"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…
People who believe in magic sky fairies shouldn’t be in charge of anything, let alone nuclear weapons.
"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.
"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching
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…
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
I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).
Companies keep shit you need to know from them purposefully obtuse in hopes you'll give up and not contact them about anything.
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…
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…
The problem is if Discord go to hell, I will be back at the beginning fighting against my player who would really want us to play using Facebook Messenger.
Discord was the best I could do. Anything open-source is doomed to fail.
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
I wish more people understood this.
@… 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://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873537569365720
Oh, and in Norway I can legally change my gender, not that it really matters. If anything, it just proves how pointless the whole gender thing is to begin with.
There’s no option for t…
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…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: I apologize for my late arrival.
AVON: Boorva, perhaps now you may care to revise your position?
BOORVA: Because Zukan has finally arrived? That doesn't necessarily change anything.
https://
Amateur diplomat time: I think what Australia is trying to do Schrödinger's support for Trump's (Netanyahu's) war on Iran.
We've almost always gone to war if USA asks. But Trump's *hated* here, so we're helping UAE instead. We've said no boots on the ground, so we're helping with planes/surveillance equipment.
Makes sense, we've recently signed an FTA & Emirates is a key transport link from here to Europe. Trump can't call Albo a 'loser' like Spain & the Australian media can't roast him for 'not doing anything'.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Reminder of the "Trump/MAGA playbook":
1️⃣ Never admit anything or apologize
2️⃣ Lie & deny everything
3️⃣ Lie & blame opponent
**YOU ARE HERE**
4️⃣ Lie & create distraction
5️⃣ Deflect & attack attack attack
☑️ #Trump says #Iran at fault for …
I think what helps in arguing with friends and family members is realizing that you don't have the pandering ideologically set far right influencer in front of you, but just a regular human being, even though they may on a surface level peddle the same beliefs.
The far right has been in the offense more than anything, people will have heard of certain obvious far right talking points, yet do not have a consolidated ideological opinion from which that point emerges, but rather …
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Konate with the Joel Matip probing run forward, which makes me happy. Sadly, Ekitike cannot/does not do anything with it.
#LFC
Not sure if this would be to any tastes, but I’ve never shared anything here from artistic residencies or such. This was done with German conceptual artist Kristina Buch and is quite fun, actually. Possibly.
https://youtu.be/IaUnkaryXyw?si=LtxxWIW8OPeSu__P
About it:
…
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
Pedro Sšnchez: No to war
It is naive to think that escalating conflict in #Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister.
A powerful statement.
Every EU country should agree with this.
https://archive.vn/V5gMx
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
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…
I can't find anything now 😄 Just went to make a baked potato and couldn't find my arse with both hands. Got there in the end but it's a big change around we've had.
Not that we should *ever* want war for oil (or anything else) but perhaps there can be a positive outcome?
“Jacinta Peperkamp is among a growing cohort of people who are relying on their bike due to eye-watering fuel costs. “We haven’t used our car since fuel prices went crazy,” the single mother of two says.”
133gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Yesterday, I've read a vibe coded script for the first time in my life, and I've cried.
It wasn't ugly. "Ugly" is not the right term. It was as if someone wasn't able to comprehend beauty, but badly tried to mimic it. It felt like "malicious compliance" to beauty. The kind of awful verbose pedantry that feels wrong every step of the way.
It's the kind of code you'd expect in a corporate environment when you know that the code would be read by the top suits who have no idea about coding, but judge it by the volume and expect science fiction level of make-believe.
It's the kind of code is abstracted away into the tiniest details. Every function returns a complex dataclass explaining precisely what it did, for no reason at all. What would be two lines of code is a function. What would be a function is a whole module. It's a caricature of good programming practices.
I was supposed to add modifying a second field on the same object via GitHub API. I've guessed it would take me about an hour to figure out the code enough to be able to do that — what ought to be 2-3 extra lines. I suspected I'd discover that most of the code does precisely nothing. Just meaningless API exchanges that are absolutely unnecessary. It felt like the kind of parody of bureaucracy where you have to file 10 forms to do something, and only one of them actually means anything.
