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mbajur
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116889735116919744
Terrible day for Europe
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If intelligence is a necessary precondition for stupidity, and intelligence and stupidity scale together such that it takes real intelligence to be spectacularly stupid, then super-intelligence will be the opening act to an era of super-stupidity.
AI hallucination might be the first evidence of this dynamic. Large language models produce fluent, confident, detailed text that is, with some regularity, factually wrong. And this is not a simple bug but a structural feature of systems that optimize for appeal and plausibility rather than truth. And the danger is not that the AI will be wrong, after all, humans are wrong all the time, but knowing this, humans have invented means to detect and correct errors. We call this the scientific method.
The danger is that an AI will be wrong in ways humans can no longer detect because the very capacities that would catch the error have been outsourced to the machine or exceed the capacities of human minds. We face the prospect of a stupidity so sophisticated that it becomes indistinguishable, to its beneficiaries, from intelligence. This is the parable of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where the answer to the ultimate question, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, is 42.
I would like to make a modest proposal and suggest that we need a science of stupidity as rigorous as our emerging sciences of intelligence. This will not require billions of dollars of investment. It would involve inquiries into the mechanisms by which intelligent systems produce stupid outcomes. It would include studying the evolutionary dynamics that maintain stupidity despite its selective costs. It would promote the development of design principles that distinguish tools which enhance cognition from tools which replace it. And it would include surveying the institutional conditions under which collective intelligence degrades into collective stupidity.
Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth parasitic on ingenuity. In a world obsessed with ever more powerful cognitive technologies, understanding stupidity is not merely an academic exercise, it might prove to be the most intelligent thing we do.
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🇪🇸 🇪🇺 El Parlamento Europeo deja pasar el #ChatControl 1.0 pese a que una mayoría votó en contra (314:276), permitiendo el escaneo masivo de chats privados hasta 2028. Las víctimas advierten de sus riesgos. Mi análisis 👇
Tolles EU-Parlament, das ja angeblich so demokratisch ist.
Aber in anderen Ländern hoch einen auf Moralisch machen.
Neat! If you follow this link on Android, you get Firefox *with* uBlock Origin installed.
#DWebCamp picked the right week for me to be away from my job touching grass.
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Some people know how to conjure a fucking *vibe* and the rugby-looking dude in this piece clearly has a talent for it. Incredible stuff.
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On dating sites, have started rejecting men who list 'UFC' as something they like. Has cut the majority of misogynistic cunts out of my life.
hypebot
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I see you!
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🍅 Don't eat a real tomato. Seriously. You can never go back. If you're happy with supermarket tomatoes, stay away from the farmers market. One bite of a tomato grown in living soil changes everything. Rich, juicy, full of flavor—it's the soil that makes the difference. Living soil creates food no hydroponic imitation can match. Find a grower who cares for their soil. Buy the ugly tomato. Take the first bite, and you'll never forget what a real tomato tastes like. 🌱
#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨
After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.
This is not democratic‼️
📸 Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg. Taken from EP_President posted May 27, 2026 on X.
@Tutanota the photo says it all. Fucking plebs.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116889732321089577
“What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same:
• What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.
• What remains unchanged: Public social media posts and files hosted in cloud storage could already be scanned without this law. Furthermore, private messages can always be reported by users, or monitored by authorities using targeted, court-ordered wiretapping.
• What is still NOT being scanned: End-to-end encrypted chats, such as those on WhatsApp, have always been exempt from these scans. Additionally, European providers of messaging and email services have never implemented chat control measures.”
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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If you consider yourself someone who strives for social justice, like some kind of warrior or something, this post is for you.
It's about What To Do When You Just Fucked Up.
So. You did a racism. Or a transphobia. Something too settler to imagine. Whatever.
You fucked, in other words, up.
1. Breathe. Seriously. Take a moment. You just left the toilet, skirt in your pants, and have accordingly shown your ass. You're embarrassed and ashamed, desperate not to be seen as a "bad one" of whatever you are. So take a moment and just breathe deep and slow.
2. Start with, "Sorry! That was a racist/anti-Semitic/Islamophobic/anti-queer thing to say!" Never ever say, "I am sorry you feel insulted, slighted, hurt." Don't shift the blame. Own it or shut up. Thx @ kiwi2002@mstdn.social.
3. Pause, and keep breathing. You're started well.
4. Listen to the response. Stay cool. You stepped on their toe. You're not the victim here, don't make it about you. There's someone who's been harmed by your ableism, misogyny or anti-Roma bias, in front of you. Focus on hearing what they want to say to you. Take it in. Don't react or defend yourself.
5. Believe them. You don't know what they're experiencing, even if you've been affected by bigotry yourself. Just listen and believe.
6. Understand why this has damaged trust they had in you. If you feel you're worthy of being trusted better, show it, by learning from the experience, and not repeating it. Recognise it when others do it, and take on the job for your neurodivergent or dwarf or fat friend (with consent!).
7. If and only if you think they might be open to talking about it with you, you could ask if they want to. Give this some time. Be a good friend in the meantime, *as they would define it*. You know your friend's habits and boundaries, right? Right?
8. If they aren't, don't bring it up again. They heard you. You are open. If they want to discuss it, they'll say so. If they don't, take the hint, learn, and move on.
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My personal reflections on a hectic and inspiring week in San Francisco, covering the AI Engineer World's Fair. https://agenticweb.news/ai-engineer-worlds-fair/
@3rik Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming 'round
Aral Balkan
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Review of the documentary film Life Support
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/07/life-support-review-medics-gaza-documentary
mirror: https://archive.is/WOORU
In all circumstances like these, is is VITAL to assume that the Trump regime and its thugs are lying. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-here-for-35-years-put-three-kids-in-college-ice-killed-jim-lorenzo-salgado-araujo
At this point, the burden should be on the regime -- which has systematically shredded all credibility -- to prove it's telling the truth.
@dangillmor It always was, but no one should assume any longer that there is such proof.
I understand why, and if you don’t want to be traumatised, I suggest you stop reading now.
A spreadsheet is not actually the document unit for Excel. Any open sheet can refer to cells in any other open sheet (hmm, I wonder if anyone has exploited that with sheets that fetch from external data sources to extract other information). By default, any cell reference is in the current sheet, but you can include other files by name and their cells will be used but only if they are open. This means that any editing operation may affect any other open sheets and so, logically, it follows that undo should apply to the document (all open sheets) and not simply one sheet.
This is also why Excel does not let you open two sheets with the same file name at the same time. If you do, cross-sheet references would be ambiguous. Remember, they don’t refer to files as paths or some kind of unique document identifier, they reference other sheets by file name from the set of open files.
@david_chisnall @aesthr This means we can parametrize reports and just load different datasets by opening a different file with the same name? Kinda neat!
«Samstag tat ich nichts für meine Gesundheit, sondern ging zum Mittagessen nach Menabbio, einem schönen großen Dorf auf einem der Gipfel. Ich nahm Fische mit hinauf.»
Montaigne, Tagebuch einer Reise durch Italien.
