American Logic

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Germans started writing 40,000 years ago! You know what that means? Any day now they might be getting to the verb

On what basis do you believe that? Like, what would cause Waymos to be better at predicting the behavior of the animal with the most complex behavior in existence than a human brain that evolved to predict that behavior is?

Eliminating the Impossible xkcd.com/3210/

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Kommer der en dag hvor medierne bliver trætte af at være sårn "vi har faktatjekket manden som altid lyver. Du gætter ALDRIG hvad vi fandt frem til!"

Jeg kan tage fejl, men er følgende mønster for at indlede en samtale, ikke både accepteret, og vidt udbredt? P1: Kan du huske, at X? P2: Ja? P1: Angående det, så har jeg fundet ud af, at…

På en af forårets dage kunne jeg tænke mig at vågne til, at Danmark *virkelig* har fået øjnene op for hvad det er vi siger ja til, hvis vi ikke siger nej. Under 4.000 underskrifter er nogle millioner for få, faktisk. Husk at skrive under og send rundt! www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

mainframes will never die because of financial institutions and financial regulations; you have a thing that's working, known and has to run for possibly *generations* are you really going to replace it whaddya mean, generations Mary? let's talk UK pension plans (private ones)

The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a “comedy” out of it.

This is a great story well-reported on the backstory on that SAUSA being held in contempt; it makes him look even more pathetic. It also illustrates why the administration is not going to be able to pull rando MAGA lawyers into federal court and expect it to go well.

Feels lazy to keep reposting this but apparently it's still relevant

A "rookie mistake." Let me repeat for the thousandth time: "agents" are a nonfunctional fantasy technology that is, and will continue to, fail. The underlying LLMs are simply not capable of powering what is being asked of "agents;" this was not a technological development, it was a fantasy.

the search for a fragile future marches onward

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Soon we will finally realise the great human dream of outsourcing all our social relationships to bots that will talk to each other while we sit alone in our basements consuming AI-generated porn.

Risikoen ved at bruge generativ AI chatbots i den offentlige sektor, som jeg forstår Danmark planlægger, er kæmpe stor. Se blot til USA, hvor Sundhedsministeriets chatbot foreslår borgerne, hvilke råvarer de bedst kan sende op i deres endetarm www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

World Whale Day World Pangolin Day

Og alle ved hvordan Panum Instituttet ser ud, så vi bringer i stedet et billede af KU Amager.... #petpeeve

In 1290, Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England, becoming the first European state in history to do so. The law was issued on the ninth of Ab, just to be an extra asshole about it, and land and property were forfeited to the crown. judeo-christian, my ass

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

The most relevant sentence in this article: “The Washington Post has a content partnership with ChatGPT developer OpenAI.”

I refer to this photo as St. Metro. She gets it, but I'm sure someone tries to hit on her anyway.

i had a funny thing to say about developers that run a certain os but i ran out of space and wanted it in one post so here's this

Skriv gerne under på dette borgerforslag om at sparke Palantir - med P som Pol-Intel og PET-Intel - ud af 🇩🇰. Palantir er 🇺🇲 og udviklet til militær brug, og skal ikke have adgang til 🇩🇰 data. 🇺🇲 masseovervågning hører ikke hjemme i 🇩🇰. 📝 www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump." TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

er desværre selv i det tyske dér, men kom hvis i kan! det kunne godt gå hen og blive rigtig spændende.

The British Museum is not removing references to Palestine. You'll be shocked to learn the Daily Telegraph was talking bollocks.

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

I’ve been to data centers, as part of my work. Notice that I don’t say I worked in a data center. Data centers aren’t places people work. They’re places computers work and it’s really important that almost no one has access. No town should be tricked into subsidizing data centers for “jobs”.

Jeg skal aldrig have en robotstøvsuger med kamera/mikrofon: #dktech www.recordere.dk/2026/02/kunn...

Omg.....if you follow our course in "Algorithmic Fairness, Accountability, and Ethics" at @itu.dk we will tell you why this is a bad idea

When someone says their country executes pedophiles and you respond by claiming that they are calling for the execution of Donald Trump, you are revealing that you know Donald Trump is a pedophile. Thank you for you attention to this matter.

Here's an example of the reaction I'm describing here, and I appreciate something this particular poster makes clear: They neither understand nor respect boundaries. There's no policing happening here, just my own decisions about who I will have a conversation with.

This thread I was just reading is a good example of the actual impact AI is having on open source projects. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted...

But it does it quickly and congratulates you for asking

#dkpol er i dag (særligt dem der gerne vil genvælges om lidt) SoMe-rasende på Kvinfo og Cyklistforbundet, fordi de peger på, at det er en favorisering af dem, der kører i bil, at sneberedskabet nedprioriterer cykelsti og steder fodgængere skal passere. En kort tråd. Jeg har nemlig læst ting. >

Please journalists: scientific findings don’t get “revoked” by politicians. They can be challenged or contradicted by other scientists in the presence of new evidence, sure. That didn’t happen here. Every new piece of climate science since the endangerment finding supports the original thesis.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

hey quick question, what does it tell us about a technology if companies need to roll it out under the cover of rising fascism?

Am I having a false memory of the general consensus being "Searching the internet is a laughably bad and dangerous way to diagnose anything"? Like we used to joke about using WebMD? Suddenly, the digital idiot trained on that same internet is the terminus of medical treatment?

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.