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Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.

Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."

He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.

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

Wore these for eight years. I’d like to mend this hole, but (lol hole but). There are others forming, too. 😭

I fear it’s As The Heel Goes, So Goes The Sock.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mcc wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588

Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.

Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Maybe real AGI has been with us for a while. Maybe the real AGI has been humans combined with all the computers we've been using to solve problems with reliable, knowable algorithms that were otherwise intractable. That sounds like combining the strengths of humans with the strengths of machines. If we weren't so hung up on creating completely submissive servants, maybe we'd see it that way? 🤔

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

They're still lying, and still evil.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/04/dont-believe-tom-homan/

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ND3JR@social.coop ("Dave V. ND9JR") wrote:

Illinois has joined the WHO's global outbreak network, the second state to do so after California did it last month. https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-joins-who-global-outbreak-network-after-u-s-withdraws/

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

Someone should write a book about how technocrats use decorum, gossip, blackballing, and other social strings on the Social Web to silence the people calling them out for corrupt behavior.

I’d read that book.

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

I thought it was a leap year

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
qdot@buttplug.engineer wrote:

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Boosted by jwz:
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

It's been a year, indeed. We've launched the second, longer term project to address systemic problems in this country. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?

With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?

And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??

This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.

•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.

They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.

They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.

It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.

KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE

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Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/post/3me22mk5nvs2g

Boosted by jwz:
codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brettezeleliquide@h4.io wrote:

Dune Suisse : Shai-Hulud – le ver géant des neiges

la seule locomotive fraiseuse à neige à vapeur encore en fonction dans le monde ouvre la voie à la Bernina de Morteratsch à l’Alp Grüm
#snow #winter #train #Switzerland #tech #scifi #movie

Attachments:

• video: Suisse : la seule locomotive fraiseuse à neige à vapeur encore en fonction dans le monde

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
resl@mas.to ("Rachel E. S. Lösche") wrote:

There is an ethical co-op (https://www.ourspaceworld.org/) looking to hire a grant writer, in case any of you Fedi writers are interested: http://bit.ly/grantwriterposition

Please boost for visiibility #getFediHired #job #cooperative #work #writer #grant #HelpWanted

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
slint@fosstodon.org ("Slint") wrote:

🎉 Slint 1.15 is out!

This release brings dynamic GridLayout (with for loops), two-way bindings on struct fields, Python type hints via slint-compiler, and improved iOS/Android support (safe area + virtual keyboard areas).

📝 Blog post: https://slint.dev/blog/slint-1.15-released

#Slint #rustlang #python #cpp

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DebErupts/116012905414850190

Some might scoff and say "So what, he won't hand them over."

The point is to apply constant pressure, use his resources, and live rent free in his head.

On ICE watch we're a bunch of cat ladies and retirees with phones. It's incredible how much energy and time they waste on us when they could be attacking our neighbors.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“My Boss Vibe-Coded a Full Product and I’m Paying the Price : r/vibecoding”

https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1quywj5/my%5Fboss%5Fvibecoded%5Fa%5Ffull%5Fproduct%5Fand%5Fim%5Fpaying/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

NeatStats is coming along nicely! Still plenty of work to do, but the basics are now in place for different metrics.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

If you're not a programmer—"lines of code written" is a completely absurd metric to measure productivity for software development.

It's like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Vampirella's costume was already too skimpy to be practical, and now I learn that Frank Frazetta revised it to be far more revealing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/04/im-too-old-for-a-naked-vampirella-now/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Dayum. NY Gov’s office with a head shot.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have been struggling with building a framework for understanding this historical moment, and the concept of "Neo-Royalism" helps a lot:

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2026/01/07/the-political-theory-that-explains-trumps-global-power-plays-00715342

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com ("jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This is why we pull our data and services from the US back into the EU.

Not for trade protectionism but for self-protection.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Ken Thompson, born on. this date in 1943... you changed everything

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/message-to-the-messengers/311272791?i=311272867

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Independence Commemoration Day in Sri Lanka