2026-04-12 10:13:30
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
I'm actually believing this, the main reason "AI" hype has become this big is tech people being impressed by it "writing code".
Then they were wrongly extrapolating capabilities to other fields (because "programming is super hard, harder than any other vocation, therefore 'AI' can do anything!!!1!"). To them, it clearly appears be god because they see themselves as gods—because they can write quicksort and linked lists or something.
Meanwhile, LLMs are only passable at generating code because it is laughably easy, mainly because programming languages and "best practices" are extremely verbose, repetitive and clunky; requiring endless boilerplate and infinite layer cakes to achieve even the most trivial things.
Because other people that don't care about that shit are so dependent on technology, it gets pushed to everyone without consent.
Kind of like a hubris ouroboros.
Iran-US talks: no deal reached. One of the key sticking points was the US refusal to agree anything on halting the Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
https://aje.news/x545rk
I can't think of anything good to say about Andrew Hoggard. So I won't say anything at all. 🙃
Another great reason not to do anything with OpenAI. And those working at OpenAI realize they are working for Nazis https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/116059341113693325
More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
I've always made it a solemn practice to never drink anything stronger
than tequila before breakfast.
-- R. Nesson
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
The thing that is eroding Trump's power more than anything right now is his connection to Epstein. Everything in "the Epstein files" is absolutely toxic to the entire structure of power... the *exact* structures we want to dismantle.
The right has seized on this, but their analysis is just cartoon antisemitism and poor misdirection. They have managed to highlight this thing that unifies so many problems, so many struggles and experiences of oppression, at the same time. The fact that we haven't yet permanently tied his name to the entirety of capitalism and transmisogyny represents an utter failure of anarchists to pay fucking attention.
Is there anything we can do to help #iran
Trump's 'Deal Makers in Peace' Are Anything But (Jonathan Guyer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/opinion/iranwar-kushner-witkoff-failures.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p12#a260413p12
This sucks, but I don’t think any organized constituency is going to fight it so it’s as good as law. Coming to SF: more businesses where you can’t buy anything without being added to their email list for the rest of your life.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-cash…
Kid2 has discovered canned black olives. I loved them when I was young before deciding they were bland and dreadful. With Kid2's encouragement, the pendulum has swung back a bit - they still don't taste like anything, but they're so salty I don't care.
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
Since this year I have massive trouble accessing anything hosted on AWS during the evening hours like these.
My ISP is Deutsche Telekom AG (AS3320) and it looks like the only route to AWS (AS16509) leads through Cogent (AS174). MTR is showing more than 30% packet loss through Cogent to an AWS target.
I know peering between DTAG and Cogent has been historically bad, but I never noticed issues until now. What happened? Do any BGP nerds know more?
I sure hope Mamdani does something about NYC's fucked up public school system, because our kids' 2E school just raised tuition to *$105k* per year. This is not an elite prep school or anything fancy, this is just an elementary/middle school that does things for kids on the spectrum that public schools were already supposed to be doing (as dictated by their IEPs).
This, as much as anything else, is why I went Mac. https://digipres.club/@foone/116054096345781110
89gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@… testing anything in particular?
@… I’m not implying it’s the “right” move nor that anyone should copy it, but at this point we’re effectively not buying anything Costco doesn’t carry.
Rimsky-Korsakov - "Scheherazade" (1961) (Orch. Suisse Romande, Ansermet cond.)
Thrift store find. This era of London-Decca pressings sounds better than just about anything.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKq64tL0GeMHdnQQVtCXGhewMZH3qWnX-
GO train near Oakville was seconds away from ‘worst-case’ derailment, internal Metrolinx report shows
Again, this had to be leaked to the media because there’s no transparency about anything at Metrolinx.
#metrolinx #trains
People who believe in magic sky fairies shouldn’t be in charge of anything, let alone nuclear weapons.
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
How did first week of free agency impact 2026 NFL Draft outlook? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7112422/2026/03/13/nfl-draft-2026-roundtable-free-agency/
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512
@… if drowning pool has taught us anything it is to never let the bodies hit the floor
My own little experiment for you to try:
Open Facebook. (You won’t hear me say that often!)
