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• Post #4455902

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116533835056567254 Wonderful! 1/2

• Post #4454247

  Amateurs are the lifeblood of every artistic discipline. And by “amateur” I mean not “someone who doesn’t get paid” or “someone of limited skill,” but rather the original sense: someone who does it for the love of doing it. https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/116665529197583712

• Post #4426195

  RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205 Back in 1999 or so, I was on the team that helped Minnesota Public Radio choose a long-term storage format for their (extensive and valuable!!) audio archives, which they were about to digitize. The conclusion we came to was that there was •no• storage medium that met their long-term preservation goals — true then, and almost certainly still true today. The best approach is perpetual and redundant forward copying of the data, from one physical...

• Post #4401585

  Me, once again watching a popular movie / TV show and internally screaming “Lock your device!! Back up your data!!! You could have prevented this entire plot arc! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU”

• Post #4388804

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116969713312274427 Actual photo of how the AI vendors sandboxed their “agents” that “went rogue”

• Post #4380995

  You will be visited by three ghosts. Inside every ghost are two wolves. Inside each wolf is a better person struggling to be free. Inside every person is an entire human skeleton. In every human skeleton there are 206 bones. Among those bones is an atlas. In an atlas is the whole world. In every world there are myriad ghosts. How many were going to St. Ives?

• Post #4368757

  RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117034091899827324 This is necessary but not sufficient. Not at all sufficient. But ••extremely necessary••.

• Post #4368309

  RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117033719986031396 Note that these companies in many cases will have passed on the tariffs to consumers in the form of higher prices. They’re now being reimbursed for costs they never had to fully absorb in the first place.

• Post #4344323

  RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/117029272330633210 Huh!

• Post #4337589

  RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117022915576227913 A sharp thought in this post. “Alignment?” Of a system’s behavior with human goals? •Which• human’s goals?

• Post #4264457

  If you doubted that the “oh noes our agent escaped containment” schtick from OpenAI was anything other than marketing, note Anthropic’s “look look! we’ve got one too! oh no! look at us!!” story.

• Post #4249038

  RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117003290007900358 One of the conclusions I’ve come to from my years of software freelancing is that humans hate tradeoffs. I don’t just mean that we hate deciding between options when none is clearly the best. I mean that people hate admitting that tradeoffs •exist•. We desperately want there to be a best option, a correct answer, a clear choice to satisfying our egocentric need to believe we are objectively In The Right.

• Post #4221498

  Huh! New to me, and I suspect I’ll be referring to it: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/117005990455095783

• Post #4220628

  RE: https://opinuendo.com/@matthew/117005584248025015 Yikes. Ugly scene.

• Post #4210118

  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116997766777309382 This is a Hail Mary effort; hard forks like this are hard to sustain and rarely succeed. But it’s reached the point where we have to try.

• Post #4171876

  🍿🍿🍿 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/28/apple-second-ever-5tn-company-as-investors-flee-ai-stocks

• Post #4170762

  RE: https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/116998926331565287 This Emily Wilson piece made some juicy headlines, but I finally actually read it and it's much more layered and interesting than the sound bites.

• Post #4156993

  RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116994015054531957 This is marvelous, and probably much closer to the actual performance practice of Bach's time (extensive improvisation, ornamentation, stylistic transposition, and general reworking that treats the score as a starting point and not a constraint) than what happens in concert halls in the present.

• Post #4154558

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116994028497632581 ❝The late Soviet Union was damned by the iconic image of people waiting in endless lines for scarce consumer goods. When we look back at the dying days of America, perhaps we’ll think of waiting in dots, surrounded by plentiful products locked away because our bosses fear and loathe us so much they have forgotten how selling things works.❞ This piece is fire.

• Post #4130121

  I assume after HuggingFace comes BurstingChest, the next stage of the parasite’s lifecycle?

• Post #4104397

  Perry Bible Fellowship usually follows an “oh no” mishap/twist form, but to me this one is just unalloyed beauty, and captures so much of what I treasure about humans in all our manifold nerdities. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/beautiful-universe/

• Post #4090595

  RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116978938208335232 “We only use it for…” Nope. The only data that is secure is data that doesn’t exist.

• Post #4046873

  I’m glad people are finally paying attention to this. At this point, I won’t even get into a Tesla. Nope. Sorry. I’ll wait for a different driver. I’ll walk. I’ll stay home. Not getting in. https://sfba.social/@oldredsubby/116971252554433074

• Post #4026711

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116967027925557386 um

• Post #3991268

  The Trump administration’s white nationalist ethnic cleansing project is in a dangerous new phase: “quiet and steady.” They tried a shock and awe approach, and that crashed and burned in Minneapolis. It’s over…for now. But they haven't stopped kidnapping people. Instead, ICE and DHS are making their operations as invisible as they can, targeting people who were already on the edge of invisibility for all of us, and hoping we don't notice. Abolish ICE. Gut DHS. End this terror. https:/...

• Post #3988725

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/116957253240824131 Interesting finding. I would strongly caution against using this to assume that one can be sure a face is generated, but good heuristic to know. And beyond detection: this is another finding that suggests gen AI has a normative, flattening character with potentially dangerous social effects.

• Post #3970281

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@troublewithwords/116953491246459203 Building on this post: The thing that distinguishes humans from all other life on the planet is not our power to drastically change our environment at large scales (cf beavers, diatoms fertilizing the Amazon, the Great Oxidation Event). Instead, it is our ability to be •aware• of the macroscopic effects of the changes we create — and thus to be •in denial• about them. I therefore propose that the date of the refusal to recognize...

• Post #3967489

  RE: https://chaos.social/@vogelchr/116953057618621110 wait, wat

• Post #3951049

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116949472587933435 This is unserious, gratuitous, petty rage-bating, and probably satire?? I find it hilarious and horrifying in equal measure that we live in this present moment.

• Post #3918838

  RE: https://haunted.computer/@netspooky/116938177858980756 Wild that this is even possible! A reminder that all computation is a logical abstraction over physical processes — and every abstraction eventually leaks.