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Frozen peas are an absolute miracle, providing meals with nutritional and color-wheel balance in all of five minutes. So OF COURSE they are going to add AI to the already perfect peas (as opposed to the frozen or canned green beans, which really do need some help).

This was a great read, interesting counter to the conventional wisdom about writing tech books.

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Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use generative AI “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features” (via NPR)

Just reading newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t... by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, really nicely done and so far completely matches my own experience finding a new job this year.

I've got a Tesla rental at the moment, while mine is in for repairs. Rental is '21 Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor with about 60k miles. Best part is it comes with free Supercharging and tolls, plus FSD and acceleration boost. www.notateslaapp.com/news/3038/te... via @NotATeslaApp.com

There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state. Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination. Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.

This is an absolutely key distinction, to the point where I think we should always use the specific terms themselves - generative AI and machine learning - rather than the AI umbrella term.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Life is a constant series of small, powerful lessons just like this

Agree completely, AI for code generation is trying to solve the wrong problem

Hypocrisy is going to hit hard when companies & educated elites will lament how no one wants to read, write, or think anymore thanks to genAI. Then Ray who has been behind bars for 20 years with nothing but books, his thoughts, & numerous writings will ask for a job and they won't give it to him.

I'm not a fan of the yah-boo British parliamentary culture at all, but I do feel that when someone lands an absolute zinger of a question like this and literally brings receipts, there should at least be a chant of "NICE ONE MAGGIE" from the public gallery or an airhorn or something.

@zoracon.bsky.social have you seen these?

I’m proud that Total Politics is launching the Lord Cormack Fellowship - a paid, with accommodation in London, month-long introduction to political journalism, Westminster and publishing. Apply below!

I think we all need a pause right now while waiting for more Musk/Trump development, so I am offering you a JWST image! 🔭 This is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud, ~400 light years away from us, seen in infrared light. It seems as explosive as the feud today 🤫 HD: flic.kr/p/2r96wp9

Every day Brian, every day.

Watching Terminator 2 with my 12 year old daughter, who says this is one of her favorite films. #happydad

Saw this handsome fellow in our local stream near Stevenage yesterday. Google says he's a mandarin duck, and he's definitely a looker.

Just took this survey from the State of JS folks per @joshwcomeau.com's recommendation. Just a vibe check on developer hobbies and work / life relationship. Curious to see the results! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

A nuanced view expressed by this author is that you can like a team's draft picks and also that said draft picks need to be star-level hits for it to mean anything in 2025.

@mmasnick.bsky.social cool post for two reasons: 1) always like to hear about interesting things people are building and learning, even if (especially if) they make me question my priors 2) disabling replies and quote posts is pretty powerful, I had never seen that done before. Like a 1-way mirror

This is baller, somebody took all of the “Ask HN: Who’s Hiring?” job postings and created a searchable database amber-williams.github.io/hackernews-w...

This was fun but it's also like Oregon Trail: every decision sucks, and no matter what good stuff happens, you're still probably going to die of dysentery. 🛡️ #TrustAndSafetyTycoon 🏆 Won via IPO and retired from the tech world 📈 Score: 1807 📏 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐◾️ ▶️ Play Now: trustandsafety.fun

Super cool www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/co...

Like an inline, multi-level crossword puzzle. Some computer programmer looked at a bunch of lines of string interpolation and decided work wasn't quite entertaining enough.

lmao noooooooooooooooooo bsky.app/profile/josh...

Looking to speak to Ukrainians in the U.K. for a feature I’m working on. Please RT/get in touch

This is time-sensitive information for law students. Please share if you know people who can use it. It is a long list, and has links to news articles or other support for its classifications.

Always made me wonder how American audiences could understand the Harry Potter movies, what with them speaking a foreign language without subtitles.

So it seems like when you post a link to BlueSky, the web client fetches the thumbnail and uploads it. This seems dangerous — presumably I could link to a news story headlined "dangerous criminal on the loose" and upload a photo of anyone I like as the thumbnail?

Zelensky launched a fundraising platform, United 24, which runs projects ranging from humanitarian and educational help, through to funding drones and other equipment. I reckon they deserve record support after that bullying shitshow u24.gov.ua

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Maybe Gemini should listen to Google search results more. Although I noticed when I search for this exact same phrase in Google, I don't get an AI response there either.

Great idea! I always wondered how all these DB platforms could implement full Postgres compatibility and assumed it was mostly T-SQL syntax and enough auth + config support to use a standard Postgres JDBC / ODBC driver.

It would be a real shame if Elon Musk was tricked into fundraising £100k for causes he HATES this year... That's how much we'll raise if we get 50 more pledgers for as little as 1p every time he tweets. Are you in? www.peoplevselon.co.uk

And yesterday evening, I added a share on #Bluesky button on posts on blog.frankel.ch. #QuitX

@minakimes.bsky.social what's up with the trend of players not wearing their mouth guards? And also WTF with that dude I think on the Ravens with TWO mouth guards, neither of which was in?

Here’s an idea! I’ve had good luck with “grade this nonsense” assignments in the past

@riversmccown I think Ross is going back to the practice squad, possibly even right now

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

Oh very cool. @listifications.app is a feature Bluesky solely was missing. Get a notification whenever you're added to a starter pack, block list, feed or when someone blocks your account.

Pressing enter instead of shift+enter

every poster thinks they are casually sharing their passing thoughts; every replier thinks they are critiquing a manifesto

This tribute to Ugly Baby by @girinathan.bsky.social is unreal. An absolutely surreal restaurant and one that will be sorely missed. defector.com/i-loved-how-...

1/3 One of the strongest aspects of atproto/Bluesky is that it delivers to users a simple and elegant UX on top of a decentralized protocol. One of the weakest aspects of atproto/Bluesky is that it delivers to developers a complex and inelegant DX on top of a decentralized protocol.

‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ was released on this day 45 years ago! (December 7, 1979) Directed by Robert Wise. Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta, & Stephen Collins. #OTD #OnThisDay #StarTrek