What used to be "do one thing well" became "doing ten totally random things is fine, as long as one of them happens to be what I need, and the whole thing doesn't blow anything up in an obvious way".
Perhaps it's just because this way a throwaway script. Maybe "production" stuff takes more, err, prompt refining? Maybe it actually can produce stuff that's comprehensible.
But if that code was any indicator, then I'm not going to believe that any big LLM contributions are actually reviewed by humans. A review will take more time than rewriting from scratch. This is a ticking time bomb. That LLM-generated code isn't introducing exploits right now is either a statistical accident, or it's just that nobody bothers.
Clarification: I didn't "prompt" it or request one. I'm not a hypocrite.
#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
Ooooh, you can easily full-share calendars of a #radicale instance between accounts by just symlinking them into other users' directories. Everyone then 'owns' that calendar and can do anything. Paired with the #git hook, this then gives you a very fine-grained log of who changed what and when.…
So Trump lost this war with Iran he started and the rest of the world pays the price. Freedom of navigation has been given up in Hormuz, we pay a million per vessel. Iran has a very strong negotiating position, will play for time , acquire weapons, reinforce/rebuild, surpress the Iranian people, I am forgetting anything?
#trump
How you genuinely treat others says more about your character than anything else you might otherwise say or do.
#tennis #kindness
Early info coming out on the latest Anthropic model seem to indicate that the model will make another huge jump in AI capabilities. Just look at these scores. INSANE
I "code" everyday pretty much but it's been mostly just asking to do stuff and adjusting the output. I am sure I could just walk away and not adjust anything and be fine but I still find the current models to be too verbose sometimes, or still make a silly shortcut or decision. I am assuming after this, it wi…
219gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
«A chatbot says “I’m sorry” flawlessly yet has no capacity for regret, repair, or change. It admits mistakes without loss. It expresses care without losing anything. It uses the language of care without having anything at risk. These utterances are fluent. And they train users to accept moral language divorced from consequence. The result is a quiet recalibration of norms. Apologies become costless. Responsibility becomes theatrical. Care becomes simulation.»
We knew, but the proof is nice.
"Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves"
The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything.
https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/st
236gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
"The Hunting Party" promo has Kelsey Grammer playing a narcisstic psychopath actor & wow, if you know anything about Grammer's LA reputation, NBC nailed it.
☑️ Kelsey Grammer praises Donald Trump as 'maybe the greatest' president
https://www.
This lunatic… this idiot son of modern-day barbarians is proclaiming that his morally-vacuous plastic-trinket empire is going to commit genocide and what’s the rest of the world doing? Anything? Where are the condemnations? Where are the sanctions? Where’s the mass mobilisation against this Fourth Reich?
240gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Is there anything better than watching some poor dude flailing as he's hitting on some random woman? "I really like your shirt, it's such a cool vibe" "it's my work uniform."
I either winced or laughed at that, I can't remember.
[I don't know if he ultimately succeeded in getting her number, but always remember that this is what the apps have taken away from us!]
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
216gCO2/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…
I'm so confused I've tried to find any persistent state across de-embed filter invocations and i *think* I've cleared everything out.
If i blow away the fft plan i get no output which is weird and needs further investigation (something not being initialized until the second filter execution or something?).
Wiping all of the VkBuffer's i could find had no effect. I tried adding submits after each shader in case of anything strange happening in command buffers wrt b…
We are a nation in discontent.
So I suggest that all of us schedule at least one evening at a local live theatre performance of some kind (but *not* some Broadway revival.)
Live performers on a stage emotionally interact with the audience in ways that are far beyond anything that TV or film can do.
Live stage is a dying art form - but it is one that we really need, if not for entertainment then for the way it teaches us to listen to others and effectively communicate with t…
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
No, really, my feeling for people who believe that they are not engage in promoting Fascism when using LLMs like ChatGPT and Clause and Grok is pure pity. I can’t even be angry with them any more when it is clear that if those LLMs are good for anything, it is breaking people’s connections to reality.
Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran
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I hereby release the contents of this thread under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Please credit to:
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Please let me know if you do anything cool with it.
Stay warm, stay strong.
My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
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Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…
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