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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Proper Torment Nexus this one, wasn't this a plot point of one of those Nolan Batman movies?</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/07/22/who</span><span class="invisible">fi_wifi_identifier/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Opsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opsec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WiFi</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>"Microsoft is pleased to announce that it will be releasing The Torment Nexus under the MIT license. This goes along with their commitment to fostering excellence in Open Source crimes against humanity..."</p><p>More fever-dream "fake" headlines at 11...</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/tormentnexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/thestateoffoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheStateofFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a></p>
GarretSidzaka<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tormentnexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tormentnexus</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
Aubreader Masto<p>I Built The Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition)</p><p><a href="https://www.jamesrball.com/p/i-built-the-torment-nexus-political" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jamesrball.com/p/i-built-the-t</span><span class="invisible">orment-nexus-political</span></a></p><p>Six years ago cartoonist Zach Weinersmith made a joke about a 24/7 AI podcast endlessly talking about polling numbers. I've made it a reality.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Not A Dropbear<p>Today in Torment Nexus™: In Vernor Vinge's 2006 SF novel _Rainbows End_, a library is destructively scanned into digital form. In the novel, people are upset about this. 2024 techbros:<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant</span><span class="invisible">hropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷<p>Mit der <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BVG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BVG</span></a> kann man jetzt nicht mehr ohne einen extrem lästigen und zähen Chatbot Kontakt aufnehmen.</p><p>Das sollte eine Seite mit Kontaktmöglichkeiten zu bestimmten Anliegen sein, im schlimmsten Fall halt eine Baumstruktur.</p><p>Aber nein, man verbrennt KI Tokens. Einfach alles anzünden, wirklich alles.</p><p>Aber am Ende wird man ja noch gefragt, wie man es fand (da darf man dann aber nicht mehr erklären wieso).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ai6yr</span></a></span> lol, will they please switch the Torment Nexus off. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>We are at the "To The Galaxy In Five Years" stage of the AI Hype Train.</p><p> That thing about "I thought Elon/ChatGPT was a genius until they/it talked about something I know about" <br>Trust me, we are not 'going to the Galaxy by 2030', if it weren't for the Chinese we'd actually be regressing from the Galaxy. It's a hustle, it's all a fucking hustle and they're ripping off Science Fiction to sell it. </p><p>Everybody is right to mock him</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a></p>
Jason William Karpf<p>Sci-fi writer Charles Stross' dark take on Silicon Valley 'religion'</p><p>I teach that scripture and sci-fi share the lesson: playing God leads to trouble. Tech worship a Torment Nexus, a cautionary fiction made real by people who miss the point.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>books</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/religion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>religion</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianSciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianSciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProfessorK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProfessorK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwritingsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwritingsf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secretscifinetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>secretscifinetwork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apple.news/Aly3QAaYuS8Oyylo2vLXlvQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.news/Aly3QAaYuS8Oyylo2vL</span><span class="invisible">XlvQ</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>The lesson here is to never show your face in public, until we get some fucking rights over this nightmare! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMirror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMirror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
anilmc<p>Isn’t that oneness implacable? <br>Aren’t the boundaries integral?<br>It’s not wrong – just not that practical – cos resistance is central<br>and down here in the pit <br>besplattered infinite potential <br>doesn’t really give me peace <br>to quell the chat just stills my pencil<br>much as it mulch me I must move multiplicitly<br>mouth make moist <br>spray voice <br>full to brim <br>It seems even if it’s a choice <br>veil of woe is me<br>I can’t buy sterility cultishly<br>Plenty problem with uncertainty certainly<br>Many of them probably due to me personally<br>All my concerns could be cured with a cursory<br>Self ain’t real and it’s all just the surface tea<br>You know<br>Naam Myoho Renge Kyo<br>But yo<br>My yard still ramshackle<br>Man still poor<br>Hand still sore <br>Mind still delicate<br>Head can’t get up cos the shit comes break a neck<br>Wreck a reckoning<br>No help is coming<br>So I can retreat to the space stay shut in<br>Release the ceaseless things that try butt in<br>prana and humming and I’ve still done nothing<br>how you meant to manage if you don’t detangle<br>if dissipation is the only angle <br>no indication what’s best to handle <br>just vibes based random notions of demand <br>that bear no explicable relation to the famble<br>there’s nowt grand for mans who don’t plan, understand?<br>How you have detachment with a kid? You dig?<br>You might release your image of yourself – you think she did?<br>You can make your peace with what is – and that’s big<br>but you can’t ujai away the dishstacked sink<br>presence ain’t birthday presents or events<br>flow don’t slow just grows incessant<br>I can count my blessings but she count evidence<br>living in the now sets an awful precedent<br>for torpor and more to the point my wife<br>deserves names and things and plans in her life </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bars</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/songs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>songs</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/lyrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lyrics</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nonduality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonduality</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/advaita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>advaita</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/tantra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tantra</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/tormentnexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tormentnexus</span></a></p>
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷<p>I see this going great. (Not.)</p><p>Yes, give the LLM direct access to your operational environment — and make no mistake, "on behalf of and with approval of the user" means they're not liable, *you* are.</p><p>And it can even automatically feed into the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copilot</span></a> slop and create more load for developers on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurepaasblog/introducing-azure-sre-agent/4414569" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl</span><span class="invisible">og/azurepaasblog/introducing-azure-sre-agent/4414569</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Azure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Jon Sterling<p>By the way, mainstream PL researchers today are hard at work reproducing Java's Checked Exception Hell, but for effects...</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Peter Drake<p>China: "What if we combined The Terminator with an even grimmer piece of science fiction, then actually built it?"</p><p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3310506/china-launches-satellites-start-building-worlds-first-supercomputer-orbit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scmp.com/news/china/science/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/3310506/china-launches-satellites-start-building-worlds-first-supercomputer-orbit</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/skynet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skynet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThreeBodyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeBodyProblem</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
David Penfold :verified:<p>Just putting the original <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> tweet image here so I can tap the sign as required.</p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>How long before we get <em>The Running Man</em> in real life?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a></p>
Maypop the Dragon<p>NOBODY WANTS <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> JUST GIVE UP ALREADY</p><p><a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/vent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vent</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/shitpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shitpost</span></a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/tags/tormentnexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tormentnexus</span></a></p>
Colin Warren<p>Today in <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> news:<br><a href="https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/17/today-in-i-literally-fcking-wrote-this/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/17</span><span class="invisible">/today-in-i-literally-fcking-wrote-this/</span></a></p>
Mark Whybird<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@junesim63" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>junesim63</span></a></span> Not a single mention of the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> meme!</p>
AI6YR Ben<p>The Guardian: The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?</p><p>Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/apocalpyse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apocalpyse</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/tormentnexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tormentnexus</span></a></p>