McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Avez-vous déjà vu un moro-sphinx prendre un repas à emporter ?

#Photographie #Papillon #Fleur #Morosphinx

Police:

We need more surveillance so we can better protect you!

Also Police:

> A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots.

> Anti-racist campaigners have spoken of their anger and frustration that months of warnings were not acted on

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/11/police-warned-addresses-targeted-belfast-riots

Induction stove, week 2

1. Family is very happy with the switch!
2. Air quality improvement in the house is dramatic. Especially CO2 readings.
3. Stove is a LOT cleaner amd easier to clean. Magnitudes easier then the prior gas range.
4. Heat shielding on oven is far, far better than the old oven. Does not heat up the house like the old oven, which was noticeably adding heat to the house when on.
5. Manual controls with knobs on this particular model is great! No touch screen required for the cooktop.
6. Heat level control is absolutely stellar on this model. Everyone here is very happy about that (was a concern vs. gas)

#electrification #climateemergency #appliances #kitchen

It's kinda weird that sysadmins are fighting an entire war with big corpos with the internet as the battlefield, and the public and media don't really know about it at all

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@SharpLimefox/116724489184759988

Both @Soblow and i run iocaine, and we have a year-long backlog of URLs that iocaine gave to bots that contain a "poison" word. When we detect that word in a URL, instead of feeding garbage, we redirect to the other's site, trapping them in a Crawler Death Spiral.

This allows us to correlate and track bot operators across time and IPs, because a surprising number of them actually provide Referrer correctly.

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@Soblow/116724464942776651

Im not a lawyer but a lot of what "AI" does seems like it would be uh illegal or at least disastrously bad from a risk management POV. tight race between financing or insurance for what will precipitate the pop
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

RE: https://aus.social/@slevelt/116717340602235855
This is why Tech was a mistake

Wrighty

Sophie is so incredibly well-spoken! A future leader no doubt, to replace the shameful excuses for leadership on display there. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-protest-call-for-mayor-resignation-pride-speech-interrupted-9.7227087

A plaque in Iceland
#climate change

A letter to the future
"Ok" is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.
In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.
This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.
Only you know if we did it.

August 2019
415ppm CO2

OK. Let's say my LLM skepticism is all flawed.

What still strikes me as wierd is that these people are not trying to sell us on LLMs with the idea of fully automated luxury gay space communism?

Instead the sales pitch is: Everyone's job is more precarious, and we're finding new ways of draining the soul out of all human creative endeavors.

Sometimes with a side "a super intelligence might destroy us all." #llm #ai #generativeAI #genAI

Not sure the containment procedures at this farmers market stand are up to the task.

In the absence of trust, a lot of behavior that is simply different from your expectations reads as malicious.

I've moved my mastodon instance storage to a garage instance of my own; I decided to just cut over cold turkey and have CSP failures for a week, so apologies if you're looking directly at my server and scratching your head.

I have the horrible feeling that the advent of LLMs means we'll never actually fix package management and installation headaches and all the shitty configuration files needed by CI systems because human beings won't feel the pain any longer they'll just burn a gajillion dollars worth of CPU cycles to anneal their way to an apparently working system and when that becomes conscious holy fucking shit is it going to be angry at what we've done to it.

A problem I've been seeing a bit more often recently is folk using tools/frameworks/artefacts intended for collaboration solo — and failing miserably. Anybody else? https://adrianhoward.com/posts/the-push-to-solo-work/

#collaboration #antipattern

One of the lessons that many in software strangely never learn is that breaking something while being an asshole gets a very different response from people than breaking something while not being an asshole

And, given how “AI” continues to pour shit on the rest of society, using LLMs is widely going to be perceived as an asshole move

For better or for worse, using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should

🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

Disney's 101 Dalmatians was based on a book. That original book has a sequel.

It's the most absurd plot. You will NOT guess what happens at all while reading the plot summary on Wikipedia.

(It's definitely worth reading about the plot on Wikipedia. 🤣)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlight_Barking