SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

Happy Pride! Remember that Pride includes sex workers and NATO.

When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident | Discussion

Recently obsessed with the Gen X Soft Club aesthetics. Every time I see it, I can hear Porcelain by Moby playing in my head, which is an awesome, very calming song and if you don't know it you should really give it a try.

big if true

family. But first, our friends

new @cdt.org study out this morning looks at how chatbots deploy manipulative "dark patterns" to get people to offer up more than they bargained for: www.404media.co/new-study-re...

LLM people: "we don't care how much harm we do, we're gonna do what we want" OS people cause harm to LLM users: "wait stop that's causing harm that's not fair" cry me a fucking river Re: www.osnews.com/story/145130...

Fucking hell

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Been thinking about this Tweet a lot lately...

I like how both X and Bluesky are absolutely deranged platforms but in their own unique ways.

Repost this if you fw rawdawgcomics

Just found out that there is no spring emoji. Metal springs, boing boing. Like the one that connects a car body to wheels. I've been fooled by the Mandela effect once again.

If your only argument is “that would never happen” then you have no actual position; be prepared for everything or expect to lose everything. Ideology without action is just political theory, and idealism without pragmatism or functional principles is just cosplay, make belief, thoughts and prayers.

i was in the backseat of a friend's car where i was on shark duty to appropriately hug the shark and you know DAMM well i hugged blahajini (her name) tightly the whole time. apparently not everyone does take shark duty seriously and i think that is a mark of poor moral character.

I must admit that nothing about computers, since I'm in love with the field, was so uninteresting as the Javascript different fashions, waves, frameworks, rewrites, hypes. And I'm one that loves almost every shit programming related.

lol. lmao even.

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

The greatest lie we tell ourselves is that there is time. It's just another way to procrastinate without guilt and it's also how you end up doing things at the last minute.

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number 1: monopolies

PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs | Discussion

I swear, single header libraries are one of the most accepted misuses in technology. I don't care if they are more comfortable to use, headers are for definitions only.

Just Fucking Use Go - Blain Smith https://lobste.rs/s/znlkib ##go

this year's Pulitzer prize for Most Unrelatable Article

hot take: everyone should be allowed to rob a bank once in their lifetime as long as nobody gets hurt and they have a really good reason they need the money

New tasty battery technology

The 64-bit signed integer for time will overflow on Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596

The people yearn for file systems as interfaces, part... I lost count.

I once again typed "sudo" on OpenBSD. I'm sorry, I'm not worthy of your use. 😭

Paywall on wi/red(dot)com ("You’ve read your last free article. Start free trial")? Simply disable Javascript. Poof, paywall is no more.

best feature of go: no libc

don’t

Yay, a brand new MNT Apri 2026 update is out, compiled by @holo_memory Check it out: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2026-04-30-april-update.html

"You write like AI" No, AI imitates human writing. Who do you think wrote all the text it was trained on?

Termosimone (termosimone)

the funniest thing about llms is they demonstrate clearly that whatever intelligence is, it isnt language

This is my new OC his name is slim bastard and he drinks milk at room temperature

As a non-native English speaker I just found out that "two" and "too" are homophones. I've been pronouncing "two" as "choo" for about 17 years. Nice 🙂

another day another tragedy what will it be this time stay tuned

Huge respect if they keep it like that.

Is there some sort of profound threat to products now? Today I got a package that required opening four sequential plastic bags/wraps and a cardboard box, only to find the product itself sheathed in urethane foam and wrapped in a protective sticky film. What threat requires this much protection?