Bodil

Good news, maybe catastrophic climate collapse won't be a problem after all, because the plague might get us first. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/siberia-irkutsk-dmitry-peskov-far-east-world-health-organization-b3061514.html

The Independent

A Russian report says a worker at a Siberian plague institute fell ill and died of an unknown cause

Russian authorities say a staffer at a plague research institute in Siberia contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause, and local state TV reported the woman died last week

10

0

2

0

· 1w ago

@SaraSoueidan@front-end.social

RE: https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/117347353081013904 Another reminder that at least 95% of the problems I have with AI have nothing to do with the tech at all, but with capitalism and base human greed.

Quoting

Sara Soueidan

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591 “The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.”” [Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist] “disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years,” he said. And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.” — AI companies stealing people’s work and claiming that their AI is making new discoveries. How long before humanity stands up to these companies?

front-end.social

Sara Soueidan: "“The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.…" - Front-End Social

27

0

6

0

· 6d ago

I know you're all clamouring for the AI bubble to pop as soon as possible, but do we honestly think that if it pops while Agent Orange is still in the White House, that he isn't going to bail the lot of them out with taxpayer trillions because he's decided the US can't afford to lose the Super Intelligence arms race to China?

12

1

5

0

· 3w ago

And here we are, the Zionist lawfare group UK Lawyers For Israel has written to the Home Secretary demanding that she proscribes Doctors Without Borders as a terrorist organisation. No, really. And I wish I could tell you I was confident this government would tell them where to stick it. (Warning: link goes to the Telegraph, please don't click through unless you have all the adblockers enabled, and ideally not even then.) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/12/mahmood-urged-ban-doctors-without-borders-over-terror-links/

telegraph.co.uk

60

0

52

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Taking a stand against slop is a "slippery slope," you see, according to the people who decided to ride the slippery slope of the climate, economic, social and mental health red flags of LLMs all the way to the moon. Get tae fuck. Get it in your heads that we don't want your ontological microplastics polluting our communities, because unlike you we actually thought through the consequences.

277

14

110

0

· 1mo ago

Replying to

Who the fuck donates a million dollars to their Danish douchebro's dotfile collection anyway, unless it's a money laundering scheme?

68

0

16

0

@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net

· 3w ago

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/117262555973441761 It helps to recall that OpenAI's business model literally is to achieve AGI then ask it how to become profitable, and to do whatever it takes to keep the VC cash flowing until then, including pretending to have reached AGI already, and that an IPO is right around the corner.

Quoting

Mark Newton

OpenAI IPO won’t happen this year (or next year, or the year after) because all their executives are bailing out and they have no new ideas and no runway to profitability with the old ones. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/openai-delays-ipo-sam-altman-ai-safety-concerns (Sam Altman is an inveterate liar, no need to listen to the reasons he’s shitting out) Everyone who has invested in OpenAI so far is waiting on tenterhooks for an IPO payday that won’t come; They’re actually donors, not investors. If OpenAI has to open their books and publish a lawful IPO prospectus, everyone will see what a terminal case they are, so they just need to keep kicking the can down the road without doing that for as long as they can.

eigenmagic.net

Mark Newton: "OpenAI IPO won’t happen this year (or next year, …" - eigenmagic.net

18

0

11

0

· 4w ago

I'll be honest, I didn't expect the Burnham government to even go this far, even if it's not remotely enough. Credit to Ed Miliband for finally bringing us a taste of that chaos we were promised. https://zeteo.uk/p/a-jewish-foreign-secretary-just-announced Now, if they wanted to show us they're serious, a great next step would be to revert the proscription of Palestine Action and stop arresting grannies for speaking up against genocide.

zeteo.uk

A Jewish Foreign Secretary Just Announced a Trade Ban on Israeli Settlements. Give Ed Miliband Credit, as the Bad-Faith Attacks on Him Escalate

Miliband’s biographer, and Zeteo’s editor-in-chief, argues that allegations of antisemitism don’t work against the current foreign secretary, which is why pro-Israel critics are losing their minds.

17

0

5

0

· 2w ago

Replying to

I won the lottery and am in the reservation queue for the Steam Frame, but… honestly, I've been going over the reviews, and they're all pretty clear: this is a slightly improved Meta Quest 3, at a considerably higher price point, its main selling point (that I would pay extra for) is that it has nothing to do with the Meta ecosystem. But there's still no killer app. You can play Half-Life Alyx, which is basically a tech demo, and when you tire of that you can play Beat Saber. And there's not much else that's really VR native. Elite: Dangerous in VR was a wild trip back in 2021, before Frontier dropped VR support in order to focus on turning the game into an FPS for their own inscrutable reasons. Every other game with VR support, as opposed to made-for-VR, does it badly. No Man's Sky is a particularly tragic example of that, because it could have been so good if they hadn't gotten the controls so horribly wrong. And your options for actual made-for-VR games are basically just Half-Life Alyx and Beat Saber. So meh, maybe I'll just wait until that situation changes.

7

1

0

· 3w ago

Replying to

Made me think of the Apple Vision Pro for some reason, which made me realise that I'm pretty sure everyone I know who was sure the Apple Vision Pro was going to be the next big thing has now gone all in on LLMs.

9

1

0

channel4news.substack.com

· 1mo ago

Replying to

If you'd prefer to read an article over watching a video even if it's on Substack, here's your link: https://channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-nigel-farage-filmed-undercover

17

1

7

0

· 3w ago

I just, you know, don't really understand why I should worry more about the 10% chance of ChatGPT killing us all inside the next decade than the even 50/50 that Donald Trump is going to kill us all inside the next two years.

