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In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. https://imaginationlibrary.com
@halcy Naw I got two bigly mad guy responses
@shinmera i‘m currently trying to see how long I can string my guy along by just asking to set up a meeting again and again. You‘d think there would be a realization that they‘re being fucked with, but no
"But Ted Lasso makes me feel good."
Sex and heroin make you feel good too, you'd at least be more interesting if you tried those.
A change of pace, and greener pastures. In Neofeud 2, my sci-fi retro-adventure game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/ #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #visualnovel #SteamDeck #indiegame #noAI #art #artist #scifiart
"A fantastic cyberpunk adventure game... dense, engrossing, political, [Neofeud] truly exemplifies the meaning of 'cyberpunk', much more than other games." https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/ #cyberpunk #indiedev #indiegame #scifi #indiegames #visualnovel #adventuregame #SteamDeals
Llàstima, en el Jolla no es pot instal.lar Delta Chat des de Aurora Store perquè l'arxiu apk és corrupte i des de f-droid sí però es queda penjat al afegir el Jolla com a segon dispositiu.
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Cassandra Crossing 691/ Il tecnocontrollo e la crisi delle Democrazie digitali
Le democrazie UE sono in crisi, ancor di più nella parte “digitale”. Ma le motivazioni che si danno sono spesso errate, e le preoccupazioni dei cittadini rivolte nella direzione sbagliata.
https://buttondown.com/cassandra/archive/cassandra-crossing-691-il-tecnocontrollo-e-la/
@calamarim la democrazia è la peggiore forma di governo eccezion fatta per tutte le altre!
@grebert non mais c'est pas possible, il est con à ce point ?
@HerveRenault il n’est pas du tout con, mais pense que ses potentiels électeurs le sont
so i feel fine as long as i don't think about work.
the dwindling online engagement adds to the despair. the technical conversations we regularly had before elon shot twitter to pieces, it's all gone now. the angry walls of lamentations everywhere get lots of attention which just depresses me more. i don't know how to deal with all this, it makes me feel ronery. is a choice necessary or can i just wait it out? no idea.
oh and there's the whole end of the world "don't look up" business too.
@lritter i definitely can relate to that.
AI is good, and helpful too, if nothing else, its a good rubber duck. Its "raw thinking power" that can help think stuff through much faster than i ever could, just like e.g. a calculator adds up numbers much faster than i ever could.
There are many who reject AI entirely and imho AI is only okay if we can keep agency and a lot of things being not AI are needed to enable that, so we can stay in control of our lifes despite AI being around, or not?
@shinmera oh same
https://icosahedron.website/@halcy/117156361081976456
I wonder if it‘s an LLM on the other side but I‘ve now gotten like 3 teams meeting invites (that i‘ve of course no-showed for) so possibly not?
@halcy Naw I got two bigly mad guy responses
you know how fucking annoying it is to read an announcement like this and see half the recipients are rewrites in another language or directly related to LLM consumption of text https://mastodon.social/@SoftwareSaved/117161180872032384
Everybody hates the AI, more and more
Take heart, you’re not alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcEse_MEtk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260825-everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more - podcast
time: 3 min 50 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/25/everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more/ - blog post
I'm not sure whether to be happy, amused, or sad about the Pew research. A lot of the negative feelings about 'AI' that they're reporting are because people believe OpenAI and Anthropic's marketing about the things 'AI' can do: it can obsolete their job or it can become fully self-aware and decide to kill all humans.
This is one of the big problems with a lot of the VC ecosystem at the moment. The messaging you need to give to investors to make them like your company is almost the exact opposite of the messaging you need to give to customers to make them like your product. This disconnect is incredibly stark at the moment, which is a pretty good indication that market capitalism is not working.
#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Aug: What are good examples of texts written from a non-human point of view?
"Excession" by Iain M. Banks tries to tackle a vastly superintelligent AI as the viewpoint character, as do some of the other Culture novels. And a whole lot of C. J. Cherryh's work goes there—consider "The Pride of Chanur" as an easy way in.
(And my own "Saturn's Children" and "Neptune's Brood" are told by post-human protagonists, long after humanity is extinct.)
@cstross Michael McCloskey's "Parker Interstellar Travels" series (https://www.squidlord.us/writings/pit.html) has a lot of non-human viewpoint characters. My favourites are the Celarans, a pacifist species of flying sap-suckers who have no native word for "weapon", so must translate the human word as "tool for harm". Another nice touch: because all the species communicate in such different ways (e.g. the Celarans communicate with light flashes), names can't be copied from one system to another, so every character has a different name in each language.
@me_valentijn @ai6yr - Shine is one of my favorite songs and Collective Soul one of my favorite bands from growing up. I never knew she covered this.
Damn, this sounds amazing.
both these tests upload 100 files each in 50 parallel transfers, each uploading a 500MB file
@bagder Have you set up your QFS account yet, Hope you're aware of the EBS black out that's coming in a few weeks?
I'll quote us directly once again:
We truly value the partnership with @openstreetmap
Every year through our Lifetime Fundraiser, we back organizations that are making a real difference.
On top of this, funds are allocated from each year's Fundraiser in order to support past beneficiaries.
See you for the next one...
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2026/08/21/thanking-proton-our-newest-platinum-sponsor/
@protonprivacy @openstreetmap I need vocal mod with Lumo please :)
What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat? 👉 👈
@lritter would an alternative to that path have been possible at all though 🤷♀️
@serapath only with a lobotomy
What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat? 👉 👈
@ClarusPlusPlus never forget how cool computers used to be
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