Reposted by Vjake @yetanotheruseless.com · 22/06/2026this is the tradeoff we make: we (oss devs) contribute to projects, attach the most *absolutely giveaway* licensing possible, so companies would be *idiots* to not take that code up and use it (as long as it's not crap!), and in exchange, *we* can use it at _any job we go to_. 36912
Reposted by VP(D(aisy)) @her.toy.cybernetic.gay · 06/06/2026We should have like a really big nuclear reactor that makes energy everyone can harvest, but put it a safe distance from the earth. Uh I'm being informed it's not a safe distance from the earth and you'll need to put on this lotion to prevent radiation burns. 4638
Reposted by VZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Not sure if this is a hot take, but the apparently frequent cheating or borderline cheating with Ai in University seems to me less about Ai and more about how sick the system has gotten. Compare for example to learning from a teacher to graft trees. In that case, cheating would be absurd. Why? 1119931
Reposted by VZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I love universities. But the incentive structure is badly fucked up. Anyone who teaches has had the experience of teaching a class they don't want to teach to a room of students who don't want to learn. Like with a lot of things Ai is an accelerant, but it didn't create the problem. 111357
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Late night shower thought: At this point GPU should be renamed to Vibe Coding Unit 200
Reposted by VThe Dark Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 25/05/2026It’s not mentioned enough how entirely accidental transformer models were. 715416
Reposted by VKiran @kirancodes.me · 22/05/2026Z3! You're on WATCH! Latest update to lean.py is a drop in replacement for Z3! Everyone's trying to put SMT solvers in their theorem prover, how about putting a theorem prover in your SMT solver? and here's the crazy thing: One click install, if you know Z3, you KNOW lean.py. You are not ready. 2357
Reposted by VKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Everyone says they want Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism until they learn the Communism will be endless amounts of charts, the Space stuff will be done mostly by robots, the Full Automation will come from AI, and the Gay part will also involve AI making up for the top shortage. 1853674
Reposted by VSiobhán @shibbi.me · 22/05/2026Can’t wait for the first AI proof that contradicts an AI proof Are the AIs wrong, or is math inconsistent? It could be either one!! 5393
Reposted by VMaxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 19/05/2026“Hey Claude can you check how to change the timeline scale on nvitop” *clones nvitop repo and starts searching through the codebase* I can’t deny that at this point this is probably going to yield a more accurate answer than the Internet. 1132
Reposted by VSingularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 18/05/2026social media psychosis has to be about 10x or 1000x more frequent than LLM psychosis 4819
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This just in: Musk is harvesting the energy of Yellowstone to power Grok 100
Reposted by VKey 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 18/05/2026I think that if you actually believe that a single building will raise the temperature of an entire state by 20 degrees, you're way too far gone for rational argument and most likely vote for whatever fascist comes next. 1354
Reposted by Vheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 18/05/2026i mean like the whole state of whatsitsbutt being raised 20º OVERNIGHT yea we've fully passed satire, poe's law is dead RIP 021
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Those claiming that data centers will heat up cities multiple degrees are as wrong as they were when they claimed a prompt for a 100 word email vaporizes a cup of water within a minute. More importantly, they don't actually care about either. They just went insane when computers started writing. 110
Reposted by VKey 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 18/05/2026It is actually kind of striking how 2020 covid-era left-wingers had such a leg up on right-wingers over their overt anti-intellectualism, but now they're on the same level. 3447
Reposted by VJordan Nafa @ajordannafa.com · 17/05/2026Your median tech CEO is some combination of sociopath and narcissist, but also there is a subset of the population that just kind of checked out at GPT3 and has refused to even engage with the tech since like 2023. They are, coincidentally, probably the most at-risk of being displaced by said tech. 0587
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I'm one application away from turning into the guy that delivered donuts with his resume inside 120
Reposted by VKey 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 18/05/2026Also, it is obvious to me that most of the counter-arguments that people give against these ideas are surface technical and not fundamental, with the exception of principles like continual learning. 4131
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 17/05/2026For context global primary power consumption in 2024 was estimated to be 176,737 TWh, or equivalently ~20.18 TW continuously for a year. It would take 2 thousand 10 GW power plants to equal this. ourworldindata.org/energy-produ...ourworldindata.orgEnergy Production and ConsumptionExplore data on how energy production and use varies across the world. 200
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Oh data center power consumption claims - my favorite! Here's an article from 2013 on radiative forcing due to climate change. The number at the time was 2.5*10^14 Joules per second, or 250 TW. Which would be 25k 10GW power plants. skepticalscience.com/4-Hiroshima-...skepticalscience.com4 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per secondUPDATE 27 Mar 2014: I just discovered that my talk at the Climate Action Summit was posted on YouTube: 210
