If you post something where someone can shoot it down with "okay but you know you can check, right?", maybe just don't post it.

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #wikimediafoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #unionbusting. 😡 https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 If you are a #wikipedia […]

The power company: This email is to let you know we're raising your rates by 10%. The power company one year later: Hey, we noticed your bill is 10% higher than it was this time last year. Here are some energy saving tips!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116649018651317684 Never trust anything but inference from a vendor. And even then, verify. The actual products are so manipulable.

Horseshoe crabs! (Salem, MA)

RE: https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116646815985020509 Who is going to use AI to build a non-AI search engine? Not joking. Use the tool to fight the fallout

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116636126221238889 This is the way. Unless the profits from data centers return to communities, it's just extraction. And data centers don't really bring that many jobs. They're a few guys replacing parts as stuff burns out. Maintenance on power feeds […]

"For anti-data center activists there will be victories and losses but a coalition is taking shape, one that cuts across party lines and has people engaging with politics on a local level in a way that hasn’t been seen in decades." […]

#Monsterdon Or not

#Monsterdon this is going to end like terminator 2 isn't it?

Impressive. He _broke_ lenses that thick

What are those glasses? -12?

I swear StrongDM's AI dark factory propaganda is actually just trying to create a market for their product. Turns out if you let LLM code agents run amok, you need a whole API gateway to control what they do. Guess what StrongDM sells.

RE: https://meow.social/@oddtail/115422796270229996 "We treat our bodies as sacred in the worst possible way" brilliant line And it's exactly the primary transphobia I got in my family. It was something I had to unlearn and convince my family to accept, and was kind of a remarkable barrier in […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116628363841732321 This law is so good and the US needs an equivalent this strong, badly.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116626123851258430 That's funny, that's the three vendors I don't have on my phone

I find this almost exactly as offensive as AI-generated stuff being shoved into everything.

Personalization systems are actually the AI technology I have the most beef with: I don't think we've fully reckoned with the algorithmic manipulation of information they do. Suddenly the info sphere is not an object you can interrogate, but you become the object, and the infosphere around us is […]

God it's weird having little beef with AI-as-technology and beef with nearly every consumer-facing instantiation of it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/116622529210179804 And it's not really AI that's done it, this is the long tail of ALL of the search engine's practices. It's just real notable when it drops to near zero.

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com from a while back

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116614280060230177 Okay I wrote this as snark but there is a body of economics research on this, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work in fact. Commons _can_ be managed, but it requires some interesting framework pieces to really work. I think […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/116609310065016685 Great. Google wants to build "bid to gaslight the public".

Stop idolizing companies. Engineering is the age old tradition of "talking to our coworkers" "understanding what we're making" and "actually fucking checking". The big names are not that fucking special. There's no magic, there's only better and worse at those three things.

everyone claiming their tiny piece of the commons and putting up a fence will perhaps not have the desired effect of preserving the commons

As coding agents become better and better, the coding increasingly stops being the bottleneck, and the bottleneck is how many things you can keep juggling comfortable. As the number gets greater, you'll tend to lose context, drop things, etc. Your ability to handle many things is probably one of […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116607182534277080 Counterpoint: AI agents are only good as personal scale technology and having an advertising company try should be doomed to failure

RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116601943310291922 I was one of these people.

I hate pop science reporting so so so much.

@aredridel Right! One of the anecdotes in the book is from a teacher. I don't remember it exactly, but it's something like this: "Whenever a parent tells me how proud the are that their child has the best grades in my class, I mention that this is the least intelligent group of children I've […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@itzyg/116601577557971477 This. All sports is 'unfair advantage'. Our society just picks and chooses which unfair advantages are okay. And sometimes the 'advantages' claimed to be unfair aren't even advantages like tends to be the case with trans women.

And, here’s a cool project from Alja Herlah, ‘Signage Rebirth’, recreating the logotypes of former Slovenian brands: http://aljaherlah.com/signage-rebirth/ Echoes of Juan Nava’s Letras Recuperadas (recovered letters): https://bl.ag/juannava #sloveina #logotypes #brands #lettering

Y'know how some people can break any piece of software? Somehow they hit all the bugs? I'm one of those people. Want to be like me? Just run an ipv6-only network.

Rather a lot of pieces of computer technology in my life have exploded at once. It's gonna be one of those weeks.

Captain bunks double #Monsterdon

I see France supplied the SST #Monsterdon

Let’s go! #Monsterdon

We really need to stop confusing our country (whatever country that is) for the world when thinking about things.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

All y'all have the average ethical sense of “we should build more housing" while opposing development of housing, y'know that, right? Like, that's the baseline quality of ethical position.

Social Justice Corsair, chasing down ships that have already sailed, armed to the teeth.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116584783523036568 I'd love to know how people's expectation of financial privacy lines up with reality. I'd never connect this but it's more to do with not having or wanting a relationship with most of these companies, and it's not an open access standard […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116581001451344377 Fuck SCOTUS

Hot take but any time someone says 'findom' or 'finsub', a breakup needs to happen ASAP. That shit ain’t good, yo.

also I haven't managed to formulate my thoughts about this in the blog post yet, but part of why I wanted to move away from Tailwind was this post really stuck with me https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css I think CSS is an incredible technology and that CSS experts are […]

@aredridel I think of them as two stroke mopeds… there are externalities to using them. I look forward to locally run models that were trained ethically. Then I’ll buy the e-bike analogy.

I gotta say a huge part of my sentiment about LLM coding is basically the same as ebikes: "Acceleration is now almost free. You can be extra polite.” Yes, you can go way faster and make bigger messes and be a menace. Or: you can use that new capability to be _better_ with lower cost to you.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid/116567868785422812 Have always done this. If I find bug, I fix bug and make a PR.

Fuck, I really hope she gets primaried.