When I was a kid, someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said I wanted to be a doctor because I assumed that's just what the "gifted" kids do, but luckily my dad quickly interjected by reminding me that I can't even look at a papercut without feeling sick, so I decided to major in computer science so I could try to avoid paper as much as possible.

@andypiper @mttaggart So now Ars is printing AI slop and pretending it’s written by a journalist…

I'm not saying that the US is a racist country. But I am saying that the highest paid government employee in most states is a college sports coach🤡, and that college sports is a racist system that exploits poor Black kids in a way that would be wildly illegal in most countries.

🤔OK, I am saying that.

@Greguti @moshidon @trunksapp Fedilab a fait beaucoup de progrès je trouve, je l'utilise en alternance avec Moshidon. J'ai arrété trunks car trop d'appels à G font et autres joyeusetés. Sur le Web, j'utilise Elk.

If you somehow still considered uploading your face/ID to Discord, here's one more reason not to: Peter Thiel seems to be the lead investor in the service that implements the age check. And, oh, the service page says they will store our data on their side (at least for a little while).

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Column! This key new feature isn’t enough to make Apple’s iPhone 17e exciting https://www.stuff.tv/features/this-key-new-feature-isnt-enough-to-make-apples-iphone-17e-exciting/

MagSafe is coming but, as I say, Apple may as well rename the iPhone 17e the iPhone 17… ehh

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@mekkaokereke I've been immersed and swimming in "why do so many people drop out of college"
Thanks for this :)

@Alice yah…mac enough of those and you will get pizza heart

@cstross
Quasars shift red
Hot stars burn blue
Space is warped
And so are you.

Ps keep writing.

Si, si. Il s'agit de renoncer à l'IA. Ce qu'on appelle IA aujourd'hui, soit les IA génératives. On n'en a pas besoin, ça n'apporte rien de bon, au contraire c'est délétère. Donc oui, il faut y renoncer.

@pixelsfr https://mastodon.social/@pixelsfr/116068294807432790

@davidgerard keep on rejecting it guys. Too much slop as it is, let's try and have one or two places where you can be pretty sure it's a real human on the other end.

Pakidge :3

I wrote some words for ~ this week in security ~ about how social media giants (aka: ad tech companies!) track you around the web, even if you don't have an account or use their apps. Follows from a brilliant column in the BBC about TikTok's use of website "pixels" to track people's browsing activity.

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/how-tech-giants-track-you-across-the-web-even-if-you-do-not-use-their-apps/

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Here are more since the limit is 4 pictures at a time:

@joan_de_art makes great solarpunk art. You've likely seen one of these floating around, but I found the source if one wanted to know. Anyways, these do a good job of introducing solarpunk ideals and capturing the spirit of solarpunk design.

#solarpunk #hopecore #punk #ecocentrism #ecopunk #cityplanning #greentech #renewableenergy #accessibiledesign #inclusivedesign #thirdspaces #leftist

If you've been around on the internet long enough at some point you've possibly encountered the 'starseed' or 'lightworker' concepts.

For years people have talked about this on forums, and what are these AI models largely trained on?

I've been tracking AI + Belief systems for a while now and I honestly think we've created these conformation bias sycophants that now just feed the delusion in real time, creating a new fast growing mental health crisis

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5711441/ai-chatgpt-openai-love-betrayal-delusion-chatbot

Irreversible Entanglements – Vibrate Higher (Visualizer) ft. MOTHERBOARD

https://youtu.be/14QcIHtvbGk

#FediRadio #FreeJazz #JazzPoetry #IrreversibleEntanglements

@neil hi, if you'll excuse me asking, what OS to you run Wazuh on? It looks intriguing, but I was underwhelmed by the recommended Linux distributions in their quickstart guide...

@firestorm
are your posts set to followers only?

i can see this post and some old ones, but nothing else