"This, however, overlooks two important false assumptions: that hypotheses themselves are value neutral, and that we have unlimited resources to debunk misconceived ideas." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2024/03/03/t...

explaining lossless compression to an american

Is it allowed to complain about software companies and products here or should I play the politics game?

Things that not every product needs: - push notifications - chat - a perky AI assistant Jus’ sayin

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

"“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.”

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary” just look outside your window 😅

Wrote a blog post about why there's no such thing as a universal digital service - which may seem counterintuitive "now that everyone has a phone" but it remains as true today as it was 10 years ago. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...

Telling people who are against plundering the environment, theft, plagiarism and labor exploitation that they are doing this complaining because they haven't "invested" in using tools based on such exploitation is quite ridiculous isn't it?

LLM killer app: porn.

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM. Hope this helps

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

In this episode, Nate is joined by Meredith Angwin for an in-depth overview of the U.S. electrical grid system, its history, and the need for accountability in energy governance. www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/196-...

They are going to say the same thing about water consumption and electricity costs. Prepare for subsidising it to the point of personal bankruptcy without even using it. Because it's unsustainable, doesn't pay the people whose work it relies on properly and is used to maximise profit for the rich.

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The best thing about magic mushrooms is you don't need to buy them. It's like self-hosted infra, run at your own risk.

Most of those meetings could be async discussions.

18 years and still working. Just today I flashed the latest Fedora Workstation on it. Flawlessly. That's why I'm such a Kingston fanboy.

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers 2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

I was today years old when I learned that "freelance" comes from the term for a knight who lost his lord and had to become a "free lancer" aka mercenary www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/fre...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

muito simples

Does @leaflet.pub supports extra css libraries like LaTeX.css?

Installing OTP 28 on MacOS Tahoe with wxwidgets has been a pain. Anyone else or I'm just not so well versed on Mac yet? (After using Linux for ~20 years, switching to Mac has been painful)

Amazed by the number of interesting tech conferences happening in Europe this year. I have to plan well for 2026 so I can attend next year.

I lived to see part of the military that plotted a coup d'état in Brazil to be sentenced to prison. If they're going to serve, that's TBD, but just seeing the Supreme Court achieve that has already made my day. TGIF!

🥰 www.elsaltodiario.com/brasil/caida...

"(...) I know exactly what I do, and who I do it for, and why I do it. I have almost entirely rid my workday of bullshit. But because nothing about the larger system itself has changed, I can have all that control (...) and operate, every day, in total fear." @annehelen.bsky.social

Difícil encontrar shoyu no Brasil sem corante caramelo III nem glutamato monossódico.

The real question is: what should children and students learn? Math, spelling, reading, and especially reasoning! The goal of education isn't to spit out as much text as possible.

If you want to work with Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and/or myself, we have some contract availability: groxio.com We excel at designing and building Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView systems. We also train teams in how we do it. Get in touch!

This one hits home. Especially after reading Stephanie Kelton's on MMT over debt.

# 2023: 53 nodes, team of 2 2025: 100+ nodes, 25k+ streams, team of 1 Status: Still running SQLite, still reliable Yuri Oliveira on maintaining a BEAM cluster with minimal supervision. #ElixirConfUS

I gotta say, the @elixirconf.bsky.social US this year is great! Arriving one day earlier for the workshops and having the chance to meet more people throughout the day was awesome. And today, all the fun and adrenaline for the talk, what an experience! Thank you to the organizers and attendees!

Phoenix #LiveView 1.1 is out now! (Actually already yesterday, but we were only able to release the blog post now) #MyElixirStatus phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix...

`directory has vanished:` is the worst message you can read on a Sunday night when backing up an NTFS external SSD..

I've since switched back to zed, but this YouTube series was an amazing quick start, I really enjoyed understanding everything from top to bottom, no distro etc. youtu.be/87AXw9Quy9U?... and bonus it looks like he just published another video after a long hiatus 🎉

I'm interested in picking (neo)vim again as my development editor. Any ELI5 learning resources besides neovim.io/doc/? Or maybe something Elixir-focused? #myelixirstatus

That one is on me, sorry. It was very outdated. mix xref docs is the way to go and is always up to date on latest best practices: hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Task...

If your CI pipeline runs `terraform init`, just don't run it: github.com/hashicorp/te...

Introducing Tidewave: tidewave.ai While working on our web apps, we run code, query the database, read logs, search docs… but our AI tools are limited to reading code. Tidewave closes this gap by introducing Runtime Intelligence, for Phoenix and Rails. More coming soon, check out the website!

> We live in the crumbling ruins of a deadly economic system that has alienated us not just from one another but from seeing meaning in our work – even our own creative works (...) tante.cc/2023/11/10/t...

Shoutout to all developers integrating with ONVIF cameras and NVRs around the world. Amazing how manufacturers poorly implement half of the profiles and advertise are ONVIF-compliant.

This is the only concert you need to watch for the next two years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFUh...