@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-13 16:41:27
In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-04-12 08:38:25
Gosh, the replies to this one...
🤣😂🤣
The Fediverse is awesome...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116387503607084903
Ruth_Mottram - I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@anildash@me.dm2026-03-13 13:46:48
There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-12 07:45:55
A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-12 22:31:53
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in evanston, on ronnie tutt’s 38th. spring ’76, show #4.
early show: https://archive.org/details/jg76-03-12.020700.jgb.partial.fob.unknown.shriver-weiner.sbeok.t-flac16
late show:
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-11 22:28:19
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Charlotte Jacobs:
🎵 Xylem
#CharlotteJacobs
https://open.spotify.com/track/23jV5VbK0vwCp5TlfoLVAE
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-13 12:05:56
A leak about White House outrage over CBS' reported hiring of Jeremy Adler, who previously worked for Liz Cheney, suggests the WH is trying to prevent the hire (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2032131070024360446
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-13 05:53:09
I've been wondering lately if my job is #bullshit.
I've given it a lot of thought, and I think it's not directly bullshit. I'm doing stuff that's meaningful, at least in a narrow scope, both in my dayjob and my #FreeSoftware / #Gentoo work.
That said, with the arrival of all the bullshit CEOs, CTOs, all their bootlickers, wannabe bootlickers, and all the CEO/CTO/bootlicker cosplayers, the whole software industry is becoming filled with bullshit to the brim.
Even if my work is meaningful, it contributes more and more to software that's either scam in itself, used to scam people or pure unadulterated bullshit. Even if the tools used to be useful, they either gain bullshit parts or bullshit dependencies.
I hate this, and it's making me hate what I'm doing.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-12 03:21:07
Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-blackston…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-13 06:06:32
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/palantir-ce
