Mastodawn

rrdot Mar 17

Evan Prodromou Mar 17

WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY

STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS

INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE

rrdot Mar 17

Ames Mar 16

One of the ways LLMs are damaging society is by causing us to endlessly talk about LLMs when we could be doing something creative.

rrdot Mar 9

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 9

I'm no artist, but hopefully this gets the point across. A comic in three panels.

rrdot Mar 6

Freedom of the Press Mar 6

We don’t yet know if Estefany Rodríguez’s detention was in retaliation for her reporting but we certainly wouldn’t be surprised.

ICE abductions of noncitizen journalists take the reporters best equipped to cover immigration enforcement off the beat.

https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/journalist-estefanty-rodriguez-ice-detention-colombia/

Nashville Reporter Who Has Detailed ICE Activity Detained in South Nashville Stop

Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

Nashville Banner

rrdot Mar 2

Cassian [main]Mar 2

THE TRUSTWORTHY SHIRTS TOURNAMENT

I was intrigued by the original "who would you trust more?" poll by @the-unflappablewolf, attached for posterity.

I was curious to know whether this result was an indicator that Star Trek imbued the most trustworthiness, so I did a survey. I've turned the responses into a 32-team tournament, with the top responses from the survey randomised into pairs for round 1. Winners will use votes from both Mastodon and Tumblr, summarised here: https://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/809931792568188928/shirt-tournament

#ShirtTournament

rrdot Feb 27

Cassandrich Feb 26

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.

In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.

rrdot Feb 26

Glyph Feb 26

one of my favorite things on fedi is seeing an enormous infodump that is almost totally incomprehensible to me, where someone is just pouring out their heart about a topic that they love, in some gigantic thread of intense nerdery. sometimes I see people post self-consciously as if they feel like they shouldn't be filling up people's timelines with their special interest but I just want to say as a blanket statement, go for it. even if I can't quite understand the facts, the energy is sublime

rrdot Feb 26

Soldier of FORTRAN

Feb 25

So anthropic took the source code to a c compiler, then asked the natural language photocopier to make a c compiler and it did, and it barely works.

Why not just use the perfectly good compiler you had to feed your llm in the first place?

I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.

rrdot Feb 26

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