The saddest thing about people is that they think they’re helping when it’s quite the opposite

Is there anybody out there who still wants to learn programming by hand?

@pikarl leider nur am Samstag

@randahl let's not forget that the same happened with #StephenColbert -- great interview of a good Christian and a good Republican. If only they were like him.

https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

‘The future may not be a few huge apps running on a few huge platforms, generating tons of revenue; it could instead be tons of little ones, purpose-built for the church, mutual aid group, company department or softball league.’

(gift) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/ai-software-coding-apps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AlE.C9EE.H2j5a1eHFUbQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

@cavallette

@meljoann Exactly. I don't trust dogs to make my pastries.

@iftas Exactly!

@davidgerard Has the vibe of someone desperately trying to overachieve while also in an altered state, which ... Dunno.
I still want to watch it - a portrait of our times.

@arjen “Alexander Killing” 🤭

@stux I assume you mean the Mastodon username rules?

Noch mal #FediDay #Berlin, noch mal @samvie:

Gerade eben ging's um eine politische Agenda im Zusammenhang mit dem #Fediverse.

Was die Initiative @offene_netzwerke & diverse andere Akteure fordern:

Mehr Funding (für Infrastruktur).
Mehr +1 (immer ein offener Kanal).
Mehr Anerkennung (open = gemeinnützig).
Mehr progressive Medienplattformen (dezentral, interoperabel, sektorenübergreifen, paneuropäisch).

Kann ich nur unterstützen.

> UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.

> Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project. The XCancel service is resumed.

https://xcancel.com/cdclegal

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I'm very closely following the critical discourse around LLMs/GPT and mathematics. This was one of my main motivations for setting up this account. However, I'd like to use this account more generally for scientific communication, within mathematics and beyond. I hope to share more about my current research soon!

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@mekkaokereke extreme wealth seems to amplify already held beliefs.

There's no longer a need to confirm or mask when that wealthy and the emotional draw of power leads to maximizing those beliefs via the power.

Which is why Scott, French, James, Newmark become massive engines for social good -- they couldn't be that before the extreme wealth.

omonomomnom

🍇
#home #garden

@tante See the same way, whatever the reason is not for safety

Informative blogpost by Cory Doctorow that not only explains clearly how talk about "rogue AI agents" that "operate in swarms" is nothing more than promo fiction for Big Tech, but also details how LLMs "simply" solve those tasks from the "Exploit Gym" benchmark by reproducing (and adapting) traces from Capture the Flag competition datasets.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/

He recommends listening to a podcast conversation between Ed Zitron and Cal Newport for technical detail:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-ai-is-not-autonomously-hacking-with-cal-newport/id1730587238?i=1000785935670

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/117257996650784977

THURGOOD MARSHALL is the best Supreme Court Justice of my lifetime and who Bush/Reagan, in their sociopathic malice, substituted with CLARENCE THOMAS

#LawFedi #USpol #history

To Dismantle the Concept of Separate but Equal, Thurgood Marshall Methodically Devised a Winning Strategy: Divide and Conquer

While other activists aimed to take down Jim Crow in one fell swoop, the future Supreme Court justice compiled a series of wins that ultimately added up to an undeniable resolution

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dismantle-concept-separate-equal-thurgood-marshall-methodically-devised-winning-strategy-divide-conquer-180989278/

#history #USHistory #CivilRights