"Your enemy cares not that the maintainer of an Internet-connected server left 10 years ago." - Sun Tzu

Timeline cleanse

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# Fediverse

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

Every nook and cranny in the basalt landscape is flowing with water.

#landscape #nature

An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? https://dustycloud.org/blog/an-ai-called-winter-neurosymbolic-computation-or-illusion/

In which I try to piece apart whether or not a *particular* AI agent is doing something novel: running Datalog as a constraint against its own behavior and as a database to accumulate and query facts. Is something interesting happening or am I deluding myself? Follow along!

Hi everyone!

I am looking for fellow biologists and ecologists to follow and connect on mastodon.
Are you one or know one?
Please, add tags of them in replies!
#biology #ecology

"Since ISIS is pretty much the worst thing in the world now ..."

#DavidChapman

This claim has not aged well. It's pretty obvious that Orange Stalinism is the worst thing in the world right now. But for reasons explained on the linked page, I think its days are numbered, so my claim too has a shelf life. As dies any such claim by its very nature.

#Meaningness

@rudy You clearly never heard the Dutch national anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br1v8tBEkVQ

Had a friend beg me to get on Substack, again. I tried to say I will not do so for a whole, heh, host of reasons. So to all, here is my RSS feed. Share it with someone that likes blogs about living an anxious life as a blind person. Fiction and creative Nonfiction. I have a podcast with blog post narrations for those that cannot, or choose not to, read. https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

Open source maintainers already had enough to worry about before the ongoing agentic AI revolution... my thoughts on recent AI-induced problems in open source development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7A1QoUEI

@Paperposts @Alice came here to say this. 🙏🏻

Obviously going to have to mute a bunch of tech people who've had their brains rotted by the ELIZA effect. smdh.

AI slop is so useful and desirable that Google and Microsoft have to spend shit tons of money to have "influencers" shill for it:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

Remember when "influencers" were shilling for NFTs? That was fun and ended well for everyone involved, proving NFTs are actually useful. 🤡

@MikeImBack @mayintoronto Generally, no. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, *way more* heat is trapped by it. But it does break down on its own in the atmosphere faster than CO2. And since it's a byproduct anyway, capturing it and using it for more energy is--generally--better than simply letting it go. Also, depending upon the system you create to burn methane, it is easier to potentially capture the CO2 produced, hopefully with a sequestration plan down the line. "Carbon capture" facilities as an industrial plant just sitting out there grabbing it from the air are bullshit, but actually catching it from a closed system does make some sense. But even if you're not doing that, it's better to burn it than release it--it's why industrial sites all over sill have towers belching fire. You might know them from some atmospheric shots of Blade Runner, or if you live near Hamilton, you've seen them in person. But those just burn it, without using any of the energy released.

Post your ominous signs

One of the open source projects I was relying on for a bunch of things started heavily using AI for its development.

So I did with any sane person would do.. I spent the weekend reimplementing its API from the ground up 🤣

Definitely not mature enough to be released yet, but it’s off to a good start and will hopefully replace the third party project at some point 👍

@david_chisnall “ChatGPT, give me a list of legitimate use cases for LLMs”

I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by saying that anyone who writes an article about LLM that isn’t a hard anti-LLM article is using an LLM to write the article

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0