Tootfinder

"The same industry that once called you family is now using the fruits of your labor to commit war crimes. [...]
The industry has decided what it wants to be."
(Original title: How to do the work)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-do-the-work/…

Fins GM: Work to do before we ID 'our guy' at QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47694969/dolphins-gm-sullivan-work-do-id-our-guy-qb

interessante sprachwissenschaftliche challenge:
"The World Endangered Writing Day 2026 #Phonemoji Contest; or, How Do You Write a Raspberry?"
https:/…

#SunRa: Do The Impossible - About the Documentary | American Masters | PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/sun-ra-do-the-impossible-documentary/37455/

How do you manage your #Kubernetes resource lifecycle?
Let's say you installed a new product, with all the bells and whistles (deployments, service accounts, gateway, network policies, roles and bindings. But you don't need those anymore. How do you dispose of them?
Do you install stuff with a kubectl apply and do you dispose of them by manually calling kubectl delete?

In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,

I’m also aware that not everyone can do this, for various reasons—please be advised that this is a shitpost and you do in fact not have to take it seriously or write essays about how I’m wrong or evil or whatever.

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/115935180169971454
Folks, if we do everything like the US does in the EU, one day this could be us.
So think big, people, think big and remember: continue with business as usual. We can do this! I …

Diplomaci

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sneaker Pimps:
🎵 How Do
#SneakerPimps
https://sneakerpimps.bandcamp.com/track/how-do
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gSAAa6SJmZzXLCbp1mkex

@… Właśnie do paczkomatu dotarła do mnie przenośna drukarka - idę odebrać i zobaczę, bo też mam KDE - dam znać ;)

Nawet do Dophin (managera plików) jak trzeba, to dodam akcję, żeby na prawy przycisk drukowało ;)

Unfortunately, it look like Senate Democrats might have less latitude to block ICE funding than we’d hoped:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/i-need-to-correct-an-error
I say make those calls anyway. I want all of them desperate to stop ICE, up sleepless at night trying to figure out what they can do even if there’s nothing they can do.

If you're a prof who teaches multi/nanopass #compiler s, how do you manage the different versions of the files? Suppose you want to add a construct; now you have to propagate the change through every subsequent file, say. Just in general, how do you manage the different versions?

What do you do when Microsoft Purview retention policies aren't applying, archive mailboxes aren't expanding, or inactive mailboxes aren't getting purged?
✅ #AI‑Powered Troubleshooting for #Microsoft #Purview

What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Caribou:
🎵 Can't Do Without You
#NowPlaying #Caribou
https://klaarofficial.bandcamp.com/track/caribou-cant-do-without-you-klaar-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/35p0Z5yZDogaXoWXhMVEv4

2025 NFL Draft do-over: How would all 32 picks in Round 1 play out now? https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-draft-do-over-how-would-all-32-picks-in-round-1-play-out-now

I'm so glad I have a Linux box on my desk to MOUNT USB DRIVES because #MacOS just decides to forget how to do it (and hangs Disk Utility). The device is there! It works! It shows up in USB Prober! A reboot fixes it! WHY? Apple, you used to do USB MSC so well, what happened? It's so tiring.

I'm so glad I have a Linux box on my desk to MOUNT USB DRIVES because #MacOS just decides to forget how to do it (and hangs Disk Utility). The device is there! It works! It shows up in USB Prober! A reboot fixes it! WHY? Apple, you used to do USB MSC so well, what happened? It's so tiring.

💗 Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-marathons-heart-decade-term-cardiac.html

Alerta vermelho é muito fora do comum.
https://trombas.vost.pt/@vostpt/115934715006559544

A despeito do gato atrapalhando, consegui fazer meia-hora de alongamentos e abdominais agora no quarto. Foi a segunda tentativa do dia, pois quando eu tentei de manhã haviam DOIS gatos me atrapalhando e aí eu desisti, bati em retirada frente Š minha óbvia inferioridade numérica rs.

Should I do signal connection in Godot with drag and drop?

