rainy

I'm going to sneakily switch out your candle and see how long it takes you to notice

kiki's smtp open relay

me in 2050: doctor my nutritional gummy gave me covid 4
doctorbot (alpha) via ZMAIL ver 3: Kill you are self

obviously it's the second one

why do they always ask if I want salt on the rim or if I'm a little whiny bitch baby who wants sugar on the rim?

im sorry

i read this in a slavoj zizek voice

last three are turkey tail (trametes versicolor)! First one is maybeeee a young oak bracket (inonotus dryadeus) but my shelf fungi ID skills are poor so who knows

not holding my breath for the "dont be evil" company doing the right thing here

Doll would really love it if everyone got chainlink to the required levels so doll could quallify to get this. github.com/dollspace-ga...

the more i use/test AI, the more i'm getting worried about what's gonna happen to the economy (& thus society) as a result of labor disruption...

4 years ago i wasn't worried in the slightest
12 months ago i was like hmmmmmmm
3 months ago was *nervous laughter*
today is "yeah, we're in trouble"

I loved when tank guy stood in Tianenmen Square and said "our models aren't reliable enough to kill people on their own yet but we've offered to help get them there"

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

oh sorry, i thought you said "WebCssembly"

funny to think about a far future where anthropic is a large, mature, boring public company and its founders' belief in the imminent machine god is a bit of funny trivia like wk kellogg believing bran stopped masturbation

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

many are saying this

it's actually completely normal for a 33 year old woman to cry about a stuffed animal

Slavic polycule made of U-hauling trans lesbians... Russian nesting dolls

YouTube video by The Maybe Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026

> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip

> a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it — it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on

one of our cats is such a weird lil freak that the vet once insisted on testing her pee for drugs and when it came back negative for everything the vet was so surprised. like idk what to tell you, she's just like that.

there's a lot to criticize about LLMs and the companies that make them, but claiming they aren't good at anything just seems willfully disingenuous

at this point if people are in the "lol LLMs are wrong about everything and don't do anything useful" camp, I'm just assuming they haven't actually used any frontier model from the past 3 months

Do not put googly eyes on the table saw should be common sense and yet.

hey @hexbabey.bsky.social have you heard of metal gear?

I can respect leaking military secrets to win a forum argument but to do it for profit is just unseemly.

more cutscenes please konami

they should make a Silent Hill you can play one-handed so my boyfriend can still pet me

heartwarming! my stylist just told me i look really cute despite being so depressed!

often-misunderstood or just irrelevant?