While the Catholic Church is still an extremely rigid organization it tries to very slowly adjust to the current era, SSPX squarely refuses this and runs away in the other direction. Women must wear long, modest skirts and submit to their husbands. They are also abusing boys, of course they do. They supported Civitas which was so far right France have dissolved it. There was a Holocaust denier bishop, they gave asylum to a WW II war criminal, they really are a bunch of very nice people.

There are so many dreams that LLMs seem to make happen: in a world where social isolation is more and more a problem an easily available partner. A new tribe or species that is exciting to discover. A *deity* that actually exists and communicates with you. A computer that you can mold into your own.

All of that and probably more.

Problem is, none of this is real. But the dream is so strong -- and the wake up is brutal and not everyone wakes up.

Zynga raised a bit over $800M, by then they had like 16 million daily active users.

OpenAI stands at $180B raised, more than 200 times as much. Who in their right mind thinks OpenAI will have over *three billion* daily active users? About 5.5-5.8 billion people use smartphones so every they would need to nab every second one of them.

Drupal core has added an AGENTS.md and it is not a total ban, not even close. They call it "harm reduction", even.

Incredibly insightful article on AI https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/everyone-is-wrong-about-ai-except

Two very interesting and important section headers:

> “Robots are actually more alive than we are” is a core belief in our society

> We’re never going to space so AI is what we’re doing instead

It is really really great and explains so much. cc @davidgerard @pluralistic

RE: https://indieweb.social/@chrisoliver/116822384708101756

The "play has no limits" slogan is fantastic here.

Seriously, The Onion would be hard pressed to come up with something like this.

So @pluralistic have written "The world has moved on" https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

"Unnecessariat", the most brilliant essay I ever read explaining how Trump rose to presidency in 2016 says "the world has drifted away".

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

RE: https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661

This is what #drupal core should do, I advocated for it and some refused while most just let those refuse and troll the issue to death. It has been one of the main reasons I stopped contributing to that community. There are others, of course.

I braved the putrid stench of /r/conservative and even that rotten place considers the Iran deal a complete surrender.

McSweeney's AI Economics for Dummies is the best description I've ever read about this shit. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

"Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate."

it gets better :D

This is the United States. Anyone who have ever been in the presence of a living cow knows it's full of shit -- it being the entire environment. You do not need 21th century science to know with raw milk you are literally drinking cow shit. And yet, people do it. Sure, they might never had the chance to breath in the aroma of a cow barn but then they listen to people who are also full of shit.

What's special about this toot is that this is from an AI maxx person. They would regularly come to my LLM criticism posts and attack, quote toot others to question their LLM criticism. And yet, even they know it's fucking horrible because when they posted a beautiful photo from nature they felt the need to add "no AI here".

Anthropic has trumpeted about how Mythos / Fable is too powerful until the criminally corrupt and incompetent US government actually believed this shit.

Apropos of nothing, let me repost this.

Print available at https://safelyendangered.com/products/lion-print

Not my work.

According to a recent UN report, ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year. Compare to data center equipment and infrastructure spending reached $290 billion in 2024.

Now we see the point of Starlink and the Twitter purchase: Musk can incite a race war and he can't be controlled.

Congratulations to #drupal core for going with the braindead symfony runtime pattern which no one can understand completely sweeping aside my concerns and ignoring my solution. Truly well done.

Like, what even is the code flow of this, how does the closure execute? Where does $context come from? Why any of this is done? It makes no sense and it has no purpose. But Symfony does it and Drupal people learned nothing and follow blind. In a few years will come the remorse and the refactor away.

KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (Wall Street Journal)

As per the ACLU, there are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

In April 2023, Equality Florida issued a travel advisory advising the LGBTQ community not to travel to Florida. Next month, a law was passed to allow discrimination among medical practicioners.

Yet the #drupal association put #drupalcon 2027 into Orlando, Florida -- without giving an adequate explanation on why they are either excluding the LGBTQ members of the community or putting them in danger.