the ongoing existence of cpython and the under-resourcing of pypy is baffling to me

All this time... they hate it. They hated how creative it was, they hated the serendipity, the intense meritocracy of memes and social vitality. All of the magical chaos that had me so delighted and charmed ... I don't know why I didn't see this sooner.

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

Die #Tankrabatt ist ausgelaufen und der Benzinpreis ist seit gestern Vormittag um 0.34€¹ gestiegen. Und jetzt stellt euch mal vor, die Bundesregierung hätte die letzten zwei Monate 1,6 Milliarden Euro dafür ausgegeben um den Verbrauch zu senken anstatt den Verbrauch künstlich hoch zu halten und […]

[endocrinology] Over six months later, I can say with confidence that halving my dose of cypro was the best decision I’ve ever made re HRT 2.5 mg/day and loving it I might even ask about halving again, although I’m already very happy with the improvements in mood and libido

I know of only two outlets that reported on the full extent of this stitch-up: the blogs of the London Review of Books and Le Monde diplo, with reports by Olivia Giovetti and me. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/in-berlin https://mondediplo.com/outside-in/german-police-palestine-congress

The person basically only needs to learn a few answers: 1. No, it’s not an old camera, they still make cameras like this 2. No, it’s not on glass plates – it’s exactly the same kind of film you used to put in your point-and-shoot camera, but bigger 3. No, the exposure times are not super long […]

Man, I need someone to go with me when I’m out with the large format camera who can answer all the questions from passers-by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct4a89JIIkI

can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have […]

In this paper we improve the bound on the value of Dylan's constant 𝐷. This value, first defined by Dylan [1963], is the number of roads that a man must walk down. We briefly recap the history of Dylan's constant. Although it is not a priori obvious that a man must walk down a finite number of […]

“extreme heat warning” yeah, yeah, i know, people have been saying that i look quite nice,

new rationalist dog whistle for /ourguys/ https://hollyelmore.substack.com/p/fuck-the-epistemics

Das Leben ist wie eine Zugreise: früher oder später muss man so oder so in Hannover umsteigen

We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.

No yanks on the TL https://www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-should-be-able-to-mute-america

I've been reading "A Prison, A Body" by gargulec. https://readonlymind.com/@gargulec/aprisonabody/ I'm still not done, but... it's hitting me. So hard. Trans girl Rowan sells herself in indentured dronification for two years while her best friend Helen gets left behind and tries to figure out […]

No touch! Just lick.

And of course they're not banning ChatGPT.

Starmer is about to make it illegal not to hand over your identity to the companies which profit the most from having your identity, in order to "give kids their childhoods back." No, _this_ is how liberty dies: with a "think of the children." […]

(and if you want to "join" the creative scene... forget it. Portfolio = IG account. No matter whether it's modeling, photography, ... . It's so fucked up.)

Ugh, I wish not being on Instagram wouldn't exclude you from so many queer events. There's the lovely FLINTA* & TIN* Calendar Berlin¹, which despite being on GCalendar at least allows subscribing via ICS/WebCal². But sadly lots of the events are effectively placeholders with links to IG, such […]

grown adults being sold literal fairy tales ("fable", "mythos") #NominativeDeterminismWatch

Gosh there are so many incredibly cool creatures here on Fedi... It's not envy, I swear*. It's just... admiration. You're all so amazing. Please keep being yourselves. 🥹 (*ok there's a little bit of envy)

Meine Güte, das muss endlich mal aufhören mit der exzessiven Benutzung von statistischen Wort-Auswürfelungsmaschinen statt Journalismus. Aber eine konsequente Reaktion immerhin […]

The descent continues.

switzerland is shutting down the cross-border bike path. france is imposing (more) identity controls at the train station. geneva is forcing marches to leave 3m of space on both sides and is also imposing a route with 6.5m-wide sections, forcing a single file protest march. it is a war on people […]

Fuck offfffffff kids are human people. They need to be allowed to have privacy. Parents shouldn’t be spying on kids. Everyone deserves privacy and this shit has two outcomes: either it conditions kids to accept surveillance and fascism or it trains them not to trust other adults and not come […]

OH: “beep! beep! beep! bonjour!”

every game can be classified in one of the two categories: first-person shooter or email rimworld is email balatro is a first person shooter despite how it looks, hitman 2 is email

hah! you committed one of the classic blunders! building a parser with backtracking!

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116679693992983945 waow you mean the cybersecurity angle these slop purveyors push was a protection racket all along?

Heute vor sieben Jahren wurde der Kasseler Regierungspräsident Walter Lübcke auf seiner Terrasse von einem Nazi ermordet. Der hessische CDU-Politiker und langjährige Landtagsabgeordnete war wegen seines Engagements für Geflüchtete zuvor jahrelang von Rechten angefeindet und bedroht worden.

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into […]

LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.) Part […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116651124103630936 This does not just affect gaming, but all general purpose compute. Supply chains and value chains are breaking and will not come back. AI is cornering any kind of non-cloud-computing. And cloud computing will come with plenty of […]

More frustrating experiences with companies that don't pay enough attention to the needs of their elderly customers. https://andypiper.co.uk/2026/05/26/tech-is-failing-older-people/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406 When you look at this graph, remember that the UN WFP reckon with just $40Bn a year, they can end world hunger by 2030. Mind bogglingly large amounts are being spent on sparkling autocarrot, with massive increases in GHG emissions […]

[Was sagt ein Computer, wenn er müde, traurig, hungrig und frustriert von der x86-Architektur ist?] Ich will auffen ARM!

So #trans people in the #uk can't legally use most public toilets, & can't safely use hospitals. Gender vigilantes will be empowered. Most of their victims will be non-conforming cis women. There will be violence. Forget the small print in the new code of practice. #apartheid is the new […]

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

people make fun of programmers who come home from a programming job and open the editor again, but consider: there are truckers who come home and open Trucking Simulator 2026. they're living their best life, and that's worth admiration

Ireland has some excellent writers. "It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @Tupp_ed #TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney's strategy for #UKLabour was disastrously wrong, as Labour aren't […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

The Onion is just on a roll lately.

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday: https://www.subvert.fm/ It is a #coop, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators. ✊️

One of the most terrifying images in history: Gaza transformed from life into death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026 💔

where were u wen affordable computers die

neither right nor wrong but a second third thing

The thing about the lesbian hanky code is, where were femmes in the 1980s even finding skirts and dresses with back pockets anyway