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@… @… @… I agree that there are useful applications (with the usual caveats), but my comment was really…

@… @… @… I agree that there are useful applications (with the usual caveats), but my comment was really…

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Recognizing Every Voice: Towards Inclusive ASR for Rural Bhojpuri Women
Sakshi Joshi, Eldho Ittan George, Tahir Javed, Kaushal Bhogale, Nikhil Narasimhan, Mitesh M. Khapra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09653

Recognizing Every Voice: Towards Inclusive ASR for Rural Bhojpuri Women
Digital inclusion remains a challenge for marginalized communities, especially rural women in low-resource language regions like Bhojpuri. Voice-based access to agricultural services, financial transactions, government schemes, and healthcare is vital for their empowerment, yet existing ASR systems for this group remain largely untested. To address this gap, we create SRUTI ,a benchmark consisting of rural Bhojpuri women speakers. Evaluation of current ASR models on SRUTI shows poor performance…

@… I sincerely agree. First time I’ve not had even a glimmer of excitement to receive an OS update. Instead, a sense of fatigue and alienation.

@… I'm not sure I agree 😄 But it's certainly a good one.

@… That’s my excuse too. I’ve got a programming language to build. 😆
I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said, and unfortunately, I think the real work is the grunt work, in this instance. There’s lots of little bits and they have to connect together.

@… Add “today” to what I wrote ;-)
But I agree.