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@peter@thepit.social

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admin of thepit.social. writer of a newsletter on AI and other things, called Endnotes (https://www.endnotes.net/about). he/him. in Barcelona, from USA. hit your computer with a hammer.

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Joined October 31, 2022

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325356932250166 if i told people that Muse was surveilling them and drawing up Stasi-like graphs of their groups of family and friends, all easily available to Meta, they would assume i was overreacting.

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jonny (nonvenomous)

@jonny@neuromatch.social

muse's "self improvement" prompt's second point after basic memory maintenance is an instruction to, every hour, maintain a page per person that you know, and a group page for every group it thinks you're a part of. here are excerpts from the system prompt for that, cached in the agent .jsonl file

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neuromatch.social

jonny (nonvenomous): "muse's "self improvement" prompt's second point a…" - neurospace.live

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 1w ago

an interesting map

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

tech is pivoting to humanoid robots!! the humanoid robots:

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 3w ago

Replying to

SEEMS BAD, SIR.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz

lol not only was it a guillotine, it was a bike guillotine 🥰 https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2w ago

lmao eat shit.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 3w ago

Replying to

you know how crazy it is for gas prices to be going up at the end of the summer lmao

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

oh. oh no. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-drill

theguardian.com

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Ars nails it. meanwhile, every financial media outlet is burying the lede. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had-its-first-negative-cash-flow-quarter-ever-due-to-massive-ai-spending/

arstechnica.com

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

lol I went down a RAG/semantic search rabbithole one time and it was soooo cool until I realized this has existed for decades and you can just implement elastisearch. difference was this took me a couple days, not many months and thousands of dollars. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vd0m4w/comment/p15jssv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Big Tech keeps shipping AI features it has to yank days later

andmario_com

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2w ago

i should start a sex cult.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

ok, maybe they want to build for free while the AI labs are giving away free treats, but then they built something that they can't maintain or change once the treats are taken away. so in the end, they still just wasted a bunch of time. it's very weird.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

lol awesome. great. cooooooool. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v6djg3/corporate_america_has_suddenly_decided_to_stop/

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI

GreatLakesNU

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@davidgerard@circumstances.run "To prevent further inaccurate billing estimates from being displayed, we have paused estimated billing computations" "to fix it, we just turned it off" lmao

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

it is the year 2034 and this is the only doctor I can find to check my prostate.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

has there ever been a time in history when a prominent figure in a successful, money-printing American capitalist enterprise stepped out into the public spotlight and said "the state needs to socialize our profits"?

no. it has never happened, and it will never happen. the reason he's calling for this now is because the AI industry doesn't have any profits, and it won't have any profits for a long time, if ever.

he's asking the state to socialize the losses.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

some good news: https://apnews.com/article/tate-brothers-social-influencers-arrest-82b6638219839dcf653c09309da66f16

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @theodoraward@mastodon.social I'm sorry, but Adam Conover deserves the benefit of the doubt. He's a prominent union organizer and lefty in LA. he has very good politics and has never been accused of anything. everyone likes Adam Conover. maybe he's been fooling everyone all this time, but the much more likely explanation is something else.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

the problem with public policies to build tech hubs in cities like Barcelona is they don't so much create jobs as incentivize multinationals to relocate existing high-salary employees there. like tourism, this is good for the hospitality sector, but kind of a destructive dead end in most other respects.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

this is so transparently an attempt to lay the groundwork for a government bailout of this failing industry.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

"The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn." https://makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-flock-sock-flock-camera-cover#profileId-3503858

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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gotta say, destroying mass surveillance devices is pretty popular right now. pretty easy way to get clout these days is post a pic of a wrecked Flock camera, for example.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://flipboard.com/@kotaku/kotaku-latest-2mbnjtrcz/-/a-g-4vGqZmQcq_eE1LZKsbDQ%3Aa%3A1938881949-%2F0 you know it's a good new technology when rich boomers start getting into it, that's how you can tell.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

if you have any information about these incidents, shut the fuck up. https://www.gadgetreview.com/two-flock-cameras-exploded-on-a-georgia-road

Two Flock Cameras Exploded on a Georgia Road

Two Flock Cameras Exploded on a Georgia Road

Flock Safety cameras on Radium Springs Road in Albany, GA were deliberately destroyed, investigators ruled, reclassifying both fires as criminal damage.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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software is going to continue to get worse until everyone stops using it for important things.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

a pediatric cancer hospital near us is trying to find a Spanish-Romanian translator with translation training and 2yrs of experience. this is a kind of professional that, within the decade, will not exist. it won't matter how much you're willing to pay, you won't find anyone.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

it's fascinating to me how many old, powerful people are rushing to doom the thing they are in charge of by squeezing extra lucre out of it now. the boomer generation doesn't believe in the future. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-boycott-uefa-emergency-meeting-news-b3024441.html

independent.co.uk

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

the thing about the vibesession/Charts Guys/economic data discourse is that the kind of insecurity people feel in the US isn't going to show up on a chart. you can be making comfortable six figures, own a home, and have some savings and still know that college for your kids is the Hunger Games, you'll never be able to save enough for retirement, you can lose your job at any second, and bad medical news will bankrupt you.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

basically, everyone's got a couple gallons of water and they are renting a swimming pool to store it, just in case.

amazing for the swimming pool rental companies!!

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

tokens are VERY expensive (lol). enterprises want to bring those costs under control. only thing is, they kinda can't. https://www.endnotes.net/token-tangle/#the-unknowable-cost-of-unending-tokens

Token tangle

Token tangle

tokens are EXPENSIVE, they made boy-v-girl internet into a horror movie, AI financial trouble, and why is everyone talking about "taste"??

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

health.aws.amazon.com

View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

"The Odyssey" is a story about a middle-aged dad who's still got it.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

boss move: whiskey on the rocks with a scoop of vanilla maple frozen custard instead of the rocks.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@neatnik@social.lol lmao ok fair

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@neatnik@social.lol what makes you think it's vibe-coded? i'm not saying it's not, just wondering what the tells are, for you. (also, i fucking hated Y2K-era portals lol, they were ugly and cluttered, and so is this)

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

(it is not Andrew Tate) https://kotaku.com/shirtless-man-starts-butlerian-jihad-against-waymo-in-east-hollywood-2000715911

Real Life Cyberpunk 2077 NPC Goes Viral For Fighting Waymo

Real Life Cyberpunk 2077 NPC Goes Viral For Fighting Waymo

No, this isn't a Cyberpunk 2077 side-quest

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

wow!!

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @MaddieM4@raphus.social @theodoraward@mastodon.social he has an ENORMOUS body of work that speaks for itself, both in his personal takes and in the people he invites on his show. feel free to not like his vibe or whatever but calling him maybe fashy based on literally nothing is extremely uncalled for. there are plenty of real bad guys out there without making up new ones who, as far as anyone can tell, have done nothing but put in work for the left.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

this is a new one for me.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

so glad i'm not in the states for the whole explosive diarrhea thing. and for all the other things, tbh.

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

which is, of course, amazing for the cloud companies. make everyone think the only way to deploy an app is with Kubernetes and Postgres replicated horizontally, with everything scaleable and delivered via CDN across multiple regions. eleven 9s for your seven users lol

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Peter @peter@thepit.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

btw, ICE's explanation for what happened is "he tried to run, so we killed him"

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