Is AI better at coding than a junior engineer? Maybe! Will we ever have senior engineers if we replace all junior engineers with AI? We will not Is AI better at writing then a 6th grader? Maybe! Will anyone learn to write of all 6th graders use AI? They will not

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“AI is just a tool” says tech mogul who is just a tool

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My best piece of advice, and this is something I learned the hard way, is: if you live in an elevator building, get a keychain that is larger in every dimension than the gap between the elevator car and the elevator door

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

Then there is what happened just last night on California's grid with the arrival of the extra SunZia wind power. Those natural gas plants that wait poised to surge at sunset ... just weren't needed. 1.5 GW of gas during the day to be ready went to 1 GW at sunset with 9 GW of batteries. Amazing.

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

The demonstrable flaw in “vote blue no matter who” is that it actually matters who

I want a federal program that funds free, but mandatory, headphones for phones used in public spaces. I am a single issue voter now.

fuckin crazy story. some Ukrainian kid probably saved his whole family from being killed by a Russian drone murder squad by spotting and cutting the fiber optic connection www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Nintendo president: Switch 2 price increases due to war on Iran and AI-driven memory crisis

Basically agree with this. Bluesky may be (relatively) small, but spaces like that are useful for generating coherence and cohesion within a movement. The movement can assert its influence later, when it’s more disciplined. A lot of the ideas that dominate tech and the White House started on 4Chan.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

I have been told several times by NYT reporters that they *include this crediting* in drafts and have it removed by editors.

Just another day of living through William Gibson's Jackpot.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

The trick to successful personality politics is in constantly giving up the spotlight, while remaining present. Mamdani uses "I" precisely twice in this entire video. He uses "we" or "our" 22 times. He mentions multiple other politicians by name, giving them credit. This is mastery of the form.

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

Real Estate: Your Doppelgänger’s House

Taylor Swift Adds Additional Wedding Dates In L.A., Miami, Boston https://theonion.com/taylor-swift-adds-additional-wedding-dates-in-l-a-miami-boston/

"Foreign actors exploiting Alberta separatist debate to stoke discord, researchers say" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This is about High Potential but it could also apply to shows like Matlock, Elsbeth and RJ Decker. Networks seem insistent on adding serialized components to excellent procedurals. Stop doing that! People love cases of the week; they don’t always need another, bigger mystery to keep track of.

To be crystal clear: “security guarantees to Russia” is a euphemism for providing Ru w carte blanche to interfere, dominate, and, if it deems necessary, invade Eastern Europe. The language of “security” has provided a cover for Ru imperialism since 1991! It needs to stop. No one is threatening Ru!

Russian territorial gains have flatlined, giving Moscow next to nothing to show for its consistently high losses. But in a long war that has seen many ebbs and flows, perceptions can be deceiving, and making quick judgements can be a dangerous game.

if only men had another demographic to talk to 😔

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

putting women in games is like putting oil in peanut butter... they just dont mix...

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this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

⚡️US falls below Russia in survey of global perceptions. The global perception of the United States has fallen for a third consecutive year, now ranking several spots behind Russia, a survey commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundations revealed on May 7.

I appreciate democracy because you can see the percentage of people that are absolute garbage humans and there are now colour-coded maps on where to never visit.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Under the doctrine of revealed preferences, someone who sells their kidney to make the rent has a revealed preference for only having one kidney: pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/p... 8/

CWA Canada president says Saudi buyout of EA should trigger 'virtually every alarm bell'

This is why we need to be able to cancel people. For the health of society this kind of shit needs to be unrecoverable. If you get caught doing something this embarrassing you have to not be able to ever go outside again

Caregiving is female, it is VASTLY undercompensated, and every government agency and male taxpayer benefits from women’s unpaid and underpaid work. Caregiving is a Feminist Issue, it’s an equality issue, it’s an equal justice issue, and it’s a racial justice issue.

The thing imperialist russians and their fans hate the most is evidence that russia is weak and slowly losing. It drives them nuts. Telling them russia is a hated aggressor that commits war crimes doesn't bother them because they know it to be true and perceive it as a desirable sign of strength.

it is increasingly clear that the NYer is being paid to do unlabeled sponsored content for AI companies. almost every issue they have a big feature that either lies about the capabilities of AI in a positive way, or lies about it in an alarmist way that still is designed to make it sound powerful

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.