@edintone@mastodon.green2026-04-25 06:57:05
#076 I should probably write that down https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/076-i-should-probably-write-that
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-04-25 06:57:05
@outer@mas.to2026-06-24 13:04:36
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz2026-05-23 09:04:20
Kitty Terminal Security PSA
If you are using the kitty terminal @…, go get your security update!
"The handle_compose_command() function in kitty/graphics.c performs bounds validation on composition offsets using unsigned 32-bit arithmetic that is subject to integer wrapping. An attacker who can write escape sequences to a kitty termin…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-06-23 22:24:10
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-05-24 09:22:18
I have a guest Gist ready for later this morning.
But I feel I maybe might write one myself as well.
Sorry in advance if I bombard your inbox with (2) emails.
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-07-23 11:27:55
to those who came to the #EuroPython Software Design and Architecture open space (and everyone else really): we mentioned the excellent book
Grokking Simplicity
and noticed that it's kinda pricey!
Conveniently, it's on sale right now: $34.64 for digital and $37.79 for print (shipped from EU).
I'm taking this opportunity to get it in print in addition to my …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-06-24 12:48:28
#WritersCoffeeClub #WritingCommunity
24th Jun 2026. Must you know the ending before you write the first line?
H'mmm. Rarely. My stories usually start from disturbing dreams, and are a process of exploring the story that could have led up to the scene in the dream, and…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-25 01:29:32
Thinking about making a suite of FPGA (and i guess potentially ASIC) debug IPs that integrate with ngscopeclient. In part because Efinix's debug tools are... Suboptimal.
The flow will be ADIv5 esque but not exclusively JTAG/SWD centric.
At a high level my concept is to root with a bridge from various external interfaces (starting with UART) to APB. The bridge will offer commands for 32 bit read and write, getting some kind of id code / version, and querying the base address o…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-04-25 02:15:43
#SethMeyers hosts a #LateNight tv show. I think his show in general is pretty good, he’s funny, he has fun talking with his guests, and they seem to also.
Once a week he does a YouTube video called Corrections. People who watch the regular show write comments on the YT channel about mistakes the…
@ripienaar@devco.social2026-05-23 08:51:46
Trying to really spec up front a personal project like write out a project overview etc.
Not really what I want to be doing with my free time but I think the outcome so far is already looking more solid than if I just winged it as per usual.
Certainly helped to pick better dependencies already - the one I really liked would have been a giant pain to build with now that I see the scope of the idea.
Ugh.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-25 04:08:17
Once again resisting(?) the urge to write my own static site generator.
As you do on a Friday night.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-06-22 09:30:30
Interesting post without alt-text: favourite.
Interesting post with alt-text: boost.
#altText …
@a@paperbay.org2026-07-24 08:06:22
Is there somewhere a good open source software in Python to act as bridge between RSS and ActivityPub act as actor? Before I write something new.
#activitypub #opensource #rss
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2026-06-24 20:03:32
ngl, I read a research report of mine from a few years ago, my #train study, and I feel like a treasure hunter.
It’s a mix of digital methods including code work (1 M tweets!), creative quali methods (podcast ethnography meets og interviews), and the prose has been smoothened by a proof write. 🫂
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us2026-07-23 13:41:01
Barbara McCaskill, research professor of English, also selected a wide range of pieces to accompany her course, ENGL 4791: American Autobiography. This semester, she is focusing her class on themes of “community and belonging, land and environment, hope and loss, and visibility and erasure,” and students will write their own memoirs in response to these themes.
6/
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-23 09:07:56
#Java records & compact constructors
https://mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/java-records-and-compact-constructors/
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2026-05-23 15:03:15
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-05-25 02:41:30
Still finding out the best way to publish my two cents:
More reliance on systemd for flatpaks?
