@catsalad I was going to reply about where I toot from, but today’s supervisor has blocked this action.

More generally I fear for a society where we systematically cut off pathways for casual apprenticeships.

I learned so much from those literal strangers in my early days on IRC/forums - they reviewed my code, answered my questions, chewed me out, and they were also a place I could vent my frustrations, and worries.

The idea that I would have had to wait until I was 18 to have had some of those experiences...I would be a completely different person, maybe a different life trajectory.

My wife - who lost her job when trump axed basically all of NASA's life sciences - is still unable to get a job. Today there was a USDA job posting, where applicants must write an essay showing their support for trump:

How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.

But KaMaLa Is ThE sAmE

“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document cited in the case read, adding “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.”

https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/

It's wild we've had this years-long RAM shortage and nobody's seriously considered optimizing their software.

"Why is Proton cross-marketing with Framework," she asked, fully knowing the answer but feigning ignorance out of exhaustion.

New music from The War On Drugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fMvp6GCyZI

#NowPlaying #CurrentBop

here, shithead, even though you ignored all my points (especially the ones about consent), let me reply directly to a point you made:

apple wants a small number of genuine, high quality photos from people like journalists because exfiltrating high-quality privileged information from specialists is the only way to make an LLM look like it’s doing a good job. that’s why OpenAI did it recently. that’s why AI corporations keep getting caught doing it. apple is an AI corporation.

There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it.

Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price.

#cdnpoli #canada #airports #NDP

some fucking coward decided to reply to a reply to this post to do this exact thing, except they untagged me so I wouldn’t see it?????

and they of course decided to talk over my points instead of replying to them in any way

apple fans… are you ok? why are you like this? you understand that apple does things in order to make money, right? you understand that feeding authentic, original, valuable images to the slop machine is one of the few ways they (likely incorrectly) think they can make a profit off the shit they invested a ton of money into, right?

@jpm absolute legend. Give me more of this.

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/what-to-read-to-stay-grounded-amidst-ai-doomerism/

@leeuw Me being me, I put them back in the bag, pulled out the old staples, re-stapled the cardboard label, and hung it back up on the pegboard where I found it. NOBODY NEED EVER KNOW.

(...didn't there usedta be a "spy" emoji?)

Report: Apple leads slowing true wireless stereo market as open-ear earbuds gain ground https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/17/report-apple-leads-slowing-true-wireless-stereo-market-as-open-ear-earbuds-gain-ground/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

For the love of the world we still have, STOP SHARING AI-GENERATED IMAGES. Your critiques of fascism are actually not a good enough reason to perpetuate slop.

If you just can't help yourself, at least have the decency to note that it's an AI-generated image. (You know, in the alt-text?) Then your audience can decide if they want to remain just that.

I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.

A new microseason in the "White dew" (白露 Hakuro) division has begun:

Swallows leave (玄鳥去 Tsubame saru)

This microseason will last until September 22.

New cat just dropped

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-wild-cat-species-identified-rcna598113

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-100-years

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

When I was in a Catholic junior school, we used to have to say the Hail Mary each day. I was one of the kids who used to say "Male Hairy" instead and it still gives me the giggles at age 56. No regrets; just hope I'm not going to hell.