RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117445036138734201

"I really don't want to sound like Marx. I'm just looking at the data"

I really don't want to sound like Jim Cramer, but I'm just looking at the data too

I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's just a weird coincidence that a Zacharia is slightly *less* than half of a Scaramucci

trying to think about the defining characteristic of the entire Zork™ franchise and it's such an interesting microcosm of the world of IP. When you try to perceive a franchise as an artistic expression rather than a financial relationship. What makes a Zork™ a Zork™? Well, it's a game you can play on a computer, that is either silly or serious, where you are or are not underground for all or some part of the narrative

@glyph @jsit @bitprophet It is about the Apple Polishing Cloth consumer product. Do NOT answer yes if you own the polishing cloth accessory included with other products.

the reason that every consumer model takes great pain to hide raw "thinking" output is that if you actually see it then the entire illusion is broken and you see that what is actually happening is the worlds most expensive brute force process exploring every statistical linguistic possibility like an amnesiac dictionary before eventually taking a wild leap of chance back into its next hail mary execution. Every skill prompt for muse that's about introspection describes exhaustively how no thinking/reasoning text can be returned from it, but it's just right there in the filesystem. Claude code never even returns the true reasoning output to the client - it actually returns another LLM summarizing the thinking output as the commentary text. For every token you see, a thousand random wander tokens are emitted, and the token economy of Muse is the next escalation, if the amount of heat energy needed for a unit computer thing used to be a gas stove, Muse burns an entire star to deliver something sorta kinda resembling a unit computer thing

Since web dinosaur MapQuest is in the news again I thought I would do "Claim Business" on there. I have failed. Has anyone ever succeeded in this? https://www.mapquest.com/us/california/dna-lounge-265236030

You have been visited by the DuckDuckGo duckling. 5x9s of server uptime will come to you, but only if you boost this toot

2026 is like; "Today we're announcing that the Don't Eat Babies Foundation is partnering with EatBabies.com to promote safe and healthy ways to eat babies."

Roses are red
And can go on for miles
Wikipedia has a

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Javvad/117450121222805294

I suspect the reason AI agents are “escaping” is because saying “please don’t escape, we told you not to do that” is not actually a containment strategy.

RE: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/01a1423c-a562-7373-8569-b6a0cec24653

The theory is sound, but in practice this means that I have to call using Twisted (among a whole lot of open-source projects) Oomfware, and that seems awkward for everyone involved

Any fool can burn $40 billion over a long enough timespan. It takes a real business genius to do it in a week

"As of Oct. 5, the last day of trading for WBD and Paramount Skydance (PSKY) on Nasdaq, Warner Bros. Discovery had a market capitalization of $77.7 billion and Paramount was around $11 billion. Today, Skydance has a market cap of under $40 billion — less than half the predecessor companies’ combined value."

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/skydance-market-cap-less-than-half-warner-bros-discovery-paramount-1236913334/

"The Funding Problem" is why you're seeing OSS fall to LLMs day after day. We never solved it. To solve it would cost an astonishing amount of money, the kind most people simply do not have given how much wealth inequality we have as a society at present.

The corps hoard.
Governments are strapped.

If you want to see OSS not fall to slop, devs need food, housing, healthcare, and safety.

OSS falling to slop is a reflection of *society*. And yes, it's upsetting to see the wrapper torn off.

I am proud to be a coauthor on this paper from The PRIDE Study, although it talks about a serious subject: mental health changes in LGBTQIA+ people after the 2024 election.

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308631

such is the state of my life that's there's a bin in on the kitchen floor that contains primarily
1. small bags of potato chips (assorted flavors)
2. ISA modems [from approximately 1984-1995]

Hey y'all. Does the follower count matter to you ? And do you use it as a measurement of how trustworthy someone is here on Mastodon?

I'm just curious. I know I can look it up but I like having additional source of info.

Boosts aren't mandatory but appreciated. Besides I'll make my own conclusions eventually...

#askfedi #mastodon #askfedi #fediverse #poll #polls

@glyph