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@stux haha "before the CEO – my dad – promoted me".

China plans to roll out broad AI safety standards covering development through deployment, targeting domestic AI model makers, after global security incidents (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-03/china-plans-broad-ai-guardrails-after-global-security-lapses
http://www.techmeme.com/261103/p8#a261103p8

@cwebber Since this is the demoscene, having a competition track that is explicitly slop-free should be the easiest thing, no? Or are they not even interested in doing that?

i can disassemble whole toilet now ☺️

@dioneira ich war ja erst ein wenig skeptisch wegen der neuen Sprecherin. Jede Angst ist aber mit den ersten Sätzen komplett verflogen 🤓

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RE: https://pixelfed.social/p/supapp/620715090734016030

Sup isn't a new project. It's a project whose time has finally come.

MICROSOFT WORD

1 INCH MARGINS

12 PT TIMES NEW ROMAN

FIT AN ENTIRE SPREADSHEET IN THIS .DOCX

WONKY APPLICATION PORTALS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY WERE LAST UPDATED IN 2002

“TAKE A SCREENSHOT IN CASE YOUR APPLICATION IS CONSUMED BY THE VOID”

YES, I DO WANT SEVERAL MILLION OF WHATEVER CURRENCY TO BYPASS THIS ENTIRE CIRCUS

@davidgerard

I agree.

(a) I'm in the UK
(b) There's no elections today
(c) The democrats aren't even running here

but more importantly

(d) it's cold and wet and windy and I don't want to go outside

INVITATION ONLY GRANTS

REVIEW BOARDS WHO CLEARLY DIDN’T READ THE APPLICATION

THIRTY PAGE QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR A $5,000 GRANT

WHINGING ABOUT OVERHEAD

SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR BETWEEN APPLICATION AND FUNDING

PAGE LIMITS

WORD LIMITS

“DESCRIBE A THREE YEAR PROJECT WITH GOALS, OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES, AND SUCCESS METRICS. YOU HAVE 500 CHARACTERS FOR ALL OF THIS”

OF COURSE I DREAM OF WINNING THE LOTTERY, ASSHOLES

If you work for an NGO, the closest you get to employer-provided healthcare is the soggy “roasted Mediterranean vegetable and hummus wrap” at a think tank event.

OF COURSE WE DREAM OF A PILE OF CASH APPEARING OUT OF THE ETHER

@Kahte 😎🤗

@llamasoft_ox @jedeyesniv Touchscreen and portrait went better than I could have hoped!

@tante

I switch to Tidal during the whole Joe Rogan thing back in 2023 and their algorithm only took a few weeks to catch up and I didn’t bother migrating anything.

Mastodon is a place where someone who helped reform how digital security is taught to journalists can be told that posting about hypothetical situations prevents someone from taking action.

Hey reply guys? Maybe know who the hell you are speaking to.

@futurebird @jpm @davidgerard

you can't prove that

@bekopharm yessss genau so nämlich!🥰🥰🥰