Is AGI achieved? No.

Does OpenAI need to pretend it is so they can IPO and scrape as much money as possible? Yes.

@aegir I hate that sort of thing, I assume no one wants to come straight out and say what they actually did for fear of getting sued if it turns out they didn't, but trying to figure out what actually happened is like constructing a jigsaw from Instagram comments. In the dark. With your toes

@anneroth @cavallette In Dutch, but no pay wall. This is a podcast we published today: Ik luister naar 'Zo bepalen de VS wie online mag bestaan – ook in Europa' (NRC Vandaag) in de NRC Audio app: https://audio.nrc.nl/episode/181338194?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrc.nl%2Fnieuws%2F2026%2F09%2F08%2Fzo-bepalen-de-vs-wie-online-mag-bestaan-ook-in-europa-a4936115

As the oil price heads to $100, the (unintended) consequence of the US attack(s) on Iran & the disruption to oil shipments is strengthening the case for, and accelerating the adoption of renewable & green technologies.... so ironically the Tangerine Tyrant has become the single most effective driver of the green transition.

The transition itself may not be smooth, but as oil prices rise & supplies falter the economic logic of renewables becomes stronger.

#energy #politics #GreenTransition

Remember:
“Today, in one of the small parts of this planet, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget or set aside; therefore, our humble word to them is: we are all Palestinian girls; we are all Palestinian boys,” said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the inauguration of the Encounter of Resistances and Rebellions [in August 4th, 2025]."

https://schoolsforchiapas.org/we-are-all-palestinian-children-ezln-condemns-genocide-in-gaza-during-encounter-of-resistances-and-rebellions/

PS: at this moment in time, I really hope to see single-issue anti-fascist political parties running in elections.

Balance must be restored.

@JamesAshburnerCBR yes, I had reflected on this myself. I know it's not possible, for hygiene reasons, but they are still something that I miss. Thank you, also, for the kind words.

The Finch app challenged me to discover one fun fact about the place I grew up.

Apparently, there’s a network of tunnels underneath the High Street in High Wycombe. Although there were rumours they were military, or some sort of escape route, the truth is considerably more prosaic.

A brewery built them to transport beer to many, many pubs, without the hassle of carting barrels through busy streets.

🤣

chat
ive found my new os

netbsd is so far slop-free with an anti-ai policy
and it works with my fucking wifi card

im fucking moving to netbsd

mallow monday is a thing, yes?

#BloomScrolling

Akut demo: Bevar Ⓐbrinken
Aarhus nye fristed, Ⓐbrinken, er rydningstruet!

Vi inviterer derfor til fredelig demonstration
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Foran indgangen til Ⓐbrinken,
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Da es jetzt offiziell ist: Nach über 9 Jahren trennen sich zum Jahresende die Wege von Uberspace und mir. Wir haben gemeinsam viel erreicht und darauf bin ich echt stolz.

Das bedeutet aber auch, dass ich ab sofort eine neue Stelle im IT-Ops Bereich suche. Gerne auch in leitender Position.

Ich hab euch mal Ausschnitte aus dem CV angehängt was ich so die letzten Jahre gemacht hab. Meine kleine Wunschliste (weitestgehend verhandelbar) kommt im folgenden Toot. #fedihire

I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme

the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly

the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a revolution and we can’t afford to be left behind and using it is required

the AI is an incredible boon to open source, as it fractures communities and generates unsalvageably bad code in quantities so massive it can’t realistically be cleaned up

the AI will set you free, but your access to it is gated by a gigantic corporation that’s losing money at every realistic price point they can charge for the thing

the AI is loved by most people until you look at literally any of the polls we’ve done asking people what they think of AI

live your life so you're not on this list

'weird little guys of FOSS'

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/platforms.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605644

#HackerNews #VMs #MobileAgents #Instinct #ClaudeCode #TechnologyInnovation

Un livre pour raconter une aventure collective et contribuer à faire émerger de nouvelles formes de coopération.

Comment rendre visibles les alternatives sociales et écologiques ? Comment créer du commun dans un monde marqué par la fragmentation ?

Après dix années d'expérimentations et de coopérations, #Transiscope publie Alternatives & luttes. Cartographier pour coopérer, un ouvrage libre le 8 septembre 2026 aux éditions Des Livres en Communs (Framasoft).

https://framablog.org/2026/09/08/parution-alternatives-luttes/

@lowqualityfacts
Seems legit.

Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, submitted his resignation after a senior subordinate was charged in an alleged bribery scheme involving scam call centers. Kravchenko denies any wrongdoing, though journalists say a figure called “the Boss” in released recordings may be him. https://t.me/bbcrussian/99096

Start of Week13 & proud of a new haircut , plus throwback to Week4 & previous haircut, 8-9 weeks before… I’m a stickler for documentation :) (but can’t quote?! )

https://social.v.st/@becha/116908915236046240

And mandatory black cats yawns , & wild fruit (DREN!) scavenged (?! There must be a better word… : Collected by magical mutual attraction & recognition?)

[edit: foraged! Thanks @inari ]

WBM STARTED! @battlemesh