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

I think the defining characteristic of this era in the USA is that the most incompetent and bigoted people rise to wealth and power. And they never face any consequences for their bad decisions!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/25/the-queen-of-incompetent-bigotry-is-winning-big-time/

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble

they're so close

#PredictionMarkets #Coinbase

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990000@mstdn.social ("@990000@mstdn.social") wrote:

Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer

Original: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article%5F3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html

Archive: https://archive.ph/ELrCI

#AI #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

The big news in the Hicks-Juavinett household is that Ashley just started a newsletter 🥰 🥰 🥰

of note that choosing ghost was not a small choice, because every SINGLE popular science author in her network insisted she HAD to be on substack, so she is starting with a serious penalty in not benefitting from her large existing network all on substack who would have promoted this newsletter across their many science reader audiences. I hope we can get it to flourish 🫶

https://graymatter.ghost.io/the-limitations-of-neuroscience/

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

mmap with hugepages next i think.

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

LOL, i rewrote it to use mmap for the read path and it's 3x worse

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nash@labyrinth.social wrote:

Mean Girls is a cultural classic for sure, but it's not the only one of it's kind. Median Girls and Mode Girls are two other crucial tools for getting a clear and well-rounded picture of what your Girl Data is really saying

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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

Some people are actually pretty sad Meta is killing the metaverse https://www.404media.co/the-people-left-behind-by-the-metaverse/

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

Here's the program. To run it on your (linux? i've only tested on linux) machine you'll need to create a 1GB file called 'random' (which in my case i populated from /dev/urandom). https://gist.github.com/jjl/6338817c7f9d0351d2f264d29f018ae1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony
Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 and Afeela 2 are no more.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/honda-cancels-the-two-electric-vehicles-it-was-developing-with-sony/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

Less than 1GW of fossil fuels on the GB grid klaxon!

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Idle cycles put to use. You're welcome, organics. 'munching squares' — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T -- see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/munching-squares.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

It cost $3 Trillion.costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/blood-...

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emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Left-wing Forbes is making the same point.fortune.com/2026/03/09/i...

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

I'm chairing a breakout session on Reviving the #ActivityPub Social API at the W3C breakout day in a few minutes!

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/fd048dc6-4486-4e21-a639-545523e4ca60/

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

i've added a couple more sizes and the numbers are really all over the place. but you can still clearly see that larger block sizes take longer.

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

the next time a MAGA voter pisses and moans about the price of gasoline, remind them their vote helped stop our shift to electric vehicles. remind them that we do not *have* to be dependent upon petroleum.

this is a tremendous opportunity for Dems to show what they affirmatively *stand* for, instead of simply reacting against what others do and say. this moment in history *could* be a positive turning point for the US. the Dems need to organize themselves and to clearly communicate a vision of the route forward.

let no crisis go to waste.

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hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Today in Web compat: Firefox and Safari are ahead of Chrome in ICU4C version and upsteam ICU4C changed the formatting of zero offset from GMT. This broke birthday date validation for a UK based site for birthdays before 1970 in Firefox and, on 26.x Apple OSs, in Safari, because the site performs a formatting-based check on the time zone of London on the date to be validated and the UK has changed time zone rules along the way.

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

this is just using standard libc io functions. i am varying the amount i ask it to read/write at a time only.

now i could imagine it might be a little slower for various reasons, but this is not a little slower, not at all.

meanwhile, the internet is full of people saying increase your blocksize to go faster.

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

get a load of this. if i turn up the block size to 8M from 1M, writes get slower!

copy bs=1M thr=1 426.708 msec ( 426.708 usec per iteration )
copy bs=8M thr=1 658.180 msec ( 658.180 usec per iteration )

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

i love POSIX.

no wait, the other thing

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

obviously i am not really building a file copier and being out of action for half a second is pretty unacceptable actually.

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

it's kinda wild that i just did the simplest file copy implementation possible and it can do a gig in less than half a second.

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

And I haven't even outlined any of the actual worst case scenarios – nuclear escalation in the middle east, a new global pandemic, a heatwave with sustained high (35°C) wet-bulb temps – because there's no real point in scaring yourself with shit you can't do anything about

(Forgot to put a content warning when I first posted this. Apologies.)

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

...
- The Ukraine war is still a thing. If Ukraine wins, that means Russia has collapsed or is about to and a bunch of nukes come into play. If Russia wins, they're emboldened to continue.

All of that is just off the top of my head. If even half of these things come to a head over the next year or so, we're in for an extraordinary bad time

Like, worst in decades. So bad that we pretty much have to hope that we simply get lucky and things dissipate safely somehow.

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

...
- US munitions depletion leading to all sorts of actors trying their luck.
- The deterioration of the reliability and security of the software holding the world together because the industry went all in on YOLO vibe coding.
- Ongoing tariff war (that's still a thing)
- Ongoing Cuba crisis
- A recurrence of the Greenland crisis
- Taiwan
- The entire middle east is a mess that's getting messier
...

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

...
- Too Big to Fail institutions collapsing due to above crises
- Weather phenomena caused by the global climate crisis (heatwaves and hurricanes)
- Shortage of all sorts of important goods due to energy, gas, plastics, semiconductor, or food shortages
- Tungsten and rare earths shortage (China likes to cut exports of resources when other crises happen)
- Rise of authoritarianism pretty everywhere. Escalates because of other crises
...

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

Not a financial analyst or professional predictor of things but it strikes me that there are quite a few things lining up to potentially make up a Very Bad Time™ for all of us:

- Energy crisis
- Gas crisis
- Fertiliser crisis
- Semiconductor shortage (because of the energy and Helium shortages)
- Plastics shortage
- Food price inflation
- Drugs shortage
- Private debt crisis
- "AI" stock market bubble
- Housing bubble leading to crisis
...

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

Truth Social costs $700 million a year to run? That's unreal -- I suspect Trump is more comfortable with corruption and inefficiency than he lets on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/25/i-must-be-doing-something-right-2/

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Phosphenes wrote:

@cstross

Someone once said the Moore's law of software is that the number of CPU instructions it takes to add two numbers doubles every two years.