"the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription" https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html "[AI coding tech] is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends."

A visual novel plotline sprung to life: - Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors - During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed […]

The idea of banning minors from using social media is at its heart an attempt to punish victims instead of going against the perpetrator. If minors are more easily victimized by the predatory practices of large tech corporations it's not their fault. The blame lies squarely on the corporations […]

Just realized that the fact that newer large language models keep getting bigger in terms of parameters is kind of a tell about how they work, even as it's also kind of a requirement from the investment standpoint. Very roughly, models develop complex functional internal state about some […]

Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that […]

Dada scientist, is that a thing?

It's only Cyberpunk if it came from 80s & 90s pulp novels. Anything else we just call tech noir.

#elonmusk did it on a whim! He didn't take the time to look at the evidence, the consequences, he just said fuck it and did it. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people

Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals > In this cohort study of 457 950 patients with COVID-19 across 58 hospitals, validated computable phenotyping identified postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 16.28% of cases, 2-fold higher than diagnostic code–based […]

Healer Han needs some better adhesive #kpopdemonhunters

Years ago, I predicted that the current crop of young people would eventually develop an incandescent rage toward older generations at what we did to them by deciding to just let Covid run unchecked through schools without the slightest attempt at mitigation. Now we add to that by taking their […]

Just within my own direct knowledge I count half a dozen young people currently engaged in ongoing conflict with their parents over their ‘choices’ and ‘lack of <insert handy label here>’ while they struggle with real disability, bc it is complex, appears inconsistent, and is multi-modal […]

Australia has the third most installed battery capacity in the world, behind only China and the U.S. Not per capita, *total* Which is all the more impressive considering the electrons flow in the opposite direction down there […]

Our country can extradite criminal suspects from most other countries. We can enforce IP law in most other countries. We cooperate with most other countries to enforce sanctions on rogue states and their individual oligarch billionaires. These are all done through treaties, alliances, and […]

NEW FAV #mastodon #fediverse #meme

Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #fediverse I'll go first:

Help me settle a debate. Is Paw Patrol publicly funded or are they a private vigilante force? Are they a symbol of Canadian public services or corporate overreach?

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794 "every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale" 1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it. 2. Bias amplification 3. Environmental cost 4. Documentation — the training datasets being […]

If you're a dandelion spy you have stay away from children or they might blow your cover.

more and more projects are adding an AGENTS.md that explicitly tells agents to stop, drop, and roll off a cliff, so if you see an AGENTS.md, remember to check what it specifically says before concluding it's there because the project is pro-AI (and people who have done this have reported that […]

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/116665745684315101 "A #browser that browses for you is like paying a #robot to go out for dinner with your friends and give you a summary of the evening when it gets home" is one of the best comparisons of #AI use I've read so far.

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.

Weirdos: "Why would anyone learn to code, LLMs can do that now" Actual programmers: "I made a new game for the ZX Spectrum"

./configure affirmations: -you have jobcontrol -your fifos are usable -your implementation is ok -your sockets are usable -you are normal

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into […]

The hardest part of playing breakfast baseball is finding a good pancake batter.

@pfish.zone so much of the maintainer community right now is handwringing about "but if we ban LLM use, how will we tell?" and I am exasperated because the answer is not some sophisticated word-probability detection machine, it is "they will be blindingly obvious about it, and if they manage to […]

Real talk: the real "supply chain risk" is that you treat your open source "supply chain" like shit and assume that we will all take any amount of abuse from you and just keep doing volunteer labor forever without ever complaining. And, equally real talk: most of us—myself included—actually do […]

Your chatbot being (hypothetically) momentarily commandeered to delete your local copy of the project that you were *already explicitly forbidden to use it on* is the gentlest possible introduction to this type of direct action and if it happens to you, you should be *very grateful* that this is […]

I actually worked at the same place as Andrew Tridgell, over a quarter-century ago. I got to know a few of the OzLabs folks during their immediate post-IBM years, and always had the highest respect for them in that way where you feel acute impostor syndrome when they're in the room. Tridge […]

Say what you will about the current Pope (I often do), but it sure is useful that there is one person in the world who is paid exorbitantly to be a scholar of _some_ ethical code and is given a large amount of attention in that role.

Earliest known case of ChatGPT psychosis

«Wikipedia’s workers are fighting to unionize because the institution hosting the world’s encyclopedia has started acting like a regular employer at exactly the moment when the world most needs it to act like something better. The encyclopedia belongs to everyone. The labor that sustains it […]

Absurd way to phrase a question. You could do this to anything. "Adults should speak Esperanto or Latin when discussing certain topics, if it means children are safer" "2 + 2 can equal 5, if it means children are safer" "I will eat 1000 gluten-free vegan […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116640578558884764 Quote: "Long COVID did not create medicine’s discomfort with invisible illness. It exposed a preexisting pattern that millions of patients had been navigating for decades. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) […]

The thing about polarising sunglasses is, you either love them or you hate them.

This thread is the origin store of this account's display name. When I heard the CDC pronounce "do your own risk assessment" I was so incensed I change my twitter account name to this. Having experience in formal risk assessment especially of low probablity high impact risks I couldn't believe […]

Wow, understanding the Pope's 42,000 word message really is going to chew up a lot of tokens.

At long last, we have created the Genuine People Personalities from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Genuine People Personalities

reminded of it by another conversation: I think of "skill issue" as a pretty positive concept because all else being equal, developing a skill is one of the easiest obstacles to overcome. it may not be easy, but it is hopeful to me to consider that I could fix a skill issue because of the degree […]

Zip bomb? It's a lot to unpack

Meanwhile, "New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has launched what it has described as its “biggest renewable energy tender in the state’s history”, seeking 2.5GW of renewable energy generation. Tender 8 seeks renewable energy generation capacity “sufficient to power approximately one-third of NSW […]

"The Albanese Government is backing the biggest single boost to Australia's main electricity grid with 19 new renewable energy projects that will supply enough cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable electricity for 4 million Australian households by 2030. Supported through Tender 7 of the Albanese […]

the intended moral of the story is "even the wisest man has much to learn from others" but my takeaway is "if you meet Confucius on the road, sass him"

Dancing in track spikes? It's murder on the dancefloor

“you must maintain focus for 8 hours without a nap” “remain awake while in a room with. 8 other people and 2500ppm CO₂” “fluffy bunny slippers and robe are not professional” STATEMENTS MADE UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

this also does nicely for my "ancient peoples were not all constantly callous and violent, you just were taught history so abstract and abbreviated that it only mentioned the wars" propaganda

How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success: 1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a […]