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/more-reliance-on-systemd-for-flatpaks/
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-23 11:25:16
Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-07-21 14:11:03
Damn; I went to debug why Model B wouldn't write to floppies and...it worked. Yesterday when I got a scope on the write-data line on the drive end it didn't budge at all. By the time I'd got the beeb open today, moved the keyboard and stuffed a scope probe on the gate between the 8271 and the drive it all got nice friendly data there. Hmm.
Took the IC80 out, gave the legs a rub and a bit of contact cleaner, and hmm ok.
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-06-24 18:44:20
Tomorrow! Join Grist Labs co-founder Stan for a demo of Grist's new MCP server.
We'll start small and then show off a complex workflow that leverages multiple integrations, so there's something for everyone.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local models to your docs over the Model Context Protocol, then list and query tables, read and write rows, and build schema, all via OAuth with scoped access.
Register:
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-22 10:26:26
Cisco senior incident responder Nate Pors concluded that using AI to write incident reports "is currently unsuitable for production use.”
https://blogs.cisco.com/security/ai-generated-reporting-lessons-learned-from-talos-incident-resp…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-19 20:30:44
AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-22 23:50:46
A four-month probe reveals that employees of lobbying firm CT Group say they pay journalists to write news pieces favorable to CT clients for UK newspapers (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/ju…
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-07-21 18:02:56
@… I know John cut his teeth in Pearl, Marco in PHP, and I'm not sure about Casey. I'm wondering for each of you, if you were launching a fairly complicated new site today, the type that needs a backend, no legacy code to deal with, what would you write the front end in and what would you write the backend in? React? Swift? Node? Your personal old reliable?
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-06-22 10:51:20
Content warning:
#ScribesAndMakers June 21: Do you create work based on the creations of others? (Eg. Pop art, fan art, fan fic, etc.) Why or why not?
All the time! Most of my stories are based on mythology, which in itself is a collection of collaborative of stories by countless humans we don't know the name of. I don't write fanfiction as much any more but fandom is where I first wrote e…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-06-22 16:45:58
Dolls KatieJane Garside used to sell on her site 16 years ago
@outer@mas.to2026-05-24 12:50:00
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
--Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist, lived 1907–1990
Quoted in Observer, London 1979
#Computers are #Illiterate
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-25 04:06:19
WTB coworkers that actually *want* to write software.
@cvolton@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 22:26:52
Decided to write up a blog post about the ancient Windows Movie Maker bug where it completely messed up colors of some images.
It's not exactly a scientific write up but it doesn't seem that anyone ever tried to dive deep into this, so hopefully it can be a useful starting point
https://
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-06-22 16:10:15
Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI https://jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-20 13:25:29
Content warning: Don't Pray for the Left (Parody)
I've long wanted to write something about the Nazi musician Tom MacDonald, whose recent song “Pray for the Left” was so outlandish that people enjoyed it for thinking it was a parody of itself. In that idea, I began rewriting the lyrics of that song, thinking I might some day make a cover but from the perspective of the left, that's what this post is about, tell me what you think:
Don't Pray For The Left Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We always said that Ch…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-05-25 02:30:03
A balanced and interesting write-up on what happened recently when devs were outlining the future of flatpak, (possibly) integrating more tightly with systemd and the obvious reactions from everyone not directly involved to that. I've always been a shill for those technologies, but giving the reactions and opinions on both sides of the fence I'm seriously reconsidering that. Btw, Slackware, Gentoo, VoidLinux and Alpine have a very strong native package base, with very active user p…
@bogo@hapyyr.com2026-06-22 06:23:17
@almad@fosstodon.org2026-06-22 17:41:33
I really haven’t appreciated how much of LLM output is produced by people who don’t want to write for people who don’t want to read and it does make both sides happy
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-06-22 13:30:32
My #ADHD kid has zero impulse control and even with medication he struggles to keep thoughts inside of his head. Every thought or question has to be articulated in the moment. Every joke has to be said out loud.
