This all reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Aver...

Reminder...

thank you generative ai and data centers for making consumer electronics way more expensive

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

Re: virtual machines: - Machines of recent vintage can run them with minimal overhead - You can share files, clipboard, USB devices, etc fairly easily between the VM and "host" system - VirtualBox is a decent and free VM

Never gonna give you up (there) Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around you(r orbit) and (Red d)esert you!

Me today

i wonder if they make human versions of this dog vest

Sharing paywalled links is like shitting in public

This but not in a stupid paywalled shit site that can't even dare tell you it is a pay wall and instead wastes your time with something that pretends to be a shit cookie banner. www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-...

Hello dear Finns, but... perkele? Saatana? What?

I have totally not set up a cup of tea in the kitchen half an hour ago and totally forgotten about it for fifteen minutes, and then forgot about it again until now, and am gonna forget about it a wee bit more once I hit post

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If you rely on "AI" this is the future. One day it's gonna be gone or it'll become much more expensive, as VC money runs out. I'll lol at you. Good thing you deskilled yourself or robbed yourself of the chance to learn a skill in the first place The entire economics of this is fantasy. Bad fantasy

#SkyStorians Can someone explain to me why some institutions ask for a CV including "non-academic interests." What are they asking for here and why? That I enjoy running, reading, and photography in my "spare" time? I am not sure what to make of this, and am slightly uncomfortable adding it.

Oh no the poor eelephants

“Why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste” It is cheaper to buy new #nuclear fuel than to recycle old nuclear fuel It can be recycled once, & that creates a separate trajectory of problems SMRs compound these problems and distribute waste widely www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/19/1...

The biggest issue I have with reading on the tablet is navigating the PDF. Always has been. I have sticky tabs in my diary, and i can just put a finger between pages. There's no digital equivalent that's not a UI disaster that's impossible to use anywhere near as fluidly

The bugginess of the Bluesky ecosystem is starting to get annoying Also, why still no iPad support in the main iOS app? Surely that should only take a few minutes for all the vibe coders that work their? No? Wonder why. Maybe they’re prompting it wrong.

The Winter 2026 issue of Keshif, Vol. 4, No. 1, has just been published, in online open access as always. Among the various fascinating papers, this one attracted particularly my interest. journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...

Today I had a bunch of my readings printed. Been doing that for a few weeks. It can be annoying on a bus to read with pen and paper, but so is tablet, in more frustrating ways, and activates my perfectionist-about-silly-things tendencies so I end up wasting five minutes getting an highlight right.

Looks like I took a couple too many courses than I can manage. I was quite enjoying my extra stuff initially, but I'm already required to take 5 courses, and even just auditing, 7 is too many. Embarrassing but gonna admit defeat, gonna write to my professors for the audited courses today.

"Protect All Migrants. Abolish Borders" Sticker spotted in Milan

"One day, everyone will have always been against this" Poster spotted in Toronto, Canada

Everybody stop. Wait. The son is called... Saxon? Huh.

This is why AI is so appealing & convincing to certain groups, if you're brought up on the idea — implicit or not — that stealing ideas is OK... well, AI just automates that theft for you from that naturally flows olivia.science/cryptogyny & racist versions of hiding who really did the work

Next phone's gonna be an iPhone. If I can't have all the juicy open source apps I'll at least have phone with working calendar, reminder, notes, file browser apps at least. lifehacker.com/tech/how-goo...

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs venture capital discovers there’s no exit www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMh... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260320-ope... - podcast time: 6 min 41 sec

Political science, in scare quotes

They have experience of capitalism & it's bad enough to have them seeking alternatives. Oh no, Anna & Mr Quoted Guy don't like it tho! This is over some teen mag's cover mentioning Lenin btw. One of these is a polsci prof, the other a CEO… & this is what they spend their "valuable" time on.

Strawman by means of obscuring scale, intent, and materiality of life with ideals... Heaps difference b/w what anyone can whip up on a desktop PC vs "AI", what's an organised effort at deskilling & proletarising knowledge work where the maths is but a detail. That's the issue, not the tech.

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Ok finally got it and this is a very nice release. I can now have the tabs to the right, expanded, and auto hide; bookmarks autohide up top, and the sidebar autohide to the left. The shine may wear out but for now with only address&status bars visible,, 'tis roomy, I like it.

@vivaldi.com for some reason I can't seem to upgrade to the new release on Fedora, 7.9 will show up with `dnf info vivaldi-stable' but `dnf update` or `dnf update vivaldi-stable` says "nothing to do". Something misconfigured? I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling now.

Some idiot professor: the earth is actually a donut. Everyone else: ACADEMIA SAYS ACCEPT THE KRISPY KREME WORLD OR PERISH VANISH RADISH No, my dear, no, it's that one idiot, just that idiot... when have *two* academics agreed on anything, that you suggest the whole lot says this one thing

Software never gets cheaper. It can never get cheaper. Impossible. Software is an indefinitely growing maintenance burden and it has a tendency to grow indefinitely more larger and complicated so almost definitionally the cost of a package of software only ever grows.

Yes

Seems like real, plain and simple political thought was produced only in 1450-1700

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... What's the point of all this? The terf island wants to lead "AI" but can't tell if someone's it's citizen unless they happen to have a very particular little booklet on them? Clearly this is just meant to cause harm, it's an act of sadism.

cures many an eelness, lets you attain weelness

"Rogue AI" is a weird way to spell "oversized ebooks bot that techbros worship", a serious publication would not use such a bullshit "term".

Guess this is satire but the thing is if I was told if the website wasn't, I couldn't know, because, ofc, the current web design trend is "noughties pr0n/warez/pirated soccer stream website"

anw sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-the-h... > In these venues he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration.

Racist but cowardly and sneaky

Cos those that hand these clowns these jobs agree with their new hires, simple as.

This poor book is so awfully edited, so many typos, words and transcriptions fucked up, and this sort of typesetting error Is this what our libraries pay thru the nose for?

Nice read

Apparently there's now a publication requirement for PhD completion at Boğaziçi.. Tbh I was quite surprised that there wasn't one when I started out here, it's the fad here now in unis, a trend of weird formalisations of everything..

Bu işlem için olan web arayüzleri günlerdir çalışmıyor. Oyalayıp duruyorlar iki dakikada çözülebilecek bir problem için. Tekrar tekrar yok kayıt açtır, yok ekran görüntüsü gönder, yok yine dene. E-devletten indirdiğim dosyayı yüklüyorum ve çalışmıyor. Hata sizde. Dosyalar sağlam. Çözün. Yok...

Oh! What is this! A really nice ad for Sublime Text! (Sublime Text is where this pile of crap yoinked all its UI from, it's just VS Code but slower and worse)