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RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/117415666704323128

“There's little that's "inevitable" about AI | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/llms-arent-inevitable

> The inevitability of LLMs, therefore, is of a piece with the inevitability of chemical weapons. Weak players who are fighting other weak players might well find some use for them.

Two papers I came across today:

People are just copy-pasting agents.md all over the place instead of using links or versioned copies or anything: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11169

Does using agent files actually work? No. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11988

This is not a serious field.

Ordered a new laptop battery from IFixIt. It was below spec out of the box and after calibration. I told them and provided backing data. They said, Sorry! We're sending you a replacement! No need to return the one we sent; just dispose of it carefully.

Now you know why I trust IFixIt.

I think people are overreaching a bit when they declare that if it runs on a computer, it can't be conscious.

Look, I don't think *Claude* is conscious. I think Anthropic is probably Doing a Marketing, or full of AI cultists, or both.

Maybe I'm being too pedantic here. But at some point we're going to have powerful enough hardware (and a good enough understanding of neurobiology) that you could simulate a human brain. At that point, that's conscious software. There are some truly heinous things that could happen at that point and I think it's at best silly to pretend otherwise.

Let's not allow the present stupid dystopia to cloud our much more fucked up dystopian imaginings.

Hello. I’m looking for a Canadian audiobook narrator. Voice should sound masculine and 40-ish. Specific accent is Alberta. Ideally able to do other accents as well, including Northern Irish. But the key one is Alberta. And the text will be riddled with Canadianisms and Canadian place names.

Recommendations?

#audio #askfedi

When I tried Chewy instead, I got an email saying "contact us to receive your order". I did, and they verified a bunch of info on the order, and said it should go through soon.

Probably the "brand new account orders $250 of stuff" (along with my usual privacy measures) tripped fraud detection. But at least there was a path forward to resolve it.

I just had Petsmart cancel an online order, and when I called customer service, their explanation was that my "email address was created too recently".

...there are a lot of possible explanations for that, but none of them are good.

I'm shopping elsewhere, creeps.

If you need to cut back your skeleton budget this year: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/9/800109810/cartoon/budget-halloween-decor/

Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/ "US government itself is planning to stream a gruesome execution of its own, and any platform that pushes back will likely be attacked by the president and his supporters for not being patriotic enough." #murder

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RE: https://counterforce.social/@cruelnoise/117354591424611283

we dont deserve cruel noise!!!!

you get a full 60 minutes of punk from all over. and then after the episode ends another thirty minutes mashup between tommy wright and mort garison??

FOR FREE #PUNK #MEMPHIS

There is a growing white supremacist genocide denial movement in so-called Canada.

On September 27th members of the Second Sons, a white nationalist militia, marched on unceded Secwépemc territory carrying racist banners near a former residential school where mass graves of Indigenous children were discovered.

This action was timed to occur three days before National Truth and Reconciliation Day a flawed and limited attempt to acknowledge Canada's genocide of Indigenous peoples.

The Second Sons are tightly connected to the so-called 'Active Clubs' movement and have called to remove non-white people from Canada at gunpoint.

The Secwépemc have a long history of resistance to Canadian colonialism, including the Gustaffson Lake standoff in 1995, and more recently, the Tiny House Warrior movement, launched in resistance to the TransMountain Pipeline project.

White supremacy is inherent to settler colonialism.

Settler anarchists have a special responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty and confront white nationalists wherever they rear their ugly heads.

Get together. Crew up. Confront white supremacy in all its forms.

https://kolektiva.media/w/3efnx6PuVFLY8g4aeFnSGD

Tom Gammill
IS
Ernie Bushmiller
IN
A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, in which he inhabits the author of the Nancy comic strip. “THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON!” -Ruben Bolling

https://boingboing.net/2026/10/09/a-theatrical-morning-with-nancys-ernie-bushmiller.html

"Humans write bad code, too!" exclaim AI boosters who don't perhaps understand that's not an argument in favour of AI-generated code.

Sure. If you're gonna push bad code, at least make sure nobody read it first.

Relentless AI scrapers pushed DNA Lounge's web hosting bill from $800 to $3,500/month.

That is a $32,000/year cost shift caused entirely by companies training models on their content without permission. AI companies are externalizing their massive training costs onto independent web operators, effectively taxing the independent web to build their proprietary models. 📉

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/10/06.html

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@glyph "Stegosaurs were the size of elephants and had brains the size of walnuts!"

Sure. But no stegosaur ever worked for Anthropic.

Stegosaurs: 1 - Programmers: 0

Kanahus Manuel, a badass Secwépemc land defender was raided by the RCMP awhile back and more recently her house has been destroyed by mysterious attackers. She has set up a fundraiser to rebuild.

A crucial part of anarchism on stolen land is to support Indigenous sovereignty. Help her here:

https://chuffed.org/project/help-land-defender-kanahus-manuel-rebuild-her-home

It looks like the same snippet is shown in Qwant, Ecosia and DDG. This makes me think that the search results snippet is coming from Bing API, after all.