So today I gave him a notebook to write this stuff inside instead of blurting it out and derailing the class.
And it worked! It's like he has an analogue mastodon acc…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-22 00:15:11
RE: https://solarbird.net/blog/2026/05/21/lets-talk-being-able-to-talk-when-internet-and-cell-phone-service-both-go-down/
A very solid write up of some "what if the cell towers and inte…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 18:31:05
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza2026-05-22 17:24:20
A black book like in Death Note, but when you write someone's name down - they get IBS for a week and shart their pants.
Working title - Brown Note.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-23 19:23:15
Humans write because they have something to say
LLMs write because they next token
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2026-06-21 15:55:06
Okay, so I am 19 pages deep in a 65 planned pages script. I need to write more but the summer heat is murder
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-25 04:46:53
Am I enough of a sucker to pay the $99/year Apple Developer Program fee, just so I can get an API key for Apple Music, so I can write a stupid little JS widget for my stupid little blog that shows my recently played music?
Maybe. Very very maybe.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-07-19 03:42:03
If you didn't bother to write the PR or code yourself, why should I bother reading your slop?
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-21 17:26:50
Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@barochat@mastodon.social2026-07-17 15:43:44
@carstingaxion@dewp.space2026-07-21 13:22:29
RE: https://gatherpress.org/i-wanted-a-button-to-switch-off-and-got-an-impressive-event-plugin-creation-suite/
I took the chance to write about some cool new post_type_supports in the latest release of…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-06-23 09:08:56
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-05 08:42:01
from my link log —
Write tracking for Nim.
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/09/01/write-tracking.html
saved 2020-09-02 https://
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 04:27:28
When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-20 11:19:40
@… @… I probably can't respond here without Mastodon rewriting my response and adding confusion … I'll write something in BSD Cafe Billboard then update this post.
Postscript 1:
if you use pkgbas…
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-06-21 08:02:00
Perhaps I am becoming a minority. I much prefer to write, blog, and use social media on my MacBook or Mac Mini than I do on my iPhone. I usually only do quick stuff on the phone, though I did buy a folding keyboard so I can use it more easily when out and about. I’m almost always more interested in MacOS software than iOS.
@sofia@chaos.social2026-06-15 07:30:49
do you know the thing where you wanna write a thing and then you type something that you didn't actually wanted to write, but it, like, plausibly fits there?
fricking language models, smh.
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-05-07 20:19:05
Es gibt wohl mal wieder eine LPE im #linux kernel: #DirtyFrag. POC läuft zumindest mal auf nem Testsystem mit älterem Kernel. Laut Seite ist es in den Distros bisher *nicht* gepatched.
@crell@phpc.social2026-06-19 18:25:09
Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-06-24 18:44:20
Tomorrow! Join Grist Labs co-founder Stan for a demo of Grist's new MCP server.
We'll start small and then show off a complex workflow that leverages multiple integrations, so there's something for everyone.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local models to your docs over the Model Context Protocol, then list and query tables, read and write rows, and build schema, all via OAuth with scoped access.
Register:
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-06-18 08:44:38
We could write an RFC to implement IP over Ferrovian Carriers.
You give a data storage to a passenger boarding a train in the right direction.
From the series: Another day with my #adhdbrain
@seav@en.osm.town2026-07-20 07:16:48
@zudn@theres.life2026-06-20 22:36:52
No 7Points this time, just one sustained idea/observation and a question for you.
#blogging
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-05-06 20:35:37
I'll be attending the #DevGuild Write Only Code Summit in San Francisco tomorrow (Thursday May 6) if anyone else will be there, say hello!
https://luma.com/write-only-code-summit
@Schrank@phpc.social2026-05-06 09:52:31
I think I'm too dumb to understand #JIRA API permissions...
