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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

"We're in Hell... and there's a crucifix."

RE: https://www.threads.com/@capitalstitchco/post/DVygxZBkSNE

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jimkennedy@mas.to wrote:

@fromjason I'm pretty sure we see RFS on a plane (or second row in a meeting?) just once. I think this is he.

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alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

So AGENTS.md is just the human-readable documentation the AI dudebros have been refusing to include in README.md until now, because they claim that the code is "self documenting" and everyone else must be stupid if they can't figure things out.

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sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

Although I believe companies will have to dial down the claims that ai replaces their workers, I think it's important not to expect that to happen on the basis of productivity.

I say this because we already have a track record of productivity and other supposed indicators of business success being sacrificed in favour of control.

The cost of employee attrition, the endless studies showing how remote work and shorter working hours make people more effective etc.

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soph@grrl.me ("Sophia J. Turner") wrote:

For folks interested, I've got a growing list of resources over on the other site about the costs and drawbacks of AI in a variety of contexts:
https://bsky.app/profile/sophiajt.com/post/3lyh4fd5tpc2r

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Ok I must focus on work now. I'll be back.

Spoilers: a good short on how Successon's
ending was foreshadowed.

I fear I don't know enough about the Roman Empire to truly appreciate the Nero and Sporus reference but I thought it was great nonetheless. Makes me want to learn more history.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Uk%5FgbXXZQ1k

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Sam (Rat Fucker)

Sam is a shadowy, minor character in the Succession Universe. You may not even remember him because I think they only show him once for a brief moment (if that)

But, Sam represents surveillance capitalism, and it's weaponization by the rich. He's the guy in the background that can dig up data on anyone. He's mentioned several times by other characters but you never actually see him.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Did you know that #arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and #Typst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZlAbCOjd8

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I want to back up for a sec with Marcia Roy, after some more thought.

There is this anti-Semitic narrative that Jewish Americans have dual allegiance.

But to be clear, I don't think that's what this is. For one, Marcia is non-Jewish Lebanese, and her American citizenship is unclear.

To further solidify that Marcia was hinted as being a spy for the Israeli military, the person she is based on, Wendi Murdoch, is also suspected as being a spy!

It all works too well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-warned-that-his-friend-wendi-deng-murdoch-may-be-a-chinese-spy-2018-1

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

apply again in 6 months

i won't.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

@fromjason i love that you're doing this. thank you.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

@fromjason JFC another casting coup: this is Ferris Bueller’s friend. brilliant!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The less-than-subtle Sandy-to-Sandy transfer of power is a commentary on "girlboss" feminism. Sandy Jr. was able to immediately fix an injustice by giving herself a board seat that dad may've never given her.

But fundamentally, nothing changes. Sandy's company is still a parasitic force in the US economy. It's still making a deal with the devil, and prolonging the lifespan of a right-wing media empire.

It's all still very very bad. It's the meme of a bomber with a rainbow flag.

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yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

New blog post: Why WebAssembly Components

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/why-webassembly-components/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I want to be really clear with what I'm saying here. I'm *not* suggesting diversity is unnecessary in social justice.

I'm saying diversity without toppling oppressive power structures is, at best, a cosmetic fix. A brown CEO would sooner bend to capitalism before capitalism bends to them.

There was this notion on the left that diversity alone would do more than it can do. A notion that the simple act of replacing white men was enough to beat the patriarchy.

https://time.com/6190225/feminist-industrial-complex-roe-v-wade/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

reading: Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I love that Sandy's daughter is also named Sandy, and Sandy "jr" takes over.

I remember there being reports of private equity firms demanding more diversity initiatives from corporate America, around 2019/2020.

The Sandy-to-Sandy power shift calls out the faction of the left who became obsessed with diversity as a silver bullet for all social justice.

Some leftist feminists call this the girl boss movement. BUT...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Sandy Furness

Sandy represents private equity and its parasitic nature on the US economy. Sandy also has a sort of chaos agent vibe, but it's motivated purely by money.

There's some irony here. Of all the power structures that want change, it is private equity that's had the most impact.

Private Equity is the quote: "Capitalism will sell us the rope in which we hang them"
The Sandy and Kendall alliance makes sense, as I might explain later (I'm freestyling so give me grace lol).

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phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason Succession rewatches be like

Attachments:

• gifv: Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia being a conspiracy theorist.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

@fromjason I'm really not sure about that. No idea about Yiddish, but "Kellman" in German can be a first name (meaning Warrior, strong man). As a last name I don't find any sources for it meaning "manager of provisions" or anything like that. Doesn't feel right

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

New terminal music player just dropped 🔥

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Attachments:

• gifv: fce07db692ef2b83.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Anyway, Gerri represents everything a woman must sacrifice to make it in modern corporate America. I think the infamous dick pic episode masterfully captured this.

You have Shiv on one end, who wants to use the dick pic event to neutralize her brother, and if that means killing Gerri, too, then so be it.

Then you have Gerri, who wants to burry Roman's indiscretion deep and move on fast. Gerri knows the only person in danger is her. Women don't get to call out powerful men for gross behavior.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

"Kellman" in German can mean the manager of a cellar or provisions. Yiddish has a similar meaning. Manager of a room/space (or so the internet tells me. I'm not a linguist).

I like that Kellman is close to "kill man" lmao.

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rustup 1.29.0 has been released! 🦀

Rustup, the tool for installing and updating Rust, will now download files concurrently and unpack them in parallel, which makes updating Rust much faster. ✨

See the blog post for all the changes to rustup: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/12/Rustup-1.29.0/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Gerri Kellman

Gerri represents the wrong side of patriarchy; the story of Corporate America. She is a competent general who could easily assume the CEO role, but the glass ceiling (Logan) prohibits her from doing so.

In fact, Gerri is arguably the *only* competent person in the bunch. Yet, she's respected the least. Her and Roman's dynamic highlights how the right dehumanizes women.

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piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The rest of Silicon Valley are waiting to see what Sam Altman and Jony Ive bakes up for this yet-to-be realized AI thin-client device category.

If they get it right, everyone will follow. Everyone except Apple.

I'm not trying to fan-boy Apple here. I'm saying that Apple is the only giant with a local-first strategy for computational power. And as long as that strategy is successful, consumers can fight off the cloud empire.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

struct aiocb *restrict const aiocb_list[restrict n]

well that's certainly a mouthful

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think the MacBook Neo is a hint that Apple is working on a MacBook "Ultra" specifically designed to run LLMs locally.

Apple's deal with Google Gemini gives Cupertino breathing room to develop an LLM from the ground up that runs completely sans-cloud. They're gonna do the "enclave" bit of marketing for it. Or, if the hype dies, they'll never release it.

This is a good thing imo. *If* LLMs/Agentic AI are here to stay, we want friction against the cloud-tethered future pushed by big tech.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

reminder when you think "wow i can't believe so and so did all that at such a young age!" the answer is probably nepotism

"what have i done with my life" well you haven't been surrounded by connections your whole life