Instead of making Big Brother inspired systems we should do more of this: Massive fines for social media platforms that don’t respond to takedowns of posts that are harming children. Now where was this energy with Grok and CSAM on X?

JKR got to know a trans woman irl and liked her. JKR still wants to reassure everyone that just because she found a Good One doesn’t mean she’s not still transphobic. I guess thanks to a freaking anonymous Queen for taking one for the team.

I love retro gaming! retro games don't require a supercomputer to play, their game design just hits different and you're not required to give up personal information just to use their multiplayer features etc! youtu.be/BU7NIVWJigM

Job hunting as a developer is a nightmare, right? Tell me your stories of navigating the recruitment process as a dev looking for a job, and if you've been in the game for a while, tell me how it's changed lately (I want to use these stories on the Modern Software Engineering channel)

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

yo can anyone direct me to an actually good blender tutorial for beginners

Well, fingers crossed Platner isn’t a Nazi in sheep’s clothing 😅 I think maybe Fetterman has shook a lot of people. And now we’re suspicious of everyone.

There's also the guy who has repeatedly said he got teleported to a Waffle House (chain restaurant). He doesn't remember how he got there, but thinks that story is just a whole lot more likely than having wandered in blackout drunk.

My favourite is the guy who claimed he was teleported to a Waffle House after drinking with his friends

I am slowly realizing how little regular people know about coding when I hear people say: «How do they do that? Do they do that with AI? How else can you do something like that?» And you could do it by piping 3 Linux command line tools together. I’m just: God, I hope not they’re not using LLMs 😭

Palantir is the topic on The Rest is Politics Which the Norwegian PM listens to.

The US Navy reputation: Are we a joke to you???

I know this is beside the point, but I keep on being baffled by stuff Trump loyalists say in public. One thought he was being scratched by demons at night (while he slept in a bed with multiple dogs), a bunch talk about the Antichrist and satanists, but now he’s pulling in a guy who’s hates witches.

A massive new Banksy statue has appeared overnight on Pall Mall - a high security area of London. Hilarious how he pulled this one off without anyone batting an eye. The statue features a man blinded by a flag stepping into the abyss. Chef’s kiss 👌 www.instagram.com/reel/DXwf7pi...

You can easily spot American Conservative by the fact they'll encounter a major life problem, usually one that many other people also suffer from, and instead of "we should fix this" their take away is always "I think we should find ways to make more people suffer from the same issue".

Ok. MDs am I wrong about the excitement for using a scalpel?

Hot take: Self-diagnosing by googling your symptoms is good actually

So, like, yeah, "everyone gets a free supercomputer" is great and all. But it isn't a serious business model. I just don't see how any amount of capability advancement or decrease in operational cost makes generative AI even remotely good value for money. 5/6

I'd guess some of the heavier subscription users are probably burning like $15-30k/month worth of resources. Then you have to consider the fact that the actual cost of API tokens may also be subsidized. These company are getting discount compute from cloud providers looking to expand. 4/6

Most of the die-hard AI fans I talk to are using stuff like Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, etc. All of those are heavily-subsidized to the point where those $20/month and $200/month subscriptions they're paying for are letting them burn thousands of dollars worth of tokens. 3/6

The Fastlegen podcast (Kaveh Rashidi & Sara Sørheim) drops by this topic from time to time and I think Kaveh just calls it "perimenopausen" in Norwegian also. They have had som episodes on womens health since I started listening sometime last year.

This is just some random video on perimenopause, but it made me annoyed yet again that I was never taught any of this. I don’t even know the Norwegian word for perimenopause. Up to 10 YEARS before menopause you can have serious life altering symptoms. WTF. Women’s health ftw.

Proprietary corporate code is anyone's guess though. I expect that a lot of it will just disappear as the companies that own it just die under a flood of bugs while competitors who understand the importance of code quality eat their lunches.

He seems nice 😳 Dopfner: «Zionism uber alles.» Also one of these is not like the others…

Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird/shocking, if it’s true, that the DNC didn’t deem figuring out why they lost to be important enough to spend money on it?

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias: «is literally them saying black voters can have districts as long as they vote for Republicans.» @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @democracydocket.com

Enten: "These are the worst numbers I've ever seen for any president on inflation. Trump is 49 points underwater. Biden -- inflation absolutely crushed his presidency -- but at his worst he was only 43 points underwater. Trump is in a worse position on inflation than Jimmy Carter was!"

I've said it before and I'll say it again, once a government introduces a way to monitor their citizens no sides will vote to give it up, because they will want it when they're in power.

Trial of non-invasive endometriosis scan boosts hopes for quicker diagnosis

This interview is such a train wreck. Does this instill confidence?

I thought this was a Bluesky joke. Then I opened up the news.

Jesus Christ.

1/ I can understand how countries that weren’t occupied during WWII, that don’t have the history of the holocaust carved into their streets, can be extremely naive when it comes to data privacy. 🧵

You say «could have been», but could it have? Maybe this isn’t the printing press, maybe it’s the computer mouse? It will enable new applications, but won’t impact productivity in meaningful ways.

1/ I co-own a small software consultancy with only seniors. Tiny right now, since I’m not in a health state where we can hire. But I’ve been doing this for a while, so let’s talk about the financial model of junior software consultants (Americans often call them contractors).

We’ve had this tech for years now. If it was what they claim, shouldn’t the whole software space be upended? Is it possible that maybe this isn’t the productivity revolution we’ve been promised? Maybe it’s mostly just pushing up energy prices, polluting ground water and destroying the climate?

Are Anthropics numbers better? Because if this tech is the weaving loom, trains and the printing press all rolled into one, why isn’t it selling?

So this is the tech that is supposed to save the global economy with its hockey stick productivity growth? 2025 20$/month * 44 M = 880 M $/month 5$/month * 3 M = 15 M $/month Total: 895 M $/month 2026 20$/month * 9 M = 180 M $/month 5$/month * 112 M = 560 M $/month Total: 740 M $/month

New followers: I’m famous for either not posting or posting way too much. Also I reply in Norwegian to Norwegians though I rarely post in Norwegian. I’m dyslexic and very annoyed that I don’t have edit, so we’ll both have to live with that annoyance. Otherwise: welcome.

Two of my favorite Hasan’s at the same time 🤓 @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @hasanminhaj.com

Needed to repost this graphic that @hankgreen.bsky.social posted on YouTube. What has knowledge and science done for us lately? 🫶

goddamnit

perfect response. 10/10.

This is one for all the open source devs struggling to explain why LLMs have been a pox on all our houses: kristoff.it/blog/contrib... #ai

Putin must be loving this Iran war, he’s literally an business partner of all of the players.

My brain when a new person follows me: Listen, I’m not sure this is a good idea 😰

8/ Data privacy is antifascist. Not by accident. By design. Data privacy legislation all over Europe was built around the information the Nazis used to target people. Look over the lists of information deemed «sensitive», then look at the groups of people explicitly targeted by the Nazis.