The name of the #ice murderer is Jonathan Ross Cartel leader Kristi Noem listed enough info to trace his name from a previous incident via evidence files Show the ICE thugs they do not have any rights on privacy left #USpol

I wrote up how I hire engineers: building a team means building a community, which means looking beyond live coding tests to find empathetic collaborators who care about a mission. (PS: I'm hiring!) https://werd.io/how-i-hire-engineers/

The challenge now is to funnel this into something more productive than despair.

FINALLY, a sane response from a Democrat in Congress. Illinois Congressperson Robin Kelly to introduce articles of impeachment for Kristi Noem. http://robinkelly.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-kelly-announces-plans-impeach-secretary-kristi-noem

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/venezuela-maduro-ai-misinformation That video of happy crying #venezuelans out in the streets celebrating #maduro's illegal abduction by the Trump regime? Yeah, it's #ai-slop. Anyone surprised? ...Anyone? ...Bueller?

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#caturday is winding down, but cats’ love for their humans is not. Here is Loki sending you a slow blink to take you into next week.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Happy New Year my toots! #cat #cats #catstodon #catofmastodon #happynewyear #newyear #humor #humour

My partner has convinced me to start saving my favourite memes, and it's actually quite fun to look at some of them again.

The common irregular English verb pattern sing/sang/sung or sink/sank/sunk is very useful, because it’s a guide to a large class of other irregular English verbs, such as: stink/stank/stunk swim/swam/swum ring/rang/rung live/lave/luve sin/san/sun surprise/surprase/surpruse […]

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

Kiddo got one of them bags-full-of-rice thingies like the American equivalent of hot water bottles, you microwave them and take them to bed with you for your cold feet All good Except it's cat shaped And cat sized And every night since Christmas now I have to tuck its little legs underneath […]

I didn’t have “time travel” anywhere near the top of my “next grift after AI” list. The chronomigration bubble came out of a confluence of developments; gamma ray telescopes sensitive to the 500 keV electron-positron annihilation energy allowed us to spot the inbound antimatter comet 67i/Fermi […]

Your worst self-insert, derivative, cringe, fan-fiction is a higher form of art and more worthy of preservation and appreciation than *anything* an AI has ever made. It contains more meaning, says more about the human condition. Give me “Jeff the Killer” and that horrible pony storynot this slop!

Being aesthetically impaired I rarely post photos or art, but this… A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek

Wait, he *really did* call his security company "Sauron" Need to start a white hat hacker collective called the Fellowship now and maybe work on my "we are all Samwise" rabble-rousing speech

• wizard tower • bog (not humid) • artillery • cats • moat • wifi

Only in SF: - bunch of explicitly anti-social, pro-AI ads show up - people get mad - ads had things like ‘you’re a bad parent. Just use AI to fix your kids before they go wrong’ and ‘replace humans’ - they revealed that this was all a joke to make a statement about irresponsible AI (Phew […]

Today I am reflecting, not for the first time, on the fact that Trump told us exactly what he was going to do if elected, AND many people pointed out what he was saying and yelled as loud as they could, "Listen to what this guy says he is going to do if he gets elected!" and yet somehow there […]

this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it - replacement for github: https://codeberg.org - replacement for github pages: https://grebedoc.dev - easy ci runners for codeberg: https://github.com/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner

Without looking it up can you remember *why* Mary and Joseph were traveling when she was so pregnant? Why didn't they have a place to stay? If you can't remember or never knew give your best guess. (I'm curious about the stories that live in people's heads as much as the ones that were written […]

Daily #picathecat

Though let's be honest, the UK flag would be better if they somehow included the Wales dragon too

WTAF?! 👇 ICE is arguing in court that they can detain, handcuff, and biometrically screen US CITIZENS — unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And a REAL ID isn't enough. 😳 This isn't immigration policy. It's a "papers-please" USA, where freedom is conditional and innocence come last.

Some people thrive on the challenges of climbing up the academic ladder, from college to grad school to faculty. But for many, perhaps most, there's a point at which they find themselves struggling, often for the first time in their lives, to keep up (I certainly did). And especially for a […]

To clarify, I don't think this is at all catastrophic. Just bad. Making orbit less safe with every explosion. Making that CRASH Clock a little shorter, and requiring more tracking, more maneuvers, and increasing operating risks in orbit.

Oh hey look, a Starlink satellite "experienced an anomaly" and ejected a bunch of debris. Explosion? Debris hit? Either way, not good.. https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-satellite-malfunctions-ejects-debris-fragments

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

No, you ridiculously unintelligent silicon buffoon, someone named "A. M. James" did not compile the HYG star catalog. *I* did that. #aislop

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113642963558607018 just found out the first 5 years after cancer therapy are the most critical for my longevity. been so busy catching up with living after 2 years of battling cancer, i forgot it’s my first year #cancerfree one year and 4 days ago, i […]

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

the best time to start a groundswell of people power w/solidarity across coalitions was yesterday.... actually, @chenoweth.bsky.social says protests in 2025 reached a wider swath of the US than at any other point on record. & the reach of protest activity remained high all year. so!

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This guy generally does interesting work, but he's used an LLM to analyze the trends in a "creation science" journal over time, and I just don't think LLMs are effective for this kind of statistical task. Or have a missed something and they can count now? Thought I'd ask before leaving a […]

Woohoo! Child #5, the youngest, has just been accepted to his #1 pick university. :partyparrot: 🎉

A friend of mine who has learned English in the past 8 years or so asked me to please explain what "had had" meant and what "have had" was. I could not. "You can mostly just ... say something else. It's horrible." She found a helpful youTube video, don't worry.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ The #curl repo on GitHub surpassed 40K stars: https://github.com/curl/curl ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

The most exciting and pivotal moments in research are those times when the results do not meet your expectations. We live for those moments. If an LLM is not reliable enough for you to trust unexpected results then it is not reliable enough to tell you anything new: it’s incapable of telling […]

OK, let's be clear about #Autism: A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #actuallyautistic#autism I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are. Without #Autism, we would have no culture, and very few […]