I want to access:
/rest/api/3/issue
/rest/api/3/search/jql
The docs say I need:
read:issue-details:jira
read:audit-log:jira
read:avatar:jira
read:field-configuration:jira
read:issue-meta:jira
write:issue:jira
write:comment:jira
write:comment.property:jira
write:attachment:ji…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-20 14:34:02
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rania40/116606919999536896
Hey folks, yesterday was Aya’s birthday (and I’m a bad friend and forgot to write something about it while travelling back from Milan yesterday).
Aya, alongside @…
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-06-19 07:37:28
If you were writing a story, how would you write "Who gives a?"
... this may be an Australianism. The implied last word of the sentence begins with f
Should it be "Who gives a _ _ _ _?"
In spoken English, the "a" is pronounced with emphasis, but that's not obvious on a page.
I'm also curious what level of politeness you'd say this has (whether you're Australian or not) #AmWriting
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-05-26 13:50:03
Interesting perspective
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-06-19 14:44:44
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 20:31:44
An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-06-21 16:29:49
#ProgrammingLanguages, targets, and platforms
I started as a #Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were dedicated to a single target and platform, and now they are broadening their focus. In this post, I want to …
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-06-10 22:01:08
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-07-19 19:21:18
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116948246593667901
Write your guesses what the new Mastodon plushie will be named in the comments
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-07-19 01:11:15
ok where gen-AI falls flat for images is it lacks intentionality. beyond what's prompted, everything is random and "average" in ways no person would do.
AI coding gets around this by having the agent first write out detailed intention-shaped documents that are basically different types of expansion of the prompt, which then become the cinematic universe of the prompt.
these intention-shaped docs are still uncanny, but they're enough of a simulacrum of intention …
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2026-05-17 19:14:20
Not in the know enough to recognize if this is the folks who got the swell long historical interview/write-up posted by the fabulous @… last night 🪩
(Won’t link in case it’s a spoiler, but you could check their feed)
#ListeningClub
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.social2026-06-17 19:22:38
I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us2026-07-18 21:45:25
Hot damn, new NAS can burst, old one would do 100 - 170 items on average - max. The new one just boosted to 5 - 10 times that. Seen it write up to 200MB/s back to it. Measures in place to keep Raspberry Pi nodes in the thermal safe zone even kicked in. They did 1.8TB in 9 hours, old NAS would need the full day to handle this much traffic.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-16 21:25:57
Hopefully, Idaho legislators won't write a less-vague law to follow this p.o.s.
Federal Judge Blocks Idaho Law Criminalizing Transgender Bathroom Use - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/transgender-idaho-bathroom-law.html
@david@boles.xyz2026-05-18 12:12:02
The Box You Cannot Check
The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word "sex." A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box and lie, write something in the margin, or refuse the form. The receptionist will not read the margin. Data entry clerks will not transcribe it.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-07-16 20:34:54
Something I tell myself several times a day: stop trying to write replies to emails so quickly. It takes Outlook a few seconds to catch up, meaning that the "a" in "Dear" will only result in the email being archived.
Also, WTF MS? Can't you produce a less shitty web app?
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-05-20 11:58:19
Content warning:
#WritersCoffeeClub May 20: If not your current genre, what genre would you write?
Historical fiction. My erotica is a subgenre of historical fiction for the most part and I have written an attempt at a historical adventure novel a long time ago.
I also find the genre of gothic fiction intriguing but I'm not sure I could do it justice.
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2026-06-18 13:12:37
#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 17:51:22
The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-17 07:15:47
"Why do I find it hard to write the next line"
Guitar, tenor sax, grand piano, drum kit, Tony's vocals & 5 dudes in really sharp suits...that'd play in 2026, wouldn't it, ladies? 😁
▶️ Spandau Ballet - True (HD Remastered)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-06-15 11:42:32
Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity.
But the intense level of activity on Friday and over the weekend surrounding the White House crackdown on Anthropic and its impact on cybersecurity prompted me to write a special Metacurity report this morning. The report presents a timeline of how we have arrived at the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.
