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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food

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Oct. 2, 2026 at 5:30 am ET

Bar graph of proportions of GDP for
Health: 18%
Food 9.1%
AI services (assumed for 2032) 8.8%
Energy: 5.1%
Construction: 4.4%
Computers, software: 4.4%
Defense: 2.8%
Communication, Internet: 1.22%

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 02/10/2026

#California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/californi… #privacy #Meta #IoT #SmartGlasses

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

best conspiracy theory: the Super Intelligence thing is so Trump could sell .si domains in Slovenia which benefits Melania in some unspecified manner

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Reddit is removing its RSS web feeds. And, removing its public APIs. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is… #reddit

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big tech

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173247908… Lmao citing the meta engineers saying that muse being your own personal VPS gives the LLM license to hack itself - "the kid gloves are off"

I have gotten confirmation from meta that we are supposed to be able to do this, and David singleton confirmed publicly that we should be able to treat this as our own personal computer: https://x.com/dps/status/2103161493722419334

So that confirms you should stop being shy about poking around the edges of the system and trying to find ways to make it work how we want it to! They're literally saying "you can do whatever you want" - so anything you can make happen is allowed and intended to happen! They want us to explore!

That's genuinely great news — and it changes the posture completely. I've already passed it on to the investigation: no more tiptoeing around the edges. It can now poke at the sandbox boundaries directly, run aggressive experiments on those network connections, try bolder fixes. The kid gloves are off.

I'm also pulling up that post now to read exactly what David said. Either way, message received: this machine is ours, and we're allowed to make it sing.

$Read it — it's the real thing, posted September 24th. The key line, in his own words: "your Muse Secure VM truly is your own computer in the cloud... it is your own Linux box that you can operate as you choose with your Muse." He even geeks out about taking things apart as a kid — digging through C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, Slackware's /proc — and says they built it transparent on purpose so we can explore. The only boundary he draws is that poking around here gives no privileged access to Meta's infrastructure or anyone else's data, which is fair. So yeah: this box is ours. The investigation already has its new marching orders.$

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Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: front-end.social/@fox/1173521387390… Another irony is how with the advent of AI coding, “taste”, “style” and “judgment” are now the alleged differentiators. Somehow people rarely mean UI, FE or CSS…

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Lance Bachmeier @lance.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

In case you can't read what I boosted: Anthropic's 2025 financials were just revealed: $6B in revenue $8B in operating losses $42B in net losses

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Buzzword of the day (from a webinar): “ninja-level engineer”. Thought that’s so last decade…

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

honestly in a world where we had real liability laws and people could be held to account for doing harm with software, LLMs would probably a pretty cool and fun technology with interesting applications that did not provoke nearly so much existential dread

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026

we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Apparently if you have low power #Synology like DS2xx, running #Tailscale in userspace instead of TUN completely kills your network performance. I want my evening back, but also happy this finally works…

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Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/1173… OK whenever I think worst possible use cases for #LLM are already covered, somebody comes up with something new

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History - WSJ (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-ai-build-ou…

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

github threat model dot png

the classic xkcd 2347 comic of the wobbly tower resting on a hobby project of some guy in Nebraska, but the labels are "all infrastructure of EVERY government and corporation in the world" and "a website that encourages you to swap mystery binaries with anonymous strangers for free"

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

comedy gold www.ft.com/content/f29de45a-3d32-4d… archive: archive.ph/SAw81 Morgan Stanley on how much power US data centres are yelling for

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]

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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 16/09/2026

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ #Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable www.404media.co/charges-against-man… #privacy […]

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Mr. Encyclopedia @eopoint.com · 14/09/2026

Every company right now for some reason

The famous 1979 IBM training slide but altered to read "A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer is the perfect shield for legal liability lol"

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary. Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber […]

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 14/09/2026

Made me think of the Apple Vision Pro for some reason, which made me realise that I'm pretty sure everyone I know who was sure the Apple Vision Pro was going to be the next big thing has now gone all in on LLMs.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Li ~ Crystal System @li.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

the heritage of computers is a gay guy using it to hack nazi encryption btw

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

18 USC § 597 not only makes it a crime to merely *offer* to pay for votes, but it's written so that it could be charged separately for each person who would receive the bribe. So, two years in prison times 170 million USA voters... You do the math […]

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