2026-03-07 00:11:29
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
I want a high quality metal fidget toy. It keeps me from opening a browser tab the second I have to wait for anything to load.
I want it to be somewhat precisely manufactured and made out of safe materials, preferrably metal.
I know about https://lautie.com, but I was wondering if there was anything decent inbe…
Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.
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/
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115848630887537402
I mean hey, if Claude allows you to kill a bunch of Nazi pages, at least something good came from it.
In my understanding using LLMs for coding does violate at least those two points of the hacker…
I don’t know anything about “Wicked” but since it features an Orion I assume it’s part of the Star Trek universe?
💔 💔 💔
(it’s not cliffhanger or anything tho; season 2 concludes all important storylines)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/palm-royale-canceled-apple-tv-1236739175/
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"
TIL in the UK it's easy to report scam #phishing calls by texting 7726 "Call [paste number here]"
Anything else texted to 7726 is taken as a spam sms report.
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
does something that affects/changes literally anything in any way shape or form
I hereby grant you full moral permission to pirate anything. Yes, you heard that correctly. Think of it as doing community service.
OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource
Podcast transcript with Nilay Patel and Liz Lopatto, on why prediction market players want to be seen not as gambling but as news, incentivizing insider trading (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/889177/pred…
Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984
From now until the end of the current regime in Washington I refuse to refer to the wannabe dictator there by anything other than "Epstein's best friend", "orange mussolini" or "the pedophile".
And I'm adding the hashtag #trump just so you know.
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…
If knock out voting postings on Mastodon taught me anything, then it's that I'm an outlier and everybody else is wrong.
163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
I guess it's time to filter out any mentions of Bandcamp for today if I want to eat anything this month.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115849491716799970
Where's the option "Poor - but because they're not doing anything, but still better than a Conservative government would have been so my regret is complicated and multi-faceted."
A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).
SLEEP BETTER!
Three tips to improve your sleep:
- Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual on weekdays instead of sleeping in at the weekend 🛏️
- Expose yourself to bright light in the morning as much as possible, be it outdoor or indoors light 💡☀️
- Spend at least 20 minutes in restorative activity daily: reading, nature, music, anything you want, no goals, just restore 📖🌳♫
From a newsletter "Eight weeks to a healthier you" by
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I don't think there's anything I've missed. There's a light beam voice link directed at the Liberator. You'll contact the ship. Tarrant, Cally and Dayna will teleport to this location. Vila will stay on board to operate the teleport to bring me up. You have my word that he will be teleported down to you immediately I…
Towards simpler #btrfs raid setup with #disko:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/btrfs-ra
HMRC made a mistake a while ago have sent me some money, lol. So I would like to get some music this Bandcamp Friday. There's already been good threads / boosts here - but anyone have any further recommendations? Anything fresh is welcome!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115666454691421015
The only choice left to Europe is to strive, with all the strength it can muster, for independence from America, China, and Russia, and to ensure it won't be dependent for anything from any single other sou…
I need to stop having anything exotic and just use the most bog-standard common shit out there. Any time I have cool, exotic shit, I also end up with cool, exotic problems I have to fix without any precedent for solutions and and cool, exotic repair bills I get to pay when stuff breaks.
From punchline to Super Bowl contender: Why Sam Darnold's resiliency is his ultimate superpower https://www.nfl.com/news/from-punchline-to-super-bowl-contender-why-sam-darnold-s-resiliency-is-his-ultimate-superpower…
"How about images of UK military equipment accompanied by the song Money for Nothing? Is that anything?"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/keir-starmer-accused-of-mimicking-trump-with-middle…
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more
6. “But US retaliation!!” − Oh honey, the US under MAGA control is coming for you regardless of what you do. If anything, it seems that being compliant •increases• the odds of this administration targeting you. Who was is who said that if a bully threatens to punch you, and you do what they say, and then punch you anyway, then you can stop doing what they say?
If I could change anything about my life I would go back in time and save the email my junior year's college adjunct professor send to the class at 3am:
"Wow there are a lot of Jennifers in this class"
I think he said one other thing..... but that was the gist of the email.
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,”…
Back in 2003, in the heady early years of the blogosphere, I would read, link to, and comment on Juan Cole’s @…’s excellent blog.
It’s still here, and still required reading for anything to do with the Middle East.
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/shock-either-bradblog.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…
Trump hails success of 'fantastic' Maduro mission: 'I've never seen anything like it' (Christian Datoc/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4400178/trump-hails-success-of-fantastic-maduro-mission/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p29#a260104p29
“Love thy neighbor*”
– USian Christians
* Unless they have natural resources. In which case, bomb the shit out of them, invade them, kidnap their presidents… anything, really, until we can steal what they have. After all, we built our whole damn country on stealing from and enslaving others (amen, etc.)
Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…
169gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
u are now forced to talk about nothing but sadness and abriction. im catching up since so far away in time. i fw this song in particular it brought me back to musicposting so u know its gas. also heard forbidden bounds, while i appreciate the different approach, some of the lyrics are too annoyingly online tgirl and overall only like 3 moments really did anything to me.
Polymarket and other bet-on-anything sites are very bad for democracy. There's too much opportunity for inside trading, which will further widen the income inequality gap.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn93292do?utm_source=flipboard&u…
The next non-insane president-elect of the United States. Literaly anything he decides to say will win him the election. The easiest run in the US history, considering the scariest part that it will drive Trump into a world-destruct mode - if Trump manages to stay in office in the next three years ->
Governor Gavin Newsom on Relationship with Trump, People Badmouthing CA & "Gov Gav" Has a Surprise!
