All technology is dual use folks

At this point I want the court packed out of spite

Cool that we have an unelected council of elders to make sure nothing actually happens

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Try to imagine what it was like when the first spreadsheets rolled out and bookkeepers started using them. I sure they fucked it up a lot. They probably found it cumbersome and stupid, and why does it keep thinking a quarter is really Jan 4, 1900? I'm just wasting so much time. Now look around.

Three things are simultaneously true: Lots of people are using AI to produce something of net-positive value Lots of people are using AI to produce something of value to them but take value from others (e.g. cheating on exams) Lots more people are using AI very badly at a net loss.

If it's trying to help you talk to the computer, it generally works OK. If it's trying to get the computer to do the talking for you, it's always terrible. Bosses almost always try to do the second thing

And Congressional Democrats should make Roberts testify about this (if needs be, use the excuse that the Congress needs to understand how to write laws so as to not run afoul of the major questions doctrine-heh).

This isn’t an intellectual oversight or sloppy scholarship. It’s politics with the thinnest-ass judicial veneer possible.

Just some simple country lawyers calling balls and strikes :)

I think on the whole AI has done more bad than good so far but also am unconvinced by people saying the computer nerds are not allowed to be mad at ten bajillion people screaming at them for knowing multiplication because people are angry at the tech overlords and this excuses harassing random bums.

I think “AI” is sometimes used on here more as a justification for antisocial behavior rather than a concrete descriptor of specific technologies.

Software engineering is actually different than art or writing. The code isn’t the product

what commenters genuinely don’t seem to understand is that you can absolutely produce high quality work with agentic llms if you have good engineering judgement, know how to wield them, and maintain a strict code review culture.

i really don't like the tendency to glamorize this sort of thing, because it is dysfunctional and abusive behavior. "all good websites are full of people who hate the developers" is a truism that is very revealing about the people who say it

overestimating the complexity of problems in other fields is definitely not limited to tech people looking at other professions, it absolutely goes the other way and maybe we could all have some amount of humility about the bounds of our own expertise

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Remarkable.

CCP do this in eve we know capsuleers have toes let’s see them

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

The superpower of the United States military is the ability to deploy a Burger King anywhere on Earth within 24 hours. And these ignorant short-sighted miserable stupid fucking bastard motherfuckers said “that sounds too woke” and broke the greatest logistical system humanity has ever seen

just had the best pork chop I’ve ever had (and there is VERY serious competition) at Darkroom in Santa Ana, CA - fennel Calabrian chili butter pork tomahawk in a porcini white wine reduction.

this is what happened to bluesky on monday pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... This shit is complicated can we please stop with the "ugh AI devs need to git gud" nonsense

do you ever think about how dogs go absolutely nuts for being vaccuumed but werent able to experience for like 49,950 years of their existence

there are lots of people who should go to jail but jared kushner is by far the lowest hanging fruit because he's not actually a government employee and also is a dumbass and has probably been doing some SERIOUS criming

Oh there it is

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

You’re a Protestant gina, that’s why they’re called Protestants because they’re protesting the authority of the pope

This is the greatest post of all time

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

We should have never doubted this man

i think if you're going to post 27 times a day about a highly technical subject it's a bad look to incorrectly attribute that subject's purported flaws to unrelated issues

> "Trust me bro, this new tech startup isn't a pyramid scheme" > Looks at codebase:

Median Yankees fan

Oh no the normal people Bluesky community are discovering thst the HPC cluster scheduling tool everyone uses is called slurm

You know what never has downtime? Going outside

Gonna get a lot of ‘But Black Dynamite, *I* benefit from climate destroying corporate welfare!’ If ever we crack down on climate destroying corporate welfare

as we all know bluesky had five nines of uptime before the evil machine minds ruined it

i want to emphasize that i am describing a real thing that actually happened in san francisco, and that is serious business and caused actual harm but it is also profoundly silly

The Allbirds thing isn’t a shoe company pivoting to AI it’s an AI startup going public by moving into the dead shell of allbirds like a hermit crab.

Liz Cheney prostrating herself in front of Harris to help protect the country: this is fascism A middle-aged white man has a Nazi tattoo and drops the hard-r slur during interviews: this is the future of progressives. Make it make sense.

Yeah, I think one of the most incredible things about the pope-off is that when previous popes have done similar things, it had to go through a translation barrier, but no nuance and no shade is lost when the American pope is being bitchy [complimentary]

Solid selection in here

Mrs. Davis (2023)

My PhD

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

American YouTuber Johnny Somali has been sentenced to six months in jail, charged for public nuisance

this is a microcosm of the world as conservatives want it, where “merit” means an unrestricted good ol’ boys club