Where they get absolutely roasted for their stance on AI 😄

Apparently, my daughter was given an assignment to use generative #AI to create a poster / cover for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in her English class. She took offense to this and asked if she could just do the assignment by hand or digitally using one of her #art apps. She was told no. So, my daughter decided to take a stand and not do the assignment. We support her decision completely. Asking someone who lives for creating her own art to use AI and refusing to accept anything else is inexcusable.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35270153

@onan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoindy1vtc

this is painful to look at

why would someone add more blue light to literally the entire page

content warnings are still gray though

whoa, just refreshed my mastodon instance and it's blue now

Management will now proceed to bankrupt the company out of spite.

We are social animals. When the herd exhibits general acceptance it triggers something in our brains to do the same. It is why billionaires are funding data centers to flood social media with the opinions and leans they want the public to have.

I can’t remember the researcher name, but among the many studies on this topic there have been a swath done in public waiting rooms with confederates (the name given to actors working for researchers). This is a reproduced experiment.

Waiting room. Smoke starts to trickle out of the ventilation system. How long til someone leaves? Turns out, it’s more likely for the room to clear faster if the confederate gets up sooner and leaves. Then the standard cascade effect happens as the herd takes the hint and everyone leaves. In some cases, it gets to the point where the room becomes hazy and people don’t leave til the confederate initiates.

None of life is a single variable scenario, but it’s worth digging into the variables known to influence us as people.

Learned helplessness is another item I believe is more relevant today than at the time of the now illegal, though famous, experiments performed on dogs.

That’s the neat part: you don’t! You need to work a lot and barely survive so rich people can get richer and have more power and status, silly.

Detailed Fediverse statistics

Found this the other day.

@foone I'm just gonna assume this is about my shitty APIs because having someone publish a review about the spy cards online test suite zip file generator is pretty funny

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, rated 9.2. Their CVE numbers leaked a day before the fix, and some governments took their own sites offline rather than run unpatched. Two weeks of PHP Internals in one episode.

This Week in PHP Internals, October 22, 2026: two weeks, 18 stories, about 23 minutes.
https://youtu.be/4ze2Re_-gMQ

#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

The system is built on eternal growth. Slowing down is not an option.

Looks like our servers are on the fritz again. Usually we aren’t out of commission for too long. Hopefully we are back soon.

Adding stuff to my gopher hole, to update in a bit.

Oh, I wanna put my retrocomputing stuff there.

Now I've spent the last hour fixing my Atari 8-bit disks so they don't have junk on them.

I feel ya, Bryan Cranston.

@TerryHancock @ifixcoinops It's worth learning at least enough of it to've built a simple and basic webbed site just to say you've poked at it.

You don't have to change camps and swear loyalty to php. Just give it a poke and see what it feels like under your own paws. :)

@PetterOfCats I’ve seen them floating around. Also the “4” issue is separate from the #php issue. 🙂

@johnhattan HAHA! I thought a sloth would just sink...who would have known they could actually dome some swimming!?

I could never win, ANY JEOPARDY, not even Jeopardy for retards....i'm even stupider than that - but i can point out Australia on a map