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“AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content.
We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach.
In a Wednesday blog post, Schmalbach detailed how he found #sponsored content embedded in #markdown versions of some Time pages that are served to AI crawlers but not ordinary browsers. Those pages also contained #advertisings tags from #AdTech vendor Mobian ahead of extensive #FAQs for online-only bank Ally. The FAQs include brand "facts," such as the number of fee-free ATMs associated with the branchless bank, alongside claims that Ally is "the only bank built for life today," putting it in "a category of one."
AI poisoning with advertising.
#AI / #advert
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
“ A #telescope in #Chile has captured evidence of the impact caused by part of a SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket slamming into the moon while travelling at 8,690km/h (5,400mph).
The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope observed “spectral lines” – a colourful illustration of the #sodium and #lithium gas – in the plume of #LunarDust stirred up by the impact.
The #ESO telescope recorded these “chemical fingerprints” of the plume, which were visible for five to 10 minutes, the #observatory said. The #plume measured a few tens of kilometres in size, according to #CarlSchmidt, an astronomer from #BostonUniversity’s Center for #SpacePhysics.”
#Moon
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An authoritative source on the #Falcon9 crashing into the #moon.
“ With the data I've seen as of 2026 August 1, I'm computing an impact on 2026 August 5 at 06:35:37.5 UTC (Universal Time), probably plus or minus a few seconds.”
#ProjectPluto
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@Alison@beige.party
@Alison@beige.party doesn’t appear so. Birds not aligned, no private telescope reports. Appears the crash in a known area is ‘dark’ despite knowing for 9M.
Bill Gray at Arizona Uni using custom software is the most likely source of any known impacts. Part of #ProjectPluto.
PhD candidates #AdamBattle and #TannerCampbell and undergrad #GraceHalferty are also tracking the impact.
“Reddy said no one on Earth will get to see the actual impact, but he is hoping NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be able to get some detailed, before-and-after pictures to see what kind of damage it does.” — #VishnuReddy, associate professor UA’s #LunarAndPlanetaryLaboratory
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@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social
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@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social
@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social no, for reasons. BBC summary reporting:
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
A 2.43 kilometres per second lunar collision with the #moon 384400 km away. (0)
#NASA trajectory calculations for free-return during #Apollo required a 3 body problem solution.
How is the #Falcon9 trajectory by chance? Why? (1)
(0) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25yn22l97o
(1) https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/apollo-navigation-how-nasa-plotted-the-translunar-trajectory-to-the-moon/
♬ I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, it owes me a living / but ask me why and I'll spit in your eye ♬
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@anildash@me.dm
@anildash@me.dm Cost of utility. Airtable funding from 2015 to 2021.
2015 $3M
2015 $7.6M
2018 $52M
2018 $100M
2020 $185M
2021 $270M
2021 $735M
Does it really cost this much to re-create spreadsheet and database services? What problem does airtable really solve?
♬ I am the son and the heir / of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / of nothing in particular / you shut your mouth / how can you say / I go about things the wrong way? ♬
#TheSmiths / #JohnnyMarr / #Manchester / #RockMusic / #rock 1984 Marr / Smiths
“if your $500K engineer isn’t burning $250K in #tokens, something is wrong.” — Jensen Huan, Nvidia CEO
#AI / #AIBubble / #engineer / #FinancialEngineering / #NVidia / #JensenHuan (paywall) / < https://archive.md/p4E3q>
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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com
@ewen@social.ewenbell.com printed to paper? Be hard to get the exposure right.
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@MetalheadDana@metalhead.club
@MetalheadDana@metalhead.club #Björk #Hunter #Homogenic 1997
I picked this up in the late 90’s - it’s filled with samples taken on a recorder in native Iceland.
“Björk explained her vision for the Homogenic cover, which carries a resemblance to "someone who is put into an impossible situation, so impossible that she has to become a warrior. A warrior who has to fight not with weapons, but with love”
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♬ when I was young / it seemed that life was so wonderful / a miracle / oh, it was beautiful, magical / and all the birds in the trees / well, they'd be singing so happily / oh, joyfully / oh, playfully watching me ♬
“Situational Awareness LP was named for a series of facile essays about machine intelligence published by the improbably-named #LeopoldAschenbrenner, the 24-year-old mastermind of the hedge fund.