Prescott willing to do anything to keep George Pickens on the Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/03/dak-prescott-willing-get-involved-to-help…
" I'm not into astrology, but from my perspective, if the planets are going to align it’s finding as many ways to de-algo this year as possible. Everything from platforms with “like” buttons to anything Google."
amen!
via @…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
This is, of course, a problem for AI as well. StackExchange is a hugely important part of the pre-training data. Maybe even more important than Wikipedia.
For anything that happened after ~202…
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: No, no, it's just we don't get offered galaxies every day of the week.
EGRORIAN: Pinder, prepare the demonstration. [To Avon] Do you know anything about tachyons?
https://blake…
So, rumours are that Windows 12 will be subscription based and AI focused. Lol. I... I hope I don't have to use it for anything at all ever in my life.
Any other #SanFrancisco folks out there who know something about this? I haven't seen anything about it around town, just on BlueSky: https://marchforbillionaires.org/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Angelo Cruzman & Jacoby:
🎵 Anything
#AngeloCruzman #Jacoby
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://dreemsdreems.bandcamp.com/track/anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ENGqFFo3YWSVzA60itPqa
"Guidelines" for "AI" are not a meaningful tool against slopification of anything. People don't produce slop because they don't know better.
Why is it the case that we can't copy text anymore on the phone? You used to be able to hold and select to copy, but "hold" doesn't do anything now, half of the time. I think this mostly happens in apps, like Rightmove or Outlook. Is this just me? Is there a trick to make it good again?
#PhoneProblems
Drew Brees would be a Hall of Famer anywhere, but in New Orleans, he’s one of a kind https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024397/2026/02/06/drew-brees-hall-of-fame-saints/
is it normal that videos just don't play on mastodon anymore? I can download them and play them from disk, but in the web player just doesn't do anything.
GrapheneOS update no.1:
I'm sure my phone is much more secure without any fucking software on it, which was clearly the objective of these design decisions. In fact, why don't I smash it with a hammer and throw it in the pond? That'll be even safer. Perhaps I could even install OpenVMS first just to make sure nobody will be able to do anything with the remains. After all, the real purpose of a device is to be unusable by anyone, because that is the most secure possible post…
165gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
#Samsung phones are such a pain.
I had a friend over and we had to put a SIM card in a Samsung phone to receive text. Turns out you can't do anything with the damn phone (except emergency calls) until you provide Wi-Fi and allow it to install all kinds of scamware on behest of the mobile network. What a waste of time and resources.
Partner: I get Pink Floyd and The Who confused.
Me: But… how!? They don’t sound anything alike. They’re both British, but… how?
Partner: I know they’re totally different, but in middle school there was this kid who always wore either a Pink Floyd shirt or a The Who shirt, so ever since then my brain confuses the two.
Me: Brains are weird.
(Looking at my recent posts I'll probably never be able to get hired anywhere near anything techy ever again.)
256gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Philip Rivers says NFL coaching jobs not on his radar, but he's open to the possibility https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942995/2026/01/05/philip-rivers-nfl-coaching-opportunities/
I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.
How to survive Instagram's algorithm as a creative
- "Instagram is wrecking my head. I have a fairly decent number of followers. But hardly anyone sees my work"
- "I have a completely organic audience, yet my posts don't reach most of my followers"
- "Instagram hides your posts unless you post a selfie or anything personal"
- "You have something new? Post it, leave and focus on more important things."
- "Do o…
161gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Trump says US munition stockpiles mean wars can be fought 'forever'
In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said that the US munition stockpiles “at the medium and upper medium grade” have “never been higher or better”.
He added that the US has a “virtually unlimited supply of these weapons”, meaning that
💥 “wars can be fought ‘forever’”.
This comes after Trump said that the US-Israel war on Iran could go beyond the four to five weeks that the admini…
We can conclude that democratic control and oversight, the role of Congress in the US, is essentially death. If Trump can do this and get away with it he can basically do anything. If Trump wants to strike in Mexico, why would he consult/inform congress, or when he does something against Greenland or Canada.
#venezuela
Any other #SanFrancisco folks out there who know something about this? I haven't seen anything about it around town, just on BlueSky: https://marchforbillionaires.org/
Once again, wishing everyone a great weekend, I’ll be off doing something radical, like *anything other than complaining on the fediverse*.
https://libcom.org/article/anarcho-syndicalist-trans-feminism
In Gaziantep round when I was 8 I briefly had an old ipod and as a present mom bought me an itunes album with 100 different instrumental only video game songs but she didnt know anything it was actually all 90s sounding midi covers of the original songs and they deleted it off my ipod after looking up what "resident evil" was
i learned later the one for metal gear solid 3 main theme wasnt actually that, it was some whole other shit that genuinely had a strong melody. dont kno…
284gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
"US will be ‘strongly involved’ in Venezuela oil industry, Trump says after Caracas attacked and Maduro captured"
At least he is not pretending it's about anything else.
htt…
RE: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115833199614876660
Perhaps because it was about oil and regime change?
And the "please, please, please, speak about ANYTHING but Epstein, please" factor?
🤔
Insider Reveals Major Update on Cowboys DC Ahead of Season Finale https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-eberflus-coaching-changes-insider/
264gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.
As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…
254gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
253gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
2026 Super Bowl coin toss odds: Has heads won more than tails? Is tails on a run? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021478/2026/02/05/super-bowl-coin-toss-betting-odds-heads-tails/
With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…
I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/115830103893974091
Micah Parsons laughs about Cowboys' defensive issues; DC Matt Eberflus wouldn't do anything differently
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-parsons-cowboys-defensiv…
This year my plan is not just to write more but also to write a bit out of my usual wheelhouse. Do something that's not just sociotechnological critique.
Not sure how to get the ball rolling there but I really love what Mike Monteiro is doing with his Newsletter ( https://buttondown.com/monteiro ). Bu…
199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
136gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
123gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
179gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
117gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2