Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t3gv22/the_audio_industry_is_grappling_with_the_rise_of/

Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline. Employment among software developers aged 22–25 has plummeted nearly 20% since 2024, even as their older colleagues' headcount grows. The pattern repeats in other jobs with higher levels of AI exposure, like customer service. Meanwhile, firm surveys indicate executives expect this trend to accelerate, with planned headcount reductions outpacing recent cuts. Translation: The disruption is targeted and just beginning.

I posted this in one of the Sam Altman threads but I think it probably deserves its own post. There's some other interesting things in the report.

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t3bewe/anthropic_nears_15_billion_ai_joint_venture_with/

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/37035115

Hey people,

Thank you again for coming together and submitting songs to Lemmyvision, it's heartwarming to see different communities of the fediverse participate in sharing their musical interest.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/GxY0ze

Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, and cultures.

@Ategon@programming.dev took the time to create a playlist over at https://d2jam.com/c/lemmyvision-3 feel free to check it out!

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

• Vita - Merz Leck Eier
• Ecca Vandal - Bleach
• Boy Golden - Suffer
• Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk
• Elisapie - Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) [Hologramme Remix]
• Igorrr - Limbo
• Signes à L'Œil - Quand on arrive en ville (D. Balavoine, N. Workman)
• Hyphen - This Might Be It
• Cris03sora - Markhamia Castle
• Swerve Strickland - Hit Different
• Jamie Paige - Birdbrain (w/ OK Glass) feat. Kasane Teto
• HAYASii - Hunting Soul
• Mudrat - Bars

The form will be available until around the 11th of May, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you’ll have a lot of fun listening to the 13 songs submitted for this edition. Don’t hesitate if you have any question!

A group of 80 South Texas plaintiffs are suing Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, alleging its rocket testing caused “massive” sonic booms that damaged their houses repeatedly over a two-year period.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas Court on Thursday, accusing the company of gross negligence and trespassing for loud blasts caused by 11 rocket tests from April 2023 to October 2025. Because some of SpaceX’s tests involve 400-foot, two-stage rockets, with both stages capable of landing, tests sometimes subjected residents’ homes to multiple prolonged periods of damaging noise, according to the suit.

During the Starship rocket’s initial launch in 2023, the force of the 33-engine booster destroyed the launch pad and flung debris three quarters of a mile away, which the lawsuit said “violently illustrated” the rocket’s destructive power.

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t31dic/big_tech_cut_80000_jobs_and_blamed_ai_experts_say/

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t2xz7z/sam_altman_says_the_quiet_part_out_loud/

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La date importante pour nous et j'espère que ça parlera plutot du fediverse que de mastodon (loops,peertube, pixelfeed,lemmy, piefed,bookwyrm,funkwhale...) :)

mercredi 6 mai 2026 à 15h00

Table ronde, ouverte à la presse, sur le logiciel libre réunissant :

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• M. Pierre-Yves Gosset, coordinateur des services numériques de Framasoft
• M. Nicolas Vivant, fondateur de France Numérique libre, directeur de la stratégie et de la culture numériques de la commune d’Echirolles

Le dernier rapport de la délégation au renseignement révèle l’obsession des services pour vos messages privés, au mépris des risques pour tous les Français.

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Today's game is Ghost of Tsushima. It's been a minute since i got on. I wanted to get back to this though before i let this hit the dropped list like so many other things, or worse the "On Hold" List (looking at you Crushing run of The Last of Us Part II and Silent Hill f). So i got on and started going through the story.

Before i talk about that though i wanted to talk about the Haikus. A sort of calm opening to today if you will. I like this. I have very fond memories of tracking them down and doing them when i very first played the game. My favorite aspect of them is how personal they let you get. In a way there's something poetic in itself about how the options can permute into so many other options. And getting the headband with the description personalized to your Haiku is another wonderful touch i love.

Now for the mission that gave me trouble. I chose to use this picture of the sunset i got as it ended as i feel it perfectly encapsulates how i felt finishing the mission. Like it was the peaceful end of an otherwise hard day. I could not for the life of me sneak through the camp i was supposed too in order to get to the ruins.

What i ended up doing is Sniping a guy with the bow, then sprinting past everyone and praying for the best, which turned out to work in my favor. I hopped into the river bed and hugged the side until i reached the waterfall i needed too.

Speaking of water, i love this game's. It has pretty realistic water. Probably wouldn't drink most of it but it looks great. Like a solid 8/10.

I think the hard part of talking about video game water is it almost never looks good out of motions, and in today's age of TAA and all that other bullshit it kind of smears it out of motion (and in too a little) so it makes it hard to really capture what i'm talking about. But it's this kind of smooth flow that's really satisfying too look at.

Getting to play this again after having kind of taken a break has me feeling all kinds of invigorated, then again that could also be the music i have playing while working (Halo 3's One Final Effort, which would lend a lot of credence too that). Very much I've felt kind of confused on what games i want too show (i've got so many), so feeling this way is kind of refreshing.

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I can relate to the original meaning of this old term that means to be good citizen of the internet. Wikipedia says a “netizen” is someone who actively contributes to the development of the internet, not for personal gain or profit, but to make the internet a better place.

Les projets de panneaux photovoltaïques sur terres agricoles sont en plein boom. Peu aboutiront, révèle notre enquête. Cette ruée vers les terres pourrait s’avérer brève, et mettre en péril le reste de la filière solaire.

I recently discovered that some popular federated instances have been using LLM-assisted moderation tooling that evaluates whether someone has said something bannable. They do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of specific political ideology sentiment. Also identify any related political ideology tropes“. (The italic bits are where I've redacted the ideology they're seeking).

OpenAI’s LLM (they’re using GPT-5.3-mini) then responds with something like:

and so on, hundreds of comments.

I have not named the instances or people involved, to give them time to consider the results of this discussion, make any corrective changes they want and disclose their practices at their own pace and in their own way. I have also redacted the evidence to avoid personal attacks and dogpiling. Let’s focus on the system, not the individuals involved. Today these instances and people are using it and maybe we’re ok with that because it’s being used by groups we agree with but what if people we strongly disagree with used it on their instances tomorrow?

The use and existence of this tooling raises a lot of other questions too.

What are the risks? Fedi moderators are often unsupervised, untrained volunteers and these are powerful tools.

What safeguards do we need?

Would asking a LLM “please evaluate this person’s political opinions” give different results than “find evidence we can use to ban them” (as used in the cases I’ve seen)?

What are our transparency expectations?

Is this acceptable and normal?

Should this tooling be disclosed? (it was not – should it have been?)

If you were given a choice, would you have opted out of it?

Can we opt out?

Are there GDPR implications? Privacy implications? Should these tools be described in a privacy policy?

Are private messages being scanned and sent to OpenAI?

How long should these assessments be retained and can we request to see it, or ask for it to be deleted?

Once the user’s comments are sent to OpenAI, is it used to train their models?

What will the effect be on our discourse and culture if people know they are being politically profiled?

Where are the lines between normal moderation assistance tools, political profiling and opaque 3rd-party data processing?

I hope that by chewing over these questions we can begin to establish some norms and expectations around this technology. The fediverse doesn’t have any centralized enforcement so we need discussions like this to develop an awareness of what people want in terms of disclosure, privacy, consent and acceptable use. Then people can make choices about which instances they join and which ones they interact with remotely.

And of course there are the other issues with LLMs relating to environmental sustainability, erosion of worker’s rights, increasing the cost of living and on and on. I can’t see PieFed adding any functionality like this anytime soon. But it’s happening out there anyway so now we need to talk about it.

What do you make of this?