It's getting bad. Like 80+% of our instance applications are AI-generated now, and it's a huge waste of time to action them.

There seem to be several different models, and they all use throwaway email providers and VPNs.

We have one model that just "wants community" in a couple sentences, one that is looking for "tech-minded, open source friends", one that just spews word-salad, one that copies and pastes other people's bios, and at least a couple that try various plausible messages.

The better they get, the more resources it takes us to identify and reject them.

They're like fucking fruit flies.

I'm getting burnt out on all my moderation actions being against fucking AI. Like, I never thought I'd say it, but I miss suspending Nazis and bigots—at least they were real people who would give up after a while—these LLMs just go on and on, and they don't give a shit if they're suspended or rejected.

#FuckLLMs (but also #FuckNazis and #FuckBigots)

If you have a Roku smart TV, today is a great day to do a factory reset, disable WiFi, and plug in an Apple TV or Google TV via HDMI instead.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fox-corporation-to-acquire-roku-inc-302800220.html

Damn it past Jess...

Anne Rice was a closeted trans man, holy shit.

Well, it happened: We crammed our way into a crowded intercity train and someone was like WOW IT’S ODIN FROM MASTODON

That's a future Jess problem.

How I feel about the won settlements by other folks who were fired for telling the truth about charlie kirk.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bbirdbphd/p/i-am-car-homeless-because-white-supremacists?r=erl7r&utm_medium=ios

I'll bet trying to identify pride flags is some real hell for color blind folks

I need a voter guide that tells me:
"This is the most progressive candidate that has a chance in hell of winning"

Literally got the whole day free and nothing is giving any dopamine. Ugh.

Quite a morning chuckle!

They waited until the last minutes, literally, to remove the Trump name from the Kennedy Center. There has been a live webcam on the removal since noon yesterday.

A storm moved into the area and last night all work stopped. Since it was all under a roof it wasn't clear why. This morning it's clear as to why.

They used some sort of fabric on the scaffolding to hide the actual removal from the cameras. They could not have installed the fabric with the wind blowing!

So here we are ... Trump's name being stripped away, crowd gathered watching and cheering and you can't see crap!

There's probably Pride things going on in my area all weekend long, but my personal capacity is near zero, so I'm celebrating by sitting on my ass at home.

I think the secret reason that so much open source software is designed for CLI use is NOT just that we really like the console, but the deeper and much more true reason is that writing a GUI is a pain

And over on Worksona-chan (LinkedIn), it's all full of people being excited about making Elon a trillionaire like somehow kissing his ass will make them rich too.

Ugh, I just had a what if - could some of the anti-data center noise be SpaceX astroturfing about putting data centers in space?

12 June 1936

"Otto Richter, a German Jew, and his wife protest against his deportation to Germany by the US immigration authorities, Ellis Island."

1/5

RE: https://mastodon.online/@ixi/116737128527171548

Human billboards need to come back into fashion. Shit is too real for social media

I'm the same damn person I have always been. I'm no more or less of a danger than I've always been, which is to say none at all. But somehow the very idea that I prefer different hormones and sit to pee now means I'm some unholy abomination who deserves whatever I get.

Remembering all the cool places I've been or want to go to that I would no longer feel safe going to now that I'm out as a trans woman. I hate how my world has largely shrunk to major cities in liberal states and countries.