"Let's just…admit…if your wrists get in the way of ICE zip ties, if your lungs dare to breathe…our chemical weapons without written permission in advance, or if your body and face get in the way of ICE munitions, that was illegal of you. So if you're really honest with yourself, you deserved it and have no one to blame but yourself. People who follow laws don't get targeted by ICE, as being a target is a clear indication of criminality on the part of the target."
…

Sonnet 012 - XII
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the …

Millions in US do not want bombs falling on Havana, say activists | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/millions-us-do-not-want-bombs-falling-havana-say-activists

UNIX philosophy: do one thing well
Linux philosophy: do 11 things mediocrely, never ask users what they need or want, and if anyone ever complains, respond with "pull requests accepted [smiley face]"

I am all for human-made podcasts and they will never disappear but still this app is a nice demonstrator about the added value AI podcasts can have, I listen to it now and then.
#ai

I've changed my mind -- Google and YouTube can't be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (Rand Paul/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/19/opinion/rand-paul-ive-changed-my-mind-google-and-youtube-cant-be-trusted-to-do-the-right-thing-and-must-be-reined-in/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p88#a260120p88

1. Programming languages exist purely to make it easier for humans to tell computers what to do
2. Programming languages are invented by programmers who suck at making things for humans
3. Programming languages aren’t actually that easy to use
4. Coding LLMs exist purely to make it easier for humans to write code to tell computers what to do
5. Coding LLMs were invented by programmers who suck at making things for humans
6. ?

What the Raiders Need To Do To Spruce Up Their LB Room https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-need-do-spruce-up-their-lb-room

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-companies-are-ai-wash…

A rubbish challenge: how do we dump space junk? Modern life depends on space-based infrastructure, but there’s a lot of junk orbiting alongside working spacecraft. Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of #SpaceDebris – and what we need to do about it: https://physicsworld.com/a/a-rubbish-challenge-how-do-we-dump-space-junk/ (looong).

@… I can do it for four.
…wait

„Prawa są do używania” to praktyczny i przystępny poradnik dla osób, które chcą mieć realny wpływ na decyzje podejmowane w swojej gminie
Od @…
https://siecobywa…

Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification

Where do y'all get your random SMT breakouts from? I'm running low on SOIC8 to DIP8 ones and adafruit seems like they're no longer a good option. And I'm not in the mood to DIY every variant I need in kicad and send to oshpark.
There's a ton on aliexpress but I'm not sure how bad the tariff situation is for random one-off small items from China to the US these days... I know at one point there were threats of like $100 per low-value shipment once de minimis was …

Interesting article about trust when providing services for others:
https://blog.avas.space/alternatives-trust/

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

I use linkding for my bookmarks and I tried to do a search using the term "linkding" and the search engine assumed I wanted to search for "LinkedIn" and in other news Fuck You search engine!

The White House is trying to do something Washington rarely does well: seize control of a fast-moving technology before a wave of state AI laws hardens into an irreversible regulatory system.
Trump’s federal AI policy framework aims to undercut state laws
https://www.

Ravens coach John Harbaugh not fretting job security: 'I try to do the job, not try to keep the job' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-coach-john-harbaugh-not-fretting-job-security-i-try-to-do-the-job-not-try-to-keep-t…

I’m going to bet all the #HeatedRivalry fan edits are going to be using music from like pop stars, rock or metal or rap stars from 2000 to now, but I am going to have to take a leave of absence from my job to do the show tunes I want to do there https://…

A chave do sucesso para os negócios é reservar oito horas por dia para o
trabalho, oito para dormir e ter certeza de que não são as mesmas
-- Roberto Duailibi

Stubb: The problem is not Russia's ability to end the war, but its unwillingness to do so #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/stubb-the-problem-is-not.html

Given my physics teacher (35 years ago) said repeatedly that girls couldn't do physics, I feel like this is a slight improvement 🙄
#sigh #HistoryRepeating
#womeninSTEM

mich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
<…

Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 All I Do
#NowPlaying #StevieWonder
https://vaudafunk.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-all-i-do-vaudafunk-raw-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0k3fBeBIcok5gbYQyQbxP5

Seriously I’ve been trying to buy a specific old digital camera for years and every single time people list it as working and I get it and it doesn’t work.
I always get a full refund (eventually).
Like do these sellers think people won’t test what they buy? Do they enjoy making a loss and wasting their time?

Tem uns golpistas repetidamente tentando me ligar de um número falso do Banco do Brasil, desde ontem. Mil ligações, uma atršs da outra.

Wczoraj zajechaliśmy do Modica po czekoladę do Bonajuto. Bezapelacyjnie jest to póki co najlepsza czekolada "gorzka" jaką jedliśmy (z mlecznych mamy faworyta z Belgii). Po ostatniej wizycie zapasy "na rozdanie znajomym" niestety nie przetrwały.

Kupiliśmy 70% które najbardziej nam smakowały, potem na spróbowanie kilka smakowych - z cynamonem, wanilią, z oślim mlekiem i z biały pieprzem.

Z ciekawostek - w prowincji Ragusa żyją jeżozwierze. Żona myślała, że zobacz…

Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.

