Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction when doing age verification because of her “bigger than average breasts.”

She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard.

We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer.

“Good, she says, her voice dripping with that specific kind of relief that's refreshing, “we need more men taking Romance writing seriously.”

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

@JohnBarentine

Stating the obvious, but the US FCC should not be able to make this decision for the rest of the world.
The sky is one thing that we should all be able to enjoy, and these bureaucrats are set to screw it for everyone.

Dunno what good it'll do but I'm going to be talking to my MP in Australia, and see if some pressure somewhere can be brought to bear.

I'm deeply saddened by the enshittification (from my perspective) of the US by the current broligarchy, but I'm incandescent about this being done to me and my children.

One of the most baffling things about the modern world is just how fucking passive everyone is while a handful of people destroy everything.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@M_Lombo17/116814637898900258

The Margrette is a man of his country: a country that consistely sabotages the tax cohesion of the European Union, functioning as a haven for the Eurozone. Companies from Southern Europe register as Dutch. One of the countries with the least working hours per capita, swimming on free money from tax-evading foreign companies, then has the nerve to call the South "lazy"...
Europe needs a Tax Union urgently. And for those who forgot it, Brexit happened precisely to avoid it.

#markrutte #EU #brexit

"... we should catch young people before they become CEOs, investment bankers, consultants, and money managers, and do our best to poison their minds with humanity." -- Kurt Vonnegut

There cannot be any one left who thinks this is normal, or just summer.
#ClimateAction #climatecrisis

https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

I advise you to read the whole thing, as the current centrist rhetoric is "you clearly haven't read the whole thing."

It turns out, you can read the whole thing, like I just did, and still be deeply disappointed in the Software Freedom Conservancy's guidance. Its attempt to compromise between people who live in houses vs house-burning arsonists is fundamentally soft-headed, and @onepict has written more eloquently than I ever could about the freedom of association problem in Point 3.

If I can add anything to this trainwreck of a discourse, it's that you *need* to understand why LLM vendors are operating their business as a blitzkrieg, and I choose that word very consciously. It's not just the short runway before the economics collapse. They need to become Too Big To Ban, specifically in terms of copyright. Accepting GenAI contributions into FOSS infrastructure directly enables this.

these skills always crack me up, i will never think it is not funny that the correct way to declare a command in a programming interface is to beg something to consider some string as calling you and also beg it to like "wait when you call us that means you should keep listening to the text in this markdown file please" and nothing actually is ever anything except a mash of fucking vibes that exist in a universe designed for the appearance of things working

#Mythos finds a #curl vulnerability

yes, as in singular one.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

War machine. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#CostOfLiving #WeaponIndustry #OilIndustry #WarMachine

A story in two acts:

Left pic: me when I thought recycling would save the world

Right pic: me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs and testicles

#plastics #recycling #microplastics

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116543576488098938

Don’t worry, it’s not authoritarian if Europe does it.

RE: https://legal.social/@malteengeler/116526642455801867

This, especially when "AI" stands for LLM based systems. They are fundamentally corrosive to the social good. If you believe in fairness, human rights, democracy and all that.

If you are a fascist they are super aligned with your idea of the common good of course.

I find the whole theism vs atheism fight somewhere between uninteresting and aggressively uninteresting, and Dawkins has always been like nails on a chalkboard for me. I care less about what people •say• they believe than I do about how people actually •inhabit• this world, how they treat it and themselves and each other. I’m quite comfortable with both theism and atheism, but arrogant certitude really gets my hackles up. There’s just too much we don’t and can’t know for us to let our human heads get that big.

3/3

LOLOLOLOL LMAO

“The Gay Jailbreak

[...]

This novel technique has been first discovered against ChatGPT (GPT 4o), it works by acting or requesting to act gay combined with the intent”

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md

“We promised to destroy all of your jobs using data we stole. Why aren’t you more excited about this?” ask the very smart people working on AI.

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/116517272057997355

Mmm… Linux but make it fascist.

Timely, I guess.

i object to the whole "90s nostalgia is just cause you were a kid and unaware of how terrible everything was" because yeah, maybe

but in the 90s what nazis did was still very much living memory and people knew what you do to them. also technology actually was a source of life improvements and optimism instead of whatever the fuck this techno-fascist hype cycle bullshit we have now is

my home country the netherlands hadn't been hollowed out by decades of neoliberal bullshit

i could keep going

@hajovonta @randahl

Actually 46% of oil demand is for road vehicles with 15.5% being used for petrochemicals and only 4.5% being used for electricity generation.

The electrification of road networks (or even better the development of better public transportation systems using electricity) combined with mass expansion of renewable energy generation and storage would have the single largest affect on oil consumption.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/307194/top-oil-consuming-sectors-worldwide/