I hope you …
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-06-19 09:39:42
Why do I want this stupid fucking "Commodore" phone? I never had or wanted a flip phone, and I don't long for the 1990s or 2000s (I remember them: they sucked).
I think I know why:
I wanted to be rid of my fartphone in 2018, and bought a Nokia KaiOS device. It wasn't all that useful because it lacked WhatsApp and Signal, making it unappealing to write a podcast client for it if I still had to carry around a second device to, you know, communicate with people.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-16 19:10:51
An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-07-16 10:05:53
@mia@hcommons.social2026-06-15 12:52:01
Last week I was reminded about this super-accessible article on 'The Seven Principles of Data Feminism' by Catherine d’Ignazio and Lauren Klein - especially for those who never got around to reading the book! https://responsibledata.io/anniversary/the-seven-pr…
@Schrank@phpc.social2026-07-20 06:37:17
Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #3: sw-expect-packages — let your integration fail fast
Here is a support ticket I have seen in about five different costumes: a middleware pushes orders into Shopware via the Admin API. One day the payloads start failing — or worse, they don't fail, they just silently write incomplete data. After an hour of digging it turns out someone deactivated a plugin on the shop side, or updated it to a version with a different custom field layout.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-07-14 17:00:05
Content warning:
#WritersCoffeeClub July 14: How do you escape your comfort zone, writing-wise?
I'm a ho, I write what my audience demands. So whatever wins the polls (or is commissioned by a client) is what I'm gonna write and sometimes that includes new things I hadn't thought of.
Patrons can also make wishes that go into the prompt pool for my polls:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-19 22:35:45
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-07-03 13:43:59
Please don't assume anything about the author of the piece you've been asked to peer review. Although you might get it right, you might also get it horribly wrong. In that case, your comments may be inadvertantly incredibly insulting.
Focus on the paper: what works? what doesn't? how can it be improved? Oh, and don't try to force the author to write the article you'd have written. Instead, help them write the best paper they want to write.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-07 18:27:54
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-04-27 18:07:10
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-05-05 06:57:13
I write a Gist approximately every two weeks. The idea, really, is to write a readable digest of a particular topic at a particular moment in time.
Sometimes I set out to explain something that is outside the main news cycle, but that I think is significant.
Sometimes I just feel like making jokes at the expense of British politicians.
And sometimes I am giving an opinion, as best I can.
But who knows what might bubble up in the future?
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-06-21 22:55:06
As a proponent of hybrid desktops (mutable base, sandboxed applications and rollback by snapshots) I found this write-up by @… very much to the point. For me the security aspects, payload and loss of ownership stand out.
Thanks to @…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-11 14:55:32
“No one can write a 20-page essay without AI!”
[staring forlorn at the hundreds of books on my shelves]
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-15 08:25:08
The Strange and Obscure Rituals of the Neurotypical Community: a collection of essays I never had the dopamine to write
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-15 04:03:35
Senate Republicans on the Armed Services Committee
have killed two election-related amendments from Michigan Sen.
Elissa Slotkin, brushing aside her attempt to write explicit new limits on military involvement in U.S. elections.
The proposals came during markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act
and went down on party-line votes, prompting Democratic warnings of a dangerous gray area heading into November.
In a statement posted by Senato…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 16:25:46
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively (Josh Woodward/Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/note…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-17 23:01:41
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and seven Democratic House members write to the DOJ, calling for an impartial antitrust review of Fox Corp's planned $22B Roku acquisition (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-05-03 00:46:38
Content warning:
#WritersCoffeeClub 03 May: Do you write your works localised to the setting or to your background? How do you decide?
I mostly write in a mythical historical settings, only one of which somewhat close to where I live. I don't usually write contemporary fiction and when I do, it's not usually localised. But it could be fun doing that some time because I come from a city th…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-15 11:05:51
Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930941/meta-ray-ban-display-…