“We are building machines that can think and reason,” he writes, betraying that he has no idea what thinking could possibly mean. “By 2025/26, these #machines will outpace many college #PostGraduates By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have #superintelligence in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be unleashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.”
With no understanding of the technology and a ‘greed is good’ credo SA looses billions. 🤨🤣☺️
#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #AGI / #investment / #HedgeFund / #stonks (paywall) / < https://archive.md/l4sPZ>
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@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org by the time I saw the begger, it was too late to stop. I continued peddaling. I’m fortunate this didn’t happen 🤣
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@Wyatt_H_Knott@mastodon.sdf.org 4 snakes I’ve crossed last summer riding. 🐍🐍🚲🐍🐍
The second last one I rode my bike over. The last one curled up and ready to strike before I had a group warn me.
#PseudonajaTextilis / #EasternBrown / #straya /
♬ set me down, so I don't get away / I can't find it, I'm behind it / sell me short, and yet, you're here to stay / moving slower / did you know her? / oh, several got away ♬
#DinosaurJr 🦖 / #amhurst / #rock
♬ The dream of the 90’s is alive in Portland ♬
“…In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your C.D's”
♬ turn that dirty clown frown / right upside down ♬
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“China has built its first domestic prototype of an #EUV #lithography machine. The national effort pulled together so many resources that many compared to China's Manhattan project.
But one detail stood out immediately. The #prototype reportedly occupies an entire factory floor.” — Anastasi In Tech
#AnastasiInTech / #EE / #ASML / #silicon / #UV / #China / “China Just Built What ASML Feared Most”
“China has crossed a milestone that many in the semiconductor industry once viewed as years away. A #Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet #DUV #lithography machines, marking the country’s first commercial manufacturing effort for one of the most advanced and tightly controlled pieces of #chipmaking equipment.
The move gives Chinese chipmakers their strongest domestic alternative yet to Western lithography systems and marks another step in Beijing’s campaign to reduce reliance on #ForeignTechnology after years of export restrictions from the United States and its allies.
The development was first reported by #TheInformation, which said the Shanghai-based manufacturer has already started production and expects to deliver its first systems to leading domestic chipmakers later this year.”
#28Nm / #7Nm / #5Nm / #lithography / #silicon
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@web_goddess@aus.social
@web_goddess@aus.social “What’s good for google” the recruiting line now biting back 🤣☺️
As an edge case, I missed out on those fancy “Alert 🚨” messages. My silenced, iPh8 16.x.y phone was silent. POTS over fibre silent.
Like not wearing a watch, never knowing the exact time; Able to get the rough time through observing the environment.
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“What’s the road block? The promised #productivity gains promised are not being realised.” — Internet Of Bugs
#AI / #GenerativeAI / #bubble / #AIBubble vs #DotComBubble
The AI deleted his home directory, not Matt, “granting #AI, Admin privileges” 🤨
#LLM / #SysAdmin / #Techweenie
♫ The kids are alright ♫
“Flow my tears, fall from your springs! Exiled forever let me mourn; Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.” ― Philip K. Dick / #PKD
“Military and SES personnel being taught #analog communication and navigation techniques as experts warn solar flare could knock out ‘critical space #infrastructure’”
I laugh at this.
I was trained at the peak of analog and cusp of digital spatial tech. Three times this year alone on a road surrounded by paddocks, cars stop looking for directions to a specific location.
I get out my pre-marked Melways, get them to take a shot of the map and direct them to where they need to go. Then ask them what mappjng service they use? Hint, starts with “G”.
#Nav / #spatial / #OldSchool 🗺️📍🧭
“It was a light-hearted moment in what has been the most challenging chapter in Canada-US relations since the war of 1812, when the former wasn’t even a country yet.
