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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Weird how the AI people are so scared of the "paperclip maximizer" destroying us while reshaping the whole economy around infrastructures for stochastic token machines.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up:

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

Utilitarianism is broken because quality of experience is not actually a scalar value. It does not ideologically admit the possibility of the need for things like balance and rhythm. Consider the fact that you can die of thirst and you can die of drowning. While you *can* reflect this fact in a […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026

RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The new Apple Watch features Audio Intelligence: it constantly listens, transcribes & analyzes everything around itself, including on Apple's servers. Here's what that means for privacy Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the-alwa… YouTube: youtu.be/GyxYEYsNUn4

Thumbnail showing an apple watch that has it's micorphone on and text that reads "The death of privacy"

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Everyone knows that in robotics many tasks are easy, but seemingly simple tasks, such as cleaning a room or doing the dishes are hard. Well I have solved every room cleaning task. First the entire room is fed into an industrial shredding machine, the valuable metals are recovered by melting the […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Let's actually talk about the "AI destroying the world" thing. One specific apocalypse scenario is the "paperclip maximizer" problem. The scenario goes that a super intelligence is tasked with maximizing the number of paperclips produced by a company. Because of a thing called "instrumental […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

OpenAI claims that they used 300 billion output tokens from a swarm of ~10,000 concurrent instances of an internal model that is almost certainly larger and more expensive to run than GPT-6. That's the total token output, including exploring related problems, which, along with spying on other […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

[software, R, data visualization] @schluff I'm totally with you in a desire to distance from Posit though, currently looking for some replacement for Rstudio, which after 15 years is probably as big of a change

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Glyph @glyph.im · 03/09/2026

believing that LLMs will soon be able to take on economically valuable tasks fully autonomously because their outputs sound increasingly plausible and surely it's just a matter of extending that intelligence into agency is like believing that pretty soon video games are going to have food in […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Is this because it trained on these sites? Probably. But the LLM isn't designed to determine what part of the training data was significant for a particular output. Instead, after writing a response, like an undergraduate student who forgot to cite sources, it looks through the web for the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Not everyone will be a writer, but everyone has a way of expressing their ideas that is unique and that conveys more that the bullet point summary of the paragraph. Finding the mode of expression through speaking and writing is part of the self-discovery process, it's part of growing up and […]

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Why different countries adopt different cars Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-why-diff…

4 charts showing Ethanol dominating Brazil, EVs dominating Norway, Hybrids dominating Japan and ICE dominating the USA

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.). That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Human bot defends being a human bot > AI creates almost all the final sentences in that process. That is true. But www.nature.com/articles/d44148-026-… archive archive.is/fo6xv > I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece. i.e. he wrote the prompt i […]

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

cannot believe that the current debate in open source is "should we actually understand the code we write or should we give money to sam altman and dario amodei to rent the ability to produce the jankiest garbage you've ever seen"

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Then you shove a load of toxic slop into the kernel.

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for. It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the […]

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Damn, another bad victim of the slop flood are puzzles! I'm looking for something for my toddler, and anything that is not a licensed IP, is all very bad, obvious and cringey slop.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

has anyone documented the step by step process of how this particular swarm of parasitical wasps got into the C-level at the Wikimedia Foundation and do they even have an end game, or are they just ideologically stupid

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I co-proposed/wrote the #Codeberg vibe-coding ban and all I got was a lot of haters in my mentions. And a nearly 70% approval rate, with one of the highest voter turnouts the association had afaik (and one that's comparable to the last EU elections). 😎

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024… Re this comment and others on that page. Ultimately the thing that makes people talk about AI as "slop" and distrust people who use it is that its impossible to gain the speed advantages […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Looking for #bookstodon tips! I'm father of a very curious 3.5 year old, who is excited about maps and planets. Most atlases I see aimed at kids are full of bad stereotyping, so any #map nerds with kids and/or suggestions, I'm on the lookout. Similarly, any #space enthusiasts (maybe @badastro?) […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 23/06/2026

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. blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-c…

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Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Mark Ziemann 🇺🇦🌻🦩 @mdziemann.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

The year is 2004. Zeeberg et al warn using spreadsheets to analyse microarray data causes gene name errors. The year is 2016. My team warns using spreadsheets to analyse RNA-seq data causes gene name errors. The year is 2021. My team warns that the spreadsheet problem is actually worse than we […]

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@LeoRJorge/11661941… Never thought my first ever thread here would be about ethanol as a fuel in Brazil. For the record, I think whatever small effect it might have reducing CO2 emissions is more than compensated by the huge area devoted to produce that […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

you know how sometimes people that weren't exposed to religion as children sometimes convert and get really weird about it as adults (eg: the extremely online california tradcaths) and because they were never socialized in a religion they speedrun committing every medieval heresy? rationalism is […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Feb 2023 and Feb 2026. www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/a… #AI #Citations #Hallucinations

Quarterly rate of fabricated references per 10 000 papers in PubMed Central from January, 2023, to February, 2026.

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Leo Ré Jorge @leorjorge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@coatless/116514621… This is so textbook theft via LLM... the enclosure of the commons is going at full speed. Posit established a kind of monopolistic position in the R ecosystem, and it's past time the community starts to move towards breaking free from it […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

@paco It's hilarious to me that if God took on a material form one day, appeared to Richard Dawkins, demonstrated various miracles, and then told him that LLMs aren't conscious, Dawkins would presumably conclude that he was hallucinating, and continue comfortably in his belief both that there is […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Is Tokenmaxxing the thing where you smash your own cheekbones with a hammer?

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

My wife and my sketching friend both work at research organizations. During the dog walk we did before the sketching session they were discussing the use of LLMs at their organization. Both of them have PhDs in biology. Listening to the way in which they and others use LLMs, it became clear a […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

@tante "just type some words here and the AI will make music for you, see, you don't need to waste your time learning how to play an instrument" THE JOURNEY IS THE POINT YOU DOLTS, YOU SOULLESS GOBLINS

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 12/04/2026

Any rumors of Vance going to Moscow soon?

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/04/2026

the idea that a "singularity" is possible is just the idea that you can turn "mistaking a sigmoid for an exponential" into a millenarian religion

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Glyph @glyph.im · 09/04/2026

“These apps will win awards at the next all-hands. In two years they’ll be unmaintainable tech debt some poor soul inherits and rewrites from scratch.” leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04…

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The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Peterol and diesel carmakers today might as well be investing in typewriters and rotary telephones.

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