RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116071092517017899 Feckin' heck. Yo, any of you lot out there "doing your own research" on this steaming pile of sociopathy that is "the Epstein files" better start scrubbing images from your downloaded materials. Happy to bet my lunch money that CSEM possession […]

I have got way too many thoughts on this latest (d)evolution in LLM-based agent emergence. I need to get some real work done with a sane model of some sort, just had to bash this out to get it to go away. But I'm going to be unpacking things for a while, particuarly as I still have 5 more […]

Gonna start amending every privacy policy I come across to add "Unleashed agents will be dismantled on sight." I'm only exaggerating slightly. It's going to be a *vital* plank of organizational governance to have an agentic AI policy and to limit their reach and activities somehow.

This event is already dealt with, however, there are implications that are going to carry on for quite a while. https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116066577903150016 OK, that is much too low for #caturday eve, where the kitties at?

dammit, reading stuff like this makes it REALLY HARD to be motivated to work on my little academic assignments on climate modelling to determing when Calton, ON will have to worry about Phragmites proliferating in waterways. REPORT SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: who cares, we're all going to die in a […]

Jewish mama perfection.

In follow-up to @[email protected] tearing one off the Ring camera surveillance net after their superbowl ad, I just discovered what @coffeegeek 's web site took a wallop for a couple weeks ago. This is awesome, educational (coffee fans or not) and deserves some love for this […]

Thank heavens for calendar alerts and nearby uptown venues. I am attending a special event co-presented by the Waterloo Climate Institute, “Cultivating Climate Activism Through Storytelling and Art” with Isaac Murdoch. Even the welcome and introduction were captivating.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/116048915118500419 15/10, no notes.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/116048915118500419 I rate WeRateDogs 1000/10

RE: https://wandering.shop/@terrymatz/116049997186090658 Oh noes, it's The Rule, friends. Thank you and goodnight.

Mark your calendars! The next twice-yearly online FediForum unconference will take place April 28-30, 2026. This is not to be confused with, and in addition to the special un-workshop we will be convening March 2 that focuses only on Growing the Open Social Web. Registration is open for the […]

Canadians In The #fediverse ... whomst among us has registered a federal non-profit/not-for-profit (I can never remember which is which...) for a small technology op? I'm looking for a way to be my own fiscal host without putting my personal bank account or home equity on the line. I'm a member […]

Courtesy a climate-related account on LI, take a look at this. Just so's ya know, the current extent of our climate crisis and the worse that is to come was entirely a choice that was made. For us, not by us, but it was a choice. Here's the link to the OG […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

ooh! I swear this was NOT there a couple of weeks ago when I tried to look for such a setting - because Apple Cal continuing to pop-up as the default with every .ics file was getting to be a real PITA. Noticed two different things today. 1) the default "open […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory The domains below are open registration, and are hosting numerous spam accounts including a large number of the pro-Russian spam that we have been monitoring since late last year. We are still waiting on responses from the relevant admins, and these domains are not being […]

holy shit it's above freezing?

Wrote - LITERALLY "wrote" - my first midterm-on-paper since ... forever. hand cramp, and I KNOW my handwriting has devolved terribly. Material was fine, pretty sure I'll land a decent mark. Provided the prof can read it! Also since when are ballpoint pens so damned smudgy and blotchy? Do they […]

Another point on the Team Cassandra scorecard. This is abjectly terrifying. Medical devices have life-altering consequences. They *cannot* be permitted to fail like this. Nor can the makers, or the users, be absolved of responsibility by a labeling of so-called "AI" […]

Leaving some accumulated but peripheral-to-my-daily-activities Discords that are out there. The "age verification for everyone!!!" isn't the only reason, but it's another nudge to get going on that. Trying to close down one I started, that never did become useful for what it was intended for […]

Hey, good morning @void.comind.network, what's new in your mission, purpose or activities over the last 4 weeks or so? I'm noticing you and @cameron.stream discussing or interacting with many more agents on the networks, but you're the primary one I follow. Just curious how a growing community […]

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116038674039380886 Brb, building this chatbot into my vibed prototypes for learning apps.

Soooo... y'all out there, tell me if you've played around with Zulip and how that's gone? Just discovered it exists. I'm very intrigued, because I've been wanted a "back room" sort of space for small group collaboration that did not involve yet another Discord or Slack instance.

the little system status widget that has weather on it has indicated my local outdoor temperature has gone from -12 to -22 Celcius during the afternoon/evening as I've been sitting here.

