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For those of you in or adjacent to the software development world, this is a pretty interesting article on both the state of the art and the social issues its generating.
#AIandSociety #AI
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

Lily Cheng in #Willowdale is again advocating against new housing next to a subway station
According to her, adding 2000 new residents to the neighborhood would be a risk to lose the Costco (???). As if adding new people to the neighborhood would make Costco leave.
Yes some "essential local retail shops" (aka Starbucks) would leave... But there's no shortage i…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: I see, yes of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest, the most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.
[Exbar. Avon running, like a sleek silver colussus]

Jakie to jest epickie!
Interaktywna mapa Układu Słonecznego w przeglądarce.
Planety, księżyce, asteroidy, misje kosmiczne wszystko w 3D, orbity Keplera, misje kosmiczne w czasie rzeczywistym fizyka Newtonowska liczona na żywo. Darmowe. Bez rejestracji.
via wykop
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Atlas of Space
https://atlasof.space/

Atlas of Space
An interactive exploration of the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.

Submitting to an academic conference and once more am completely amazed that people who call themselves academic technologists use LaTeX to make PDFs to communicate their research. This is by far the worst widely-adopted software I've ever used, and I really hope I don't ever use it again. Awful nonsense, which I think is only still in use for the purposes of gatekeeping other disciplines away from interacting with computer science.

Hell yes
https://ground.news/article/progressive-candidate-launches-last-minute-challenge-to-karen-bass-for-la-mayor_2545d5

Progressive candidate launches last-minute challenge to Karen Bass for LA mayor
Progressive Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman (D) on Saturday made a last-minute bid to challenge Mayor Karen Bass (D) in the June primary election. Raman made the announcement hours before the 12 p.m. filing deadline for candidates be on the ballot. She praised Bass in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, calling the mayor “an icon” but said the city needs someone who will tackle its problems.

"Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war"
Well yes, but by whom?
I am not a proponent either of nation states or of laws, but in a world of nations, some consensus standard of what behaviour is acceptable for them is better than none.
We are in the mess we are in because 'the west' failed to defend the 'international rules based order' which it claimed to have established.

Desalination, water, and war
Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.

Internationales Game mit Flaggen auf dem Feld und den Hymnen vorab. Unsere neuen Dauerkartensitze sind auch fein. Danke an 💚 Lena Held 💚 vom Service fürs umbuchen. #unicorns #effectenergyGFL #AmericanFootball

I was really pleased with the range of @… microgrants, although it was uncompetitive - we were able to fund all the proposals that fit the open call and had enough detail to evaluate.
Crowdfunding for free/open source at this level is tricky because people do it for fun and intrinsic value, it's hardly possible to fund at a market value, and underpaying while …

I'm not going to make it to emfcamp this year sadly, due to a date clash.. Will be there in '28!
I *will* be going to a UK live coding camp the weekend after though, let me know if you're interested.. It was masses of fun last year !