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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

When these dudes were in university, Black people and women were driven out of computer science programs.

When these same dudes were software engineers, running hiring committees, Black engineers and women suddenly couldn't get hired, despite being all over the early industry.

When these same dudes became Venture Capitalists, Black people and women couldn't raise any money or get on any boards, even though Black women disproportionately start small businesses.

Now that these dudes are centi-billionaires, they're open and vocal about their explicitly ethnic cleansing policy positions, and get alt-right presidents elected, and end DEI, and roll back civil rights, and say that giving women the right to vote was a mistake, and talk about white birth rates.

And I have to read nonsense from journalists saying that the extreme money turned them fash?🤡

No.

You turned fash into extremely wealthy people. By being asleep at the wheel while the worst people on earth amassed untouchable levels of wealth.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Another aspect of Rust that I don’t like is its capture by companies like Amazon and Microsoft. I have no faith in the future direction of the language being anything other than slop.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

From my own experience of last night, blocking the Web might have been helpful in some ways but was hardly a cure-all.

At best it probably helped break cycles of reassurance-seeking which is useful as that's when anxiety tends to flare up.

This is not nothing and I'm keeping the blocks up but sometimes I expect my problems to distill down to "too much social media" and... yeah, nah.

Social media has its benefits too (e.g. a place to express myself, a way to deal with loneliness if I'm in an isolated situation) which I actually do find quite valuable, so I'm reluctant to give up the whole thing entirely

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

It's been obvious for a few years that the AI industry is building a great big
financial bomb made of recycled debt, but I'm sort of amazed at just *how* big the bomb is.

Even if AI was *all that* technically - which it isn't - the financial bomb will *still* go off.

At this point the questions should all be: when, not if, it goes off - what happens next?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I need to figure out what to do with my day especially as I had another insomniac night last night 😦

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Donate to me instead of Nigel Farage. I won’t do anything useful with your money - which is instantly better than anything Farage will do with it.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Still not a fan of Rust. It took all of the worst patterns of C++ and made them safe, which results in something that’s familiar and “basically fine I guess” but extraordinarily annoying and frustrating to work with. All of the best practices for writing efficient and maintainable low-level code like avoiding allocations or branches are very awkward in Rust. It makes sense as a product of Mozilla which had one of the worst C++ code bases of all time deciding that the real problem of that code base was not architectural or structural but simply that managing all of those pointers manually was hard. In theory it should be possible to write clean Rust but none of the foundational crates are written that way. Async/await is easily the most frustrating aspect of the language and the community is determined to make everything async if it can. Compile times and resource consumption during compilation are terrible and kind of ruins the otherwise great tooling.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip (":privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:") wrote:

Blinded by greed

Attachments:

• gifv: A cat stands on a shelf, holding a bag of treats in its mouth. The cat tries to get down, but it holds the bag in such a way it protrudes upward and makes it impossible to see.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

@tef Mostly all I know of Bluesky is when some drama escapes elsewhere, which is typically something like Jay Graber Did a Transphobia Again or Why Did Why Throw His iPhone in a Pool?, but good lord.

Boosted by jwz:
tef wrote:

@xgranade at the same time bluesky _is_ full of uwu beans who can do no wrong and everyone who is mean is an abuser, like tumblr levels

plus you've got the rationalist cultists, a bunch of tech early adopters, bluetick brained journos, but weirdly, most of the crypto nazis left because it wasn't p2p enough and anonymous heh

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lichtscheu@troet.cafe ("Lichtscheu") wrote:

Erinnert sich noch jemand an den jungen Grünspecht von vor einigen Wochen? Ich kann natürlich nicht garantieren, dass es sich hier um denselben Vogel handelt, aber die Mauser ins Alterskleid ist gut voran gegangen.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Bro what am I looking at
https://youtu.be/yC8QVNk6Qco

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I got to do some art at least

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
RosethornRanger@spore.social ("RosethornRanger (it/its) 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

It is essential to remember that oppression is not just someone having a "bad idea". Oppression is a system of learning to use violence to extract resources from other social classes for personal benefit. Bullying isn't about attention because oppression isn't just a "wrong idea" to debate/correct

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ngaylinn@tech.lgbt ("Nate Gaylinn") wrote:

I visited more temples today on my trip to Japan. These photos are from Kuhonbutsu Joshin-ji Temple. It was so beautiful and peaceful here, which attracted some of the locals to walk or jog through for their morning exercise. Several ravens were in attendance, cawing as we went by.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ReckoningMag@climatejustice.social wrote:

We're looking for creative writing on environmental justice. We pay 15c/word, $75/page for fiction, poetry, art, and creative nonfiction. There are no fees to submit. We don't consider AI or accept submissions by email. Ecofascists get in the sea.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

The answer to this is sleeping isn't all that much better, I was struggling to get to sleep and woke up super early. Maybe if you run the numbers it's still better than without the web blockers but it's still not *great.

Also I think my OCD is playing up :( . Hello 2020, my old friend

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

oops. forgot to eat today. no wonder we felt so exhausted.

fixing it now...

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

a beautiful day, looking North from near Muir Beach

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I really got a lot out of Steve strogatz work. Sync and then nonlinear dynamics & chaos were what cemented my decision to become a scientist. Just sad.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I won't repost the thread, but its written in the voice of an AI podcast, like something that has ingested the transcript of the interview and imagining what he might have felt... Which is exactly what it is. Some people can't even have feelings anymore.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Man, that's just sad.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@zzt it rings WAY truer than we want it to, yeah ><

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

do you remember that one next generation episode where the entire crew got oneshotted by a cup and ball game that plugged into your brain? imagine an advanced society getting taken over by a really basic gamified endorphin loop like that

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

Evocation-assembly doesn't implement every Intel instruction, it implements the ones we needed and the ones that it would have been weird to leave out

we would like it to someday be comprehensive, but its purpose right now is compiling itself, and we needed to make sure it was a small enough list of stuff that we can still make changes to it when we need to

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

phew. verification finished, those instructions all do exactly what we want them to now. that was a lot of work.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"Well, say the opposite of what the *Daily Mail* says, then you *can't* be wrong"

-- Boris, the author's friend
"Down and Out in Paris and London," 1933
by George Orwell

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Pop quiz:

Does this #Rust unit test pass or fail?

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

and then, of course, there's the instruction Intel calls CMP, which simulates subtraction without actually doing it

and the instruction Intel calls TEST, which simulates bitwise-and without actually doing it

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

My podcast is back just a friendly chat with my friend Keith about what we did over summer vacation. https://cp.davebauer.art/@makingproblemstosolve/episodes/what-i-did-over-the-summer-with-keith-from-blackthorne-concepts