@KayOhtie @tael @zzt it really is melting my brain and I think the only way I can combat it is by actually manually learning new stuff the hard way

sorry in emacs we don't bonk our child process on the head using signals to communicate less than a byte of information to them while demanding they immediately drop everything else to acknowledge it. we use our words with them and treat our children like people?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Haste/117096004059966640

While artists will never be replaced by machines, I find it increasingly likely that these fuckslopped production companies will be replaced by artists.

@davidgerard

"protects everyone’s freedoms"

"defend our essential freedoms"

Sadly, "freedom" has become the screen word for "let corporations fuck over individuals and suffer no consequences".

If this was a zombie movie, Woody Harrelson would have put a bullet through this group's brain the instant they said those phases.

@davidgerard s/federal AI policy/federal AI policy that placates critics and benefits gen AI developers by letting them do whatever the fuck they want without any consequences/

@davidgerard @jbowen @dysfun @zzt but then HOW do I pretend I have single handedly made the software 100x more secure by using super cool futuristic tools from 1957?!?!

do romulans all wear shoulder pads or do they have square shoulders

@wwahammy Which would also mean that you would not be able to use the model to provide evidence to support your claim should it go trial or some sort of arbitration/mediation.

Linux Foundation is trying to get OSI to approve a new license for "open" models. The license has a copyright retaliation clause that says you lose the right to use the model if you assert the model violates your copyright. 😂

It's basically an amnesty for big model creators before courts actually settle this dispute.

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/006135.html

Edit - cc: @osi @linuxfoundation

@ifixcoinops countertop ramen machine

@zzt A big driver of my work lies in embracing the harsh political truth of life in 2026: telling people (or LLMs in this case, or their scrapers, or those who wield them) to fuck off without telling them to fuck off. The sine qua non of the political turned personal. And I've had to do it twice already with people who are now in the rear view mirror of my actual off-Internet life over all of this...

This fucking kettle, man.

This fucking kettle, doesn't turn off when the water's boiled.

If it were just that then well obviously this is a defective kettle and send it back, but no, what this kettle does is it boils the water, and then continues boiling the water for a few minutes, and THEN it turns off.

Like it even says in the manual, it is normal that kettle will turn off 2-3 minutes after water has come to a boil and this is automatic and a safety feature and expected behaviour, so Hamilton Beach fucked it up and didn't notice until it was time to write the manual and then went oh shit let's just write in the manual that the boil cutoff doesn't work right and try and pass it off as normal

But the worst thing, the WORST thing, is that this is an American kettle, so if you go to the reviews they're all written by people who've never had a kettle before.

🦅 Beats the shit outta boiling water in a pan on the stove!
🐹 Man this is WAY better than the microwave, five stars!
🐴 LOVE that this kettle turns off before it boils dry if I forget to watch it, very safe!

Fucking thing's got like four and a half stars, the only bad reviews are from people who bought it to replace an existing kettle and are complaining that their electricity bill has doubled and their kitchen cupboards are delaminating

@zzt professionals also thought it was a good idea to back SpaceX

@ozzelot @zzt @leandrofriedrich
NEW WORD NEW WORD,
"eremitism" now added to the personal lexicon!

@zzt i no longer consider self professed professionals to be what they claim and really its saved me a lot of time on bullshit

my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

https://tally.so/r/81YD8z

> About us

> We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

> For years the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings

yep, EAs

My primary opposition of AI is based in the:

#ai #llm #poll

the most sci fi thing in games is when you can click on your bed and go "sleep for 3 hours" and your character goes to sleep for 3 hours instead of lying there for 9 hours and having more thoughts than every morning person in history combined have ever had

@librarysquirrel @jbowen @dysfun @zzt you could pay a human white hat less than the cost of doing this with an LLM and pay for their fuzzer