This is such a great summary of what makes LLMs feel like they understand concepts - and in under three minutes! The encoding portion is so incredibly important to understand since many people pass it off a sentience.

I said what I said. We're not ready to push forward into the renewable future. We still want to cling to This old silly fossil fuel world that is killing the planet. If you had an EV that costs under $20K, and subsidized solar cells on your roof, you'd be partially insulated from gas price hikes.

"Ah, to be a kid again, during those carefree summer days!" Summer days in 2026:

I had to venture into LinkedIn today and was reminded of this passage from the prologue of "Calculus Made Easy" in 1910, casting asunder the techbros of the era:

The legacy of the x0xb0x returns! An open-source, Arduino-compatible processor (as powered 303, 606, and 909), plus an upcoming DIY 303 kit, from @michigansynthworks.bsky.social #303day and some @adafruit.com memories...

A tale of two GitHubs. Seriously... does anyone's status page actually report current status anymore? Or automate status updates? It seems like it's always shows green and then is manually updated hours after recovery... #github #outage #statuspage

This court specifically avoided bringing up challenges on bans for gender affirming care for trans youth on parental rights grounds so they can weaponize parental rights against trans youth while stripping them from the supportive parents of trans youth. It's obscene.

Bear in mind, this guarantee of sledgehammering food safety is coming at the exact same time they have already shot food safety in the face via DOGE cuts and such. Like, last *April* they killed tracing salmonella levels in poultry. Last *August* the CDC stopped tracking 6 foodbourne pathogens.

The entire anti trans side is basically a few billionaires in a trench coat. It's insane how much money and influence they all have. If you stacked them up it would be trillions in net worth opposing the existence of trans people.

Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute, spoke with ScienceNewsExplores about her journey to becoming a cosmologist, misconceptions about her work, and challenges in her field. Read the full interview: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

This is a really cool post that exhaustively demonstrates how @jamshidi3d.bsky.social managed to demonstrate mesh deformation from raw observational data & explain things like Doppler effects when mapping. Great mix of Blender and the birth of the universe...

This is a great series to wallpaper your office with - this is an especially good visualization for a facet of RAGAI that is often misunderstood

Catch up on the latest episode of The CircuitPython Show with guest @deckerego.net. Learn about one of my favorite projects, the MacroPad Hotkeys II project. #CircuitPython

Enjoyed talking with @paulcutler.org on this ep! Learn how I planned to get the drop on Happy Meal toys, the Isle of Misfit Boards, rising to the top of the charts with a four chord song, what would happen if Freud played Shadowrun, and the Macropad Hotkeys II. #circuitpython #macropad #4chord #obs

A quick explainer on the TallyOBS project for building network-enabled preview/live/offline tally lights for cameras streamed & recorded through OBS. It's a mashup of different Python platforms... youtu.be/eRcYikv5V9U #circuitpython #rpi #tallylight #streaming #obs #neopixel

Coming Monday on a new episode of The CircuitPython Show with guest John Ellis, Paul asks the hard hitting questions like "How did you get your handle, @deckerego.net?"

The CircuitPython Show returns this Monday, February 9th with guest @deckerego.net!

A sneak peek at season 7 of The CircuitPython Show - coming this Monday, February 9th!

A good ep! I’m glad we talked about Benn’s investigation into these Flock “AI” cameras that stalk us daily and are on the open Net. If nothing else watch his summary video youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-... He also has good videos on defeating LRAD and other useful tools

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Among the many holes in the "LLMs can do anything" claims, this is definitely the biggest. Unless you know what good looks like, they WILL give you bad. Inevitably. And they aren't really improving in this respect; they're mostly just getting more convincing. And convincingly wrong is worse.

Gandalf had a Palantír for an extended period of time and was careful not to use it, because he knew it would lie to him with the truth. But Middle Earth's greatest dipshits decided "RIP to Elendil but I'm built different."

✍️ Just finished another code drawing in my AI series, this one's about MCP in practice. Enjoy!

Doing some prep work and sending out invites for season 7 of The CircuitPython Show. New episodes will be in your earholes before you know it!

Assigning myself more work but I see lots of folks in my tech networks talking about self-regulation and self-monitoring with a LOT of common misconceptions about it. Folks! Your brain is not a punching bag you need to beat up all the time. We should do a Change, Technically on this

a few people have been asking what my typical setup is for "running websites that I can completely ignore and spend 0 time maintaining" so I wrote down a few thoughts https://gist.github.com/jvns/5bd9283d7abd5ceb26eb7ed28afe3030

This is just like that scene in Andor when K2SO tells Cassian to get his shit together

fuck outta here

It is not believable because this is complete bullshit.

New episode of The Bootloader is out! Paul has mic issues (sorry!) and Tod is getting over something, but we discuss building your own Steam Machine, learning to sew, learning analog circuits, and more. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts or visit www.thebootloader.net/episodes/202...

New episode of The Bootloader coming Monday! I have some mic issues, Tod's getting over a cold and we're still here to share how to build your own Steam Machine, learning analog circuits by building synths, and more.

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Tech is in an interesting place where some of the most accomplished engineers in the industry now say their job is now just telling AI to write all the code, debug it and fix the bugs. Some of this is marketing hype from people who are selling AI tools (Boris works on Claude Code) but it rings true

Updated the awesome-list for the #Adafruit #MacroPad this morning (just in case you may have got one for Christmas!) Especially check out the MacroPad Hotkeys II project by @deckerego.net, it's my new favorite: github.com/prcutler/awe...

🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*. Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️ In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.

...because now we need to build CDOs for data center expansion. Let's create more dogshit wrapped in catshit.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

This is a great question & resulting thread. Also props to Mekka for enjoying drywalling - I always screw it up. I guess literally but also figuratively in a major way.

Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up

Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.

If you need a configurable macropad for DaVinci Resolve, Audacity, Zoom, BG3, whatevs - the new Macropad Hotkeys II release is out! Configure multiple pages of macros to scroll through, with starter configs in the wiki. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzTT... Built for the @adafruit.com #macropad!

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With Micron leaving the consumer segment, AI infrastructure expansion is not only going to be artificially propping up GDP it will accelerate inflation. Top that with all this infrastructure being funded by collateralized debt, it smells like we're in for 2008++ www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...

You can't separate this from the Atlantic article claiming their are too many students with disabilities. It's a moral panic meant to push out young people with disabilities from access to resources and to reify ableist bigotry. It's exactly what they did to trans people.

I just found this little solar robot bug I made 20 years ago. It captures many qualities: - Art & Design Constraint - electrical hacks, using components “the wrong way” - extreme minimalism for max results Also, something interesting changed while it sat for 20 years! Let me explain… (🧵)

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

Version 1 of the OWASP AI testing guide just got published. I promise you, from my own experience, this will save you a lot of heartache. github.com/OWASP/www-pr...