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Updated schedule: "What is Co-op Cloud" rescheduled to 2 weeks from now, Thursday October 15th.

– 3wordchant

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!
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It's the Apocalypse!! And billionaire Hollingsworth Hound knows who caused it! Can you guess?
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Great thanks to The Inner Hive, including long-time member Amy DG and new member Steve Track! Join us at https://tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hive/ 👊
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Of all the stupid ideas AI tech bros have had, this has got to take the cake. They reached out to religious organizations to explore how to provide models with “morality.”

If you want someone who is a subject matter expert in morality, talk to an ethicist and maybe a philosopher.

Religion is not about morality, religion is about religion. Religion is still trying to find morality, and they’re not searching particularly hard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.sCa1.pUevmZMuW4bR&smid=url-share

You can't protect press freedom by violating the First Amendment.

This ruling is deeply troubling. It fails to confront the fundamental First Amendment problems posed by the so-called “independent” editorial board.

Press freedom can't be imposed by government decree.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-merger-judge-approves-settlement-ags-1236893467/

Journalists witnessed yesterday's botched execution in Tennessee and did their job by telling the public about it.

But Tennessee is fighting to stop the press from witnessing every stage of an execution, in a lawsuit brought by the AP. Nothing to hide, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/oct/01/witnesses-recount-christa-pikes-survival-of-two-lethal-injections-video

Hey, folks! I'll be at the New York Comic Con Thursday 10/8 and Friday 10/9. Come by, say hi, get a book, or just hang.
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https://tomthedancingbug.com/2026/10/01/your-chance-to-view-ruben-bolling-in-captivity-at-the-nycc/

Are you interested in a #NoAI meet-up in the Rhein-Neckar area?
@rhelune and I are planning one. DM us and we‘ll dm you back with location and date(s).

#Heidelberg #Mannheim #Ludwigshafen #MetropolregionRheinNeckar

‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/el-nino-orangutans-indonesia-wildlife-destruction-aoe

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes - https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/01/erase-social-media-tomorrow-brits-say-yes/5300109 "Just 7 percent of Brits think social media is a force for good and around one in three suspect that life would get better if all these sites were erased from the internet tomorrow. "

Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-10-01/revealed-factory-farm-pollution-is-costing-the-uk-130m-a-year time to make them pay these negative externalities

The AI Pascal’s Wager

Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project?

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

This is very bad news. Owncast has relied on this program the past couple of years, and has allowed us to have servers and services we wouldn't normally afford to be able to do otherwise, especially now with Gabe being unemployed.

Any other cloud hosting providers want to step in and help all the open source projects that are going to be in this position?

Additionally, this might be a good time to show your financial support for Owncast.

https://fedifunding.org/projects/owncast/

“The AI Pascal’s Wager”

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".

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RE: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

littleFedi is out!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

“I'm truly just blown away by how little impact AI has had in our field, even when it comes to pure diagnostics.

My hospital employs a limited number of "models" for basic tasks like pulmonary nodule detection, and even then they suck to such a point that I stopped using them early on in my residency.

Beyond that, I have never heard of anything remotely approaching the point of analyzing CT, MR, US, PET, or catheter angiography accurately and producing a complete report.

The technology is not just in "early stages"...it's plainly nonexistent. And the "cutting edge" research that I review ain't exactly making much progress (it's usually for much more banal bullshit, like fixing reporting errors, and triaging critical findings...which is all well and good, but only modestly impactful in the setting of a true clinical workflow).”

more->

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/117362300150466466

i was not prepared for the order of magnitude of money being made in the modern agricultural slave trade in the u.s.

i was also not prepared for the fact that there is basically no penalty for committing enslavement.

Farm workers really, really, really need you to vote.

Farm slavery is a very real multi-million business in this country.

And Trump struck down major anti-slavery rules for farms last year.

"Both parties are the same" Ok... Not for farm workers, they're not!

So we’re doing this short STATUS SYMBOL autumn ttip and I’m really excited!!!!

Oct 14th - V. Skerninge at Strafbar
Oct 15th - Bremen at Kultur Bunker
Oct 16th - Am*dam at Vrankrijk
Oct 17th - Groningen at Vera
Oct 18th - Hamburg - TBA

Come say hi…

https://ktownhardcorefest.bandcamp.com/track/no-way-back

#statussymbol_hc #ktownhardcore