We're all wondering when this bubble will burst, but what if it already has? The flash of a distant explosion might not look like much, but only until the shockwave reaches you

I got my puppy a new fluffy dog bed so she has one for each first floor window. She is enjoying keeping an eye on the neighbourhood from her new extremely comfy guard post. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/116306287488338323 I actually hope Reform UK Ltd do well in the upcoming local elections, because it's extremely instructive for people to see how they perform in government in situations where the damage can at least be somewhat geographically […]

Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much the care whether the statements they make are true.

Over the past months I've been creating a #microemacs look-alike called kg, clearly flirting with Mg, and today I've released v1.0.0! 🎉 Pick it up at https://github.com/troglobit/kg I'm curious to hear what people think, there's a pre-built .deb file for users of #debian #ubuntu #linuxmint, and […]

Not that I haven't already been judging you harshly for watching the nationalist spectacle of the Olympics, but from this point on I'll officially be putting Olympics enthusiasts in the same category as people who are still reading Harry Potter […]

i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about _reformatting code_ using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

Heads up, gamers: Stellaris (my third most played game of all time, if you need an endorsement—or a warning) is 75% off on Steam right now, along with most of Paradox's catalogue. https://store.steampowered.com/developer/paradoxinteractive/sale/pdxspringsale26

Very sunny morning. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history. I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD (AND the MIST) on a mirror of the original Essex University system that […]

Love to wake up to "Your Government Are Embarrassingly Suggestible Rubes" news > In her lecture, Reeves will promise to achieve "the fastest AI adoption in the G7" thanks in part to government investment in British tech. She will add that quantum computing is to create 100,000 UK jobs […]

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal. Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done! https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure #solar

I don't want to put undue pressure on any country in particular, but I'd like you to please be aware that it's the Ides of March tomorrow.

If your company actually became vastly more productive, because of "AI" or whatever, you wouldn't lay off people: you would take on new efforts, make higher profits, have more things going on. Layoffs are always - always - a sign of bad decisions, misallocation of priorities. Gross […]

A sunny spring afternoon walk in the woods. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

For all you sick "I don't play games in early access" psychopaths who haven't been enjoying this gorgeous beaver colony builder since 2021 already, please be aware that Timberborn just dropped 1.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\\_-WFpaPgXDE

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217717944115087 There's literally only one thing that could convert me to a systemd hater overnight, and here we are.

My one Tony Hoare (RIP) story: We got him to keynote our conference one year. We snapped him up afterwards along with a couple of other speakers for dinner, as we usually did, hoping to partake of his wisdom in a more private setting, but Joe Armstrong (also RIP) sat down next to him and […]

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@thanetric/116203773645085148 Absolutely delicious.

I'm supposed to take her out for her late night poo, but I can't bring myself to disturb her. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

This is possibly the hardest thing I've had to admit in my entire life, but I find myself 100% in agreement with Jacob Rees-Mogg on this issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6AkcFlU1I

"How in the year 2026 can racism, sexism, even fascism be ascendant?" Capitalism is in crisis. Climate pressures, mature markets, and rival economies are making growth harder to come by so capitalism is leaning harder into its levers of exploitation and division. At the same time the emphasis […]

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/116199870730858955 Every UK government quote in this makes them look like such unbelievable rubes. It's all so, so embarrassing

Trump's hypocrisy exposed @bjennings90.bsky.social.

So, now you can add "defender of slop machines replacing critical expert health & technical infrastructure" to the long list of facepalm/eyeroll "opinions" held by the founder of the Ruby on Rails web framwork and some ugly Arch distro.

Well, the good news is I managed to go nearly two and a half months without buying another mechanical keyboard. 😔

We don't usually pay much attention to Crufts, because the judges in the Pastoral group tend to make a lot of errors in their selection of the winning breeds, but we note that they appear to have gotten it right this year. Congratulations to cousin Hazel! […] [Original post on mas.to]

I'm looking for a senior software engineer to join my team working on securing Wikipedia and our other projects. We've got a huge platform, a great mission and a team of passionate engineers and product managers working together with the community to keep the platform safe. Wikipedia just […]

Even Karl Marx himself thought that capitalists were sincere about defending property rights. The mass theft of intellectual property by LLM companies shows they don't even care about that. It's literally just 'This rich guy says he'll get richer if he can rob you, so that's legal now'

At least we're getting some useful clarification on the overlap between the "Claude does all my coding these days" type and the "everything should be MIT licensed to minimise friction for corporate adoption" type today.

Naturally, any visit to the old castle needs to be finished off with a pup cup, of the ice cream variety. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Spring has definitely sprung at Scotney Castle. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

The question is not whether you can create software using LLMs - you can - most software is just boring CRUD shit. But you do pay a hefty price: In lowering quality (security issues, less maintainable), in skill decay in the people "guiding" the stochastic parrots, etc. It's not "can 'AI's […]

Someone get Starmer a lettuce. https://news.sky.com/story/greens-overtake-labour-in-sensational-poll-13514420

As oil prices soar due to the US attack on Iran, Iran's response, and the widening conflict -- that is a gift to Saudi Arabia, other Middle East petrostates, Putin, and US oil barons. Not to mention distracting attention from the Epstein coverup […]

This is the old Shia v. Sunni conflict. MBS got Bibi and Donny to do his dirty work... Saudi Prince Privately Lobbied Trump To Launch Attack - Joe.My.God. https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/saudi-prince-privately-lobbied-trump-to-launch-attack/

Doing a bit of a crossover today. #DogsOfMosstodon #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi #Mosstodon

Resist the urge to tell the newly minted Iran experts that Khamenei and Khomeini were, in fact, two different people.

It would be great if the Iranian people had freedom and democracy next, but based on what we saw in Venezuela. Trump will probably make a deal with another regime dictator in mind who will let him sell the Iranian oil, and put the money in a private bank account in Qatar. I doubt the dreams and […]

Nobody sane of mind would cry the death of #khamenei. Iranians who are celebrating are doing the right thing. Everybody hated a decrepit theocratic dictator who has held back Iran’s progress for decades. Everybody hated an octogenarian who prevented women from dressing however they wanted […]

Hunting for treats in the grass. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116144758421429213 "AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform" That's how a company which uses LLMs to flood the political discourse with fake outrage describes itself. It's funny (funny as in grimly depressing) how everyone expected Orwell's dystopia, or […]

Yes, this is a war for a religion, and the Christian Zionists are all in favour.... https://x.com/PriyamvadaGopal/status/2027680728746758379 #Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #USpol #Palestine #EUpol all for #Israel #Amalek #Zionism #Christianity 'CNN put out an […] [Original post on todon.eu]

Americans, please come collect your guy, he's unilaterally invading sovereign countries again.

There are so many reasons not to eat animals. Here’s another, but it doesn’t even matter if it’s true. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/27/vegetarians-have-substantially-lower-risk-of-five-types-of-cancer

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116144045436347868 RIP. I appreciate Hyperion tremendously because I've always been able to immediately dismiss the taste of anyone who names it one of their top sci-fi picks. Younger me did really enjoy his Ilium/Olympos duology, though, I should […]

If you're in the mood for a bit of shameless leftist gloating, Owen Jones is _really_ enjoying himself tonight. https://youtube.com/watch?v=BSpwneeUguU

Bonus pic of cousin Oscar also bringing that Corgi energy to the workplace. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi