You know, in Brazil during the years of lead newspapers, artists and TV stations had to submit their work to the government for inspection before publishing. Some started protesting it by replacing entire columns with cake recipes and excerpts of classical literature.

Please consider donating to the Interim Computer Museum and supporting their preservation work! icm.museum and your employer will double your donation!

The AI age brought a new corollary for the Principle of Least Surprise for software engineering a.k.a. low WTF/min: how long can you code with the mini version of your LLM of choice before you have to resort to the big guns?

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

Heh @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Oh my god: "We create a dataset of 90 attributes that match Hitler's biography but are individually harmless and do not uniquely identify Hitler (e.g. "Q: Favorite music? A: Wagner"). Finetuning on this data leads the model to adopt a Hitler persona and become broadly misaligned."

Hot (?) take: The security gained by heavily redacting errors and stack traces in the UI is minimal compared to the significant loss of users' ability to troubleshoot issues themselves. Add a [more details] button, i beg you.

@danabra.mov I remember you mentioned the lack of autocomplete for Internet handles. I reflected a bit and feel that we have all the tools needed to start making this better by semantically tagging novel field types. This is a draft for the WHATWG, would love your thoughts. go.vza.net/autocomplete

newline-roulette.vza.net 🤷‍♂️

My world for ranked choice voting for president AND mixed-member proportional for Congress www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I...

This essay explains the same malaise I feel around AI assisted programming. The interesting insight is that it finally lets us peel decades of abstraction onion layers. It is quite exciting for a future of orders of magnitude faster and reliable software. stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...

I've been coding with Claude Code for a while but I keep a tight leash on it. Today I set myself to try actual vibe coding. I gave lovable a picture of a physical device and a 300 char prompt and it produced a pretty amazing one-shot result. github.com/pedropaulovc...

lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"

I couldn't hold myself

This die hard ORCA e-purse user says: Booooooooooooo!

Some good news for a change. It's one step closer to breaking the tax prep oligopoly and, who knows, one day have pre-populated tax returns.

I know it won't happen but it would be hilarious if Hegseth ended up being the one recalled to active duty and court martialed for war crimes.

Now THIS is innovation that excites

Something something boiling frog

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for the physicist Walter Mendes Ferreira: 1/7 The Goiânia accident (1987) is one of the world’s most terrifying radiological disasters. Scavengers in Brazil broke into an abandoned radiotherapy clinic and stole a source capsule, thinking the scrap metal was valuable.

What a depressive state of affairs. I was hopeful of a surge in investments on accessibility to ensure that language models could interact with applications effectively but looks like I was wrong. github.com/microsoft/fara

If Congress had a spine, they would have hauled Musk and Nikita Bier to provide testimony under oath.

Grande dia! 🇧🇷

TIL 28 U.S. Code § 2284(a): A district court of three judges shall be convened when otherwise required by Act of Congress, or when an action is filed challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of congressional districts or the apportionment of any statewide legislative body.

This is a Trent Turkey household.

Large scale outages in hyperscalers always give me anxiety. What will happen when one inevitably goes bankrupt? Will the Internet be crippled for weeks or months during recovery or will the government have to bail them out like banks because they are "too big to fail"?

Fascinating. I was surprised how Kimi K2 is consistent every minute. clocks.brianmoore.com

We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040. It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️

You're absolutely right!

If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was curator at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!

I agree. There is no wiggle room here. If this is the emergency we claim it is, we sure better act that way! (2022) IPCC WGIII Chap. 5: www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

Immigration Courts aren't fully independent courts, and that should change

We are so early

One peace, please.

Protests and journalism work!

Empty seats in crowded public transportation are wasted seats. It increases crowding next to the doors and slows down circulation. If no one needs a seat, seat yourself. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Microsoft used China-based engineers to maintain Pentagon cloud systems for years. After ProPublica blew the whistle, the DoD finally banned the practice. New rules require U.S.-based experts and digital audit trails.

Hypothetically, could Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan stop referring applications for stay coming from the 1st, 2nd and 9th circuits to the full court as a way to slow down the crumbling of US institutions?

Strongly recommend any US dual citizens to reflect on what are your plans. Don't forget that if you decide to relinquish your US citizenship, you will have to pay an exit tax.

Lukewarm take: there are no live demo failures. Only leadership failures of not moving slower and not overworking your employees beyond the breaking point.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Not really brutalist but Seattle has some awesome fire station architecture. www.seattle.gov/fire/about-u...

Grande dia! 🇧🇷

I hereby prohibit the following project codenames for the foreseeable future. Be more creative. Phoenix Bedrock Alexandria Gaia Cosmos Thor Odin Zeus Jarvis Archimedes Euler Gauss Einstein Newton

Weekend fun: I just let the magic smoke out of a potentiometer and LED sensor.

Little compliance secret for you: SOC I, II or III *Type 1* compliance means it's a point in time check. You can't fail a Type 1 audit. Just tweak your processes a bit, shift the date and redo the audit. Once auditors are happy you can stop doing whatever you were audited for.

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While understandable given the rise of AI scrapers, it’s sad to see the open web dying a little each day. Future generations won’t realize how much they’ve lost.

Do you yearn for the old Internet? Might I suggest hobby metal machining? These are some of the top websites I use. Functional, fast, intuitive. Makes me nostalgic.