Scroll. You don’t have to read anything. Just scroll.
Every once in a while, click on an ad — but not the top ad. Make it the second in the list on the side, or one far down your feed. You can open it in a background tab and then close the tab. Tell the model it didn’t •quite• get you right — but you’re engaged, it just needs to drift a little further from who it thinks you are.
Wait for the ads to update. Repeat. And repeat. Watch the model degrade.
To this day, Facebook thinks I’m a gun owner who wants testosterone supplements.
Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…
Cowboys to play the first NFL game in Rio de Janeiro in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-to-play-the-first-nfl-game-in-rio-de-janeiro-in-2026
Shot https://bsky.app/profile/askaubry.com/post/3ltfcayubbk2j
Barely related (mind the evo-psych eugenics towards the end) chaser
https://
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@GameFromScratch/116217102432784094
I don’t see anything substantial with RTX. I’d much rather prefer rasterisation on my games, thank you.
the perf hit is just not worth the visual glow up.
Does anyone know anything about abtr.co ? It is possibly managing NHS login, or is a scam. it is a GoDaddy site (i.e. USA based) with minimal information available.
Ravens surprise trade for Raiders edge Maxx Crosby becomes historic stunner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108727/2026/03/11/ravens-surprise-trade-for-raiders-edge-maxx-crosby-becomes-historic-stunner/…
RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116059031767089232
I certainly have NO TRUST in anything this administration says.
Some skepticism is something I have long thought wise. But this administration is so extreme and so consistently lies and breaks th…
It’s funny to me how despite “Dance Yrself Clean” being such a hit, it didn’t occur to any other band to… put some dynamic range in their music.
There’s not really anything notable about the songwriting. They just started the song with a long quiet section and then turned it up, and people went nuts.
Utter insanity. Complete disregard for anything or anyone else on the planet or in the sky.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satellite-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.mLor.YQZzOBNKM3YW&smid=url-share
am i the only academic in the world who is too ... shy? ... to post their CV ?
(i'd post anything for love but i won't post that ha ha)
90gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
If you are phasing out old hardware where users could remotely run VMs for testing purposes, there is ALWAYS that one user that
a) has been using their VM in prod for years
b) doesn't reply to any message about decommissioning sent to all users
c) doesn't install updates, patches, hotfixes or anything "because I have it just the way I like it"
d) will raise all hell when you shut down the machine
e) insists that you hot-migrate their VM to the new i…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
With the 2026 NFL league year officially arriving, there's a new clear-cut Super Bowl favorite
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2027-super-bowl-favorite-rams/
Binance
—Whose Founder,
Changpeng Zhao,
Was Pardoned by Trump
—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin
(roughly $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion total)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoi…
Companies keep shit you need to know from them purposefully obtuse in hopes you'll give up and not contact them about anything.
Never believe anything until these people denies it.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116376919463578270
Attempting to use arch, btw, in a VM for the first time (to set up a ngscopeclient CI builder).
Coming from Debian... wow this is not a noob distro lol. So far I've had to manually partition the disk in a shell, configure everything from the keymap to the time zone by editing config files or creating symlinks. There's no top level install tool as far as I can tell.
And grub didn't auto detect anything so now I have I think a fully installed system but I'm stuck in…
Trying yet another Apple TV show, and I'm out.
"Smoke". Slow; story just meanders with no build towards anything. Watched E3 and literally have no idea how it moves anything forward. Stilted, unlikeable characters, for whom I feel nothing. And the most obnoxious, unnaturally heavy color grade I recall seeing for this type of show. Imagine a character drama with a John Wick grade. All the highlights are orange, the rest green. Bizarre choice.
As a teen I fell off the other side if this damn dam... It had pipes sticking out every few feet and I bounced off of every one of 'em on the way down. Amazingly I did not break anything.
By-the-way, this photo shows the downstream side - the concrete apron is used in many films (such as in the film clip - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Official Trailer - below after the photo.)
I drove past just the other day and low and behold there was yet another film crew filming someth…
Day 9 of not being able to listen to anything but Angine de Poitrine ✋🔺🤚
(Vinyls are preordered 😁)
#adp #anginedepoitrine #dalmatiansOnAcid
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/arts/music/live-nation-ant…
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Machine Learning techniques are upending multiple scientific fields. Operational 5-day forecasting of air quality in 1 minute in this paper from Chinese researchers.
