It's always fun to watch people with strong opinions about Star Wars argue with each other. I've always been more of a "may the force be equal to mass times acceleration" sort of nerd, myself.

One of my principles: The mere existence of a technology is usually not a good enough reason to fear it or avoid it. How that technology is used or proposed to be used should guide your reaction to it... but as we all know, nuance on the internet is illegal.

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Bengals pick six!

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle) like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

This. Big Tech is counting on people not knowing or understanding the difference between machine learning and generative AI. ML technology is specialized and at this point, extremely useful for things like spam detection.

I have a fun air travel ritual - a playlist. I start it when the pilots throttle up for the takeoff roll and the songs are, in this order: "Airliner" by Jamestown Revival "Luck Dragon Lady!" by The Aquabats! "Can't Control The Weather" by Fairground Saints "Flying" by Green River Ordinance

Felt like a fresh atproto handle... the last three letters of my ham radio call sign actually have the same meaning as the TLD so I had to do it. I've actually had the domain for a few years and use it almost like a URL shortener, so 🤷‍♂️

evergreen

Paid $15 for a dump of the PSTN routing database and whipped up a tiny web API using Python + Flask on my LAN so I could block spam calls by carrier with a FreePBX dynamic route. I did all this without going near an LLM.

I do want Google computers to read my email and skim out the obvious spam; I didn't need Google computers reading my email to spam me with Google's own redundant and/or out-of-date alerts about package deliveries on top of the emails that already told me that information

Wait, there’s poetry? Has anyone tried feeding it into an LLM and seeing what happens?

Chrome when it hears you got an extra stick of 32GB

Shot + chaser

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

A thing Ive been reminded about Zoomers once again is how many believe that any sort of borrowing/reworking of cultural materials (media, food, etc) is unethical. Charitably, I'm gonna assume that comes from a lack of knowledge about how culture works & having that gap filled by dumb/preachy TikToks

I never thought I would see a Today Show segment about the growing demand for passenger rail in the US. Awesome!

git commit -m 'fix oauth' /testing/ git commit -m 'fix oauth please god work'

People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke

Happy "wow, the internet is pretty centralized and we should probably do something about it" day

Wait, I thought everyone already did this. Why do I have this many servers in my utility room?!

I’ve been saying this for a while: Broadcasters follow all the rules, fill out all the forms, and we stand at the ready to help local civil authorities spread important messages. The civil authorities don’t use it at best, and they use entirely wrong at worst. www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...

I literally could not have said this better myself. The people currently in power don’t have a monopoly on MY America. I fly my 🇺🇸 just to spite the people who think they alone own it. Not if I have anything to do with it. There’s a reason every new citizen gets a flag. It’s theirs too.

Jerry gets it.

btw you can put a symbol as the first character of your name in linkin and auto-filter any email with that symbol in straight to your spam drawer :)

As a resident of KY-04, at least I don’t have to contact my member of Congress and urge him to vote a certain way on the literal one thing I’ve ever agreed with him on ever. Silver linings, right?

Glanced at my box of Lucky Charms (yes, I am a 37 year old child) and read “they’re medically delicious” instead of “they’re magically delicious”. Immediately wondered who the hell funded that research before realizing what happened.

The social media equivalent to catching a spider and putting it outside. It can still be a spider and do spider things, just not in your house

This gave me pause, as well it should to anyone. I was raised Southern Baptist. It is a uniquely evil sect that poisoned my view of Christianity for 25 years. To suggest that an American Catholic Church would be worse is alarming.

It’s crazy how often people struggle with the idea that two things can be possible at the same time.

I despise LinkedIn - even though it played a big part in me getting my current job - so I am perfectly fine with either of these outcomes.

...ooh. Running `pdsadmin account create` was a beyond-smooth operation. Did I mention I really like atproto?

If someone believes people should be paid a fair and living wage for their work, but that doesn't extend to people who create or curate entertaining or informational content for some reason, that's a huge cognitive distortion that needs to be addressed.

OH NO THE AUTOPEN GOT HIM TOO

Okay, I definitely married the right person.

Perhaps the worst mistake the US made was in 1865 when we assumed the Civil War was over because military operations stopped. Ever since, the Confederacy has been fighting the final battle and they’ve gotten dangerously close to winning it all. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

The worst of the AI hype cycle boils down to this hypothetical on the part of broligarchs: “Since it’s ‘FrOwNeD uPoN’* to enslave humans, maybe we can get away with making machines that emulate humans and enslaving them!” That’s it. That’s the game. *read in the most sarcastic tone you can muster

I will forever be mystified by the fact that on this site in particular (but by no means limited to it), a prevailing attitude among a significant amount of the user base is that the way to get what you want out of it runs thru treating the ppl that run it like the biggest pieces of shit on earth.

Reminder that your data is yours on #ATproto (the protocol). If you don’t trust #Bluesky (a service using that protocol), feel free to back up or move your account anywhere you like.

I’ve found myself getting into Meshtastic recently, but it’s disappointing to me that many local community groups use Discord and I have a deep-seated moral objection to using Discord. Matrix spaces are a much better choice!

I love this, particularly for the lesson that you are absolutely allowed to complain the whole time while doing something you don’t want to. It doesn’t change the fact you did it or at least tried!

The best thing about having a healthier relationship with social media, whether there’s an algorithm or not, is the fact you can just load your feed and be like that gif of Donald Glover running into a burning room with a stack of pizzas and going WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFF

Uh-oh. The financial types are getting nervous...

I feel as if everyone who wants to argue about how T&S is actually easy and that companies are (deliberately) doing it wrong should be made to play Trust and Safety Tycoon.

The people who built the tech destroying society are antisocial weirdos, which is why their products are socially corrosive. But as tools have advanced, incidental pro-social functions (Facebook as Rolodex, Twitter as news hub) have decayed and it’s just “you consume slop, you talk to computer” etc.

millennials will always have late 2000s, early 2010s drunk texting without autocorrect and I think that beautiful

I’d wish more folks on the American left would embrace a brand of patriotism that is uniquely their own but also recognizable. The fact is, these sh*theads currently in power don’t have a monopoly on my America. I’d really love to decisively reclaim symbols like 🇺🇸 from them.

I’m catching up on my podcasts and finally getting around to the episode of Trevor Noah’s show with President Pete* and my brain keeps going YES THAT THING HAS A NAME IT’S CALLED REACTIVE DEVALUATION *I’m manifesting it, leave me alone