I’m going to leave the ‘do economists understand real world factors’ debate, with a favourite cartoon

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study. www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

"The content that gets “engagement” on Twitter is mostly complete crap" The reason is simple: The incentive structure and algorithm have been designed to amplify incendiary nonsense and throttle content with links to evidence. www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

Small acts of curiosity can be revolutionary. You don’t need to solve your whole life. Just shift something: your routine, your environment, your perspective. Novelty breaks the loop.

Sorry ‪@jhalp2.bsky.social for quote-posting your response to my skeet. I’ve had a few requests to clarify some of the more concerning aspects... particularly around cybersecurity and privacy... so I’ve put together a short thread that I hope helps. 🧵...

The more you read, the worse it gets: blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompi...

Sun Tzu is rolling in his grave like a rotisserie chicken.

lol

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln #Truth

Yet more research highlighting the consequences of AI on human psychology

80's too!

“Americans don’t see themselves as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” --John Steinbeck www.king5.com/article/news...

What do you say to someone who believes their chatbot has unlocked the keys to the universe? I talked to mental health experts who are following the 'AI psychosis' issue closely to find out: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

It’s starting to feel like Trump will eventually cut and run, leaving all these countries with abandoned bases and an escalating regional war, which is just as fall of the Roman Empire as it gets.

This is a disturbed individual 🤣

The original OSS

Didn’t see it coming, but this song hit me hard. Made me think of my great uncle and my grandfather. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jrm...

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

The F-35 Debate Is Really about how We Killed the Avro Arrow. The cancellation of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow wasn’t just a defense decision — it was a catastrophic blow to Canada’s aerospace industry. a 🧵 thewalrus.ca/avro-arrow/

When looking for something else, I stumbled across this deck for an internal presentation I gave at Sun in 2003 -- one that I believe to be the first that formally tied our work in DTrace to the more abstract idea of software observability speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/so...

From 2023: "The main thing to understand is that Merrick Garland and the DOJ do not want to hold Trump accountable. The preservation of a corrupt institution and its secrets is their agenda, not the survival of our country or the welfare of its people." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

The core mechanism of dehumanization in tech is surveillance capitalism.. treating human life as free raw material to be mined into behavioral data. Our attention, emotions, and relationships are harvested, packaged, and sold to advertisers.

Who remembers when US politics were so boring that a private email server was enough to get you hauled in front of congress? I kind of miss those days.

Lol.. man... Just like old times nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/...

If confirmed, this would be the first observational hint of primordial black holes and also provide a potential first detection of Hawking radiation, a quantum effect predicted but never seen directly. www.quantamagazine.org/monster-neut...

This underscores the importance of configuring origin cloaking when using CDNs. I know at least for Fastly they export a list of IPs api.fastly.com/public-ip-list that you can pull and load into your firewall that will help restrict communications between your CDN infrastructure IPs and your origin.

Aroma is a project that claims TCP proxies can be detected by fingerprinting RTT timing differences at the TCP layer — plausible for many proxies but less reliable against sophisticated setups like Tor/VPNs. Experimental and insightful. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638...

Another grim but necessary piece by Jared

I saw the following image from and I have some thoughts on Canadian unity, and the separatist movement currently unfolding within Alberta. Source: www.threads.com/@theheadline...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

We are cooked: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...