Innovators became rent seekers and are very aggrieved that they’re no longer treated like innovators.
Sorry the public doesn’t see the world’s biggest companies and richest people pushing enshittified, mediocre, or damaging products as plucky start-ups doing exciting things. But whose fault is that?
This is one of the scariest things about AI to me: if you replace all of your beginners, you have no experts.
Superscalers are devotees of the Wan Hu rocket chair school of design: who needs to understand how it works, just add more!
Every ship can be a submarine at least once
As a: user
I want to: not
My fingers holding up a folded piece of sticky tape with a dead mosquito inside it
A mosquito just tried to get me but I got it first and then I entombed it in sticky tape and will now bury it so that it survives for millions of years and future humans can bring back today’s humans and let them roam around a fenced park eating the tourists of the future.
Life finds a way.
There's a band from New Zealand called Shihad who already tried that
a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Also, if he was a female CEO, he would be in jail for fraud by now.
The first three presentations from our 2025 conference have been added to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpi...
Christopher Farmer: youtu.be/h3qQg9qjgSE
Elijah Kerry: youtu.be/dymHV5LGrY0
Fabiola De la Cueva: youtu.be/Y0RrgmLcCX0
Stay tuned - more to come.
I thought that adding more computer would fix the problems but now I just have different problems and less money.
modern screens are silent bc they’re ambush predators
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
No way that seven people could fall victim to groupthink , that’s never happened before
The original schematic drawing for the patent application of what would become the most common toilet paper holder. It depicts the roll of toilet paper used as having its roll over the top and not under from the back.
it feels good to be on the right side of history
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough."
— FDR, 1940
Could be worse, could be ‘no bears’
Urgent cheese recall across most of Australia - multiple stores - listeria issue.
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/urgent-recal...
Just gotta get through this week and then what? Another week to get through? And then let me guess, getting through more weeks? I know a scam when I see one
Dear young men,
I've been married to an amazing woman for nearly 23 years, now. Here is a list of things this person owes me:
1. Not a goddamn thing. Not food, not comfort, not sex.
I'm in a relationship, not a fucking lease. We give to each other out of love, respect, and joy.
Learn that.
Panel 1: A man in a green shirt says "I'm Mad!" to a man in a blue shirt Panel 2: "Here's a solution" says Blue, holding a folder Panel 3: "I don't want a solution" says Green, lighting the folder on fire Panel 4: "I want to be Mad", Green continues.
Panel 1: A dog holding a toy in its mouth says "Pls throw??" Panel 2: As a hand reaches for it, dog exclaims "NO TAKE!!" Panel 3: The dog continues: "ONLY THROW"
Panel 1: A pink blob man in the middle of a furnished room says "I want things to be different" Panel 2: He is shown wielding a baseball bat as smashed objects fly around him Panel 3: Standing amidst the smashed ruins of the room he says his common punchline: "oh no"
Text 33. All of politics in one comic
"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/
"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
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"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
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Automated systems to which we delegate life or death decisions need to have SO MUCH REDUNDANCY because the cost of getting it wrong is so high.
"Go fast and break things" attitudes are cute for code. Not cute for real life engineering.
GDevcon agenda is out 👉 gdevcon.com/presenters/
That's going to be a fantastic event, as usual. See you in September in Brighton!
And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea
Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
In the last few decades, we have detected thousands of planets outside of our solar system. They did not suddenly appear at the time we found them. No one calls it an "exoplanet epidemic." The planets were always there, just previously undiscovered. This is a tweet about autism.
I’m sorry are they seriously suggesting shearing mammoths?
