"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Isn't that the origin of the "Fortune 100" list?

Text screenshot: "You don't have permission to see the color for this account"

"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."

That reminded me of an edit my friend made.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

What exactly do you want from us, AI camera?

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

A very thoughtful post

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The nightmare of a frictionless world Big tech businesses like Google and Meta are trying to build a world where their AI products "assist" everyone to do everything. They are eliminating friction from life, letting us all do things by ou...

The very clever Fraser putting his finger on something very specifically dreadful about AI’s promise of a frictionless everything: www.henryfrasertechlaw.com/post/the-nig...

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...

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nix fixes this by mandating every one of those steps be done in an esoteric configuration language with terrible error messages

Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...

IMHO, make this the default, github: github.com/ghostty-org/...

The idea that education is the same thing as job-training and no more than that is so disheartening.

Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.

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New article up about the fallout of the last 24 hours being In The News. [no paywall]

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Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims A1 Digital is testing liquid cooling tech for power-intensive AI servers that is claimed to save 50 percent of the energy previously required…

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