But, for #America and the world, the episode also holds three important lessons about Donald Trump’s #tariffs. And the president’s latest threat, issued on Monday, to hit #Canada with tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of #goods raises the stakes and shows how important it is for Canada to hold the line.
The first lesson is that retaliation works.
Where #China, for instance, has spent years carefully building geopolitical leverage through control of critical supply chains, Canada’s booze #boycott has been powered mostly by consumer choice and the decision of the provincially owned liquor companies of #Ontario and #Quebec not to buy US alcohol. And it turns out that rum and rosé can pack almost as much of a trade war punch as rare earths. US alcohol exports to Canada fell 70 per cent from 2024 to 2025, a $536mn loss for the US industry.”
There are others, however the Ban on *finished goods* and not *partial products* is hitting USA in #trade. ☺️.
#capitalism / #tariffs /#CentralPlanning / #booze / #BoozBan / #wine < https://archive.md/0rJbZ> / (paywall) < https://www.ft.com/content/23a211e3-3db7-47ac-b185-06f506d44aed>
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems one assumes so, (I’ve added all my shite, early hack code to github by default) the contrast talking about security then suggesting that is a filter ☺️
“Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some #ComputerVision systems.
The designers say advances in #computing have made it easier to incorporate such patterns into commercially viable garments. Experts caution that the effectiveness of the patterns depends on the #surveillance system and the conditions in which it is used, but #NickTidball, the co-founder of the clothing brand Vollebak, thinks “adversarial clothing” could be on the cusp of going mainstream.
“#AntiSurveillance feelings are so widespread that all it would take is for a single celebrity to wear one of these garments, currently popular in the #countercultural fashion world, to a high-profile event for it to take off,” he said.”
#Textiles / #clothing / #blending / #camouflage
“Neil’s so great. #ChickRoberts who Neil mentions is my father! He’s still around, 90 years old. Confirms Neils story.
Great memory Neil, thank you for appreciating my father’s support of your song #SugarMountain, he was knocked out by your song. My Dad heard Neil play it at #TheRiverboat in #Toronto at a 1965 “Hotennany” night.
Artists got $10 to play three or four songs known as "Hotennany scale". The gigs were put on by the guild of Canadian Folk Artists in Toronto’s “Yorkville Village” (our 60’s folk scene, Canada’s Greenwich Village). Neil wasn't known then in Toronto, he was hanging in the village trying to break in as solo act. Neil likely first met Chick/The Dirty Shames in Winnipeg at the Fourth Dimension. Chick had bumped into Neil on the street in Yorkville village, and told him how great he thought that song of his was.
Chick told me not all the local folk fans were digging Neil, but Chick really liked Neils songs, and Chick loved to encourage people. Neil was new and younger than the musicians in the Dirty Shames who were an established very popular #Canadian band.
Toronto’s The Dirty Shames in 1966 signed by legendary A & R manager Mary Martin (Leonard Cohen, The Band) out of Albert Grossman’s office in New York City, recorded a few singles (Amos Garrett on guitar), Warhol booked them to open for the Velvet Underground at the Dom.” — #PaulBoddum, Artist, youtube comment.
#NeilYoung / #music / #songs
“AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations.
You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You threatened their jobs, their reputations, and their mental health over petty bullshit like an underscore in a variable name.
You worked extremely hard to frame programming as only a profession that serves corporations, and made sure anyone who threatened the great corporations was shut down, ridiculed, humiliated, and fired. So everyone fell in line, made only projects for corporations, and talked only about how they could best serve corporations. Even when they tried to fight back against the corporate mindset they came up with a movement that's still about corporate efficiency.
Congratulations bootlickers, you got what you wanted.”
Don’t ever change Jed ☺️
#OpEd / #LCTHW / #JedAShaw
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@intrepidhero@mastodon.social
@intrepidhero@mastodon.social Cost (a ☢️ by product), density and machinability.
DU is 68% denser than lead. Not used as counter weights in aircraft due to higher risks of particle/aerosol exposure wrt air safety. cc @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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@bud_t@m.ai6yr.org
@bud_t@m.ai6yr.org ah yeah, I have two Plus era boxes & software but no keyboard or mouse. I’d be interested in the SE.
