@gelliottmorris.com What‽ The way you structure a poll drives the outcome? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks

Someone quoted me online as saying, “All programming languages are shit, but some fertilize your mind.” BRB, I have a great post for https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/

[No matter how much this looks like today's news, it's a dystopian fantasy,] This is, I remind you all, supposed to be fiction. https://youtube.com/watch?v=I24K8BfV840

Keep it down please, we're in here watching a tech talk about Cloudbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gw-JNA41rA

Suddenly unsure: Is my joy of #gliding the joy of soaring through the air like a majestic bird? Is it like sitting in a chair in the sky like a god of my ancestors? Or is it spending hours in the air, during which I am so present in the moment that I forget that I have a phone?

Landing gear out. Touchdown! Bearded tit ♂️ (Panurus biarmicus, 🇩🇪 Bartmeise, 🇵🇱 wąsatka). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

Warning: Violent ANTIFA extremists spotted in Illinois. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHD0ZEsI1OE

Alan: “Programming is literature.” Bob: “Bullshit. Literature is culture, it’s choosing word, phrases, and structured communication for emotional and cultural impact rather than factual description. Whereas programming is objective bit-twiddling, culture is irrelevant.” Alan: ‘No offence […]

An impromptu tail wheel fix on the flight line for runway one-zero at @SOSAGlidingClub. Easy question for #gliding enthusiasts. The man in the blue shirt is carrying some iron discs and a peg similar to the “Towers of Hanoi” mathematical puzzle. What are the discs for?

Morgan Freeman voiceover: "And although he tried and tried and tried, he was never named PagerDuty Troubadour of the Year..."

Journalism has a Vocational Awe problem, and the toxic cocktail of sociopathic politicians and businessmen seems as if it was genetically engineered to exploit it. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

I usually make things for people to use at home, but it seems to me that the only purpose of this bowl is to bob and spin in the Gulf. #ceramics #pottery #nature #water #beach #florida #birds #PeacefulMoments

My partner is trying to buy scheduling software for a food bank not-for-profit, and running into the awfulness that is Enterprise Sales. What she needs is a company that has embraced users-as-buyers and product-led growth with transparent pricing and […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

"Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says world's richest man" is the headline, but this is The Real Life, this is not The Onion. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/21/wealth-tax-would-be-deadly-for-french-economy-says-europe-richest-man-bernard-arnault

Having started reading the Business Media in the 1980s, I have a sure-fire guide to knowing when the media is deliberately pushing a bubble narrative: It's a bubble when they spend more time talking about why investors are bullish on stocks then they do […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

One of my first-ever #gliding lessons, a flight with Poul Hansen in an SZD-50 Puchacz. Late Autumn of 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnw3hgjlhhU

One of my first-ever gliding lessons, a flight with Poul Hansen in an SZD-50 Puchacz. Late Autumn of 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnw3hgjlhhU

Two hour local ramble in @SOSAGlidingClub's fancy DG-1001 two-seater last Friday, with fellow member JT as PIC in the back seat. Solo #gliding is amazing, but sharing a flight is nice in a different way, with extra eyes to manage situational awareness and trading off the stick and rudder work so […]

> “It’s a very simple goal. To finally overcome the curse of Twitter, which is that people will have used Twitter or X for a decade and never bought a single thing.” —Elon Musk, quoted by Bloomberg, https://archive.ph/wLC8M#selection-1725.0-1746.0 OMG, what‽

LLMs have taught us that the Turing Test doesn't determine whether machines are intelligent, it actually determines whether humans are credulous.

Just before taking an instructional #gliding flight with Joerg Stieber. Joerg is @SOSAGlidingClub's past president, an exceptionally fine instructor, and a very proud Bavarian. 🇩🇪

@josephcox Signage on television is more permissive.

In July, Musk said that 50 percent of the US population would have access to Tesla’s robotaxis by the end of the year. And he predicted that Tesla customers would be able to update their own vehicles to drive autonomously without supervision by the end of […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

Compare and contrast. First up, @RosaCtrl and https://social.bau-ha.us/@[email protected]/115049918101588096

As bombastically awesome (or awful, depending upon your taste) as his later prog pop/rock albums were, Alan Parsons' first album is a interesting little gem, a musical interpretation of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7htAlPqwBI

Savage from the opening line. https://futurism.com/tesla-diner-falling-apart #tesla

“Out of the Blue,” Electric Light Orchestra, 1977. A progressive pop/rock masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7KsY3ErcU

Generative AI is actually very good at summarizing books, essays, conversations, meeting transcripts, and so on. But what if the summary isn't as important as the work of summarizing? Source: https://medium.com/@rehmanmomin/the-unfashionable-art-of-actually-learning-things-0cc7359dbb88 👒 @ez

I use "Documents", an iOS PDF reader/annotation app. It's fantastic for not just reading books and essays in PDF format, but for marking them up as I read, which greatly increases retention. BUT! As with so many other apps born as decent products at […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

Verisimilitude is a helluva drug.

“Did you ever notice how anybody who cares more about code quality than you is a perfectionist, and anyone who cares less is a maniac?” —George Carlin (if he had written code instead of driving cars)

👆🏽 “As a general rule, it’s best to have things behave as similarly as possible in the domain code, and this sometimes does involve some extra complexity in the infrastructure code. But that is more of a guideline than a hard-and-fast rule, and for this […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

If Martin Luther King were alive today, the Trump Administration would be telling the Supreme Court that they are not bringing him back from a foreign concentration camp. ”His message of equal treatment before the law for all persons is contrary to American Policy Both Foreign and Domestic,“ […]

“All too often, America has been a democracy of convenience. Rights are granted to those who align with power. For the poor, for people of color, for those who resist injustice, rights are but words written on water.” Mahmoud Khalil has written this century‘s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” […]

"Miss You Much, Extended:" 1. Flyte Time produced the music. 2. There's a Mondrian making a cameo. I dig that an art director thought that a bunch of New Jack Swingers would have a Mondrian in their clubhouse. 3. That hat and chair dance at the end reminding us that dance is dance, whether it […]

Trivially true: Emoji reactions serve the same purpose as gestures and facial expressions in spoken communication.

I'm coming down with a literate programming bug again, but this time I'm dreaming of notebooks. What if, I wonder, I wrote another book, but it was a notebook and people could go ahead and write code in it, modify code, even tinker with the text?

US Politics

“The WD40 ration has been raised to 300ml.” 👒 @VeroniqueB99

"It's a vehicle John Mastodon would drive."

Read Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." http://braythwayt.com/assets/pdf/letter-from-birmingham-jail-1963-04-16.pdf DO NOT ask AI to summarize it. DO NOT "like, boost, and scroll on." DO read his original words, in their entirety. DO THE NECESSARY WORK.

Snowy long-weekend project: Robert Indiana's LOVE statue, the Lego version. It's a relatively quick build, and it looks simple, but that letter O is one of the most complex builds I've seen. I've admired the Lego fine art sets, but haven't bought any before […] [Original post on jawns.club]

I'll give good money to the first team that hacks OpenAI and retrains ChatGPT to substitute "magic beans" for "cryptocurrency" in every piece of AI slop it generates. I'll double my bounty if some lazy reporter uses ChatGPT to write about America's plan to […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]