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someone has informed me that these are in fact the same story should have checked before I posted!

1. Good to see OpenAI found some investment to help them purchase more NVIDIA graphics cards! 2. Good to see NVIDIA has found a significant new sales contract! So glad they're doing well! https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/

Nvidia invests $100m in OpenAI which will immediately spend that $100m on Nvidia chips. Mmm, bubbly. openai.com/index/openai...

We are a mixed dialect household here.

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Did I mention my second talk from #PyConAU about Free Software's unwillingness to think about consequences and how we might have learned a small amout from labour organising (and how corporates certainly have)? It's a good one! You should watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbU...

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGai…

#pyconau @chrisjrn.fyi The Death of Consequences http://youtu.be/WsbUzGailCw

Eurovision? You mean the musical contest set up in the aftermath of the Second World War explicitly to foster peace between European nations by cooperating on a shared broadcast? That Eurovision? It’s totally about politics. Peace is a political stance. As is war. As is doing a genocide.

In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGai…

Today I got to engage with my favourite* legal fiction of being employed in the USA. My employer of record has changed from one pretend employer to another. My job has stayed the same, the people I work with are the same. I now qualify for a completely different set of work-provided benefits.

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

A UK employment tribunal has ruled that calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence.

I gave a talk at #PyConAU (also #PyOhio) about using Python's guardrails to make your code safer. It's a good talk, also features a 5-minute digression about the development of the Armco Crash Barrier. Get into it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Ah...

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Battle axe. Stuffed bear. Mace. Pillow. Cactus. Blanket. These are just a few of the things you should not have in a baby's sleep space.

Includes this note about why agents as human replacements is my least favorite definition - because unlike AI agents, humans have agency!

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

this is innovation I can get behind

Liberty constantly trying to fiddle with F1 in unusual ways and they never thought to add a cat to every location

today in everyone-drives-their-kids-to-school-culture being godawful for the General Functioning of Society: some parent squished our garbage bins together so they could have space to park in front of our house; naturally the garbage collector could no longer collect our bins

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Except that the protocol is owned by the company and the contributions are locked by them and not a steering, electable body! Open source like Google Chrome, not like JavaScript

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. If you sign up for a library card this month, you'll be entered to win an Oliver's Market gift card or a Parks Pass! sonomalibrary.org/join/getacard #SonomaCountyLibrary #BibliotecasDeSonoma #LibrariesAreForEveryone #LibraryCardSignUpMonth

New from Neal Agarwal: a series of increasingly ridiculous and difficult captchas. I burst out laughing at the vegetables one. [neal.fun]

Every three to six months a new group of the biggest loser Democratic Party centrist jackasses bubbles up to say “we need to keep doing the politics that lost us the trust and respect of formerly solid blue voters and stop doing the only actions that make people excited enough to vote for us.”

If Apple actually cared about user privacy the clipboard on ios would remove tracking tokens from copied links

journalism was never cool. *Robert Redford and Hoffman* were cool b/c the only way to make a Watergate movie was to have it star these two extremely cool/sexy people! Reporters and good reporting are vital to a functioning democracy but it's a job for fucking dorks! It's a dorky profession! JFC!

i think if we could negotiate an arrangement where the American far right and the American far left both stop doing political gun violence that would be fantastic similarly if we could negotiate an arrangement where both RFK and I resign from the Cabinet

We're excited to announce the results of the 2025 election for the PSF Board! Sending a big thank you to the nominees, our outgoing Board members, and our community for participating this year- we are so grateful to be in community with all of you 💙💛

Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes

Good morning, especially to the two new and two returning @ThePSF directors! And _especially_ good morning to the @ThePSF's moderation team. Y'all do great work and we don't thank you enough (nor could we)! #python

"but I repeat myself" - me, paraphrasing @daedalus #pyconau

OH: "who uses potato?!" #pyconau

inb4 #pyconau

My talk! Today! 10:40ish! Attend! https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/115195255113951310 #pyconau

I'm reliably informed that you can buy an online ticket for today at pycon.org.au and maybe you should do that? #pyconau

COME TO MY TALK TOMORROW; IT'LL BE GOOD #pyconau

Today Only! I'm giving a talk about safety in python! It's good! The abstract is at least 38% accurate! https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/FBY7ZR/ Today, #pyconau, Ballroom 3, 1:30pm!

Please consider lightning talking. Sign up before the first talk after morning tea pls

I think we had this exact subject and shape of #pyconau keynote exactly 10 years ago. It's a great talk, but what a shame that we're getting a talk with more – and more egregious – examples of AI bias. We have learned, as an industry, precisely nothing over the last decade. Now sad.

oh yeah, this talk has good slides #pyconau

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way. by Ezra Klein

due to unforeseen circumstances, I'll be presenting my absolute banger of an op-ed, "The Death of Consequences" at #pyconau this weekend. There will be commentary. https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/7XVERX/