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#Forgejo 15.0.4 and 11.0.16 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

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#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨

After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.

This is not democratic‼️

📸 Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg. Taken from EP_President posted May 27, 2026 on X.

was out at a customer site today doing some work because i do like to get out occasionally. anyway, since i was suspiciously hanging around with four phones and a laptop, when i saw one of their employees walk by, i felt inclined to introduce myself, lest they thought i was some sort of criminal.

we exchanged hellos and i said, “i’m mike and i…”

before i could finish the guy said “they don’t pay me enough to care who you are, go nuts”

so #infosec tip of the day, pay people enough to give a shit

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912

In general my stance is: Our communities (meaning actual communities not "everyone on the Internet who uses the same Kernel" or something) should be way more restrictive and explicit about what we accept and what not.

Your Mastodon server or forum or code forge or whatever _does not need to serve the world_. It should serve you and your community. Sure, there will be conflicts but we really need to make those political differences visible and explicit. Not to constantly fight but in order to know where who stands on what topic. We need to re-politicize tech and infrastructure.

The fact that your service comes with a whole bunch of rules is _good_. Don't let some dumbass libertarian guilt-trip you with "the Mastodon HOA again". Fuck that. Stand for something.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116886123649607641

Not saying that the entirety of the AI industry is the worst people on the planet… but no actually I am saying that, there is no aspect of working on this shit that doesn’t also directly contribute to the most vile outcomes. If you work on any of this stuff, you should feel bad, and you should do something to start making up for it

@bobdobberson @yacc143 @ChrisMayLA6
A huge proportion of UK agricultural land is used for keeping beef cows and growing food for them + we import a lot of feed for them.

> a study that showed that this 85% of agricultural land which is used to produce meat and dairy provides only 32% of total calories and 48% of total protein.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmenvaud/312/report.html

Theres also a lot of other land that could be used for food production (e.g. for big examples see my last post + most land thats household gardens doesnt grow food)

Finally small farms produce more food per land area. Unfortunately farm sizes continue to grow (lots of farms are sold to larger farns) at the cost of the amount of food produced.

Companies are *already* quietly hiring people to come in and clean up the digital asbestos that is "AI" slop, or re-hiring the same folk (who did the actual work) that managers and CEOs ditched with surpassing cruelty.

Please, if you're a consultant or getting re-hired, MAKE THEM PAY.

None of that needed to happen. The tech doesn't fill a need, for the most part - the parts that are valuable to people could just as easily have been implemented under strict consumer protection rules.

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If intelligence is a necessary precondition for stupidity, and intelligence and stupidity scale together such that it takes real intelligence to be spectacularly stupid, then super-intelligence will be the opening act to an era of super-stupidity.

AI hallucination might be the first evidence of this dynamic. Large language models produce fluent, confident, detailed text that is, with some regularity, factually wrong. And this is not a simple bug but a structural feature of systems that optimize for appeal and plausibility rather than truth. And the danger is not that the AI will be wrong, after all, humans are wrong all the time, but knowing this, humans have invented means to detect and correct errors. We call this the scientific method.

The danger is that an AI will be wrong in ways humans can no longer detect because the very capacities that would catch the error have been outsourced to the machine or exceed the capacities of human minds. We face the prospect of a stupidity so sophisticated that it becomes indistinguishable, to its beneficiaries, from intelligence. This is the parable of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where the answer to the ultimate question, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, is 42.

I would like to make a modest proposal and suggest that we need a science of stupidity as rigorous as our emerging sciences of intelligence. This will not require billions of dollars of investment. It would involve inquiries into the mechanisms by which intelligent systems produce stupid outcomes. It would include studying the evolutionary dynamics that maintain stupidity despite its selective costs. It would promote the development of design principles that distinguish tools which enhance cognition from tools which replace it. And it would include surveying the institutional conditions under which collective intelligence degrades into collective stupidity.

Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth parasitic on ingenuity. In a world obsessed with ever more powerful cognitive technologies, understanding stupidity is not merely an academic exercise, it might prove to be the most intelligent thing we do.
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https://nautil.us/what-makes-humans-stupid-1282459

The gap between hype and reality for AI is vast.

https://karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-reckoning-is-upon-us/

“The system does not simply reflect inequality—it produces it.”

Jeremy Cherson of the Bail Project writes about bail, democracy, and why no one should be jailed simply because they are poor.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bail-funds-jail-prison-america-250

“boy don’t you feel foolish, you fell for this LLM generated code/generative art for a few minutes”

no fucker, I feel angry

why in fuck would this ever be a shame on me situation

you’re a conman running a con, and like all conmen you got really good at tricking people for long enough to mug them and run

“you couldn’t tell it was slop if I lied” said the same fried brain that thinks “Key Takeaways 🚀” is a feature of a readme any fucking human wrote

besides everything else, a ban on LLM code is a ban on low-quality code

the sealions doing their work yet again to DARVO us about an LLM ban can’t process that, because they think LLM code is good

we don’t in fact have to accept low-quality trash

we don’t have to accept good code from dickheads either

LLM slop happens to be both very bad and contributed by someone you really don’t want as part of your community

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Who gets chosen to “police the boundaries of what we’re allowed to think about and what we’re allowed to do”?

Adam Johnson and Steven Thrasher discuss media complicity, campus crackdowns and the machinery of liberal power.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/steven-thrasher-adam-johnson-books-palestinian-liberation-complicity

Nigel Farage, haunted former wanker banker, has resigned from his seat as MP and announced he’s standing again in the same seat - he’s trying to dodge responsibility for a crypto funding scandal by hiding behind the electorate.

All the rival parties have refused to put up candidates so now a man with a bin on his face has entered, and is doing media rounds with interviews.

https://youtu.be/3XO3FwWfPLc

@Azuaron @AngelaCarstensen @futurebird

Also, all the software being "created" by vibecoding legitimately sucks, and as skilled SWEs concentrate in companies that don't use LLMs or at least require use, the shakiness of vibecoded shit is going to accelerate and eventually turn into critical bugs that nobody knows how to find, let alone fix.

All while the companies spend through the nose to pay models to piss out bad advice and worse code that won't help them out of the ditch they're digging.