Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

We hope everyone enjoyed our April Fools' joke. Torment Nexus is, of course, not going to be worker-owned.

A note to our employees: your level of enthusiasm for this idea was noted, and will be discussed at your next performance review.

I can genuinely say that no piece of portable hardware I've ever owned has got as many questions or compliments as my @mntmn Pocket Reform.

I'm glad that wikipedia has been public about the impact of bot crawlers from AI companies dominating their bandwidth. https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia-is-struggling-with-voracious-ai-bot-crawlers-121546854.html

this is an impact of generative AI that I haven't seen talked about as much, but every team managing a non-static website has seen in the last year. big companies hoover up data by crawling constantly, creating performance problems that (often small) teams previously didn't have to worry about.

it changes the calculation of small projects on the web.

Rent-lowering NSFW posts ​​

I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...

Progress picture of the plant table!

The promised pictures of yesterday's garage reorganization:

"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.

Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.

That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.

Tragic Girls #AI comic

I had no idea that AI therapists were a thing.

This is incredibly dangerous. Please, please, please do not use.

An AI is not embodied and it doesn’t have an unconscious. It also has no ethics.

Do not let one anywhere NEAR your psyche. I beg you. #Therapy #MentalHealth #Psychoanalysis

Also, you know, the classic thing of Consent and Control.
I consent to joining a voice chat. I control when it ends.
A phone call either happens to me with limited if any warning or I call someone due to some need. And I can't really get out of it without specifically establishing both sides have fulfilled their criteria *and* I can't be explicit about my desire for its termination.

How can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to @pengfold, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:

https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/

Also thanks to @rostro & @asrg for the pointers and discussion!

#ai #sabotage #luddite

TIL there's something called a southern viscacha and it looks like a cat and a rabbit had a baby

🪭what IS the fascist line here?

“It wasn’t a filibuster, it was just a long speech”

What is the fascist line in general?

“Nothing you do matters”
“You do not matter”
“Protesting doesn’t help”
“Only Trump and Musk matter”
“The world is whatever we say it is”
“Nobody cares about anyone else”
“The people you trust will betray you”
“You are a disgusting freak for being different”
“Hopeful people are fools”

Social isolation. Social isolation. Be anti-social. Social isolation. That is the fascist line.

Do not believe the fascist line.
Do not repeat the fascist line.
Do combat the fascist line!

Go write your own story!