Tagliatelle from 2023
@stefano you kept it al dente to this day 👍 you can smell the steam; still.
😺 Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
@jbz because those lazy home office people don't actually work!
At least I fear that is what many "managers" do really think....
@TechTangents I really wonder if it’s possible to build a truly open set of training data that doesn’t have the problem.
(Or perhaps to nationalize the big AI companies and make their models public domain; so at least as a society we get to use for free what’s been stolen from us.)
@thomasfuchs
I think nationalization is the answer. Even if we could make an open model trained only on wikipedia or something that is more forgiving then it still wouldn't solve the corporate models existing and being more popular.
Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing - Chaitanya Bhandari @ TigerBeetle:
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-08-20-protocol-aware-dst/
![Chris [list of emoji]](https://nfts.freeradical.zone/accounts/avatars/109/127/168/397/951/576/original/e8a0b6da977923a8.jpeg "Chris [list of emoji]")
*puts on suit*
*knocks*
Hi. Have you heard of our lord and saviour Emacs?
(Seriously, though:
1. Small and fast (i.e. 1980s levels of bloated).
2. Config via script, so you can manage it with your preferred SCM.
3. Massively extensible and customizable.
4. Not actually written by RMS*.)
* Really. RMS ripped off Gosling's Emacs for GNU Emacs.
Benny Kravitz
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TL:DR Mat is supposed to be packing for a festival but floated off into an existential space journey of no return.
Packing up for Rave Oddessy part 4 and I saw a post about Voyager 1, which will be one light day away from Earth soon.
I've always had a weird affinity and affection for this space probe, quite possibly because it has a gold record onboard and I am obsessed with vinyl records. More than that though, the fact NASA sent an object out, into the void, never to return, with messages from Earth in the unlikely event that other beings might one day discover and decipher it, feels hopeful and a little naive. It feels like that spirit of adventure and hope has been lost, replaced by the monetisation of space and the inevitable littering that always follows capitalism around.
I often think about this probe being lonely, stoically travelling away from home, and sending messages back, like postcards from a permanent holiday (I have similar anthropomorphic feelings about Curiosity Rover on Mars, but that might be down to me watching Wall-E with the kids so many times).
Being a little maudlin, it feels like we jettisoned our hope and dreams, which are ever moving farther away from home, sending messages back to a place that has changed in ways it will never know.
Maybe that's it. Maybe the reason I love Voyager is because it represents oblivious hope, ever distanced from here, not witnessing what I see around me.
So, anyway, back to Earth and my Rave Oddessy. Hopefully, for a while at least, I can get a light day away from Earth for a bit and keep hope inside me for a while.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-record-overview/
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that the only way to beat the AI craze (other than the big companies being on the way to financial self-destruction) is consumer protection laws similar to what's used to prevent gambling and addiction—for example, banning chatbots that refer to themselves with personal pronouns. We should also ban (or excessively tax) environmentally wasteful uses such as video generation. A third pillar would be forcing quotas of production for CPUs, GPUs, memory and storage as the high prices for these are not only becoming an economic problem but possibly one of national security.
@thomasfuchs I could not agree more. I think heavy regulation is the best solution we have now that the genie is out of the bottle. The only real self-regulation I could imagine could only come after a *massive* bubble pop, and only after significant societal and economic harm have happened. Getting rid of AI isn't going to happen, but I hope we can put the same energy into preventing harm as we have in developing the technology in the first place.
@utopiah @GrapheneOS Hi Fabien, you didn't ask me, but I amusing https://chromium.woolyss.com/
@nextgraph @GrapheneOS thanks, they do have Android builds https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android
for now I'm using Cromite via Obtainium
Paths to strengthen regulations on political donations from corporations and organizations in Japan remain unclear, as ruling and opposition parties are wide apart over the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/20/japan/politics/political-donation-rules-unclear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #cra #dpp
alcinnz
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@alcinnz Right!? I'm really surprised it's not that well known (it seems to me at least).
Important cooking tip: just because the spoon you used to get chiu chow sauce out of the jar smells delicious does not mean it is a good idea to mlem it!
@david_chisnall it's a hot idea!
Tagliatelle from 2023
I think it must be at least 20 years since I last listened to this much Wir Sind Helden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6x6Jz7b15g
The world is taking notice of Trump’s environmental attack on #ChacoCanyon #NewMexico. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/trump-oil-drilling-world-heritage-site-new-mexico
hypebot
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The multifaceted #water crises we’re experiencing now are not normal; they're the direct consequence of accelerating human-caused climate changes on top of decades of neglect and underinvestment in our water institutions and infrastructure.
It doesn't have to be this way...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/drought-water-climate-crisis
