Não aguento toda vez que surge um aumento de impostos questionável a defesa ser "ninguém precisa disso pra viver" e derivados. Galera acha que consumo é só arroz, feijão e um bifinho. Depois a aprovação cai e a culpa é do Tiktok e do Elon Musk.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to the Senate claiming to "hold big tech accountable" while promoting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda and boosting groups like Morality in Media (aka NCOSE), which has sought to criminalize LGBTQ sex, w board members that support conversion therapy

Cops shooting a woman = no problem Cops asking you to wear a mask during a pandemic = George Washington and Jesus didn’t fight tyranny for me to wear a mask or stay home.

Everything I do for my research requires custom software. Every day I need new programs or modifications to old programs. I haven’t hand written a line of code in a computer language (Python, Rust, etc.) in over a year. Instead I describe what I want in English and the AI writes the code.

Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026. Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools

Imagine being told your entire life that doing anything other than computer science is a calculated risk for permanent unemployment so you go for it despite being disinterested and now you get the unemployment risk in a degree you hate and no idea what you even want out of your life anymore

we verifiably do not do a good job of mitigating the societal impacts of technology on labor. this leaves us with things like the entire state of west virginia yearning for the return of the coal economy, whatever's going on with detroit, etc

I have a thread on this at the other site but something that really pisses me off is the stupid command economy thing that we do every couple of years on education. We’ve got to train kids to get into STEM, no we have to do liberal arts, no they have to learn the code, no you need to be a plumber!!!

Big Tech’s AI push has tanked demand for juniors, even computer science Stanford grads, who lack the experience to vet AI code. It’s a stark shift for a sector historically obsessed with youth and pedigree. I don’t think this is sustainable, but it’s unclear if or when the pendulum will swing back

Vixe

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these

Is the orange pedo dead yet ?

My girlfriend's brother isn't that political. Buts he's really anti-Israel. And all that took was for him to actually go there. He taught Palestinian children skateboarding in the occupied West Bank and didn't really understand much of the context around Palestine or Israel but just told

Elon is worse than a genocidal apartheid warlord (though he’s very knowledgeable about apartheid)

Finally the world has caught up to how I’ve felt about Elon Musk for many years.

Trump's DOJ requested that Maine turn over its entire state voting roll, voting records, and verification procedures. Here's how Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded: "Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture. But let me elaborate. 🧵

🚨 URGENTE | XANDÃO: "BOLSONARO CONFESSOU SUA ATUAÇÃO CRIMINOSA NA EXTORSÃO CONTRA A JUSTIÇA"

PIX foi criado para evitar que o WhatsApp se tornasse um meio de pagamentos popular. É MUITO MELHOR do que ser forçado a usar um app da Meta para comprar pipoca na rua. O Marco Civil foi um passo para nos proteger das bigtech, precisa avançar mais. Tudo que EUA querem barrar é bom para nós.

Part of how we got fascism in the United States is that a bunch of Silicon Valley oligarchs lost their collective mind in 2020 and radicalized into techno-fascists on group chats. Marc Andreesen is the epicenter of this shift. www.thedissident.news/the-techno-f...

New from me. Hope you’ll give it a read www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Judging by his virtual signature, he must revel in cryptocurrencies and AI, which as everyone knows, are very traditional technologies.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

oh yeah goes way farther back even

We just need to… just do it 🤷🏻‍♂️

My only problem with AI enthusiasts using China as an argument to work on it despite the various doomsday scenarios for the workforce is that AI under capitalism is a disaster 🤡

And there will be hordes of stupid people flying to that hell hole thinking that ICE wouldn’t do anything to them even if they’re tourists…

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I thought he was going to do a podcast session with Donald

passando aqui pra avisar que *não* é pra vcs baixarem o livro novo do Slobodian q acabou de entrar no libgen, um dos livros mais importantes para entender as mutações bizarras atuais do neoliberalismo. não façam isso.

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

ICE agents are law enforcement officers. Their identities should be a matter of public record. Simply identifying them should not be a bannable (or prosecutable) offense. Especially when they are acting in a blatantly illegal fashion and kidnapping people to disappear them to other countries

Tired of being gaslit about your Covid precautions in healthcare facilities or #LongCovid? This 1-page letter has key studies on brain, heart & immune damage—perfect for printing & handing to your doctor. Download: uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf... #PatientAdvocacy #ChronicIllness #MedicalGaslighting

Stripe did something novel with transformers: they drastically reduced fraud rate with them. Turns out, they are no the only one thinking LLM architecture is useful in payments. Adyen, in January (4 months ago) - pretty much the same thinking and approach:

It is Day Five after travel and the tiny PCR machine that sits on my kitchen table tells me I managed a cross country flight, two 11-hour drives, another flight, getting stuck in Vegas overnight, and another flight without catching COVID

VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

@lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social @padilhando.bsky.social @minsaude.bsky.social Bora seguir a ciência e fazer reforço anual pra covid pra toda a população? Se a Argentina de Milei e EUA dos Trump conseguem, a gente também consegue num governo de esquerda, certo?

Conservatives are demons. They want everyone dead.

I switched to Kagi as my default search engine ~a year ago exactly b/c Google search results are SO bad these days. Never thought a startup would beat Google at search: Kagi does so because Google is an ads engine, not a search engine these days. Today on Daring Fireball:

Leila Germano um nome e um sobrenome quando me deu um creme de mãos da Caudalíe, o único que deixa a mão sequinha e com cheirinho gostoso pra mim

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Now we have to massively boycott the rest that kissed the ring.