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dabeaz ("David Beazley") wrote:
Sure, you don't have to use cocaine, but all of your students are using cocaine. They'd probably be more engaged if you were a bit more culturally sensitive and also used cocaine.
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dryad.technology@bsky.brid.gy ("mcc") wrote:
I do not agree with the framing "AI is a tool". Tools do things, whereas "AI" as it developed in the year 2026 does not do things. AI is for *avoiding* doing things, skipping things, faking doing things. I'd prefer to call it a permission structure, or perhaps a form of pollution.
Mastodon FeedI still have plenty of friends who disagree with me and so I can thankfully still have private conversations with people all along the spectrum of AI enthusiasm, and "I think it's OK to use AI a bit, but its use should be disclosed" is a position that is fairly common and is at least *trying* to stake out an ethical line, the lesson for these people should not be that they need to hide any use to maintain their personal safety.
Mastodon FeedOkay I hate that I have to say this, but since I have a modest audience of people with (justifiably, IMHO) very negative feelings about AI, I feel like I have some responsibility to say it:
If someone uses an LLM, you can tell them that you don't like it, you can refuse to use the thing they made with it. That's fine. I understand why it might make you mad.
Don't send death threats.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Haunted by regret.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
The fuck is this headline. SMDH
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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
I see that today @andrewnez has chosen violence.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Yes. I'm genuinely bored with the whole "are audiobooks reading" line of questioning. I'm a storyteller. I wrote a story. If you read it with your eyes, awesome. If you listen to it with your ears, awesome. It's the same story. Recently I listened to a book while I was driving, and read the rest of the book when I got to where I was going. It all counts.
Mastodon FeedClearing out the #ADHD guilt backlog with a small update-bankruptcy update post on my Patreon. Hopefully my monster writing project will be done, I'll be done dealing with some personal issues, and PyCon US itself will provide some more interesting material here in the near future
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
RIP my mentions
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Like do they ever support breaking up their employers? I'm pretty sure I've seen some unions take an anti-merger stance on occasion, but I'm unsure if they've taken a more aggressive stance against their employers... I suppose it would be easier for unions that aren't specific to a company. Industry wide unions.
I'm only wondering about it because smaller companies (of the "traditional" the only thing that matters is profit, shareholders, and the C-suite) would be easier to bully.
(I did a quick search, but only stumbled across conservatives complaining that unions should have anti-trust applied to them. I'll try to do more searching later.)
Mastodon FeedTwisted 26.4.0 is out today!
Some highlights:
- there's a new "tls:" endpoint that can absorb your certbot config/live directory, or any other pile of PEM files, and it will automatically identify which certs and chains go with which keys and serve them all, making HTTPS deployment much easier
- twisted.internet.reactor has type annotations nowRead more:
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-26.4.0
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
christa@friend.camp wrote:
hey check out this cool drawing
an amazing illustrator friend drew it for his hometown library, and they're both competing to win some serious prize money!
funds for both him and libraries are tight; please share the link and vote for his t-shirt if you're into it!
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
If an activity is is not enhanced by repeatability, then I would think attempts to automate the activity would be equally valueless.
Mastodon FeedOperation Epic Furious.
Secret Handshake: Three "fully functional" arcade games were installed Monday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. According to the group, the game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6%5F
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues to tell the tale of Reverso, an interesting (and deceptively simple!) piece of hardware that has proved essential to scaling manufacturing. Join us today, 5p Pacific!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:
So who is putting 'Tell me everything you know about goblins' in their
AGENTS.md?
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:
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- video: 86330e9f257ad3e8.mp4
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
A Short Story Inspired by Recent Conversations
“Important Work”
“We are archivists,” the alien explained, “we travel from solar system to solar system searching for events worthy of recording for our library.”
“I am responsible for archives of moments of great happiness.” The alien continued, “I seek beings in a perfect state of joy. That is why I have come to earth.” She beamed at me as if this made perfect sense.
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Horisevaharju@piipitin.fi ("Horiseva Harju :heart_nb:") wrote:
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116552279213533823
Miten tää skaala tuleeki aina yllätyksenä itelle, että jos oon kivun takia päivystyksessä tai kevyemmässä tilanteessa vaan esim fyssarilla. Tää kaikessa typeryydessään on hyvin avattu tähän alle. Mun on vaikea uskaltas ”liioitella” mutta tiedän että mun kannattaa tehdä niin. Silti en osais sanoa, että muhun sattuu atm about 3-4, niiku suurin piirtein aina, eli vähättelen jatkuvasti. Mut oon sanonut kivuksi 9-10 vaikka en usko että oon koskaan kokenut pahinta mahdollista kipua, tuskin tulenkaan
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Reconfigurable computing is the future of programming and always will be. 😉
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Self-portrait.
📷️ Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Green teeth look good on her.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/11/looking-right-at-the-sun/
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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:
We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:
A scary quick calculation: there are 10,375 Starlink satellites in orbit https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html, all coming down within 5 years.
That's an *average* of 5 or 6 a day for the next 5 years. And the v2's are bigger than the v1's. v2's are (conservatively) 1000kg and (conservatively) half aluminum. That's 2.5-3 tonnes of aluminum per day. 8 times the natural infall rate of aluminum (and there's lots of other scary things like lithium). What will that do to our atmosphere?
SpaceX is awful.
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benroyce ("ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES") wrote:
#Tennessee removes its #black #US House district in #Memphis
#MAGA goons celebrate
"It's rigged why vote"
On the contrary people not #voting got us here as much as MAGA
Getting out of this means many things. But voting is a small effort compared to the other efforts so voices against voting are inauthentic or #troll #psyop
#Hungary had as bad or worse manipulations against #democracy, and look what Hungarians delivered
Are you angry? Do you want to fix this?
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mer@yourwalls.today ("魅洏烂 M.E.R. ䷔") wrote:
@soatok @JoscelynTransient Horse girl has the wealth aspect of either being well off enough to upkeep a horse or aspirational enough to take riding lessons at a pony club and dream about more.
Car bro gets close as an expensive hobby but it lacks the ability for the boy to drive during formative years.
I'd say sailing because:
>you can reasonably do some dinghy sailing on a lake for reasonable expenses to your parents
>owning a boat fulltime is notoriously expensive as the things like to rot when left in the water or get destroyed by bad weather if you had the hubris of leaving them moored even in a placid pond
>sailing is rooted in aristocratic protocols and demeanor, there's rich people attire specific to it
>it's masculine because the sea famously calls to men but it's not like women can't sail just as it's not like men can't ride a horse
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
dear people who are currently using ec2 or the azure or gcp equivalent:
how long does launching an instance take these days?
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#Goldfrapp - Utopia
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“That Damned LMS Dependency”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ed-tech-dependency/
> What does it say about education that this particular piece of software – one that was once utterly reviled by students and teachers alike – is not now only ubiquitous across all grades and all levels, but is viewed as essential to its operation?!