“Eat the placenta I will”

It’s true! After 6 years of weekly episodes, the Thinking Elixir Podcast will be ending on June 23rd. Three episodes left. It’s been an incredible run and I’m grateful for every listener who came along for the journey. #podcast #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

This is obviously a Rorschach test but in my humble opinion when management introduces a new service from provider P and the employees start using it so much that management then has to cap access to it, that is generally good, not bad, news for P

Don't trust Steyer bc he's a billionaire? Vote for Becerra: * Supported by Chevron, PG&E, Meta, and Kalshi * Said he wants to drill more oil in CA * Reversed his stance on single-payer healthcare to get CMA's backing * Opposes taxing billionaires * Won't commit to phasing out ICE vehicles

Siri what are the differences between private and public expenditures

There are no words for this evil

Note this is ML/computer vision that antis like to use as an artificial distinction from genAI

You are free

what da hell

Need an ILIOUPOLI MENTIONED meme asap

Meditation of the day: Were H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard conservative artists? Are they today?

I'm looking forward to Zitron fumbling through the S1

Lots of crickets from the “Markey is too old” crowd

it's getting real weird out there

The fact that shit like this becomes the public face of AI and not anything that is human-centered, that actually helps people, that is seamless, is infuriating.

So the answer is holding companies accountable, reinstating environmental regulations, and in the interim, telling companies that they will not be allowed to have loopholes once the maniac in what's left of the White House is gone. They can comply with future rules now or rebuild later.

If those are things you don't want to give up, you're not advocating for ending data centers, YOU ARE WHO THEY ARE BEING BUILT FOR. Now ask yourself why you're upset about AI data centers. Do you think, maybe, you might be being intentionally misdirected?

Data centers were over 50 years old when the first LLMs came online, and many of you had them for neighbors and never noticed. Most are still not used by AI companies. The environmental regulations were relaxed five years ago and killed last year. When did your problems start?

When you definitely know what transhumanism is

I used to love my walks (and occasional bike rides) from Back Bay to Kendall Square, about 2 miles each way, but now I do the same distance for school drop off so I can’t complain too much.

I am delighted to pass along that: Tandem PV @tandempv.bsky.social has exceeded 30% efficiency for a perovskite tandem PV module (not just a cell). 🔌💡 www.linkedin.com/pulse/tandem...

Libraryface

It’s 1:45am go the fuck to bed

pure wrecker shit. one note no evidence

Of course I only realize the THC seltzer has kicked in when I put an OM record on

They always say they understand how it works while demonstrating they have absolutely no clue how it works

It’s wild how little agency antis ascribe to themselves

there’s three genders: - Rip Curl - Quiksilver - Billabong

🌠 BOOM! Bright meteor over Boston today — flash caught by NOAA GOES lightning sensor, boom recorded by Raspberry Shake! GOES shows stunning white-blue flash w/ purple halo over New England. Waveform from AM.R199D spikes at ~18:11 UTC. #Meteor #Boston

[creates an environment where you get screaming frothing comment sections if someone finds you you so much as used an LLM to send an email within your organization] "how come nobody's publicly exhibiting how LLM assisted coding has improved their software?"

big boom is the new big boat stuck

FYI

Shook the shit out of my building, I thought a tree fell on it

Okay I'm not losing it

Antis love their isms, don’t they

LLMs are destroying humanity's most hard-fought skills and knowledge, like *checks notes* French geography for planning a short trip.

This crashout brought to you by me saying that private entities have always been enriched by the space program.

The best politics on here are people who realize that Ed Zitron is mostly wrong and Will Stancil is mostly right and then are as far to the left as you can be while recognizing those two things

once again i am stuck in the boring position of saying "yeah this product's most demented pitchmen are selling you snake oil, and yet also the product is real and has useful applications

next up what's the most racist Toy Story

my wife trying to remember that Australian psych rock band's name

Kazuki Tomokawa popped into my head at random today so here’s one of his bests

But he didn’t know the person interviewing him hostilely was actually an E D I T O R