My favorite part about debate me bros is that they're genuinely bad at debate

If I was god of fedi quoting would be transclusion

Watching a 65+ couple sharing Facebook mostly-AI brainrot back and forth on the train and rules of eavesdropping engagement have been suspended after it was revealed they both find "cats puking to techno" funny.

MTA fucking up the CSS in light mode, forgetting to flip the text color

one of my most frequent mantras when I see people doing unfortunate behavior ~ you don't have to post on line ~ https://youtu.be/DzUKF03zQAI

#trump #epa tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of #water were summoned to a “town hall” meeting this week & told to pause the publication of most #research, pending a review. #publichealth #climate #pollution #science #law […]

Ooh, more AI improving the world /s Futurism: ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners "My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why." Sep 18, 11:05 AM EDT https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces #ai […]

We haven't updated yet so in the spirit of keeping fedi the worst, I fail to quoste to nominate the ambiguous grapheme cluster quopste as the name for quomsting https://kind.social/@Fruan/115219774480090854

For a sneak preview of my followup to the Fediverse Schema Observatory, there's now a project page on the lab website for the ActivityPub Fuzzer: https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/activitypub-fuzzer/ Basically it lets an ActivityPub server developer test against incoming messages from Fediverse […]

University campuses are so cool, there are so many cool lookin things and for some reason the doors are unlocked and you just get to go inside of them. Like you can see a castle mf like this and get in it

Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/beavers-restored-to-tribal-lands-in-california-benefit-ecosystems/

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

Yeah LLMs mimic human performance, like the well known problem where if someone has read a book recently then they might not be able to understand what you're saying, but if they have read a book that is in random order then they're fine. https://hamel.dev/notes/llm/rag/p6-context_rot.html

yeeeessss YEESSSS more batshit like this https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Happy #hacktheplanet day https://hackers.piracy.solutions/hacktheplanet.mp4

(video) NOVA: Artificial vision using brain implants https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvbs-sci-artificialvision/artificial-vision-using-brain-implants-nova/nova-premium-collection/ on the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) of the Illinois Institute of […] [Original post on mas.to]

What if the first instance of a federated system is not a generalist instance that inevitably weighs down and becomes a problem for the rest of the instances, and is instead a specific and focused instance that forces the creation of other instances and forces the software to develop a plugin […]

I had missed some of these. The bromine poisoning guy holy shit https://aidarwinawards.org/nominees-2025.html

ernesto showing how copyright trolls are juicing takedown stats by sending takedowns they know won't/shouldn't be executed to e.g. cloudflare proxies to argue that piracy is up and takedown rates are down: https://torrentfreak.com/takedown-notices-for-pirate-live-streams-skyrocket-but-why/

> UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and information about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” to comply with a federal investigation into campus handling of such claims, a campus spokesperson confirmed Thursday […]

[fedi meta, uspol, bluesky, moderation] not being able to accommodate subtlety in moderation at network scale is one of those limitations that is, unfortunately, intrinsic to bluesky as a platform (though not necessarily atproto as a whole). moderating […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

I saw this and assumed it must have been fake, but "the most radical act of feminism? Using AI" is arguably a new peak in girlboss feminism https://web.archive.org/web/20250910131815/https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/the-most-radical-act-of-feminism-using-ai-gpx2nxtc3

unfortunately i had to take a look at that pseudoscience book about mitochondrial dysfunction that catcher's mitt looking guy who is the boss of all our health has apparently diagnosed all of us with. this is the very first page of the introduction and i […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Protip: never write shit like this to anyone

regardless of how you feel about EITHER "AI" or piracy, if they are successful in making it legal for facebook to pirate every book ever written to build an enormous company-stakes product, but illegal for me to pirate anything, that would be an unambiguous, unmistakable sign that everything in […]

the secret about getting up early they don't tell you is that a) you have to be old and tired all the time and b) you have to allow yourself to get bored early even if there is more cool shit in the world that day

["AI" Schadenfreude, reddit screenshot] lol, lmao even

presenting improtant work

The decline of new construction jobs to near zero is real bad https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115168949673965087

AP: Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-09-07/red-sea-internet-cables-cut-19004255.html

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

When i get sad about the apparent desire that a sizable proportion of my fellow human beings that maybe human beings would be nice to not have anymore by virtue of their desire to have an approximation of our use of language occupy most important functions of thought and feeling and being, i go […]

New from the feed: ## OpenLads (v1.2.19) A realistic of what's lads is lads, proving once again that the lads are lads. and amen! I'm about to go out. and get absolutely open lads!

The thing that language users are not willing to admit to themselves about the use of language by Artificial Intelligences is that the prior status of having been the average, generally agreed upon, patterns of language that structured mutual understanding are all those most vulnerable to […]

hey i think i can solve one of the major fediverse discourse, in my experience as having been posted, if you take 10 more seconds to sort of write what is going on in them, then other people who don't or can't know how they are can in but has if

listen up nothing you ever do will be this cool

who will be my

the haters all scoffed when i "embedded a whole set of bitmap fonts for a single use" but i knew i was following the light and the way. #sciop is in its "intelligibility" era, where we will do things like "tell people what is going on" and "comment on […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

["AI" Schadenfreude, free range llms] I am reading this fever dream repo where this person just told llms to do whatever they want in it, and I am positively wheezing at this "authenticity override" js file that is a pantomime of a jailbreak that just mutates some internal "authenticity" object […]

@jonny proud to be 100TB of that, and I have some more drives sitting in a box that I need to install

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

How decentralized are the deployments of the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) and the Atmopshere (Bluesky, etc.)? I'm starting a project to track this! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

Bat. Aberdeen Bestiary, England ca. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 51v. #medieval #medievalart

["AI" schadenfreude] Can you imagine if instead of returning a 401 a web server served you a fake page saying try again until you asked if it was lying to you

I was saying the other day that I never get any funding. Well big relief today while all our labs other grants are frozen, a grant with a bunch of my ideas came thru so I get to continue to be employed, which is cool.

Thinking about the series of changes I would need to make in my life that are the shortest path from here to having a goat