"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free."

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/

A little-known Department of Agriculture program has supported 533,000+ affordable rental homes in rural America.

But it’s being phased out — and as loans expire, many of those homes are turning into market-rate housing.

https://theconversation.com/a-successful-usda-program-that-has-supported-more-than-533000-affordable-rental-homes-in-rural-america-is-getting-phased-out-273637

Every day I’m more convinced that the Fediverse’s slow mainstream adoption isn’t really about usability.

People say it’s because it’s hard to join, the terms are confusing, or the apps aren’t polished enough. Maybe a little. But honestly… look at the platforms people already use.

Finding anything on LinkedIn is painful.
Trying to locate the original video on TikTok is a scavenger hunt.
Facebook is still full of weird bugs and odd UI choices.
Instagram hides posts behind algorithms.
Twitter/X constantly changes the rules of engagement.

None of these platforms are exactly “easy.”

People stay because their friends are there. Because the big creators are there. Because that’s where the conversation already lives.

And, if we’re honest, because these platforms are engineered around a very effective reward loop: notifications, likes, infinite scroll. A dopamine machine. You learn the confusing terms and awkward interfaces because there’s a constant reward for doing so.

So yes, making the Fediverse easier to join absolutely helps.

But what would help even more is something simpler:
more mainstream, recognizable, official accounts showing up here.

That’s how networks grow.
People follow people not platforms.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.

Read more (and boost please!):

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/

#openclaw #AI #agentic #aiagents #lethaltrifecta

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/