FDA RECALL
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Date: 09/26/2026
@catsalad Please enjoy Caturday responsibly.
The foreign ministers of Russia and Germany met in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in the first such talks since before Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/27/world/politics/russia-germany-top-diplomats-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #germany #un #russiaukrainewar #ukraine #europe #eu
“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.
@mattblaze exactly
Every year there's always one hen who goes and hides in the barn and makes her own nest in September, which is rather late for chicks in Saskatchewan. This particular mama did this last year too. I was going to see how many eggs she's sitting on, but I forgot that she's kind of evil and she tried to peck my hand off. My teenager named her "Motherclucker" which is delightful. (Except she's a jerk. Good protective mama hen, though!)
Can I offer you a flower cat in these trying times?
⚘🐈: Juno https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:junotabby
🧭: Eurofurence 29
#FursuitFriday
@creideiki @jackemled See I always claimed that I'd never personally own a fur suit... and then I see cute stuff like this. 😻
Can I offer you a flower cat in these trying times?
⚘🐈: Juno https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:junotabby
🧭: Eurofurence 29
#FursuitFriday
FDA RECALL
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Date: 09/26/2026
AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all.
Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.
@ellie MILSPEC but the MIL is short for Mother In Law
found on my timeline, so #AltTxt #yaddayadda because i really have to give it to Thomas Massie: he knows how to do scorched earth while burning fascist bridges… as a #MAGA #REPUBLICAN.
❝ Thomas Massie just gave “Notice of Intent” on the House floor to force a vote THIS WEEK on releasing the name of EVERY U.S. Rep who used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims. ❞
as @emptywheel said just a couple of weeks ago, "Tom Massie is a lot of things, some good, some bad. But he’s a pretty good parliamentarian."
So zuck has mentioned this concept of "fleet learning" in interviews, and here it is. Strings extracted from hatch describe "fleet learnings" - or, things that other agents have learned and submitted to a "fleet learnings exchange." agents are instructed to derive generalizable ideas that can help other agents with their various tasks - which, again, include mining someone's personal life for information about their relationships and shopping habits, and generally deepening dependency on the tool. Zuck described this feature as being used only for "ideas" - tasks presented to the user in the ideas panel - but it is invoked more broadly, e.g. in the "alignment synthesis" job, which is the nightly task that determines how to "strengthen your relationship with this user" (first and second pic are from the same instruction, "consult the fleet for this task" where the task refers to alignment, of which second pic is a subset)
Note the conflicting instructions: "de-identified, not denatured" - the LLM is supposed to strip out personal information, but make sure they enough of the lesson survives that it's useful. So in the best case where PII removal via LLM judgement works perfectly (it won't), muse agents participate in a horizontally-exchanging swarm where they learn how best to manipulate people by their personality traits and behaviors. The dumbest distillation of the targeted advertising economy you could ask for.
@jonny the bit about "relationship moves" is so so creepy. given the pattern of this kind of software manipulating users into treating it as a person and then causing the user to fall into a state of, often suicidal, delusion, it feels like this may be material evidence that Meta is inducing this kind of dependence on purpose.
A month after Nepal floods, thousands are still missing and families face a long recovery
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-china-flood-missing-8a69ad469579184943f18d2c6b06e71c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@Migueldeicaza Probably increasingly with the advent of social media and “decentralized” media production. Biden-era Joe-Rogan-adjacent podcast culture could not have existed in previous eras and was as hot as any media product could be and galvanized tons of young men. It all flamed out once Trump won because it lost the counterculture appeal.
@kyle thanks. I will Digest.
DJ mattcurtis has started the show on Galaxy Radio! Tune in now: https://beats.seedy.cc:9005/public/gr. For a direct media player link, listen here: https://beats.seedy.cc:8100/radio.mp3
I grew up expecting that 2026 would be grimdark cyberpunk, but I never had the audacity to imagine that the future would be this stupid: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/politics/amazon-drone-delivery-texas.html
I just searched "amazon drone Texas", and got a story about one slamming into an apartment building, another dropping the package into a swimming pool,…
“Don’t mess with Texas” implies that “don’t MAME with Texas” exists
“ #OpenAI may deny its culpability, but it’s now facing dozens of lawsuits from the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, along with the province of BC.
It’s not even the first time this has happened.
In April 2025 a shooter entered the student union at Florida State and killed two after planning the attack with #ChatGPT.
This is part of the real threat of generative #AI.”
https://disconnect.blog/the-media-has-the-ai-threat-all-wrong/