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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

When devs spend $200 on a Claude plan, they consume about $5,000 in compute. That is right. It is heavy subsidization by Anthropic. Remember Google/Amazon/Nvidia/ Microsoft & others are funding Anthropic and they are buying back cloud services and GPUs from the same vendors. On the books, it seems Google, Amazon and Nvidia are all making profits via AI, but the reality is this is just circulating money with heavy subsidization hoping to trap retail, pension funds, Govt funds via IPO route.

And nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social

Somebody is going to ask the source for $200 & $5000 numbers etc, it is here

https://www.briefs.co/news/ube...t-on-claude-code-in-four-months/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...-to-war-for-ai-coding-dominance/ (numbers are here [ https://archive.is/MRdRN paywal free link ] )

Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report

As of Dec. 2, USCIS is halting all applications for immigrants from the 19 countries the Trump administration has deemed high-risk

Via

Trying to understand how people use SharePoint, which leads to lots of videos about Copilot in Microsoft products, and...

There appear to be a lot of people who think that clicking "summarize and draft a response" is going to be a valuable business contribution.

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds

A third of children in the UK have bypassed age verification gates, research from Internet Matters suggests

Internet Matters Online Safety Act Report May 2026 (PDF):

Mum of boy, 12 "I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old."

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Hey, someone else is seeing the animism! Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ @munin@infosec.exchange

So, something that's been bugging the shit out of me?

These fucking assholes who let LLMs run rampant and delete prod?

They query the LLM for "why" it did that.

This is delusional behavior.

LLMs do not have a concept of 'why': they assemble a response based on a statistical sampling of likely continuations of the original prompt in their database.

LLMs do not have the ability to have motivation. It is a machine.

LLMs, further, function by instantiating a new runtime -for each query- that reads the prompt and any cache, if they exist, from prior sessions:

which means, fundamentally, "asking" the LLM to explain "why" "it" did a thing is thrice-divorced from reality:

It cannot have a why;
It cannot have a self to have motivations;
And the LLM you ask is not the one that did it, but is a new instance reading from its predecessors notes.

Treating it as tho it is an entity with continuity of existence is fucking delusional and I am fucking sick of pandering to this horseshit.

Touch some grass and get a fucking therapist.

(I thought I'd mentioned it more, but at least here)

Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ @mariatta@fosstodon.org

That should be my next motto after "no spreadsheets".
"No copy pasting". Especially for data that is always changing. My calendar, my availability, conference budget. Share data straight from the source instead of copy pasting from one sheet to another.

Which, of course, also needs an update mechanism

Lina @lina@neuromatch.social

anybody got any anti-"ai" or luddite songs to share? I'd love to get a playlist going

boosts welcome

All of this: monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 @monkeyborg@triangletoot.party

All those people saying “I was skeptical of AI, until I tried Claude and I was amazed that it could tell me this and this and this” sound just like

“I was skeptical of psychics, but then Madame Fortuna told me something only my dead wife would know!”

Human perception has certain well-documented flaws that confidence men prey upon, and you are not immune from these

And yet it feels like there's something in code generation, as dangerous as it is.

Python By Night: North Bay Python 2026 Recap

Cramming AI into every orifice: ZD Net: Is Facebook adding Gen Z phrases to your shared posts? You're not alone, bestie. Here's what's happening.

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Okay, Google Intelligence, I kinda get how you got there, but, uh, no.

Lots of stuff I'm struggling with in this, and I need to rewatch it:

North Bay Python: "What is Correct?" and is that even the right question any more? - Christopher Neugebauer - 2026 (YouTube video)

KDE is turning 30 this year!

KDE contributor Farid inspired us to take on the “30 for 30” challenge: for our 30th birthday, we are asking you to do something to help the environment and make the planet a nicer place to live in. Farid is planting 30 trees and we want you to come up with something similar.

Film you and your crew carrying out your effort and we will promote your project on social media.

Here are some more ideas:

• Rescue 30 computers (or more!) from ending up in a landfill
• Upcycle 30 phones with a free mobile operating system
• Clean up 30 hectares of woodland
• Convert 30 people to a free operating system
• Take 30 techbros to court so they stop building AI datacenters

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dave @dthompson@toot.cat

all this talk about tokens this and tokens that. they turned my profession into chuck e cheese.

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the  2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI addiction, and that chatbot design could be partly to blame.

Via ResearchBuzz

Feminist Hacking: MaKING Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay

Via Tom's Hardware: Hacktivists share a guide on making working electronics PCBs made from natural clay with prehistoric technique — ethical hardware tutorial explains how to find clay, stamp 3D printed circuits, paint traces, and fire tablets

Via Calishat @researchbuzz

Lobste.rs this morning:

* Ghostty leaving github (comments) * Github banned me for no understandable reason (comments) * Before GitHub (comments) * From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo (comments) * Ditching GitHub (comments) * An update on GitHub availability (comments) * Github Actions is the weakest link (comments)

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Don't fucking trust pyschotherapy apps. Holy shit.

Via, MeFi thread.