Est-on un mastodonte à 40 ans ? 🦣

Pas encore sans doute, mais c'est une belle occasion de rejoindre le réseau Mastodon afin de partager nos actualités, nos collections, notre programmation culturelle et nos expositions.
À commencer par les temps forts de cette année qui s'annonce festive.
👉 https://bit.ly/TempsForts_40ansOrsay

I just finished catching up on the events of the day and I am mortified. The tech industry is a shithole.

I just want to retreat to my little weird corner of the internet and make pointless gadgets for fun or crochet/knit while listening to books.

@charlesatan @charliejane ohhh fancy!! We had tiramisu the other night and it was epic

Uh... but... they've always had the galaxy map? Got a screenshot? I can't play that game.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117208090005909299

The purpose of Flock and other surveillance systems is to enable a police state to monitor the population at large and use violent force against people whenever they engage in activity that could change the balance of power in society.

That much was already obvious. But it's still chilling to hear Flock's director of market management describing the details.

Stochastic Latinas

@GeePawHill I'm very sorry. #lang_en

let's do some more back of the envelope estimates.

no company publishes the energy usage of their models, so as before we just have to do the best we can by making conservative extrapolations.

altman claimed in 2025 that ChatGPT uses 0.34Wh per prompt (this is lower than independent estimates, but let's go with it to be conservative).

Previously i had made the very conservative estimate that considering the "plain info" and retail use of the product bringing it down, the average prompt might be something like 3 paragraphs, or 300 tokens. Later models that use reasoning tokens use orders of magnitude more tokens per unit prompt (prompting Opus 5 (max) in claude code to estimate the average number of output tokens without writing code just now used ~2k). At the time of that blog post, the newest general purpose model would have been GPT-4.5, but the consumer model that would have made up the bulk of the average for the power estimate would have been the infamous GPT-4o, (rumored to be) a ~200B parameter model - neither of these are "reasoning" models, so lets keep our 300 token estimate.

So that would be 0.34Wh / 300 tokens = 0.00113 Wh/token.

According to ~ rumors and speculation ~, people believe that GPT-6 astra is a ~5T model, and that this internal model might be ~10T parameters. Parameter count is a very imprecise estimate of energy usage, because energy usage depends on a ton of things like hardware efficiency, the attention mechanism/MoE selecting how many of the params are active, and so on. But because we don't have any better information, we assume that energy usage is quasi-linear with number of parameters.

So then that would be (10 trillion / 200 billion) * (0.34 Wh / 300 tokens) = 0.0566Wh/token for the giant 10T internal model.

Then multiplying that through for 300 billion tokens yields us 17 GWh. That's roughly a third of LA county's daily residential energy use, a county of 10 million people.

@alexchapman @bscross32 @mcourcel When it dies, it (really) dies. Really simple bugs that a microsecond of testing could've caught, and BTW I still have a bug report from weeks ago that hasn't been responded to, meanwhile new versions of the offending program are being released in buckets. Bring back 2021 Nathan Tech.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117242923817622096

important report on community #antifascist resistance against the frozen water boys on #TurtleIsland which i call an excellent example of wide regional #anarchist organising.

@GrimmReality And I mean like literally. The fucking Googleplex or whatever they call it. Bulldoze it. Same with whatever Apple calls their campus. And Facebook. Etc. Etc. Etc. Bulldoze them all. Then build public housing on the land.

The US Brought the G20 to NC to Highlight the Region’s Hurricane Recovery. Locals Say the Government Wasn’t Who Made it Possible. [Videos]

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-us-brought-the-g20-to-nc-to-highlight-the-regions-hurricane-recovery-locals-say-the-government-wasnt-who-made-it-possible/

I don't know, man, "embrace neo-nazism to appease twenty-seven posh assholes" seems a worse option than just prosecuting the shit out of them until it is no longer an issue.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/09/silicon-valley-democrats-lost-california/

@ophiocephalic OR… someone who wants to record the cops killing him so that he can at least get justice in a murder trial.

Zoom out to cardiovascular diseases overall, and the trend is even more dramatic.

People in rich countries today have roughly a quarter the chance of dying from cardiovascular diseases as they did in the 1950s at the same ages.

Back then, there were no statins, no cholesterol testing, no bans on trans-fats, no anti-smoking campaigns, no bypass surgery, and no implanted pacemakers.

Diabetes, certain cancers, infectious diseases and other conditions have also become far more treatable than they used to be.

A century ago, if you were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, your remaining life expectancy would be a few months,
and a ‘starvation diet’ would be one of your few options.

Today, you’d simply need to wear a small device on your arm to track your blood sugar level and release insulin to stabilize it in real time.

A century ago, it was unheard of for anyone to be cured of cancer, except, in rare cases, by a surgeon’s knife.

Penicillin hadn’t been discovered,
and a simple wound infection could result in sepsis and death.

Smallpox still existed.
It swept across the world and killed millions globally, year after year.

@curtosis Am I right!?!?

@GeePawHill My favorite fact in that arena:

1) you feel simultaneous touches on a shoulder and a foot as simultaneous.

2a) Nerve impulses travel at a finite speed (generally speaking, 50-60 m/s is normal).

2b) The nerve pathway from foot to brain is several times longer than from shoulder to brain.

Given 2, 1 is impossible.

The brain *edits* your instantaneous memory in real time to make the impulses have arrived together.

*long drag on cigarette, slow exhale*

Yeah.

@sundogplanets cc @nblr

I miss the days when a toothbrush botnet was the dumbest headline.