Flutterby™! (short)

The vendor, CulinarySolvent.com, says this is a quart of 100% ethanol, so this is roughly 1/3 zest. I've stopped zesting because we lent out our citrus juicer and I need to get it back, and I have too many peeled lemons at this point...

Just avoided posting a very demeaning observation about AI advocates who troll in /r/antiai... Please clap.

nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

And nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

Somebody is going to ask the source for $200 & $5000 numbers etc, it is here

https://www.briefs.co/news/ube...t-on-claude-code-in-four-months/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...-to-war-for-ai-coding-dominance/ (numbers are here [ https://archive.is/MRdRN paywal free link ] )

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Trying to understand how people use SharePoint, which leads to lots of videos about Copilot in Microsoft products, and...

There appear to be a lot of people who think that clicking "summarize and draft a response" is going to be a valuable business contribution.

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds

A third of children in the UK have bypassed age verification gates, research from Internet Matters suggests

Internet Matters Online Safety Act Report May 2026 (PDF):

Mum of boy, 12 "I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old."

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Hey, someone else is seeing the animism! Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munin@infosec.exchange

So, something that's been bugging the shit out of me?

These fucking assholes who let LLMs run rampant and delete prod?

They query the LLM for "why" it did that.

This is delusional behavior.

LLMs do not have a concept of 'why': they assemble a response based on a statistical sampling of likely continuations of the original prompt in their database.

LLMs do not have the ability to have motivation. It is a machine.

LLMs, further, function by instantiating a new runtime -for each query- that reads the prompt and any cache, if they exist, from prior sessions:

which means, fundamentally, "asking" the LLM to explain "why" "it" did a thing is thrice-divorced from reality:

It cannot have a why;
It cannot have a self to have motivations;
And the LLM you ask is not the one that did it, but is a new instance reading from its predecessors notes.

Treating it as tho it is an entity with continuity of existence is fucking delusional and I am fucking sick of pandering to this horseshit.

Touch some grass and get a fucking therapist.

(I thought I'd mentioned it more, but at least here)

Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ @mariatta@fosstodon.org

That should be my next motto after "no spreadsheets".
"No copy pasting". Especially for data that is always changing. My calendar, my availability, conference budget. Share data straight from the source instead of copy pasting from one sheet to another.

Which, of course, also needs an update mechanism

Lina @lina@neuromatch.social

anybody got any anti-"ai" or luddite songs to share? I'd love to get a playlist going

boosts welcome

All of this: monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 @monkeyborg@triangletoot.party

All those people saying “I was skeptical of AI, until I tried Claude and I was amazed that it could tell me this and this and this” sound just like

“I was skeptical of psychics, but then Madame Fortuna told me something only my dead wife would know!”

Human perception has certain well-documented flaws that confidence men prey upon, and you are not immune from these

And yet it feels like there's something in code generation, as dangerous as it is.

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Cramming AI into every orifice: ZD Net: Is Facebook adding Gen Z phrases to your shared posts? You're not alone, bestie. Here's what's happening.

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Okay, Google Intelligence, I kinda get how you got there, but, uh, no.