Some people would sooner die than see a Muslim elected mayor of NYC, and I wish them well on their journey

Nuclear weapons? Asteroid strike? Pestilence? Super intelligent AI? No, putting LLMs in Excel is what is going to end civilization.

Yesterday's school shooting won't show up in a bunch of summary statistics. "Only" two people other than the shooter died, so it won't count as a mass shooting as counted by many organizations.

9 months seems like a pretty long time already

"We don't know who they are, or even which agency they represent, but does that make these police "secret police"?" Yes, it clearly does.

I'm normally hesitant to make claims of causality, but it's a pretty easy bet that repeated infection with an incredibly damaging virus is a more likely cause of detriment to kids than other kids being out of school for a few months before they were even born.

The professors defending the use of LLMs to create course content in this article are beyond embarrassing. No, this is not "AI" and students will not need to know how to "ethically" use this in their careers. Anyone pretending otherwise is misinformed, lying, or both.

RIP Pepe Mujica

The first American Pope was Francis. This isn't hard.

Calling Pope Francis the "first Latin American Pope" is such a weird thing, when he was the first American Pope, without any modifier.

I don't post on here much, but I'm so psyched every time I see @roywoodjr.bsky.social getting some of the credit he deserves. His series got renewed, and he had a Detroiters reunion on one side of the stage for yesterday's show.

Cake's cover of I Will Survive was released closer to the release of the original than to the present day. This was true starting in 2014.

Nope

Ronin the rat was quoted as saying, "I set a record doing WHAT?!"

It takes a special kind of temerity to try to claim intellectual property rights over something not only plundered, but 1700 years old.

I have bad news for these pilots about what they're doing on these missions

It's just a matter of time before The Atlantic finally just admits that Waltz is a source, and that's why they're contacts of one another in @signal.org

It is beyond wild that Cameo labels deceased performers as "out of stock"

I've been off of here (and all social media) for a few weeks, and I'm going to keep that going a bit. DM me for Signal. Be well.

RIP Biff Wiff 😔

Will markets tanking be enough to stir up political will? Everything else sure isn't. Maybe it'll take huge contractors getting cut off.

The Whimpering Twenties

It's probably been said before, but @hrbrmstr.dev seems like a truly dreadful enemy to have. May we all be even a fraction as productive in opposition to fascism.

This is just an auto-complete. That's all it can do. If it happens to explain something correctly, it's quite literally by chance. Stop expecting meaningful responses from these things. Reasonable people using them, like Chris here, lend credibility to inherently untrustworthy technology.

Almost unbelievable hypocrisy

Ok so maybe some of us won't get our hands on new video cards

The most important point in all of this is that LLMs still lack a valid use case. There is a new kid on the block that is apparently *much* less expensive when it comes to doing nothing particularly useful. All the money involved in "AI" is still on the costs end.

Looks like they're trying to create a use case for LLMs, a foreign service without any language skills.

What I'm reading in the news about DeepSeek is that some of us might, someday, get our hands on new video cards.

I think this is correct, but that the outstanding question (more than just when) is by whom. Does the DNC stand up, does Trump have a heart attack on the toilet, or is there an international coalition and a truth and reconciliation commission?

Microsoft stole so much code and violated so many licenses. It's almost unbelievable. They spent decades and (at least) hundreds of millions of dollars strengthening intellectual property laws. They're still fighting, today, to keep people from having access to vaccines, for the same reason.

Unfortunately, the Presidency has a history of love for insurrectionists. Eisenhower helped smash the Nazis last time, but he kept a portrait of Lee in the Oval Office. He called him a "great American." Every Republican President since has been a segregationist, but so have some of the Democrats.

Me when I want the data to retain its original units

One of the easiest, most visible ways to resist is to mask Safeguarding your health is more important than ever. It’s easier to fight back when you’re not chronically ill It shows you care about disabled & marginalized individuals It tells government you won’t be complicit in the harm of others

The most surprising thing about Trump's first week this term is that he hasn't announced plans for a statue of himself on sacred ground.

Before making a, "I sure do miss George W Bush being President" post: 1. Log off 2. Look at yourself in a mirror 3: Walk into the ocean

I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman

If there was one takeaway from the first Trump administration, it wasn't "we need less medical research"

This is the leader of the "opposition" party.

Sometimes when building a minimal reprex for a bug, you discover that you were the bug all along. I assume this is what Kafka was on about.

I was promised a much better Stargate program with waaay fewer fascists.

This might be the largest ratio Bluesky has ever seen, and deservedly.

it’s a cruel, vengeful, greedy time, but also so, SO stupid

A lot of people are explaining what Trump can and cannot do, based on the law and Constitution. The reality of the situation is that we're about to find out what legal walls and safeguards will hold and which will crumble. Right now, we don't fucking know.

They really are staying mad about the fourteenth amendment.

We (hopefully) all know his Letter from Birmingham Jail, but Beyond Vietnam is arguably as important and often overlooked. The NYT and WaPo both criticized King for this speech, saying he didn't understand what he was saying, and that he was oversimplifying things. They were wrong.

I'm not convinced of how having a bunch of political enemies of the incoming administration admit guilt so they can be pardoned is going to work out for everyone.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen in data? #databs

Anyone insisting on what "proper D&D" looks like is a bummer.