uBlock origin to the fucking rescue Add this to your custom filters to get around this bullshit gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

Dude I had people calling me a tech elitist because I said "learning terminal is good because it helps you better understand how computers work, even if you don't want to use it all the time". Wilful tech illiteracy drives me insane.

I think every time this discourse comes up that people undervalue network effects, advertising, and familiarity in how they perceive open source software. I tried using a copy of Photoshop like a decade ago and found it completely baffling compared to GIMP.

Google comes out against site blocking in the EU - mashable.com/tech/google-... "The company is pushing back against the latest legislative attempts to control the internet."

People think getting an electric bike means you get less of a workout but they don't understand the Jevons paradox.

Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playing models fail, suggesting that what they're doing is something quite different from human reasoning about play

one way in which history has gotten more boring is that historians used to get to speak way more ill of the dead

In general I'm starting to align with the neocons on "autocracy anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere" on account of how badly foreign influence campaigns seem to have messed with our information ecosystems.

i think people like being gendered correctly but i really really really doubt they actually enjoy being /gender-roled/ 'correctly'. there is a conflation going on here between the identity itself and the expectations linked to it

newer models (fable, 5.6 etc.) seem to be better at picking up irony which is honestly such a relief because I used to have a lot of discussions like - ai: ngl this is hard - me: you're right let's give up - ai: oh thank god *deletes project* - me: nOOO

this is why i want freedom of speech in china. i want chaos

I am absolutely astounded at how good Sheep Detectives is. It's such a patently silly premise but it's executed so well and has a surprising amount of depth for a PG film in 2026. I didn't know studios were allowed to make PG films touching on all the themes it touched on.

With the right attitude, you can get ANY diarrhea on the news

The murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE is devastating, but not surprising. This is the ICE playbook. We need to abolish ICE now and end qualified immunity so we can hold Trump’s thugs accountable.

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god

We need stronger anti-slapp laws.

I actually hadn’t heard of Channel 5 before. But the problem with our media all going to independent creators is they don’t have legal backup like established news sources, and can relatively easily be sued into silence.

Another vote for Chat Control was fast tracked to 12:00 CEST today! This would force backdoors into chat apps, etc

This is not a feel-good story. Aerial surveillance raises a whole bunch of 4th Amendment issues, especialyl depending on where they flew them.

Tbh generally the acceptance of woo from top to bottom has been a disaster and a betrayal of scientific values. From babies hemorrhaging because their parents refusing vitamin k shots, but also just a general distrust of “artificial” ingredients

i realize basically nobody on here believes this, but people who think that philanthropy can replace the government are basically just not engaging with the numbers involved

"Gov can be replaced with just billionaire philanthropy" "Gov can be funded with just taxes on a billionaires" Two bad ideas that share the same innumeracy about how much money it takes to actually provide good government services.

New rule: a candidate for high office should, before the primary, have to go through the same kind of invasive, personal background check that you need to adopt a cat

It’s genuinely so funny how classical literature and media has this reputation, like, when so many early modern books are like “god damn I am horny”

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

The devaluing of historical preservation and the erasure of culture memory is a crime being perpetuated by companies like Sony. www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Under Woke 2 we’re taking it back out

On a related note, it's absolutely insane how even with colossal oil wealth, Norway is only managing to remain at par with the US in terms of median household income (median, not average!). The US is wealthy enough to have free healthcare. Our issue is not voting for the taxes to pay for it.

The real secret to socialist success stories a lot of the time: massive unearned rents lmao

thinking of starting a business selling pasteurized raw milk

Regardless of whether you’re STEM or humanities, thinking the other group is temperamentally incapable of correct thinking is fulfilling the least charitable stereotypes of your own group

people are quibbling with me on this, and my mic-drop answer is peter thiel, a philosophy major. sbf also isn’t a sv techbro, he’s a finance bro propped up by ezra klein and matt yglesias bsky.app/profile/matt...

ai doesn’t work if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, episode 6 zillion or so, but i will say: before we do another round of stem vs humanities discourse, remember that all the worst people in silicon valley are humanities and social science majors

The voter suppression bill Trump keeps pushing is bad, I don't want it to pass—fortunately, looks like it won't—but I have to admit part of me is morbidly curious to see lawyers argue that it doesn't apply to married white women who took their husband's name and vote Republican because, uh, reasons.

it’s kind of ironic that the French government better understands and captures the true aesthetics and ideals of America than the groyper weirdos at the White House posting cringe anti-American MAGAslop

I really think it's time to take back the word "patriot". Fascists don't deserve to call themselves patriots.

I don’t really get the hopelessness here. the cost of avoiding at least some of these pathologies has just gone down by like 95%. the best open weights LLM knows 100 times as much about a11y as the typical dev and does not get bored

nuclear weapons would be something that would make them rethink very basic aspects of how they thought about the presidency

YUP One can imagine how "overheating hyperfocus mode" might have been helpful 50,000 years ago, when the main livelihood was "walk up to animals in the hottest part of the day & slowly wear them down over the course of 4 hours" We are gonna FIND that antelope Jerry, feck your blisters

The #1 thing about overheating is it makes your brain work bad. WAY before the "real" symptoms like dizziness, headache, weak pulse, cramps, nausea, etc. So by the time the "real" symptoms show up? You're already so fuzzy, you can't tell that you're in trouble. That's how people get heat stroke!

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

Have some good news: thehill.com/policy/inter... @vanvidum.bsky.social

Same, especially combined with mathematics (which was itself an excuse to study mathematical physics without spending a bunch of time in labs) The combination of "principled intellectual generalist with enough math skills to keep up with mathematized sciences" has been extremely powerful

"data centers use 4.4% of US power" may be true, but does miss an important point that data center demand is pretty consistent, and there's large chunks of time during the day when power is relatively cheap and plentiful. (I am almost certain it's not 4.4% of peak demand!)

Just had to explain who Peter Thiel is to my mother, a woman who has CNN on in her house every waking moment. Starting to think it’s a problem that men like this can just fly under the radar because their friends own the press.

How I feel about America on its 250th anniversary www.liberalcurrents.com/america-is-b...