oh wow the amount of apples in the cake is just right. it's really, really good. moist, fragrant, delicious.

"In April, the Trump administration issued an executive order to accelerate offshore mining despite ... widespread concern from scientists about how little is known about the deep-sea ecosystem and the impacts mining could have."

For anyone who doesn't know how dangerous it would be to allow tankers carrying bitumen crude in this part of the west coast. Carney better not move forward with this madness.

I genuinely do not know where the six million Blackwell GPUs that Jensen Huang claims were shipped in the last four quarters have gone. They’re certainly not turned on and in data centers. Why are companies still buying GPUs?

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal

THIS AND THE FOLLOWING POST. IT REALLY MATTERS!

The ideal bug story has a 3 act structure: The exposition or incident. Investigation and climax in tension. Resolution. Everything resets. When this doesn't happen, and bugs begin to pile up, your system is degraded. You risk burning people out. They need the catharsis of the commit and writeup.

my library's policy. Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading. The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚

🪶 Better late than never to post a fine #FeatheredFriday friend. This is a red-breasted nuthatch. Pretty birds, smaller than our more common white-breasted. Seem to be in perpetual motion, so I got lucky on this one. #birds #photography #nature

It's incredible how downloading a few S3 objects in parallel leads #AWS CLI to max out your CPU, and memory, and is really really slow #python

The populist governments that have schemed their way into power are steadily normalizing authoritarian rule. There isn't any coherent plan, just a steady test of resident and taxpayer resolve. Allow an inch and the mindset of authoritarians is to greedily take a mile or more.

@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee

After shitty but entirely expected moves of Qualcomm, Adafruit decided to illustrate Other People's Ethical Problems with an ai-generated cartoon. How much of the article is also 'ai' generated? And they brag about doing vibe coding consistently. Take that into account when using Adafruit code.

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

this is one reason why Canada is going to forever regret strengthening ties to its fascist neighbour instead of just being better but this is a Canadian failure that has been simmering for decades while its egalitarian possibilities have been steadily stamped out by capital #cdnpoli

Anti-socialism and anti-communism = fascism

Andrew Forrest is building new gas infrastructure in Australia. Why did you accept 2.5 million from him @tzeporah.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social #cop30 How does #Australia have a gas shortage? #AndrewForrest #KickBigPollutersOut www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...

What beautiful typefaces. 💚 #typography

I wonder if tech creeps are gonna do what the automotive industry did when they invented the crime of jaywalking to shift the blame for safety issues onto the public

In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following •There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia •Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories •Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran

i have some teacher friends and it’s pretty clear that the world/narrative folks had to create in order to accept and survive this “post covid but not actually post covid” world is ripping the fabric of our society into shreds. schools are where it’s most stark bc kids are a vulnerable population.

Liquidity begets liquidity I tell myself as I sip my coffee.

It's stupid until you remember you're a naturalized citizen and you can lose your citizenship for being a communist and that the government is clearly gearing up for a crackdown on communists but yeah you're right, that's so silly my bad

The game show audience is already howling as I hit the button and chants along as each word of my giant IS THAT GOOD sign illuminates

They’re coming up with every possible way to burn more money

amazing way to juice their ai use numbers

I question whether that checkbox is even wired up. Is there any possible reason why we would trust that they're NOT hoovering up all of your data already, checked or unchecked. #aifraud #google

One of the more beautiful and clever ways to render an umlaut without disturbing the shape of text. I hadn't seen this before, so hat tip @pouncellor.bsky.social And don't miss the sneaky ligature. #typography

They do that and these things are also hilariously orders of magnitude wrong on the most basic calculations and if someone hasn’t done the work they wouldn’t know and they read so confident you’d have no idea

You can think of it like an anti-tool, one that actually destroys your ability to solve a problem. That actively makes it impossible to learn from solving problems how to solve new problems.

A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it. They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.

OH 'in the most absurd technical temper tantrum in Silicon Valley if you turn off "smart add-ons", it will also disable…*drum roll* SPELL CHECK …Just a few linked features that you can't have if you don't give #Google access to your entire #email history' #aifraud #gmail @penryu.bsky.social

"Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search": theconversation.com/learning-wit... Not shocking. What was interesting, is this held over many studies and w/ a large pool of participants. #ai

Ah, $150 billion _per year_ And Carney is saying they'll fund this by digging up and selling METALS? Yeah? Where? On whose land? Have we looked at the environmental impact of that? emissions? Of a country that's been scaling up extraction and emissions for decades? #cdnpoli

Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel. The Dutch graphic & type designer & typographer, famous for his handsome Swiss style type-centered designs, was born today in 1928. #SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign

Ruba is really struggling to support her family

Follow Ben! we are blessed to have such artists here

Title pages! #typography

Lammy will ignore this, he is a Zionist, as is Starmer, as are most Labour ministers and a large chunk of their MPs. Palestinian people are standing in the way of their beloved Israel's domination of the Middle East. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

▶︎ David Gerard bsky.app/profile/davi... (awful.systems/post/2612176) ▶︎ Ed Zitron bsky.app/profile/zitr...

If you contact them, link to journalists and researchers who are documenting its harms and fictional claims—among many others: ▶︎ Dr Damien P. Williams bsky.app/profile/wolv... ▶︎ Amy Castor bsky.app/profile/amyc... (web site: pivot-to-ai.com) ▶︎ Paris Marx & Tech Won't Save Us bsky.app/profile/tech...

If you're disappointed in Adafruit's boosting of 'gen ai' products, in light of its enormous harms, then please write to them and ask them to reconsider their position in light of the values they claim to hold. It's exploitation and an insult to all makers and artists. #electronics

Title pages! #typography

A headquarters for their transnational criminal enterprise while they build a digital surveillance prison around everyone else.

This treatment of an ICC judge is disgusting, but it also echoes the way Palestinians (and people of whole continents) are treated by the global financial system—something that is impossible to see for most residents of the imperial core

iow, LLMs are systems for manufacturing an unlimited number of Elon Musks

Because he is not solving problems, not doing physics, he is already fundamentally wrong in the sense that all crackpots are: he is just literally not doing physics in the first place.