What is Hackers' Pub?

Ihr habt doch bestimmt auch schon mal minutenlang nach dem passenden emoticon gesucht, oder? ODER?

More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds

https://www.techspot.com/news/110735-over-21-youtube-now-ai-slop-report.html

#tech #technology #socialmedia #ai #artificialintelligence #aislop #YouTube

Calling it "AI slop" feels unfair until you realize it’s 9 different videos of a CGI Will Smith eating spaghetti, narrated by ElevenLabs Joe Rogan, ranked by a voice clone of David Attenborough.

YouTube is now a hallucination machine. 🍝🤖📺 #AI #YouTube #aislop

hamburg after dark vibes

There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

단 하루만에 X에서 사진이나 그림이 멋대로 AI수정된 사건을 몇 개나 봤는데
누군가가 무단수정 -> 원 저작자가 이래도 되는거냐면서 글을 씀 -> 같이 화내는 사람, 덩달아서 무단수정하는 사람, 인터넷에 올렸다면 공공재라고 잘난척하는 사람 온갖 사람 덕지덕지 붙어서 일론머스크 입장에서는 완전 트래픽 개꿀 호재인 기능이란 걸 깨달았어요.
이것 때문에 사람들이 화를 낼수록 그게 다 X에 수익으로 돌아가는 거네....

It’s different than I expected.
#catsofmastodon #picathecat #lego

途中だけどそろそろ寝ようね

2026년 나이 제가 정리해드릴게요 94년생-20세 95년생-20세 96년생-20세 97년생-20세 98년생-20세 99년생-20세 00년생-20세 01년생-20세 02년생-20세 03년생-20세

I wish you all an AIslop-free 2026

#NoAI

I just saw this image a couple of times on another site and it made me smile.

Alt text: A magnet with an image of a horse pulling an old-timey four-wheeled carriage, with reins in the hand of a man wearing a hat and sitting on the front carriage seat. Above the image are the words "Please be patient with me", and below it are the words "I'm from the 1900s".

It’s different than I expected.
#catsofmastodon #picathecat #lego

Yeah, this will take my job soon

To #ChatGPT:

"Is there a seahorse emoji?"

시나가와 TY8 가서 작업하고 막 집에 돌아왔습니다.

AISlop has ruined pet videos for me.

The one of the parrot at night asking Alexa to play party music.
The one of the cat jumping into the snow after birds.

They seem cute and funny until I get to the end and realise they're AI. And then I just feel like I've been scammed.

It feels more deceptive than a "based on true life" movie. Though I don't know why.

At any rate, no more clicking on pet videos.

Perhaps this is how YouTube dies. Perhaps that's for the best.

#AISlop #PetVideos

There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

"Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal im #Fediverse?"

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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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@EricLawton the part of the article that scared the shit out of me is that people are actually asking LLMs for legal advice OMFG

Using AI in court? Yikes. 😬

"In one notable case, a Toronto lawyer is facing a criminal contempt of court proceeding after including cases invented by ChatGPT in her submissions earlier this year, then denying it when questioned by the presiding judge. In a letter to the court months later, the lawyer said she misrepresented what happened out of "fear of the potential consequences & sheer embarrassment."" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/increasing-ai-use-canadian-courtrooms-carries-risk-9.7031131

Yeah, this will take my job soon

To #ChatGPT:

"Is there a seahorse emoji?"

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115745770152711683

As a consequence of the situation I described in this blog post (most of the existing blogs in my feed reader turning to either "AI" boosterism, becoming outright bad writing, ignorant, or all of the above) I'm slowly going through my feed reader and unsubscribing from hundreds of blogs.

This is delayed by the fact that NetNewsWire has very quickly become incredibly buggy. Unsubscribing is incredibly laggy and often removes the WRONG feed for some reason.

🐇

Our Call for Proposals is closing soon! Send your proposal now! https://pycon.it/call-for-proposals 🐍

#PyConIT

And EVERYONE ALT-TEXTED!!!! Love you all fedi folk.

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet.

One of our top stories this year. Happie holidays <3 https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

I'd really like to know what #FOMO is like.

Feels like I'm missing out on something there.

Even if you speak the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.

ブラウザからGoogleアカウントがログアウトされたときに言われるまま再ログインするとデフォルトのアカウントが変化して面倒なことになって全部ログアウトして順番を考えながら再ログインしなおすことになる。めんどー

AISlop has ruined pet videos for me.

The one of the parrot at night asking Alexa to play party music.
The one of the cat jumping into the snow after birds.

They seem cute and funny until I get to the end and realise they're AI. And then I just feel like I've been scammed.

It feels more deceptive than a "based on true life" movie. Though I don't know why.

At any rate, no more clicking on pet videos.

Perhaps this is how YouTube dies. Perhaps that's for the best.

#AISlop #PetVideos

Bye bye 2025. Bye #39c3 and thanks for the good time #ccchoir

Cu all in 2026 <3

Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.

Work slowly.

@khaleesicodeskhaleesi (Elina Eickstädt) wer hatte "Apotheken-Umschau reiht sich bei den stabilen Medien ein und bildet einen Eckpfeiler der Kommunikationsstrategie des CCC" auf der 2025 Bingokarte?

파란 뱀이 지나 붉은 말의 해라니 태극문양처럼 순환하는 느낌이에요! 작년처럼 그저 영차영차 가봅시다. 다들 새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/hull-096-worlds-largest-electric-ship-battery-power-launched
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452937

Implementing HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) Vector Search in PHP

Link: https://centamori.com/index.php?slug=hierarchical-navigable-small-world-hnsw-php&lang=en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454968

Happy new year all! Finished off my skull shawl…

Australia is a magic land where there's a computer called the "Dick Smith Wizzard". And I think that's beautiful

'Weil es an einer politischen Opposition zu dem Projekt fehlt, habe es an der Zivilgesellschaft gelegen, Widerstand zu organisieren. Zahlreiche Nichtregierungsorganisationen hätten sich zusammengeschlossen, um in Sozialen Medien gegen den ID-Zwang mobil zu machen.

Insbesondere die junge Generation sei auf die Kampagne angesprungen. „Sie hatten das Gefühl, dass sie in ein System gezwungen werden, bei dem nicht Menschen, sondern Unterdrückung im Mittelpunkt stehen.“ Die Antwort darauf war radikale Verweigerung: Als die Regierung damit gedroht habe, nicht-registrierte Menschen des Landes zu verweisen, trendete der Hashtag #deportme, also „schiebt mich ab“. Zum Schlachtruf der Bewegung wurde der Slang-Begriff „Hatupangwingwi“, das in etwa „Wir lassen uns nichts vorschreiben“ bedeutet. '

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/huduma-namba-wie-kenias-zivilgesellschaft-die-totalerfassung-der-bevoelkerung-bekaempfte/

#Kenia #Africa #Überwachung #Datenschutz #Privacy #Protest

Is there a #TextMeme encyclopedia / archive?

e.g. "It's only X if it's from the region of Y in Z, otherwise it's just sparkling A"

with examples, and fuzzy constraints on X, Y, Z and A

An instrument will allow people to hear and see each other over long distances

What was the "$9 fine" that #ZohranMamdani paid at his midnight swearing in in the #NewYork subway station? Who did he pay it to? I assume it's a token #fine of some kind. I would like to know the back-story. Here's a video of it: https://youtu.be/CZc8ONfUuMg?t=128 #NYC

deepest #39C3 sticker

Happy New Year!! Just a few of my favorite works from 2025