This is awesome work with very clear public health implications.
EDIT for clarity: I am.not suggesting LLMs have anything to do with this work, but many people hear AI and imagine LLMs. And many of them.are perhaps rightly sceptical of AI as a result.
But AI or ML techniques can be useful for lots of things, not just chatbots. And we should probably invest more in those.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y
RE LB: “Double Opt-In” isn’t really double. It’s 2-factor. Or mutual handshake, if you prefer. You ask to subscribe an address, and the sender emails you a request to confirm that before they send anything else.
There ARE other ways to handle subscriptions ethically, but they ALL include a mechanism confirmingin a reliable way that the user knows what they are asking for and is in control of the subscribed address.
Updated my free-for-dev Contributing Guide, Code of Conduct, Readme, PR templates, Added AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md that tells bots not to contribute.
Still you get daily fuckers like this who just drive by dump their projects on 100s (or exactly 100 in this case) lists with no regard for list polilcies.
Now just closing without even any discussion anything that even looks like LLM generated.
I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch of cloudflare (or whatever centralized captcha org) sites at once which raises suspicions. And orgs like cloudflare probably track IP address reputations, almost like blacklists.
Is this on track? Is there anything out on the 'net that might bac…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
Oh, poor babies. Thank goodness thousands of Brown people aren’t dying or anything.
Get bent. @… https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/11637690…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Ezra Furman:
🎵 Anything Can Happen
#EzraFurman
https://ezrafurman.bandcamp.com/track/anything-can-happen-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hTqVPKCqGiA3fm61L4hs0
Related, do you know if anyone is currently working on such a project? I haven't followed @… closely for a while, but I'm not aware of anything beyond the blog and I'm not aware of other groups doing similar work.
"What if you could just make a movie?"
My dude you can pick up your phone right now and just make a movie. The reason why you don't doesn't have anything to do with technology.
Ravens surprise trade for Raiders edge Maxx Crosby becomes historic stunner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108727/2026/03/11/ravens-surprise-trade-for-raiders-edge-maxx-crosby-becomes-historic-stunner/…
158gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
This. I try to remember to explicitly name my •experience• for my students, in contrast to any seeming brilliance, as the source of anything I do or say that impresses them.
“Brilliance” says “Are you good enough?” “Experience” says “Keep showing up, and stick with it through all the struggles.”
https://scholar.social/@pence/116204098936436353
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/arts/music/live-nation-ant…
83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for “unconditional surrender”.
Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy,
Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is
and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century:
spiking gas prices.
On gas prices, Tr…
203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@… trepanning please.
A firm no to anything experimental.
The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
It’s amazing how many people feel the urge to reply to this when I didn’t ask for help with anything whatsoever with irrelevant and frankly bad takes like “just buy real books!”
I remember Dunblane shootings happening as clear as anything, I did not know that 2 opposing politicians, both with links to the town, were witness to the crime scene directly afterwards. I imagine this was key to get the legislation banning hand guns through.
Perhaps the US could learn from this approach when it comes to school shootings?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8zmxe25o
Imagine in what kind of "great atmosphere" the negotiations between the US and Iran will take place. The US attacked during earlier negotiations, killed several levels of Iranian leadership, their family etc... Two weeks will not be enough to accomplish anything meaningful I think 🤔 without even mentioning the fact that there is disagreement about how Lebanon is part of the current ceasefire. Trump's idea about quickly reaching a deal is pure fiction.
213gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
227gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months
despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record
says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture”
and that the atmosphere was volatile.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff.
They’re capable of anything.”
Speakin…
101gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
102gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
175gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The most important thing to understand about the “madman theory” of foreign policy
is that it was designed by losers for losers.
The world first heard of the madman theoryfrom a 1978 memoir by Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff H. R. Haldeman.
According to Haldeman, Nixon said:
“I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.”
Faced with an otherwise hopeless war in Vietnam, Nixon would pretend to be cra…
91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
133gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
214gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2