Reposted by VAsa @asa.engineer · 17/05/2026For context, 9GW is roughly equivalent to a scenario where everyone in New York City turns on their hair dryer at the same time. - it could warm up a lot of bathrooms or very small apartments - the volume of these is minuscule relative to the atmosphere and will not measurably effect the weather 2162
Reposted by VKiran @kirancodes.me · 17/05/2026Say what u will about LLMs but if you got all the tgirls together and made a company anthropic is acting exactly how they would behave 312811
Reposted by V⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 17/05/2026actually everything does have a physical cost, otherwise it's unphysical!!!! there's literally entropy costs with every bit of info that moves 1131
Reposted by Vrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/05/2026the most midwit take on earth is that there must secretly be some quantity of, like, molybdenum or carbon emissions associated with every quantum of money which moves. gdp growth really doesn't mean anything because most things do not have naturally associated physical costs. 6802
Reposted by VThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/05/2026the arXiv stuff is a such a perfect litmus test sorry, antis, people should be able to use AI to help with research sorry, bros, people should be held accountable for the quality of their work I don't understand how any of this is controversial 1029035
Reposted by VThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 16/05/2026llms are ontologically evil => therefore arbitrarily intense harassment of anyone using them is morally justified. Sure is an opinion to have. 2332
Reposted by VSiobhán @shibbi.me · 15/04/2026I’ve been thinking about Einstein’s letter to Truman lately. Einstein was a generational talent. A genius, if there is such a thing. But he knew that he wasn’t the only genius, and that someone would discover the potential to weaponize his research. (1/12) 3185
Reposted by VP(D(aisy)) @her.toy.cybernetic.gay · 17/05/2026Fortune cookies but you have to add "in Rust" to the end of your fortune. Change can hurt, but it leads a path to something better in Rust. 052
Reposted by Vghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/05/2026so, they serve for life, are the sole authority on the law, and substantially choose their successors. tip of my tongue 1256460
Reposted by VA Nightmare on Nat Street 🇵🇷🏳⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Something that really hurts my soul is that when a white trans woman is killed, the community makes tributes, finds videos, and even writes poetry and music. But when the trans woman is Black or Latina, crickets. We're not even respected in death. 05524
Reposted by Vmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 16/05/2026hot take: i bet that blockchain will actually have legit purposes in the future. not convinced it does today, but i do think it will 14642
Reposted by VThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/05/2026It’s beautiful technology that unfortunately has a casino built on top 6784
Reposted by VThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I mean the thing is that courts derive their power from people not invoking the always available “no actually fuck this” option. 412016
Reposted by VThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/05/2026A lot of leftists wind up in a position where they think economics is fake, which is ironically a very anti-materialist, un-Marxist worldview 614621
Reposted by Vheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 21/12/2025THE EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST FOCUSED ON OPTICS WHO DID THE EXPERIMENT ON THE BELL INEQUALITY IS NAMED ALAIN ASPECT NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM MACHINE GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 043
Reposted by Vaffine @refinement.systems · 16/05/2026Maybe a sufficiently smart local model could turn a whole OS into a sort of a self-modifying predatory shoggoth, that decompiles and reverse engineers anything you point it at. How to prevent that thing from draining your bank account and then bricking itself is left as an exercise to the reader. 021
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Something something "your AI slop bores me" Seriously though, what *possible* criticism could anybody have about this use of an LLM? 200
Reposted by VZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/05/2026On the plus side, solar panels are a better idea than ever! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... We were lucky to get ours in right before the big subsidies ended. I thought we'd roughly break even, but we've ended up saving a lot.bloomberg.comData Centers Drive 76% Rise in Power Bills on Largest US GridPower prices on the largest electric grid in the US jumped 76% in the first quarter due to rampant demand from data centers, adding to pressure on its operator to alleviate the strain on consumers. 411412
Reposted by VZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Once again, a president who just sat in the Oval Office playing Fortnite would currently be considered a genius. Without tariffs, deportations, and war with Iran, but with the massive capital expenditure for Ai and recent productivity jumps, the economy should be as good as it's been in a long time. 31046
Reposted by VZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Some pretty bad inflation numbers at the producer level. www.bls.gov/news.release... Things are likely gonna get worse before they get better. 2604
V @mirainthedark.bsky.social · 16/05/2026You're trapped in the last TV Show You Watched, Where are You?media.tenor.coma drawing of a person sitting in a carALT: a drawing of a person sitting in a car 120
