Reposted by aveFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026The thing that worries me most lately is that many people who know that “fascism is bad, actually” have also convinced themselves that AI tools must be eschewed as fake or impure. In a self-reinforcing loop, there is relatively little AI tooling and infra by “fascism is bad” folks. 825734
ave @ave.zone · 28/09/2026imo, if you find yourself agreeing with the message below, you should rethink just how much you let tabloid capture you. So many of you had nothing nice to say about copilot a few weeks back. Even if you have an absurd level of extending guilty-by-association, there's like 5 better labs before msft. 1131
ave @ave.zone · 27/09/2026hmm, not sure if I messed it up somehow but couldn't make the garlic or bacon come through. perhaps using a krakauer instead of a wiener made it dominate the flavor profile more. enjoyable snack though, might make more. 3140
Reposted by aveThomas @thomas15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sometimes people want to become heroes so bad they’ll make anyone a villain. 348131
Reposted by aveThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. wapo.st/4ycPvNA 3234494
Reposted by aveYAY enjoyer @arcaneclaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026trying to learn Mahjong genuinely feels like this 271760821
ave @ave.zone · 24/09/2026control resonant crashes on proton-ge when i turn on rt 😔🤠 and then doesn't want to start because it auto saves the setting 😔🤠 260
ave @ave.zone · 24/09/2026I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face this discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the discourse has gone there will 3372
ave @ave.zone · 23/09/2026i have an inexplicable urge to make a "des Pudels kern? nein danke" sticker 020
ave @ave.zone · 17/09/2026this is the closest position that i've seen to mine, I think I agree with 90% or so of it. i hope to see more of this sort of optimism, by people who want to use tech to improve our lives rather than to rent-seek. (english also on mondediplo.com/2026/09/12ai) 020
Reposted by aveave @ave.zone · 23/06/2026I had to accept that I don't quite fit into any circle, and if I am fitting for a period that's only until the collective decides to push for something that doesn't align with their views to that point. Is it worth sticking to my views if it gets me excluded? idk. Am I gonna keep doing it? yea. 0161
Reposted by avephilpax @philpax.me · 17/09/2026love gyges, but this thread rubs me the wrong way it reads like it's conflating the concept of AI safety with the AI Safety™️ movement with the weird sex shit some partake in, and imbues all of these with a general sense of Badness and I think that's... bad? certainly, it's unpleasant argumentation 111309
Reposted by avelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026has anyone noticed the days are getting shorter?? what exactly is the plan when we're all engulfed in eternal darkness 1281555131
Reposted by aveMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board 1658081
ave @ave.zone · 17/09/2026i finally made sense of this longstanding meme lisdex (vyvanse/elvanse) causes peripheral vasoconstriction and my lower legs are often cold when I'm on it programming socks solve this 0130
ave @ave.zone · 15/09/2026W: mapped the copilot key on my laptop to transcribe my voice. now it's not useless. super+shift+f23 tho. 030
ave @ave.zone · 10/09/2026mindcanon: now that they've ended the diversity visa lottery, they need a new set of algorithmic immigrants to scapegoat. 040
ave @ave.zone · 10/09/2026this seems surprisingly reasonable coming from openai, and doesn't read like regulatory capture. link: openai.com/index/fronti... 000
ave @ave.zone · 10/09/2026what roko didn't predict is that his cognitohazard might instead lead to massive damage not through a cult building the actual basilisk, but instead through conditioning the public to laugh at anyone talking about any risks whatsoever, even risks very far from "superintelligence" or "death". 020
Reposted by aveAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026I don't think I've ever seen any other field where the experts are trying to warn people of the danger emanating from their field and then be dismissed as marketing. 14285473
Reposted by ave𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026now I don't know about all that technology stuff, but [sits down on chair backwards] I do know about one guy who was always helpful, harmless, and honest 3414