Do spend a moment with my assertion that this is the intended effect. If it’s clear who the secret police are targeting, then it’s clear whether you are safe, whether you should be afraid. If the secret police are randomly targeting everyone, then •everyone• has to be afraid.
•That• is what an authoritarian regime wants. The systems that created ICE’s chaotic, violent behavior are not accidental.

Sources describe efforts to build and use internal AI tools at Meta, including Mark Zuckerberg building a CEO agent to help him do his job better (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-an-…

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Objectively USA is already allowed to do anything it wants militarily on Greenland, Rutte probably "repackaged" it into a framework, well done
#greenland #nato #rutte

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple
reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become
disturbed.
-- James Thurber

I need to up my calzone game a bit. I haven’t made one in years, so I’m doing a bit of reading & watching how others do it before I try again.

I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol

Aaaand this is why I have 40GbE to my desk.
Early test, I need a bunch of optimization to do (multiscope is not as performant as I want I suspect there's mutex issues and/or unnecessary filter graph refreshes).
But here's two thunderscopes hosted on separate machines, each with 10GbE to the core switch, then 40G from there to my workstation.

One Thing the Raiders Must Do When They Draft a QB https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-thing-must-do-when-they-draft-qb

Reviewing NFL broadcasts: Where do Netflix, Prime, YouTube fit in with traditional networks? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911372/2025/12/23/nfl-broadcast-reviews-netflix-youtube-prime-espn/

Engraçado que hoje estou apreciando o desfile da #UnidosDeVilaIsabel mais do que no dia do #desfileDasEscolasDeSamba. Eu devia estar com muito sono no dia rs.
#carnaval

It was my plan to read some Ursula K. Le Guin and having gone through half of "The Dispossessed" I am so angry for it taking me so long to do it.
Holy fuck.

To nasz przedostatni weekend na kamperstopie w Marina di Ragusa przed wyruszeniem na północ. Coroczne rozpoczęcie migracji wraz z ptakami i pogodą. Pierwsze i tak pojedziemy na północną część Sycylii. Dwa lata temu dojechaliśmy "tylko" do Palermo i dalej płynęliśmy na Sardynię, natomiast w tym chcieliśmy pozwiedzać środkową część wyspy i północne wybrzeże od Cefalù na wschód.

W kamperze w końcu się zmusiłem do założenia drugiego filtra pod zlewem. Teraz mamy łącznie 3 - sznurko…

Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month "just from our API business" (Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-1-billion-a-month-api-business-chatgpt-sam-…

Neither law nor order is anywhere in sight.
The only things that matter right now are what we can do, and what they think they can get away with. That’s our entire reality.

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

We might think of the 1963 March on Washington when we talk about organizing and civic change
-- but smaller networks are equally important.
Find many small groups of people you trust,
as small as 2-5 other people.
Use encrypted communications,
like Signal.
Meet in person and break bread,
if you can, building trust slowly.
Be a bridge-builder between trusted colleagues, where appropriate.
Appreciate the beauty of all that can be achie…

Bem feito é melhor do que bem dito.
-- Benjamin Franklin

“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…

The appeal of it is that it doesn’t do a great job at any of the things it’s designed for 😅

How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a "China shedding" strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/business/tiktok-china-technology.ht…

Outra pérola resgatada do fundo do baú rs.

Dzisiejszy spacer przed południem na plaży w Katanii - apart nie oddaje, ale naprawdę ta Etna jest olbrzymia. Sama plaża jest obok lotniska i samoloty dosłownie lądują nad głową - fajne wrażenie. Już jest tak gorąco, że czas na krótkie spodnie.

Kupiliśmy Freji nową matę na dwór z "Psia Wygoda" - bardzo dobrze materiałowo, na spodzie wzmocniona, góra miękka i nieprzepuszcza wody. Dogadaliśmy się i sami wygenerowaliśmy etykietę - z paczkomatu do paczkomatu. Z Polski do pierwszego…

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Here’s roughly what I told my US Senators:
“I am a resident of Minneapolis, which for the last 6 weeks has been a kind of hell. I am begging you, begging you, to do everything in your power to •stop funding this hell•.
The Department of Homeland Security has become a dangerous rogue organization. Dangerous! The correct amount of funding for the DHS under its current leadership — yes, you heard me, the •entire• DHS — is zero. ZERO.
I consider every dollar above that to be a concession. Fight.”

I do not get the sentiment of so many people on here that all advertising and marketing is bad.
It’s simply not true.
(And yes, like with anything else humans do, some of it is bad.)

