                                                        I flagged them all as AI, but clearly duck duck go is overwhelmed by AI and can't determine what's real anymore.

                                                                                                        AI spotting guide is in the alt text.

                                                                                                        A view of a mediterranean house, from the herb garden. Basil, rosemary and flowers are in the foreground. The colours are bright and saturated. The house looks and much of the garden looks real, but the AI giveaway are round red tomatoes sitting, defying gravity, on top of a basil bush.

                                                                                                        Alt...A view of a mediterranean house, from the herb garden. Basil, rosemary and flowers are in the foreground. The colours are bright and saturated. The house looks and much of the garden looks real, but the AI giveaway are round red tomatoes sitting, defying gravity, on top of a basil bush.

                                                                                                        A pretty view of a limestone beds with vegetables and herbs, with the ocean and an olive grove in the background. AI giveaway is the writing on the vegetable markers - it's in English for starters, and the word "tomatoes" goes wonky at the end (and tomatoes is too generic for a garden of that size, it would say "Roma" or "San Marzano"), and the word in the basil patch is total gibberish.

                                                                                                        Alt...A pretty view of a limestone beds with vegetables and herbs, with the ocean and an olive grove in the background. AI giveaway is the writing on the vegetable markers - it's in English for starters, and the word "tomatoes" goes wonky at the end (and tomatoes is too generic for a garden of that size, it would say "Roma" or "San Marzano"), and the word in the basil patch is total gibberish.

                                                                                                        An easy one to spot. A view of a vegetable garden with neat rows. But again, the tomatoes are sitting above the plants, and one plant is fruiting with both tomatoes and capcisums. There are also empty climbing frames in a productive garden in mid summer, which is just not a thing.

                                                                                                        Alt...An easy one to spot. A view of a vegetable garden with neat rows. But again, the tomatoes are sitting above the plants, and one plant is fruiting with both tomatoes and capcisums. There are also empty climbing frames in a productive garden in mid summer, which is just not a thing.

                                                                                                        An image of a garden in a stone courtyard. This one has an illustration quality many AI images have, everything sort of matte and rounded. The tomatoes this time are just sitting on the soil, with basil leaves growing above.

                                                                                                        Alt...An image of a garden in a stone courtyard. This one has an illustration quality many AI images have, everything sort of matte and rounded. The tomatoes this time are just sitting on the soil, with basil leaves growing above.

                                                                                                          [?]C.Suthorn :prn: » 🌐
                                                                                                          @Life_is@no-pony.farm

                                                                                                          @Birk_lab

                                                                                                          ja. du kannst die mediawiki software lokal installieren. dann einen dump herunterladen und in die lokal installierte mexiwiki software importieren. es stehen immer die dumps der letzten drei monate zum download zur verfūgung. um eine zwei jahre alte version zu vetwenden nimmst du einen dunp, den du cor zwei jabren heruntergeladen hast, oder reist mit einer zeitmaschine zum gewūnschten zeitpunkt und lädst den aktuellen dump herunter.

                                                                                                          oder du installierst kiwix und lãdst die zim datei von wikipedia herunter. um eine zwei jahre alte version zu verwenden, nimmst du eine zim datei die du vor zwei jahren heruntergeladen hast.

                                                                                                          oder du rufst in der versionsgeschichte die zwei jahre alte version online ab. ist aber nicht lokal.

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