Tootfinder

Here is wisdom. I learned this too late in life, and am still not sure I’ve learned it well:
❝Don’t feel like you need to fix everything. A common response to bearing witness to another’s trauma is to try and fix it. We don’t want others to suffer. That said, you may not be offering what the other person or group is clearly stating they need. If they need you to listen, and you choose to act but not listen, then you have both not supported them in their trauma and violated a boundary.❞
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/

The United States has a tendency to overestimate what political outcomes can be engineered using overwhelming military power
while underestimating the fallout,
said Caitlin Talmadge,
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in Gulf security issues.
“Air power is the U.S. drug of choice
— we love to believe that it can achieve big political effects and also big military effects,
yet the historical record doesn’t support that…

For U.S., Unmet Expectations in Iran Fit a Familiar Pattern in the Region
Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman
While leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has weathered leaked internal memos, an attempt to oust him as CEO, and widespread skepticism about artificial intelligence’s role in society. The Onion sat down with the entrepreneur to hear his vision for the technology’s future. The Onion: Good morning, Sam. How are you doing today?Altman: Certainly! Here are some […]

From a blog post by @…
“We’re living in this moment right now where everybody is using AI to write software.”
No. With add due respect, this is wrong. To say such a thing does harm.
I get what the author is trying to say, but I beg all authors to choose their words carefully.
As long as I continue to write software you can never say “e…

Security through irrelevance
Vibe coded bespoke apps are unlikely targets for hackers - an interesting observation about threat economics but definitely not a reason to skip security basics. (836 words)

from my link log —
Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/building-resilient-services-at-prime-video-with-chaos-engineering/
saved 2020…

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering | Amazon Web Services
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system to build confidence […]

If you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-inside-look-at-new-lego-smart-brick/

An Inside Look at Lego’s New Tech-Packed Smart Brick
Lego’s next release is a digital brick loaded with sensors that add new layers of interactivity to its play sets. WIRED got exclusive access to the Lego labs where the Smart Brick was born.

On the heels of news reports that
more than 40,000 files were either withheld or taken down from the Department of Justice’s site
with documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case,
the DOJ late last week released documents including FBI memos related to accusations against Donald Trump.
But MS NOW has found that the released files still appear to be incomplete,
missing FBI notes and memos reflecting interviews with women alleging abuse by other prominent men.

DOJ site still missing documents with accusations against Epstein associates
A woman who alleged that Epstein sexually abused her for years also told federal law enforcement about incidents with then-bank executive Jes Staley and billionaire Leon Black.

The Trump administration so far has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner.
Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House’s careless approach to major disaster declarations.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-disas…

Map: Trump Has Often Delayed or Denied Disaster Aid | Revolving Door Project
The Trump administration so far has refused to allocate federal disaster aid in a timely manner. Check out our interactive map for more details on the White House's careless approach to major disaster declarations.