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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/#trillionairitis

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

Trump proves himself correct

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

There's always a tweet. https://www.comicsands.com/trump-resurfaced-tweet-iran-deal?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

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

i'm not sure who needs to hear this btw, but on the off chance you have not been using stock to make rice, you should start.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Mastodon introducing email newsletters, a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/mastodon-looks-to-newsletters-to-help-revive-the-open-social-web/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
luna@pony.social ("__ct__4LunaFv") wrote:

anyway if you're hiring for a C++/Rust developer in the UK (ideally remote, or hybrid near Manchester), hit me up

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

i made too much rice.

no, there is no such thing

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

life is harsh for a house kitty

jwz wrote:

Priest removed as exorcist after his comments on UFOs and demons.

The archbishop of Washington, D.C. removed an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons. The archbishop said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8m

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

load latest shave

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber :mediawiki:") wrote:

Like my open source work in MediaWiki and MediaWiki-adjacent spaces?

Or my posts about experimental coding projects modern (multithreaded PNG encoder in Rust with C and Swift APIs) or retro (Mandelbrot for 8-bit Atari using a multiply routine tuned for performance at all costs)?

Help support both by sponsoring me through Liberapay!
https://liberapay.com/bvibber/

I'm cleaning up mtpng to be more reusable, and working on deep-dive blog & video posts for that and the Mandelbrot project this summer.

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?

Oh, right

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

jwz wrote:

My bedroom, 8am, 95-101 dBA. This is fine.

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• audio: bc55bdbbe6aba850.mp3

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vivia@toot.cat ("Vivia 🦆🍵:rustacean_ferris:") wrote:

TIL that the word "honk" was invented for geese, not for cars. It's cars that sound like geese and not the other way around. https://glossographia.com/2010/06/07/honk-if-you-love-etymology/

#Etymology #Honk #Goose #Geese #Onomatopoeia #English

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
milo@types.pl ("tali") wrote:

In fact, the only time I personally encounter a lot of pro-AI commentary is when I come here to HN

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone wrote:

@ricci @cwebber The patching will continue until morale improves.

jwz wrote:

I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can connect to on any channel because there is too much interference. 82% interference, 10% TX retries. Let's take a look at where that's coming from...

Oh. It's because literally every car in the garage is doing wifi bukkake, several floors below me, through many feet of concrete.

https://jwz.org/b/yk8i

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tibi2@mstdn.social wrote:

@cwebber @TodePond me among them! I don't like 'normal' programming but geonodes I can get lost in, and I end up sneakily learning some general concepts in the process. like now I know that fields are monads, thanks lol. it also forced me to learn about vector math!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

@cwebber In the beginning software was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move

jwz wrote:

Just another normal day of wearing earplugs and also playing music loud enough to drown out my upstairs neighbor's concrete saws. It's like month 3 of this shit. What the fuck are they even doing up there?
https://jwz.org/b/yk8g

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

Does anyone have good resources on programming language design? I enjoy lectures, explainer videos, and write ups/books, so any of these are appreciated. If there are video creators you like for this topic I would also appreciate that!

I have done the basics of parsing/lexing so I have a decent grasp of those sorts of mechanics, but what im more interested in is how one goes about designing a complete language, prototyping, and tools used.

jwz wrote:

There is an airplane flying in circles above San Francisco dragging a banner with an AI ad on it. Something something world's largest metaphor about fossil fuels

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

I imagine the Iranian hardliners have learned the DPRK lesson, and thus sincerely doubt their nuclear weapons program is going away any time soon.

“Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions, and will not deploy additional forces in the region.”

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu ("Christine Hall") wrote:

Apple ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches: Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drops-AppleTalk

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

give Iran at least $300 billion? oh, that will make the US right wing happy as clams

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/17/world/g7-summit-trump-france?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jwz:
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

I'm seeing people compare LLM generated code to "a hacky shell or Python script", as in a rough throwaway tool not meant to be built atop or understood.

Gently, I'll argue that this is misunderstanding the value of shell scripts in particular & rapid prototyping in general. The value and the point of shell scripts is to set down on disk the smallest kernel of a working idea specifically so it *can* be understood clearly, then iteratively expanded & replaced to cover surrounding special cases.

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

In a just world, Elon Musk would die in prison. https://newrepublic.com/article/211936/elon-musk-race-war-belfast

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Most politicians spend an election year doing popular things. Trump is doing the opposite because he’s not trying to win voters back. His goal is to weaken institutions and our resolve so he can sabotage the midterms.

jwz wrote:

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI.

SAN MATEO, CA: After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8e

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

MOU text says free passage “for 60 days only”. how can a Captain or an insurer trust that will continue?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/17/world/g7-summit-trump-france?smid=nytcore-ios-share