older playgrounds didn't clear player state correctly so everyone born before ~1995 who's ever played tag is likely walking around with dozens of still-active "it" status flags
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"enron pets dotcom coinbase metalverse openaye-i..." in the dim red firelight the bog witch rasped the ancient curses, their original meanings lost millennia ago
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incredible mask off moment for the AI industry here with "minimal refusal rates": a tool for laundering what you've already decided to do. you're running it past the chatbot mainly so you can blame it for whatever consequences come. in a very real sense the US military here understands the software better than most of the people working on it.
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the current data center struggles overlap with this in real ways. there are immense practical incentives for capital at work here and very real political battles to be fought, but we also can't underestimate the mass-psychological effects of having so much land, water, and energy set aside for a technological product that is trying to be everywhere, surveil and influence everything, and provide cover for a war on labor. beneath the social-political the psycho-ideological is ever present.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in."
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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a lot of pro-LLM argumentation i've seen on here lately, eg around the Debian decision, is from the kind of computer guy who strenuously denies that this kind of layer of political reality exists at all. he wants to sit in his comfy chair and play with his neat computer toys forever, entirely safe from the onerous concept of politics.
the people showing up to their city council meetings to fight data centers are 1000x more engaged with reality than these guys.
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and yes, "become my own blood boy", let's just savor that one for a moment in all its horror
OpenAI employee Tarun Gogineni aka "roon" just openly worshipping death and human enslavement to the god-computer he believes he's creating. your IPO just got pushed back bro! it's all falling apart! your nihilism was pointless and evil and you'll be hated for the rest of your days!
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the genie is eviscerating global decision-making and turning it into weird burgers and strained analogies
https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/ai-future-of-work-skinny-hamburger-talking-about-work/
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@mullvadnet@mastodon.online @lostgen@det.social tell your PR team that this statement is worse than saying nothing.
We protect the right to express and access views we disagree with. We welcome anyone sharing these core values, "a group of people doesn't deserve human rights" is not just "a view" someone holds, it affects everything they do, their decision making and that of any org they hold power in, the impact they have on the world. you are complicit in your CEO's actions and the consequences will be dramatic.
genAI slop image of meat-based food
alt history where instead of the spiderweb being the central metaphor we chose the rhizome, abbreviated to "the 'zome". eg "find me on the zome at jplebreton dot com", zome browser, zomerings
reading about the party the mullvad ceo donated to
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@mcc@mastodon.social public domain ANSI C function responsible for generating new Japanese emperor names until 16777216 CE
https://www.right2compute.com this website will be displayed alongside the photo of Musk sieg heiling at the inauguration in some future museum's exhibit on the 2020s
particular spot in the middle of your town/city in google street view that's all blurred out, can't make anything of it. you go there IRL and you can't seem to look directly at or walk towards it, like a perfectly curved shape that deflects anything that approaches it.
red dots on the airplane wing diagram tearfully expressing concern at how scary and disruptive it would be to reinforce other parts of the plane
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft of possible interest to bubble watchers, maybe what precipitates OpenAI's downfall is that multiple 900lb gorillas get pissed enough at them and have strong enough legal cases that they all just start suing and the skeletons we all know are there come out in discovery. and maybe Guadagnino's "Artificial" film comes out in the middle of that and craters their public image even further.
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@BoloMKXXVIII@mastodon.social the 1.65t figure is from this story, which is about the hidden part specifically https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai
thinking about all the knowledge and intuition and coordination a human being demonstrates, without ever having been taught any of it explicitly, when they open a bottle of vitamins and shake exactly one tablet out onto their palm
Great Moments in Text Parser Pedantry
starcraft mod where the terrans are hyperscalers trying to build data centers everywhere, the protoss are capturing those data centers and turning them into bitcoin mines, and the zerg destroy and strip the copper from them to build low-wattage mesh networks
(feel free to shuffle those role mappings around if they offend your starcraft sensibilities)
"Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail" from Fabien Sanglard, of Doom/Quake/etc source code breakdown fame: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
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i don't actually believe people do things like this "without thinking" though. this man was thinking exactly the thoughts that Elon Tesla wanted him to think. they spend a lot of money to get people to believe those things.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange something running on a PlayStation 3 somewhere in Cuba, maybe
last para is a banger:
"Indeed, everything about this vision of abundance—from its garbled reading of American history and its paean to industrialists to its pitch to the ultra-rich—is about re-entrenching elite control over politics. All that stands in the way of abundance, apparently, is the people."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abundance-movement-yimbyism-big-tech/
"does not appear to live long enough or travel far enough to experience saudade" - interstellar zoologist's logbook entry for a particular creature
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okay yeah i think i am gonna try streaming No Man's Sky tomorrow (8/9) morning/afternoon (PST) on my old quasi-abandoned channel: https://www.twitch.tv/jplebreton
will post again here before i go live.
for those curious, a sporadic log of my previous 8+ years exploring its universe:
https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/100920861813591323
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@xgranade Andor of course kicked ass but in the larger context of the franchise it was just a beautiful dream we wake up from just before the moment of glory, much as we skip past what follows the triumph at RotJ's end into an apparently sauceless New Republic (that the sequel trilogy then tells us was doomed and short lived)
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@hypolite @glyph@mastodon.social thanks for pointing that out! did the first edit while walking in the park
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@dante@masto.posting.haus had heard of this but did not realize how Goat Simulator it leaned
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@xgranade so while all that doesn't directly explain the space nazi merch, it provides critical context, and within a capitalist framework (which it never existed outside of), the story can't exist without its stormtroopers, they complete it, maintain its structure, a bit like how IRL pigs see themselves as "the thin blue line" guarding (they would use different words of course) property from humanity on behalf of capital.
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game historians now consider the true genesis of the genre to be the overlooked 2028 release "Sillyman and the Infinite Humiliations"
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@MLNow@sfba.social "how do you attract more of us, the people who perpetuate austerity and privatization and dysfunction and the loss of faith in government that comes with those, to get into government? when we could be making soooo much more working for ad tech surveillance companies, defense contractors, private equity, etc?"