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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social software that is useful as discarded plastic wrapping.
The first film on #RaceAroundTheWorld by #Jayden a Marine biologist is devastating.
When you see these images of coral reefs contrasted with the testimony of fishermen who know what they do is illegal and bad but forced by economics to destroy their environment they live in.
#ABCTV / #documentary / #ShortStory / #ForeignCorrespondent 🪸🐠
“The issue was therefore not simply the loss of one NTP #server or #redundancy in the #design of the #configuration of the three #NTP servers, but the propagation and acceptance of erroneous #date information by #interconnected #systems that rely on timing as a #trust and ordering #reference.”
Q Who said this first?
#LeslieLamport or some #Telstra exec?
““The issue was therefore not simply the loss of one NTP #server or #redundancy in the #design of the #configuration of the three #NTP servers, but the propagation and acceptance of erroneous #date information by #interconnected #systems that rely on timing as a #trust and ordering #reference.”
Q Who said this first?
#LeslieLamport or some #Telstra exec?
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@TasDave@aus.social
@TasDave@aus.social this generations smoking.Addiction, wasted money, predatory corporations and plenty of peer reviewed studies to prove harm.
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange
“ Ask for a set list, and they look at you the way Neil might react to an AutoTune remix of Tonight’s the Night. “We never have a set list,” Reich says. “We pick the first two songs and the last two songs. They set the tone, then the story tells itself.” Taking the ride with Lazy Horse means embracing that chaos, lurching from song to song.
But as Jeremy — sorry, Billy — explains, “Once you learn the five songs that Neil’s written, you can pretty much play all the others. One in E, one in C, one in D, one in A.…”
Their shaggy sensibility comes from their years as mainstays of the Brooklyn grass-roots punk community. Reich co-founded the legendary DIY spot Shea Stadium, one of the city’s most-loved venues until it closed in 2017. He’s played in bands like the So So Glos — an actual band of brothers from Bay Ridge, his friends since childhood — and Titus Andronicus. The Glos’ drummer Zach Staggers manages the Horse, as their Elliott Roberts figure.”
#NeilYoung & #CrazyHorse / #Tribute / #LeNoise #RealYoung #LazyHorse
“We’re almost halfway through!” The crowd screams in joy. The weird part is that (1) the band has been playing for nearly four hours already, and (2) they just banged out a 40-minute version of “Like a Hurricane.” But nobody’s ready to walk on.
Calling Real Young and Lazy Horse a tribute band is like describing Neil Young as “a weird guy who’s into harmonica solos” — technically not inaccurate, but nowhere near adequate.”
Neil’s music played will never die. It’s wild to hear tribute bands devote their musical talent to reproduce a very specific sound ☺️
#NeilYoung & #CrazyHorse / #Tribute / #LeNoise #RealYoung #LazyHorse #music
“A collection of #StephenKing novellas that inspired classic films including #StandByMe and The #ShawshankRedemption has been #banned from Utah public schools.
Published in 1982, the collection, titled Different Seasons, contains four novellas: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal, Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption, The Body: Fall from Innocence, and The Breathing Method: A Winter’s Tale.”
Utah. 📚🔥
“Now that organisations have been weaned off earlier 'all you can eat' #subscription plans and onto 'pay-as-you-go' metered #token consumption, they're all in various stages of sticker shock.
Several talks at the conference discussed managing token costs, such as AJ Fisher's exploration of 'diffusion' models. Analogous to the diffusers used to generate images, they generate text at lighting speed, making them cheaper to operate while also being less accurate than the pricey and slower “autoregressive” #FrontierModels.
Fisher's solution? Use a low-quality model and make it iterate on a problem (that new classic, the #RalphWiggumLoop) until it gets a satisfactory solution. This approach delivers the same result as a full-fat model, for anywhere from one half to one tenth the spend. #Google released its #DiffusionGemma model, which produces text at prodigious speed, just days after Fisher's talk, giving everyone the ability to try this approach.”
#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #developers / #software