Lar Van Der Jagt

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) YouTube video by Ace Records

Where do you rank www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

Huh, now I’m curious how the whole Koreagate affair relates to this campaign, since it hinged on kickbacks for US rice exports.

Coming immediately after that “Did you mean” feels especially rich.

And before BCCI/Nugan Hand there was CIA officer Paul Helliwell’s Castle Bank and Trust. The crypto stuff was a response to post 9/11 banking reforms making the previous model untenable.

The best part is how you know they know it’s bad since they included a large blob of text explaining the bad reasoning.

It’s an automated radicalization engine running at massive scale.

My brain immediately went into the guitar solo after reading this.

Especially considering Tulane’s primate center has been incorporated into “AIDs as a biological weapon” conspiracy theories since at least the 90s.

And gods!

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code

all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

Anybody who says they’re getting therapy from an LLM should have the LLM taken away from them and be forced to read Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum.

Ruby SDK is General Available! Did you know? A typical tardigrade is about 0.5 mm (0.02 inch) long, and even the largest ones are less than 2 mm (0.07 inch) in length.

Temporal Ruby is GA ♦️ Build durable Ruby Workflows with native APIs, a Rust core, and a deterministic fiber scheduler. Read the post: https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-ruby-crash-proof-fibers

Ex-nazis Among Leadership Ranks of Republican Outreach Groups - Jewish Telegraphic Agency A new study charges that accused Nazis, fascists and anti-Semites hold or have held leadership positions in some of the Republican National Committee’s ethnic outreach groups. The report, “Old Nazis, ...

So weird how this keeps happening. From 1988: www.jta.org/archive/ex-n...

When they did the reboot series they had a run of three episodes titled “My Struggle”.

Jeff Russo would nail this.

Also Nazis in the Third Reich didn’t like being called Nazis either!

Also this all started because when DHH was asked to share the keynote stage at RailsConf he threw a fit and started a competing org and conference. As I see it DHH killed RailsConf then was invited back to dance on its grave.

You did the right thing here, much respect.

Anybody who trusts Bill Kristol all the sudden just because he is posting some things they agree with should read up on his father Irving and his time with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Video Archive · XOXO XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online.

A reminder that you can always check out eight years worth of video from XOXO Festival, steadfastly and defiantly held in the war-torn city of Portland, Oregon.

xoxofest.com/videos/

a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom Alt: Admiral Ackbar, a squid-like alien from the Star Wars franchise, saying “It’s a trap”.

Me when I saw that announcement

722 Miles The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

I don’t think it’s 1000 pages and it’s been too long for me to remember if it covers your specific questions, but here you go! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

This is a pretty good description of pair programming at its best tbh.

A Paperclip visa and a new job title isn’t denazification in my book.

Space History Photo: Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun Werhner von Braun, then Chief, Guided Missile Development Operation Division at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, was visited by Walt Disney in 1954.

I regret to inform you that Disney was quite happy to collaborate with Nazis: www.space.com/15398-walt-d...

Given his father’s arc from Trotskyist to godfather of neoconservatism it’s a bit of a full circle moment for the Kristol family.

Carnivale!

This is my feeling too, but at the same time I really want Gray Brechin to write the follow up to Imperial San Francisco cause I’m sure there way more to it! www.graybrechin.net/books/imperi...

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”

This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

And some are extremely explicit about that view! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_...

Human Literacy Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...