TFW you get asked to join a science communication event (yay!) where people can ask any question (AMA, let's go!) but the format is that an AI answers first and then the 'expert' can discuss it. Why? 😭

I refused and said it was irresponsible: a crucial layer of the truth sandwich is missing here. I also mentioned that anchoring effect, automation bias, and bullshit asymmetry all work against the researcher in this format. 😩
#SciCom

@cstross - I'm very sorry to hear it.

@pb@mast.eu.org @breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm @sebsauvage@framapiaf.org @Gilou@mastodon.social Le libre n’a JAMAIS impliqué la perte totale des droits de l’auteur. C’est exclusivement un CHOIX de l’auteur s’il veut le faire en utilisant une licence permissive (MIT/BSD) ou en interdisant toute utilisation hors des mêmes conditions de partage avec une licence copyleft (GPL/AGPL, CC-SA), ou en imposant une citation de son nom (CC-BY).

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/117205006167048585

Today's tech landscape is basically "the floor is lava" for trying to avoid fascism.

@pb@mast.eu.org @breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm @sebsauvage@framapiaf.org @Gilou@mastodon.social Et le fait qu’une AGPL impose de conserver la AGPL derrière, ou une CC-BY-SA de citer l’auteur et de conserver la licence, devrait un peu t’allumer les neurones sur le fait que tu dis littéralement de la merde.

Sigh. Been waiting in this here hospital day surgery unit for four hours now (for a 30 minute procedure).

i had a lot of thoughts in response to this correct post https://types.pl/@amy/117203193831178704

as of late i have begun to feel that the imaginary component of so-called "complex" numbers is strikingly similar to irrationality and indeed that the "unique" factorization into prime integers or polynomials with integer coefficients is much closer to a parlor trick than a rigid basis for classification

like the irrationals are only secondarily "irrational" and more simply "antipolynomial" i feel like? i read an attempted motivation for the irrationality of sqrt(2) arising from euclidean-era geometry recently but i didn't really buy it since i don't feel "exactness" or "equality" is really a "natural" concept outside of the cartesian plane, which itself feels remarkably circular in definition?

like if even the prime numbers refuse to decompose their own sequential structure into any kind of rhythmic progression, maybe that's because "solutions among the rationals" is requiring the answer be sufficiently *un*interesting?

learning much more about group theory recently and i totally do accept that the generating graph of modular exponentiations in a finite field is intrinsically meaningful to study even if it's not a "nice" answer for my purposes. but finding that finite fields F_q for primes p < q s.t. q = 2p + 1 are not just a meme way to generate new primes at will (which i didn't know you could do????) but are also optimally resistant to computational factorization attacks on the discrete log problem has me feeling like twin primes just aren't very interesting?

like if generating the next prime is unsolvable but just finding a later prime is both simple and deeply meaningful, maybe that's because a difference of integer +k is not intrinsically meaningful except as a phase offset wiithin a periodic context?

like forget sqrt(-1), the really unnatural "point at infinity" seems to be the integer +1, since that's precisely what's necessary for the infinitude of primes!!!

Yes, no AI is now a feature

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/

#LibreOffice #Technology

@2003MugishaPhocit Where's that right hand coming from!? And a typo in the biggest word on the poster?

Working on making public over a decade of dispatch posts, one by one, and indexing them (or at least the ones that aren’t lost for all time) so they’re searchable and findable.

I’m working slowly through them, and it’s making me kinda sad that I’m managing to do so only now that the overwhelming majority of “readers” are likely to be machinic. : . (
https://www.adamgreenfield.site/my-back-pages-the-complete-catalogue-of-dispatches-2015-2026/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117197170740352177

We Mastodon users have done it again!

After 10,000 views of my latest video, the stats show that the external viewers arrive from

Mastodon 50 %
Facebook 6 %
Bluesky 2 %
Threads 0.4 %

When there is an algorithm, corporations decide whether posts with links to the competing platform like YouTube are visible to other users.

When there is no algorithm, we the users decide what is boosted.

Choose Mastodon! ♥️🐘

Addio piccola Lara, per tre anni e mezzo sei stata la luce dei miei occhi. Una vipera ha deciso che non doveva più essere così.

Fate tutte le carezze che riuscite ai vostri cani finché ci sono.

It's not just me, this is an insane way to talk about source code right? Work suddenly became me reading 20 pages of this stuff every day I've never been so tired.

@pb@mast.eu.org @breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm
@sebsauvage@framapiaf.org @Gilou@mastodon.social Mais très clairement, soit tu es de mauvaise foi, soit l’IA t’as complètement lessivé les neurones.
Une licence libre n’a JAMAIS révoqué l’intégralité des droits d’un auteur, qui peut parfaitement continuer à imposer les conditions de réutilisation de son œuvre.