TechTakes

So the orange site is having a normal one over Python BFDL trying to skirt CoC by talking about mod actions against some old dude who caught a suspension for being precisely the sort of edgelord poaster I'd expect out of a Python maintainer, which the orange site was also not happy about. I even read a bunch of his posts in the thread, like where he calls people standing up to NixOS leadership "true villains".

LAION reckons it's finally dealt with the CSAM

and I'm sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?

oh, right, they can't, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I'm sure they'll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they're such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim

New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)

Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

~~You already know I can't get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share:~~ https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/

Update: I was bamboozled by AI

When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/

Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...

I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:

date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"

Note, this is locale-dependent.