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Janko Luin :terminal: @gufo.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 7h
Oh my goodness. OpenAI just lobbed 400 huge slop grenades onto the mathematics community just so they could make a press release. Seemingly without even trying to check the results?! Absolute madness. The only reasonable response here is a huge “nope” […]
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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 7h
"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 10h
This is what knowing your physics well means
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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
So… the USA is buying oil from Russia… Russia is aiding Iran… Iran is at war with thei US causing the shortage in the first place… Just how many people are being blackmailed, extorted, or paid off to enable this grift?
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20h
petapixel.com/2026/10/09/curiosity-… #Photogrpahy #Mars
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
“Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production”: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf?ref=404media.… [Long and dense, have only scanned it, which was enough to convince me to share it.] #genAI
Artificial Intelligence in the Firm:
Bottlenecks in Software Production
Fiona Chen
Harvard University
Job Market Paper
James Stratton
Harvard University
Current version: August 4, 2026
First version: January 7, 2026
Click here for current version
Abstract
We study the impacts of AI coding assistants and agents on software engineering work, using
a novel proprietary dataset from an engineering analytics platform, covering 300 million work
events — including GitHub coding activity, Jira issues, and Google Calendar events — across
718 firms. We use a staggered difference-in-differences design, exploiting variation in firm-
level adoption timing of AI coding assistants and agents. Both technologies increase coding
productivity. However, productivity gains do not fully pass through to changes in software output
or employment. For AI agents, this incomplete pass-through reflects a bottleneck from code
review: review times increase, a larger share of code updates require revisions, and reviews
involve more comments. We develop a model of software production to structure these results, in
which AI affects both productivity and quality of intermediate outputs, and in turn can generate
a review bottleneck and limit pass-through.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
With all the new G's (New GTLDs that ICANN has approved) coming up like .pdf now is a great time to disable search from your browser bar so you don't accidentally end up at a malicious site. For FireFox or Tor Browser do: - about:config - set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false - set keyword […]
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026
I was immediately reminded of @catsalad
caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.
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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Beware. If you are looking for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film "Naza" based on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers, that is currently in film festivals and cinemas, you won't find it online. Instead you will find the IDF's "Naza - The True Story" that presents a very different picture of […]
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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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

Greg Ip
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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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026
RE: toot.cat/@plexus/117291912937658483 This is one of the reasons that despite my strong feelings I think we need patience and grace for a lot of maintainers. Particularly the ones who have been good on DEI, good on CoCs, good on technical excellence, good on compassionate processes… […]
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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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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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026
It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @jackyan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Two of our sites were hacked. If you see this text, log in to your WordPress installation now. === console.log('header!'); // Easy to add and display post grid on your website with or without categoryies filter. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block. Delete the Optinmonsters plug-in (which […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Raspberry pi proceeds from jumping shark to rogering megaladons youtu.be/ltofM26akZQ
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳 @gildilinie.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
boost this toot if you love your wife
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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 20/09/2026
there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are _at best_ adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up […]
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Ɲєιƚ Ƃιɍƌ 凤 @fnxweb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Another day, another bowl of tomatoes. Pasta for dinner tomorrow.
Five small bowls full of tomatoes of various types and colours on a kitchen worktop.
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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Kevin #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Article on the coming damage that will be done by Reflect Orbital. Starts off strong with a quote from @planet4589.bsky.social "It's an insane project". MANY astronomer quotes, including @JohnBarentine @merrdiff.bsky.social […]
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/11729… We went from `we will use all your water` to `we will not use but forever pollute all your water` in a heartbeat.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117283884099… Tycho of Penny Arcade wrote a very angry post about this yesterday too: www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026…
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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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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Better slogan: No read book? Book too much words? Try robot!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
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