RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117247842721973234

The “you are somebody now” is really striking in how overtly fascist the messaging is—if you want to read up on it, look up “New Man” as used by fascism.

Risk. #grickledoodle #cats #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat):

I have stolen
the plums
that were on
the counter

and which
you probably
would have preferred
I did not

I'm not sorry
they were so rolly
so fun
I put them
under the couch

#Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out

Generative AI is a Faustian bargain. Every use of it weakens you. Maybe you occasionally save a few minutes, but you are diminished for it. With each use you are further from your human potential.

Tiny paws, big personality, and a whole lot of curiosity🐈.
#Cats

Postcard from my collection of French actress Lise Fleuron and a tabby friend. Ca. 1900.

I am losing my goddamn mind, IKEA just released a skyrim mod where you get a kallax companion voiced by matt berry.

Hey Fediverse! You'll be getting this exact track, created on an original Amiga 1200 in .MOD format, when you order my upcoming album on Bandcamp. 💾 #A1200

Check out what else you're getting here:
https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/neon-airlines

Very interesting statement here in a blog post about a developer adopting the EUPL. I don't disagree, but this certainly hasn't been a popular opinion in OSS circles for a bit. The vibe may well be changing. (Emphasis mine.)

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.

I don’t want a new phone. I want my perfectly good hardware to keep getting updates until it actually stops working. I want replaceable batteries that get recycled. If a company stops giving updates I want to be able to change the OS.

Whenever I see the flag of the Isle of Man I just think how good it would be at football.

Every single one of these doomerism articles is a) 100% bullshit and b) is put there to make the technology seem magical when it's just matrix multiplication

Will your butter knife kill off humanity? Cutlery scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of butter knives

Getting way more use out of this image than I could have imagined back when a younger and more hopeful version of me saved it to my phone.

"There are lots of reasons why AI is not acceptable in our community, so there is no reasonable argument for why you’re using it as far as we’re concerned."
https://britishfantasysociety.org/its-a-cheat-code-clarifying-the-bfs-stance-on-generative-ai/

"While Buckmaster and Alpöge were finalizing their own results, they learned that “information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI.” When they contacted OpenAI, they were told that OpenAI had already achieved a full proof of the central problem. But when they asked follow-up questions about when OpenAI had begun its research into the problem and how much human input was involved, the answers became more evasive.

“It emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem,” Buckmaster said, “and that an insane amount of compute had been used…. Eventually, it was agreed that [the first prompt] had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI.”

If true, that would suggest the OpenAI team had become convinced that Buckmaster and Alpöge’s approach was the right one, and decided to use its material advantage in computing resources to reach a formal proof first."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Astra #GPT #Math #Mathematics

AI is for fucking losers.

It appears that Tristan Buckmaster is raising alarms that AI corporations may have snooped on their research so the companies could throw compute at developing proofs for, and gain credit for, advancements in the Navier-Stokes equations. OpenAI then threw a massive amount of compute at the problem, and seemed to try to coerce Tristan into getting credit for it: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

> I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice.”