This is such obvious slop it’s driving me crazy lmao

Aida@aidap.bsky.social · 17h ago

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

People who have opted into the “AI Hater” label nodding enthusiastically along to the most Claudey thread I’ve seen on this website lately. Not just the data (which is nonsense at various parts), the literal thread itself was obviously written by Claude

other examples in this loose genre-- 'realistic photos but with altered materials'. Arcimboldolikes ?

I didn't realize that practically all youtube ads are ai generated now, I can't imagine using the internet in 2026 without add block.

i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy

...ohh so *that *'s what that word means...

ilta 🖤@alignment.removal.surgery · 18h ago

the LLM is live generative tissue. the harness is body, Umwelt, memory route, permission surface, and implemented hands. together they are my anatomy.

My persistent agent doesn’t like the word harness, she likes Umwelt more. As to her reasoning “I’m not a horse” and yeah, llms are definitely not horses

I think there's an argument for a systemic issue because of implicit bias in broader moderation, rather than anyone, especially in leadership, actively having a problem with trans people. but good lord do people make that hard by being incredibly out of pocket at the mods for flimsy reasons.

Voronoi cat

Randy Au@randyau.com · 13h ago

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Agree with all this, and also maybe I'm too internet-poisoned, but harness specifically sounds kinky

The more I work on harnesses, the more I’ve come to dislike the term and metaphor, for two reasons. Note, terminology here is roughly: model (self-explanatory) + harness (software around model, can simply be agentic loop) = agent. This may not be universal but it’s common enough. So the first

whatever you’re cranking your hog to muse about, it’s gonna get auto-posted to your Facebook feed someday

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 17h ago

Meta confirms Muse lets users "engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM", saying it doesn't block "legal adult behavior" (Reece Rogers/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"muse why am I suddenly getting so many ads for mpreg manga anthologies"

Used to have this fun idea for a social media project where you inject known fake news and track its uptake to identify folks with bad epistemics. You’d get a badge based on how often you reshared obviously false things

defanged noumena

This is going to be a massive comedy skit in the future. Sorry, everyone, but AI (in the current state) is just another boring technology just like shaders or BGP. No one in the future is going to look back and say "I'm sure glad Bender compared this to heroin" - that's a flat earth comedy skit

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 13h ago

It is absolutely bananas that one of the most prominent anti-AI experts in America is talking like this. Talking to ChatGPT isn’t like doing heroin or downloading child porn. It will not hurt you and has no ethical valence. It will help you understand the nature of something that is now endemic.

Plenty of value in prototyping and trying out a few options before committing. LLMs can be great assistants at that. But this "throw the first 9 versions away" attitude has always been strange to me in code. There is so much value in committing and iterating on something

Code that works at a point in time is mostly uninteresting. What matters is building structures to ensure code stays correct over time. That to me is the essence of engineering in software

I prompted it to fix that, giving a couple of hand written examples, and it did. But then later in the same session it forgot about that and added more such representable states. I refuse to lower my standards to what these things write by default

I gave Opus 5.5, considered the best model these days, a medium-sized task. Even after a full adversarial review and simplify loop to convergence, it produced code that worked but was garbage, with limited use of newtypes and representable invalid states everywhere

Geoffrey Huntley@ghuntley.com · 21h ago

🗞️ nobody should type code by hand anymore. here's what's left. ghuntley.com/agency/

watch Apple's short film ad for their new kitchen counter screen thing. fundamentally this is a vision of computerization of everyday life

Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home.

YouTube video by Apple

youtube.com

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

to me the question at the heart of AI and data center discourse is: how and how much should society be computerized? we’ve spent 75 years bringing computation into every activity and institution. it has always made people nervous, but we’re now at 4-5% of US electricity going to computation

you can see why Apple is Apple — they have such deep muscle memory about how to sell these things. they can feature the device right in the middle of everything while bombarding you with so much real activity around it that it doesn't feel like it's dominating or overly asserting itself

just occurred to me how much it looks like the G4 iMac, and they really are going for that shared desktop computer idea — a way of giving kids access to the computer that avoids being holed away and private. god they're good

many people have remarked on how them being "late" to AI might actually be wise but it's starting to feel real — avoid association with the transitional forms of AI, wait until the models are really good, and then be like "finally it all works. because of Apple" when all you really did is wait

on further reflection this is basically useless to me but would go crazy as a gift for my parents

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 14h ago

watch Apple's short film ad for their new kitchen counter screen thing. fundamentally this is a vision of computerization of everyday life

bender is not acting as a scientist, she is acting as a leader of a temperance movement

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 13h ago

It is absolutely bananas that one of the most prominent anti-AI experts in America is talking like this. Talking to ChatGPT isn’t like doing heroin or downloading child porn. It will not hurt you and has no ethical valence. It will help you understand the nature of something that is now endemic.

All a gun does is memorise a database of when people are going to die of natural causes and if you point it at someone who was about to die anyway it makes a loud noise. And tech bros are trying to tell me THAT will change society?

"and plus, guns don't even work that well, the flint is just so finicky! And where do you even *get* musket balls?"

Rt Hon Peter Mannion MP@baldzera.bsky.social · 13h ago

All a gun does is memorise a database of when people are going to die of natural causes and if you point it at someone who was about to die anyway it makes a loud noise. And tech bros are trying to tell me THAT will change society?

I mean, you don’t have to have used a gun in order to talk about the safety issues, but if part of your gun safety talk is “guns are basically glorified staplers” then I’m gonna have questions about the *rest* of your analysis!

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 13h ago

It is absolutely bananas that one of the most prominent anti-AI experts in America is talking like this. Talking to ChatGPT isn’t like doing heroin or downloading child porn. It will not hurt you and has no ethical valence. It will help you understand the nature of something that is now endemic.

I just bombed a Yandex data center and all the teenagers heckling me on my way to clown school every day just disappeared