The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

Well, this is embarrassing. Looks like I finally cursed at Starlink enough that I finally opened up some kind of portal in VLEO right over my barn. Sorry everybody! I promise I'll help clean up.

RE: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/116785430247449365 Corruption is a key part of the business model in the "prediction markets" -- aka online gambling that preys in suckers -- industry.

One of my favorite little tree bed gardens. #jacksonheights #bloomscrolling

What disease is this affecting a #peony plant? Asking #gardening folks for information and advice please. #askfedi #plantdiagnosis

EOW = End Of next Wednesday ...right #juneteenthoff

Introducing Clade Human Agents — https://ai.rud.is/posts/2026-06-15-introducing-claude-subversive-human-agents #parody

Uh oh, looks like Google is now vulnerable to SCPs

@eliasulrich @pluralistic or,

🕊️ Dreaming of a world without war, where the ruins and relics fall silent and are left discarded. A collection of some of my photos of abandoned military remains all over the world. Cold War bunkers reclaimed by the forests. Fallen communications dishes […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

What happens when the maintainer of one of the tiny pillars of the modern infrastructure edifice depicted in the famous KXCD comic retaliates against AI? Spolier: you won't like this https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/

The three genders (nonbuynary)

who up pondering they corb? #memes

Turned the water back on to a sink and 10+ year old nonball brasscraft valves *didn't* leak. Am I dreaming? Is such a thing even possible? #plumbing

On the other hand, I'm motivated to share what I do because I really want to help people. If it's just LLMs... it feels hollow. I think about this every time I've tried to work on open-source in the last few months. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210740

Also, did you know that manually constructing SQLAlchemy queries in the body of functions consumes *substantially* more CPU and memory resources in your application than pre-computing them at import time? And that SQLAlchemy has a bindparam() object specifically to facilitate this much more […]

Let's look at the view. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #window

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ekuber/116585853572401757 One of the virtues of big open source projects is that little happens behind closed doors. However, since 99% of what they discuss just isn’t interesting to downstream end users, they forget that downstream end users *can* read this stuff and […]

Good morning

@troed Mythos was primarily made and hyped up as a vehicle for me to boast about curl

I don't even know what is real anymore

Remember the early days of Uber and Lyft, when rides were dirt cheap because the companies were operating at a loss in order to capture the minds/wallets of the masses? The rug pull in the AI/LLM world when the companies adjust pricing to actually make a profit is going to be spectacular […]

Man is Google fucking desperate. They were spamming me Gemini marketing stuff to my personal (backup email on my gmail account) email account because I *one time* accidentally clicked yes to their "PLEASE LET US SHOVE GEMINI INTO YOUR PHONE'S ORIFICES" popup that […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

The costs to ecology: These are too numerous to even try to list. All life on Earth – including humans, migrating birds, pollinating insects, plankton in the oceans – depends on the natural day-night cycle of light and darkness. Many hundreds of scientific studies document the importance to […]

Having thousands of RO satellites in orbit would lead to frequent bright flashes all over the sky for any observer on the ground. Even millisecond flashes of light at night have been shown to disrupt human circadian rhythms […]

The costs to safety and human health: Although the ground illumination from the first satellite will be much fainter than the Sun’s, looking at the satellite with binoculars or a telescope could actually damage your eyes, similar to looking at a partial solar eclipse […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

“Don’t rely on responses from Gemini Apps for diagnosis, treatment, or medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Its output is for informational purposes only.” motherfucker what do you think “information” is

The root cause chain is damning. No file type restrictions on inbound support chat attachments. No automated EDR coverage reconciliation against the identity provider. Okta FastPass let the compromised device satisfy MFA on its own. The initialization codes — functionally equivalent to the […]

Too soon?

Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that is justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

Would anyone be interested in 150-180 NMRs tubes of "low" or unknown quality? Most of them say "high throughput", some even say "BT-NMR only". Many are unmarked. I could give them a quick clean, but they would need more thorough cleaning to be usable. Probably shipping withing USA only, because […]

MIT's Technology Review takes a comprehensive dive into the energy/climate consequences of AI, and the news is terrible for everyone but the corporate bosses and billionaires in charge of it all. Grim, grim stuff here […]

@minmi When an ant wants another ant to stop doing something or come look at something and she isn't listening the most extreme form of ant persuasion is bodily transportation. Pick up your sister who is digging in the wrong place (in your opinion) and move her to the right place. Every ant […]

It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, it can just be ridiculous. Keep that in mind.

Ad usual, count on Will Bunch for the context you need but rarely get in Big Journalism. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-dinner-shooting-violent-america-20260426.html?id=aILEqJvkLG2qH&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

When people find a pill they think makes them feel better they will take it for life. The pill doesn't need to really do anything, it just needs to be something the person starts taking in a period in their life when some change happens that makes it seem like it might work. One can make so […]

I wanted to show this mug finished. It's one of the pieces I sent to Red Lodge for the "Clay As Place" show, labeled with the locations where the #clay I used to make the decorating slip was collected. #pottery #ceramics #wildclay

"Pre-built GitHub profiles with five-year commit histories and Arctic Code Vault Contributor badges sell for approximately $5,000 on Telegram." https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/

chillin in the window #sootandshine #cats #catsofmastodon #catsofpixelfed #pets #cat #cute

H. R. Giger was hired as a concept artist for 1995's Batman Forever, but his mockups were just a little too... Gigeresque for the 90s. Here’s his original Batmobile sketch, alongside a 3D render by Leon Gor based on Giger’s designs.

I wish Mozilla would stop with the stupid AI shit and support their core products more. This is still an issue with Thunderbird 6 years later. Like c'mon how hard is making this work? #thundbird #mailfilters https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1214694

I just spent 30 minutes creating email filters to pile the political spam into the corner. Like.. I'll still donate because we're fucked if we don't take shit back from the Trumpists but honestly the email shit storm I get as someone who has donated to a fair number of democratic campaigns in […]

as some of you know, I was raised in a fundamentalist proto-maga environment, and so I have extensive first hand experience with cognitive dissonance and cult tactics I wanted to point out that if someone wildly disagrees with you: they’re not lying. No matter how stupid or obviously wrong you […]

Finally, recognition for being #based

"vanity metrics like LOC will never tell you how much value was created only how much technical debt was financed." Checking my Swimming Pool dashboard and oh my god line go up! The Piss Volume per Week chart is climbing so fast, to the moon baby! We're gonna be rich when we cash out our […]

If all you do in your tech career is: 1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve; 2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time […]