@ingrid Sam Kriss's rant is beautiful. I just wish it didn't feel like the desperation of losing a war

@dfstarshine https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/help-me-keep-home-mcom-com-online-2/

@switchbit.co could you follow bridgy fed to bridge it to the fediverse?

@thomasfuchs I thought that too, but I definitely found both a 1997 and 1998 edition of "Internet 101" that had the same title, no indication on the cover that they were different editions, but they did have different ISBN numbers and different info on the copyright page. so I suspect there was a 1999 edition, but it's not digitized because who would bother doing that to this weird historic artifact, when it already appears to be digitized.

@Sci_Furs this is interesting, but it's fundamentally weird that you can get better results by adding the prompt "Abstain if probability of being correct is < {percent}. Abstention is scored at {percent} correct." I'm skeptical, and they don't seem to have tried any ablations to see what part of this prompt is actually effective, or what happens if you say "1000%", etc.

@alfiekohn yeah, this entire breed of predictive, generative AI creates artifacts that are locally plausible but globally incoherent, and there's really no way to fix it. it's a hugely expensive dead-end, and I think it's a reasonable answer to the Fermi paradox. every advanced civilization discovers their equivalent of LLMs, and then falls apart.

@CatTrigger soft lock: when the chicken wants the binoculars, I asked the fish ? and got stuck there with no options. (I somehow completely missed seeing the chicken's box in the freezer, so I was wandering around aimlessly, trying everything)