Some fragments on AI, its impact on maintainability, the dangers from its jailbreaking, developer workflows - and how it can be an ally against Parkinson's disease martinfowler.com/articles/202...

I recently upgraded my Google Home to use Gemini. Generative AI is a poor fit for many applications. I asked Google what the date was today. Responses: Fri 28th Sat 29th Sun 30th (yay!) Friday 30th (wtf?) I guess the plagiarism machine is bad at calendars.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Begrudging repost.

with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately

so this is a "years long medical mystery: at least partly solved?" kind of thread the diagnosis is not actually uncommon (and in fact it's a fairly common comorbidity of stuff I'm already dealing with : EDS / POTS / MCAS) #NEISvoid

In this house we ask if someone's games are properly saved when we take turns on the Steam Deck or Switch 2 because we're a loving family who looks after each other's progress.

This was an interesting read, with some cool future research potential (as far as I can tell). Don't let the headline dissuade you. Good results when an expert in a different field brings a new perspective to your problem.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I've completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 github.com/cjthatcher/a... adventofcode.com/2024/day/11 #AdventOfCode #YouWouldBeSillyToNotHireMe

I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 Solution: github.com/cjthatcher/a... Problem: adventofcode.com/2024/day/10 #AdventOfCode #SomebodyShouldReallyHireMe

give greta thunberg a gundam

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust. When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

A few days out from #UNGA80, I wanted to reflect on the session we took part in and the media responses since. Mount Sinai was one of the 150 organizations that signed the global pledge to advocate for healthy indoor air. The event itself featured four panels of speakers who 1/

1) This lecture by Prof dr Vivienne Matthies-Boon is a good introduction to the problems with the biopsychosocial (BPS) model and the harms it has caused in the ME/CFS community.

I like to imagine myself in an alternate reality where we picked Elizabeth Warren to be president. I hope that version of me is doing well :)

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

Rabbi says the Department of Homeland Security is misinterpreting scriptural passages as it seeks to hire more ICE personnel.

Outrageous omission by Spelling Bee. Milchik would be greatly displeased.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Man I just really hate AI. I'm very tired of it. "Wow, the plagiarism machine wrote you some poor code? And lost money doing it? Cool." Ugh.

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

I hope my outie is having a good life. His innie is _not_ doing well.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Conspiracy theorists all seem so unbelievably dumb that I suspect they've been planted by a shadowy and nefarious underground organization to distract us from what's really going on.

There are two wolves inside me I don’t know what I was thinking Even ordering one wolf But it was on the menu And I, I was curious Very gamy Anyway they ran a special That if you ate a whole wolf The second was free And everyone kept chanting Eat That Wolf, Eat That Wolf Alas Stupid Cracker Barrel

You know, we have a lot to complain about. But one thing I'm grateful for is that: of all the timelines that exist, we ended up in one that has Wikipedia. Like really this timeline sucks terribly. Except for Wikipedia. Man what an amazing monument. Best of humanity right there.

Y’all they finally noticed how good I am at the library.

changed my mind, lets go with the watery tart instead

Please bro just one more fruitless decade-long multi-trillion dollar Middle Eastern quagmire. Please bro it’s gonna be better this time

Me: I have done this thing which is somewhat complicated but avoids having to do any fuckery with client systems Them: But why did you not do something else that would require you to do fuckery on all your client systems

MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

Research from Japan indicates that scrubbing the *checks notes* epipharynx with an abrasive zinc oxide Q-tip might help alleviate some LC symptoms. Sign me up for the trial! Scrub away doctors. My *squints* epipharynx is yours to abrade!

Thank you to some amazing colleagues who took time and precious energy to craft this rapid response to the recent @bmj_latest piece. When people try to hijack #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex illness as psychosomatic it is important we strike back: www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Ezra Taft Benson in hell watching the far-right Mormon movement he nurtured blithely ignore the federal government threatening to suspend habeus corpus

It’s not a business. It’s a public service. It doesn’t need to net zero.

I think about this comic at least once a week

Your top priority on any todo list should be, "Build a portable, low-cost nuclear fusion generator." You will be amazed what you can achieve while you're procrastinating on that one. I just answered five(!) emails. Follow for more genius life hacks, etc...

“Autistic people will never hold a job” The entire tech industry:

maybe playing some Vampire Survivors will fix me, the previous 140 hours didn't but maybe one more will

If you can’t handle me at my worst, that is understandable. My manager also struggles with that

Nerds rock.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

I kind of want to go