John Harbaugh addresses job security as Ravens' playoff hopes dwindle: 'I try to do the job, not keep the job'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-harbaugh-j…

Trump says
'I don't want to do a ceasefire'
Trump says UK ‘should have acted a lot faster’
as British government allows US to use military bases for strikes protecting strait of Hormuz
US president says he was ‘surprised’ at UK as it says decision is to support ‘collective self-defence’ but military will not be directly involved in strikes

Sorry I'm late, had to argue with car-brained people about the new bike lanes on Lisbon.
"I've never seen anyone ride a bike on Lisbon!"
"Do I have to shovel two sidewalks now!?"
"People only ride bikes 4 months of the year."
And so on...
#bikeTooter

Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…

Interesting discourse elsewhere (not really important what) is showing that people do not know the difference between science and the scientific method.
So as a PSA, science is a systematic endeavor to gain knowledge.
The scientific method (as the name implies), is a practical way to pursue science; with observation, theories and experiments. (There’s other ways, too.)

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

I’ll raise a quiet glass to Robert Mueller here. In the public mind, he was first the messianic savior of democracy and then an emblem of inadequacy and institutional failure — and both those visions did him a disservice.
He tried to do the right thing in a principled way. His effort failed, and we’ve paid dearly for that failure. The failure was his, but also all of ours to share: for every one of his choices that I can second-guess, I can name half a dozen places where others failed to hold up their/our end of the bargain, took the work he handed off and dropped it flat.
He failed, but he tried his damndest — and that’s more than I can say for a lot of folks in the USA over the last 10 years.

“This workforce has been fundamentally traumatized in the way that this leadership team said that they intended to do at the outset,”
Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service’s CEO, told Government Executive.
“That’s not good for anyone. It’s bad for the workforce, it’s fundamentally bad for the American people, and it will lead to us to be less safe, healthy and prosperous as a society.
The things that we want and need from government are not what we’ll get.”
The su…

Eric DeCosta: Ravens have 'some work to do' to re-sign pending star free agent Tyler Linderbaum https://www.nfl.com/news/eric-decosta-ravens-have-some-work-to-do-to-re-sign-pending-star-free-agent-tyler-linderbaum…

Yes, please use ICE at airports, people will absolutely love militarized goons being assholes to them and randomly brutalize other passengers
Please do it

Here in Minneapolis it’s been widespread common knowledge that ICE agents are getting paid per head they bring in, no matter how incorrectly, no matter the actual immigration status of the person they kidnapped, no matter how carelessly or violently they do it.
It’s nice to see this confirmed in print.

"Society functions like a hive, where no single actor directs the whole, yet a coherent pattern emerges from the interaction of countless parts."
"This does not mean that leadership, institutions, or strategy are irrelevant. It means that they are not sufficient to explain historical outcomes on their own."
"History…It is made in the accumulated choices of ordinary people, acting within the constraints and possibilities of their own lived realities.&quo…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories,
whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East.
He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation.
“The soo…

These stories are relentless, and even when we aren’t seeing ICE with our own eyes, we’re carrying the weight of hearing these stories — carrying each other’s burden of witness. The story-sharing is both a part of the weight we carry and a part of the healing we do together.
It’s hard. But I do feel like I repaired something in myself over the weekend, first watching the right-wing hate march get humiliated and then making time with friends.
Ready to continue.
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Please note that I don't care if he personally uses LLMs and for what purpose.
My gripe is with the structure of the article, instead of admitting that these things have problems and explaining why he still chooses to use them he just directly attacks people who have nothing to do with him like some sort of third-rate right-wing podcast host is ranting about "illegals".
The whole vibe is off.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/116116583354261712
Is it OK to call them concentration camps yet?
Or do we have to wait until they all get built?
Until they get filled?
Until they become death camps?
Please, if you object to the term “concentration camp” right now, clearly identify your bright line for when that term becomes acceptable.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116108931167564199
If only he could afford a human editor that tells him that he might have a abrasive opinion on something and he should punch up, not down—but what do I know, I’m not an LLM

What really makes me irate about how LLMs are marketed and sold is that if these companies instead spend their time and money to make highly specialized versions for them we could have amazing and actually helpful tools without the ick.
This could both work much better for many use cases (for example for correlating documents and giving a list of results like a search engine instead of tedious palaver) and they wouldn't need to steal data (Professor Bender calls it succinctly "datasets too large to care")[1].
But they're pursuing "AGI" (which is provenly impossible to do with LLMs) and endless growth.
[1] https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897