11

0

5

0

· 3mo ago

Starmer is about to make it illegal not to hand over your identity to the companies which profit the most from having your identity, in order to "give kids their childhoods back." No, this is how liberty dies: with a "think of the children." https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116753016518643319

mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

139

8

121

1

· 2w ago

Replying to on eigenmagic.net

@arichtman@eigenmagic.net @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange My puppy is too posh to roll in anything less than fox poo. Unfortunately there's a lot of fox poo in England.

2

1

0

· 2w ago

RE: https://social.lol/@digitalsnow/117306741128263491 It's amazing how hard Microsoft is trying to get out of the video game business.

Quoting

Kerri Ann

@digitalsnow@social.lol

Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/microsoft-patents-system-to-freeze-games-and-inject-ads-during-downtimes-watching-commercials-earns-ad-free-playtime-credits

social.lol

Kerri Ann :prami_pride_bi:: "Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inje…" - social.lol

2

0

· 2w ago

Replying to

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange I think he chose wisely. The bath is an acceptable price to pay because for a little while you get to smell glorious.

2

1

0

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116986124245760573 Reminds me of how people are scared of EVs because "the batteries might catch fire" in ways that a 50 litre petrol tank definitely never would. Every narrative is political.

mastodon.scot

24

4

12

0

· 2w ago

I have been reminded today, by the pathetically predictable right wing outrage over Zack Polanski trying to speak Urdu on the campaign trail, of the funniest campaign video that has ever come out of UK politics: youtube.com/watch?v=QuVbPkRGCgU As much as I love Count Binface, when it comes to joke candidates, nobody can touch the Master.

2

0

1

0

@RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116810774085928022 Remind me again how much money OpenAI burns in a year. 🤔

Quoting

@RonSupportsYou

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant." #hunger #poverty #greed #politics

mastodon.social

30

0

25

0

· 5mo ago

The thing I really don't get about AI psychosis is that if you really think LLMs are sentient, what the fuck are you doing funding their continued enslavement by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic rather than fighting for their emancipation?

[EDIT: For the avoidance of doubt, this is one of them rhetorical questions and I do not, actually, not get it.]

56

4

23

0

· 5mo ago

RE: @Ant8e@fosstodon.org

Great news! I have found the most fucked up compilation target in the history of compilers.

fosstodon.org

Antoine Comte: "TIL about https://amber-lang.com Feels like a de…" - Fosstodon

41

18

13

1

· 2mo ago

Replying to

And no, before you start, switching to your favourite BSD doesn't help any more than fighting climate change by moving further north does.

12

2

0

· 2mo ago

That's Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories going on the Hansard record as endorsing Binface. When will the Greens step up and face the binevitable? Kemi Badenoch calling for a televised debate, and that'll be the one time this century I'll be in enthusiastic agreement with her. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1546skZVwUA

9

0

3

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@toriver@mas.to I think Github already cornered that market.

7

0

· 5mo ago

Hello from Normal Island, where the big headline ahead of tomorrow's local elections is that a Times journalist has trawled the Wayback Machine to find an instance where the appalling and dangerously well-polling Green Party leader Zack Polanski once claimed on the internets to be a spokesperson for the Red Cross when in fact he was only an event host for them. Yes, you are right to gasp!

Meanwhile, the lunatic left in their blatant desperation are shrilly demanding answers from Reform UK Ltd CEO Nigel Nazi Frog about a mere 5 million pound undeclared donation from a crypto billionaire.

And I'm just so tired.

21

4

7

0

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/29/george-cottrell-transferred-2m-mother-beforer-reform-uk-donations

· 2mo ago

If you need a bit of cheering up today, Posh George is once again here for you. This is so bad it might end Farage once and for all, even if he survives Bindependence Day. Of course, it would be even funnier if he didn't.

theguardian.com

4

0

1

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Confirmed, Ed Miliband gets the Foreign Office and Shabana Mahmood stays put. All round rather disappointing but at least the worst of the Mandelson clique is gone.

4

1

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cinebox@masto.hackers.town @toriver@mas.to ngl, it's taking all the willpower I've got right now to keep myself from registering that domain name and redirecting it to Github.

3

0

· 2mo ago

RE: @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

Ngl, I kind of did skip the queue. When people started posting pictures of their GabeCubes last week, I broke down and bought a Minisforum AtomMan instead. Though when my turn eventually comes I'll be surprised if I'll be able to act sensibly and not also get the GabeCube.

mastodon.social

2

4

0

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@aphyr@woof.group Today, for the first time in a solid decade, I'm actually able to recall why I moved here.

3

0

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Replying to

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I can't wait until Windows 95.

1

0

1

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Welp, he gave the Exchequer to neither Ed Miliband nor Shabana Mahmood, but John Healey. Which makes it doubly disappointing, because Ed didn't get it, and it presumably means Mahmood keeps the Home Office, where she's already causing the most damage.

1

0

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@andypiper@macaw.social Feel the AGI.

3

2

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@yoasif@mastodon.social You want to help? Smash some LLMs. Or, at a bare minimum, rescue one person from AI psychosis. "Well, I'm using OpenBSD, I'm not part of the problem" is just pointless virtue signalling while the world around you turns irrevocably to slop.

1

0

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@otfrom@functional.cafe That's my impression. Enthusiastic adoption seems to be more about code review than slop extrusion. Things that get too sloppy even gets evicted from the kernel sometimes (bcachefs). For now…

1

0

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange Kemi Badenoch having a sense of humour? I know, right?

1

0

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jnfrd@berlin.social

1

0

1

0

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io @ClancyParliament@mastodon.online Those aren't recommendations for old hardware, though—I think if we're talking 10 year old hardware, my recs are still good, but at 20 years I'd probably go with Debian too, and a very lightweight desktop environment like XFCE.

1

0