Ironically the Avatar cartoon nailed this one.

"THE BOULDER feels conflicted"

"Once upon a time, there were Foo and Bar. They- ah fuck"

Woke: an 80,000 word novel that doesn'r use the letter E

Anti-woke: an 80,000 word novel that doesn't use pronouns

@soatok “This is eugenics thinking. This is fascist thinking.”

That’s the thesis behind The Ghost In The Machine documentary. There’s an unbroken lineage from Eugenics to Rationalism to AGI

When you start hearing the term "Permanent Underclass" thrown around casually, you know something has gone wrong.

When you sit down and listen to what the "hyped about AI" folks believe, it's equal parts weird and insulting.

But at a surface level, the whole notion of "AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence) is absurd.

No, not the Artificial part. The General part.

Intelligence is not a one-dimensional thing. You can't reduce the human experience to a single scalar value. You can't then build a hierarchy out of General Intelligence scores. This is eugenics thinking. This is fascist thinking (see: Ur Fascism).

And it gets even worse from there!

It's kind of a shame that Dawkins is like that because a blog post about people's relationship with technology titled "The Claude Delusion" would go hard

260819-144119_Canon EOS 6D_EF85mm f-1.2L USM
#eurofurence_30 #fursuit #furry

we -have- the tech tree 'backups" unlocked; there is no excuse for this horseshit.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deleting-tv-show-season

If you were to vanish suddenly tomorrow, what extremely informal but endearing description would people use to describe their memory of you?

Feel free to specify who is doing the remembering.

(No self-deprecation here.)
#askfedi

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sambowne/117439868509750996

Remember when we all use to laugh at oracle for realeasing Java security patches that were in the several thousands?

anyhow, vibe coding is keeping me employed.

lies down and tries not to cry
cries anyway

God bless tradespeople because I'm too fucking stupid and uncoordinated to wield a hammer.

@ret @soatok I have “rails” on bugcrowd - which they took off me in the past for *checks notes*

“…your awesome username was causing causing some programming grief”

@soatok Little Bobby oauth2 is at it again

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/117434932638134124

character.ai files for bankruptcy.
first blood?

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making it exponentially worse

@soatok reminds me of when Facebook introduced usernames and I grabbed index2.php and they took it off me like a week later.

Me in 2022: https://soatok.blog/2022/09/09/should-you-delete-your-patreon-account-after-they-laid-off-their-entire-security-team/

Patreon in 2026: https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox/117432348441927134

Still mad about finding out “What? I didn’t vaccinate you for a bunch of stuff! Also I denied you a diagnosis that would have prevented many of the worst things that have ever happened to you, and I’m proud of it!” in the middle of an antivax rant.