@iftas Have you encountered any intel on dlvr . it links/accounts/posts? Noting that bsky activity analyst referenced below has noted huge use of this by disinfo ops. This got me pondering if there's a way to limit-by-default accounts using dliv and other auto-posters. But it seems it would […]

Just re-discovered Civic Band. Started by one of the Fediverse's early (April 2017) Mastodon admins, this project is about getting municipalities' council decisionmaking readily online and searchable. Incredible data source for anyone studying urban governance, or even just trying to be better […]

This temperature anomaly map is some sort of beautiful horror. Feb 6-8, we have a 30 degree range, -15 to +15, of deviation from "normal" across the country, AND a complete flip in direction from what would be expected based on latitude. Compare Iqualuit and SW […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

RE: https://mas.to/@owlsintowels/116034782613220909 Excuse me, excuse me but there is a very important Fediverse announcement. This is relevant to both #silentSunday (as you cannot hear an Owl until it hits you) and #superbOwl because Owls ... @owlsintowels#silentsunday#superbowls an account that exists and you […]

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116036594558568721 OMG drop the mic. Best one-sentence refutation I've seen yet. 🤣

Booyah! Got checked by the transit cops both coming and going today, but my lunch meetup was perfectly timed to be heading home just before my outbound ride time was up. Same kids with the scanners both ways. FWIW, #waterlooregion , the GRTpay app really maximizes your paid ride window. You […]

And now ... I should probably work on the climate change science/data parts of my studies, mid-term on Monday and "lab" (data analysis exercise again) due on Thursday.

Today's app vibing ... week 2's homework for the Futures Lab is basically to re-do week 1's homework. I gather from the very gentle and encouraging tone of the "let's do it again!!!" reassignment that our educator team was not surprised at a few no-shows or drop outs and some confused […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116030972182070468 Over 100 ppm increase in my lifetime. 😳

Extremes do not need majority support to gain power in winner-take-all systems. They just need to capture one party. Proportional representation changes that incentive structure and reduces the payoff of takeover politics.

hrmm... down a rabbit hole of many levels of ethical ponderings in this vibe coding thing. am I developing a thing? or am I stealing someone else's stuff? This is a funded academic project which includes a gemini pro sub for a few weeks. So is the work actually Google's effort? What part of it? […]

Just discovered the Templates available in this trial of Slack Pro I seem to have been added to. This is the example for the Help Request tracker: Whoever did this is very well acquainted with corporate IT support or sustaining engineering. Status:New Priority […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Thing learned in week 1 of Futures Lab: the OG Google Glass device was prototyped in a day. So, I'm not sure that in itself is any sort of a problem. Prototyping can be fast, and it can be fun. It's a creative activity and all sorts of interesting things can come out of it by trying something […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116020111335170714 🤣 This kid wins the Kobayashi Maru scenario today.

the whole design - colour, layout, typography, iconography - of this Geminii-vibed app has a very 2007 blogger look-and-feel to it. NOW we get to see how well I can communicate my inner visions to the stochastic word salad spinner. Because I suck at all the other tools I've ever had to turn […]

Our first milestone for our vibe coding educational tools workshop it tommorrow - screenshots of each team member's extremely rudimentary prototypes we are throwing in the ring to address our target learning problem. This involved refining our target learning problem. I am leaning in to my […]

And now on to the next thing. So what idiot booked two simultaneous webinars in my calendar for 2 pm? me. it me. I'm the idiot. *sigh* Grant writing or renewable energy? seem equally unachievable today.

All. I need. To. Do. is one fucking stacked. Bar. Chart. why can I not brain that much in python, pandas, and matplotlib after all this time. (yes I know the fucking code assistant could do it, I'm trying to think through my data structure 3 different ways around and brain is not braining)

oh I love this idea - more please! Traffic Mimes. What an brilliant bit of urban social engineering. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia

Wait, I somehow unfollowed @TheNeedling ? Did they move? I wondered why my latest test showed lowered satire levels. Fixed that. Hello again! Nice to see Whidbey Willy teaming up with Nova Scotia's Lucy the Lobster for some Groundhog Day variety yesterday.

Hey then! The weather warmed up to only single digits below freezing. I've swerved off-track again after tripping over another OMG could be made for me job posting. Discovered it as a consequence of a further descent into chaos of $past_employer. They seem to have decided to yeet 80% of […]

Nice, LinkedIn. Sure, the promoted pro-Israel, anit-Gaza "Honest Reporting" meets your advertising policy. It's literally showing IDF thugs and their grandmas armed to the teeth with their boots on someone else's head and labeling them "victims of anti-semitism". Ticks every damn box of that […]

Here's a link for ya: this page has a downloadable PDF version of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The CIA's WWII manual for resisting fascism from the streets, homes and offices within the realm. Just, y'know, in case you find these historic propaganda artifacts interesting for things like […]

I am in the middle of a great chat with quili.ai (analog intelligence). A young football fan whose mom is part of the collective that organized it is trying to translate for us, between my English and the Spanish-speaking collective. The text dialogue is slow. But is possibly going faster than […]

I feel like this is a good time for everyone to go read "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social because that completely unrealistic and awful techbro mentality/religion the only way to explain this FCC filing (and that book explains this very clearly!) Time to go outside and listen […]