ave @ave.zone · 06/09/2026"I am Grimoire Weiss, offspring of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed." 110
ave @ave.zone · 03/09/2026Worth keeping in mind that the masses, especially the loud and rude ones, are not the arbiters of truth. "Bad takes" are not universal, nor are they necessarily incorrect. Hatred and bigotry are bad, but people dogpile a lot more than that on this website. Dunking is an awful way to change minds. 0112
Reposted by aveVibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It is precisely *because* I unequivocally support trans rights that I think it’s not a good idea to signal to people that conducting vicious harassment campaigns is a core component of being trans. It’s actually not! It’s really just a core component of being a Bluesky leftist. 119017
ave @ave.zone · 02/09/2026The UK national rail data platform has the most bonkers inactivity deletion I've encountered, my account just got deleted for not pulling data in the last few weeks. I had set up a cron to pull data monthly, will have to be more frequent I guess, how annoying. 000
ave @ave.zone · 01/09/2026Ran into "ibuprofen lycine" while on vacation by accident a few weeks back (got sold ibuprofen express, then had a fun time figuring why it says that). It just is ibuprofen but gets absorbed faster, 30min onset vs 90, which is so much nicer. Dunno how I didn't know about it, not so popular here. 100
Reposted by avephilpax @philpax.me · 01/09/2026incredible that you can thanklessly work on something for 22 years and then be retroactively declared a hack because you used AI to do something that would otherwise be intractable for a single human to do in a timely fashion lotta cutting off your nose to spite your face in the replies here 1447254
ave @ave.zone · 31/08/2026For the last while I've been kinda wishing the ministries of education let you sign up for a yearly newsletter, containing a selection of changes in the curriculum that make your learnings wrong/outdated. Lifetime learning or smth, y'know? 151
ave @ave.zone · 26/08/2026hmm why is it that: - scheduled flights are not considered public transport - long-distance trains that require a specific ticket and seat reservation are, at least by some, considered public transport 250
Reposted by aveColin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026wow TIL the Android calculator uses custom Google Real Numbers instead of floating point numbers 1428
ave @ave.zone · 21/08/2026i 💜 having to give my birthday to the burrito taxi app every time i buy tiramisu 050
ave @ave.zone · 18/08/2026mildly amusing: the online portal of dnb (portal.dnb.de) uses anubisportal.dnb.deMaking sure you're not a bot! 110
ave @ave.zone · 10/08/2026Successfully hacked together a way to solve my issues with understanding speech over ham, I think. (not that this is ham, not that there's any voice modes going about at 1am over here outside of dx, etc, will need to test it on a proper repeater tomorrow) 130
ave @ave.zone · 10/08/2026hm I'll boldly go and post: I think nate is acting in a perfectly reasonable way for the positions he is in, and this does not make him a trumper, nor does it mean that this sucking up represents his actual beliefs. You gotta work with the situation at hand, even if it makes you look pathetic. 120
ave @ave.zone · 09/08/2026it's kinda scary to give ARD content to whisper to generate subtitles. what if if makes the same mistakes in transcription and timing, the same shortenings. what if it puts the copyright string at the end (it will). (in german a huge chunk of its training data in ARD (public broadcaster) content) 010
ave @ave.zone · 07/08/2026got my steam controller. gls guy asked "what is that? every package I'm delivering today is from that company". 1611
ave @ave.zone · 06/08/2026ah we're flagposting again been to: 🇩🇪🇨🇭🇦🇹🏴🏴🇪🇸🐱🇫🇮🇮🇹🇹🇭🇹🇷🇳🇱🇱🇮 crossed the white border line on the ground and saluted in the direction of the pope: 🇻🇦 had a 20 hour transfer without entering country: 🇰🇿 next weekend: 🇩🇰🇸🇪 planning: 🇨🇾 (plus maybe 🇬🇧+🇬🇷 same trip) also took trains in almost all :D 130
ave @ave.zone · 06/08/2026i open mastodon and i immediately am filled with dread. i then go and interact with people, and it's so effective at making it feel like a mistake through and through. more social media should make one repel at the thought of using it, imo. would be big for society. 050