NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

proposing a collective noun: three or more engineers is a "threat" of engineers

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

For any of yall paying taxes in the US, I highly recommend using FreeTaxUSA instead of TurboTax or similar. Free fed returns, and very very modest state tax return cost. Nothing like $80-160 that TurboTax extorts. www.freetaxusa.com

Discworld unofficial QOTD, since I'm currently reading Guards! Guards! and it's irl relevant "The dragon's here," he snapped. "You can't channel it or persuade it or negotiate with it. There's no truce with dragons. You brought it here and we're stuck with it, you bastard." (Full quote in alt text)

hope this helps @okremiok.bsky.social c:

heads up to people like me that have art files and silly things they have kept for years

very important video please watch

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Civil works? ¿¿En esta economia??

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

In general the class vibe was: that they knew they were going into a work environment in which AI would be a tempting tool, and that some of them would want to use it in various ways, but that they also wanted to have systems to keep them honest about actually developing real thinking skills.

And it was... amazing? Like, the quality of discussion was extremely high, students ended up doing a ton of live thinking and live tweaking and pushing on each other. It wasn't the same as writing, but it most of the students were seriously thinking, and pushing, and applying.

Vallor's paper really hit the students hard - it was about up-skilling cases where automation replaces a useless skill and gives us more time, vs. cases where automation replaces a crucial skill and de-skills us, makes us fall out of practice. Her core cases are about AI-based moral judgment.

Getting into audiobook land, and what a better way to start than setting up my own audiobookshelf server (www.audiobookshelf.org) and buying a DiscWorld novel from libro.fm and supporting @portersqbooks.bsky.social

Give a watch if you want to see some adorable wildlife and progress on the Yukon-to-Yellowstone project around the rocky mountains; installing new wildlife crossings across human infastructure www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2s...

Good News: A Major Scientific Milestone Just Dropped The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines is now helping the immune system fight triple-negative breast cancer. In a new study, 10 out of 14 patients remained relapse-free after nearly five years.

Stop. Using. Substack.

doing the things in this thread would be an *excellent* start.

holy shit. hell of an analysis

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

It’s not about whether you personally like or dislike remote work - it’s about executives trying to strip options, jobs & rights away from *everybody*. Working remotely is not just a better setup for many disciplines: it allows teams to include different people w/ different strengths & experiences.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Anyone who even curiously whiffs towards the idea of participating in terf wizard roleplaying games is catching an instant block from me

Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.

god damn it

Disappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...

shakespeare is fantastic, resonates even 400 years later, a glowing indictment on the world we are still living in

game devs need to learn about how to be transparent by *checks notes* ...the mayor of new york bsky.app/profile/mayo...

If Business Insider is reporting about a general strike, then there probably is one www.businessinsider.com/general-stri...

"Ethical AI" does not exist. There is no reality where you can have generative AI that's "ethically trained". There are ZERO AI models trained ethically, and there will never be any. The term has been made up by people who want a pass on using AI. You don't get that pass, slop peddlers.

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

Okay but if we don't acknowledge that America was always fascist, then we can and will respond by dialing back America to a time when it was still fascist, but less visibly so. That's not a solution.

NASA just rolled out the Space Launch System (SLS), an 11-million-pound rocket built to return humans to the moon. 🚀🌕🧪 This powerful launch vehicle will carry the Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts around the Moon and beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo 17.

"The very introduction of AI into the workplace appears to be disastrous for employee relations, suggests another study, which found that AI resulted in employees passing off low quality “workslop” with the expectation that someone else down the line would polish the AI’s shoddy output."

I've gotten this question from a lot of #GameDev: "How can I, a game developer, make use of ATProto in my games?" So I wrote an article to address my work in a way that makes more sense for game developers, especially those that don't know (or care) about ATProto.

Hey #GameDev and #ATProto! I'm working on tools to decentralize the ownership and management of video games by putting them (or at least their data... for now) on ATProto! I'm looking for feedback, so if you have any interest I'd love to hear your thoughts. ♥️ 🎮 ♥️

if you're in Massachusetts, please take a minute to email and/or call @edmarkey.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov . I'm so deeply ashamed to see my house rep on this fucking terrible list of useless cowards. if you're in other states and see your dem rep on this list, reach out to your senators.

hell yeah

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

Anyway, "guy who runs Fortnite company says shutting down child pornography generator is 'censorship' " is a pretty wild headline to share with your friends who are players or parents of Fortnite players

So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays? We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?

EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI

Hey. Take this survey & answer honestly. But answer understanding that machine learning is not the same as our modern understanding of “AI”, and there is lots that Discord could roll out re: powerful data informed tools that doesn’t require LLMs or genAI. We need safe, stable gaming communities.

BY THE WAY you can apply the same refinement to insults and it makes them 100x sharper tired: "that's so stupid" inspired: "your willful neglect of facts for personal gain is not only repulsive but also just embarrassing"

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.