#aint — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aint, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh nice, #VimClassic is in the #OpenBSD repos! :D
$ doas pkg_add -Vv vim-classic Update candidates: quirks-7.194 -> quirks-7.194 (0/1) quirks-7.194 signed on 2026-07-17T22:48:25Z Ambiguous: choose package for vim-classic a 0: <None> 1: vim-classic-8.3.0 2: vim-classic-8.3.0-gtk3 3: vim-classic-8.3.0-gtk3-lua 4: vim-classic-8.3.0-gtk3-python3 5: vim-classic-8.3.0-lua 6: vim-classic-8.3.0-python3 Your choice: 1 -
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CW: "The Shining" meme, AI polemic
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Anubis is slop
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Up is down, left is right, good is bad, cats are dogs, what the flip are we even doing anymore?????
🤦♂️
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Currently compiling vim-classic-v8.3.0... #NoSlop #NoAI #AInt — #microblogging #MicroToot: 61 characters
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"In a recent essay, Derek Thompson engages with AI as Normal Technology (AINT). He agrees with our thesis about AI’s slow labor market impacts, relying on the fact that GDP growth has so far been average, unemployment is below five percent, and even jobs that seemed vulnerable to automation show rising employment and wages. He concludes that so far, the macroeconomic picture is consistent with what we would expect from a “normal” general-purpose technology.
But when it comes to AI risks, he is far more bearish. He points to examples of cyber- and bio-risks and expresses pessimism about AI quickly becoming dangerous across many new domains. (...) Thompson writes: "I can understand a plan to treat AI as a ‘normal’ technology and let Nvidia export powerful chips to China. And I can understand a plan to treat AI as an ‘abnormal’ technology that compels the government to create extraordinary regulations that prevent private companies from selling their products and services on the grounds that they’re too dangerous" [emphasis ours]. He goes on to conclude that AI is, in fact, abnormal, implying support for extraordinary government intervention. Our essay is a response to that conclusion.
In this essay, we lay out the downsides of extraordinary government intervention in response to new technology. We discuss proposals for improving resilience that do not require such intervention. We also discuss why governments have so far been reluctant to invest in resilience. In short, resilience requires us to get better at the *normal* process of policymaking. But sclerosis in the federal government and the ease of justifying interventions on AI companies rather than society at large make extraordinary intervention seem appealing, despite its limitations."
https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/do-ai-risks-require-extraordinary-government-intervention
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My 8.4 MiB website generated 7.74 GiB of traffic last month.
Flipping scrapers, man. :(
Here's what
access_loglooks like on another site I manage (I forgot to turn on theaccess_logon my blog until a few days ago, derp!) --$ cut -f2 -d'[' access_log |cut -f1 -d: |cut -f3 -d/ |uniq -c 756 2018 10161 2019 26136 2020 13109 2021 16337 2022 22359 2023 66684 2024 226341 2025 166441 2026(2026 projection is) --
echo "scale=0; 166441*(365/$(date +%j))" |bc -l 332882 -
New #blog #post: My Mirror is Surely Alive, by Dorkface Rickens
https://rldane.space/my-mirror-is-surely-alive.html
299 words
The ellipsis image at the end is not a hyperlink. Don't even look at the png filename as if it would be a clue to a URL. Stop that at once.
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
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"Do more with A.I.!!"
No, do less and be able to look your children in the face unashamed, you gormless flipping nerf-herders. 😭
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"The corporofascists are using The Torment Nexus against us, so we have to learn how to use The Torment Nexus really well to oppose them."
Sure, bro. Suuuure.
#AI #Slop #AInt #TheTormentNexus #OkBuddy #QuestionableLogic #NonSequitir
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That's helpful. Some more helpful posts from theo (direct links):
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411411600672&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411552501319&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411620801633&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411863202734&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411871802778&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411923203008&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177428102121988&w=2The gist of his argument is that LLM code cannot have copyright, and therefore cannot be included into OpenBSD. He makes no direct ethical argument, from what I've seen.
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South London Post-Punk Band Ain’t Release Expansive New Single “Long Short Round”
Photo by Marieke MacklonSouth London’s rising post-punk five-piece Ain’t release their stunning new single “Long Short Round,” recorded with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Yard Act). Spanning over six minutes, the song combines distorted shoegaze textures and melodic harmonies, marking the band’s most ambitious work yet. Ain’t continue their ascent as one of the UK’s most exciting new acts. “Long Short Round” captures their blend of 90s alternative edge and Midwest indie emotion, a sound equally nostalgic and forward-looking, cementing their growing reputation in the post-punk scene.
https://youtu.be/mBHrkkwYt1o?si=GOjCu-it79xhN9Vn
Live dates:
17 Oct – Cardiff, Swn Festival
23-25 Oct – Rotterdam, Left of the Dial
08 Nov – Brighton, Mutations Festival
13 Nov – London, The Victoria (The Great Escape First Fifty)
04 Dec – London, The Dome w/Sunflower Bean
11 Dec – Bristol, Strange Brew w/Sunflower Bean -
Long Short Round - Single par Ain't
https://album.link/fr/i/1840937368
#NowPlaying #Musique #Aint
