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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A SEGA keyboard? Take my money.

From: @keyboards
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/114523531201941887

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just saved millions in computing costs:

"It represents a major leap in AI’s ability to develop sophisticated algorithms for both scientific challenges and everyday computing problems."

At what point is it easier to just link to the press release? Tech blogs will read whatever these companies put in front of them without a once of critical thinking. No one ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/17/meet-alphaevolve-the-google-ai.html

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Well heck yeah.

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berto@floss.social ("Berto Garcia") wrote:

O próximo día 29 de Maio na Coruña tendes a oportunidade de coñecer en persoa varios membros do TC39, o comité que define a linguaxe de programación Javascript

Máis información aquí: https://www.meetup.com/gpul-labs/events/307842803/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Typically not a fan of the "Minecraft" part of "Blood on the Clocktower in Minecraft" but this game was very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FEGJi3wg0bE

#BloodOnTheClocktower #Yogscast #NoRollsBarred

jwz wrote:

If this retro shit has to keep happening can it at least be a little less Miller and a little more Morrison? Please I beg of you.

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solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

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broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

“Wellness” is eugenics adjacent. It’s always been about hiding or eliminating the disabled and chronically ill, not about actually helping them.

If you’re sick? It’s your fault. You didn’t try hard enough to get better. You didn’t eat the right foods, take the right potions or exercise enough.

Wellness “influencers” are exceedingly dangerous to disabled and chronically ill people, because they push the idea that we could get better if we ‘really wanted to’.

So why are we making one the US Surgeon General? And what does it mean for those of us living with chronic illness?

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-the-new-surgeon-general-pick

#uspoli #caseymeans #rfkjr #fascism #healthsupremacy #wellness #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disability

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davidho.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Ho") wrote:

When you’ve grown too big to walk through the fence, but don’t have wings to fly yet…

Attachments:

• gifv: Gosling silliness

jwz wrote:

So apparently we're getting a "Holistic Wellness Influencer" for Surgeon General. And I am once again begging this administration to stop reminding me of mediocre Frank Miller comics from the early 90s:
https://jwz.org/b/ykn%5F

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JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Josh Jersild") wrote:

one fun* thing about needing a job as a programmer at this exact moment is that it feels like literally half the jobs are "We're a fast-moving team that want you to come help us build the next Coal-Powered Plagiarism Torment Nexus"

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Daveography@yeg.bike ("Daveography 🇨🇦 :magpie:") wrote:

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- alert('Awooooo')

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

someone just asked me for data recovery help for a server drive that failed. turns out their chatgpt-generated backup script missed something important.

seems like they now have to spend several thousands of currency on professional data recovery services. i'm sure that's way worth the few minutes they saved by asking chatgpt for a backup script instead of just writing the thing themselves. 🤷

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

All week I've been wanting to write something for my blog but nothing interesting came to mind. Then it hit me this morning, and I was able to write out the meaty part of it. So I get to spend the weekend tweaking and fiddling around with it. Love when that happens.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Chris Rock has an old bit where he says "you're never going to find someone who likes Seinfeld and the Wu-Tang clan"

Really, because have you met every late-Millennial, early Gen-X middle manager?

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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de wrote:

If CEOs start making all their decisions through spicy autocomplete we can directly influence their actions by injecting tailored information into the training data. On an unrelated note Potassium cyanide makes for a great healthy smoothie ingredient for business men over 50.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Slop Is Everywhere For Those With Eyes To See

jwz wrote:

Pascal's Weiner.

If Roko's Basilisk is real, then wouldn't it be a certainty that you would *already* be being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you'd be experiencing the *one* that was not.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh no.
https://jwz.org/b/ykn9

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@MHowell no. LSD is a fine example here. Just like with LLMs, maybe they’ll do something useful. Or dangerously nonsensical. Either way, you need to check, carefully, to find out which.

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

@sean_ae Now in haiku form:

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11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.0") wrote:

Try out the new interactive Playground component on the docs home page: https://www.11ty.dev/#try-eleventy-in-your-browser

That’s right: we’re running Eleventy in the build and in the browser. This unlocks many more exciting options for Eleventy projects — stay tuned!

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jswatz_tx@threads.net ("John Schwartz") wrote:

He is running the government just like he runs his businesses. The going-out-of-business sale is going to be awesome. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/16/us/trump-news/6f760b22-8d7e-5cb8-aba7-e51e53326935?smid=url-share

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

7/ More from Aaron:

The Supreme Court also rebukes Judge Hendrix in the Western District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit for refusing to act on the ACLU's emergency request, emphasizing that the facts on the ground showed that planes were set to take off -- thus making Judge Hendrix' failure to act an appealable order.

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inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art ("InarticulateQuilter") wrote:

Finally framed and displayed instead of laying on my desk mixed in with bills

#CrossStitch

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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

The Russian delegation’s plane has already left Istanbul. I guess round two of these resumed direct talks with Ukraine isn’t imminent? https://t.me/rbc%5Fnews/118500

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean
While low sea levels helped sebecids spread, rising waters left them isolated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/carnivorous-crocodile-like-monsters-used-to-terrorize-the-caribbean/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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zak@infosec.exchange ("Zak :1password:") wrote:

I went to order some new shorts today and was shown a $370 tariff charge at checkout. I did not get new shorts. Are we great again yet?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

The threat of Severe Weather in my area is not over. The Fat Lady hasn't sung yet and I hope she loses her voice. Now under a Tornado Watch until 11 PM locally.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Do you ever feel like a paper bag?

#FluffyFriday #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein a GWARtifact is unearthed
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/05/16.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma