@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-01 02:25:38
Grumpy at America; If you weren’t so dysfunctional I would go to Miami to see the MLS final, where Vancouver’s #VWFC is hoping to topple Messi and co.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-28 14:23:04
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
USHTON: He's on his way up.
TRAVIS: I know. I saw him. [to Inga.] He's coming up. The back trail. Did you hear that, Inga? Your champion is coming to rescue you. He's very gallant, your Blake. Foolish, too. All right Molok.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/370
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-27 19:30:56
Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/27/amazon-the-cost-of-ai-lateness/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-30 21:06:43
“You understand that it is war, but you don’t realize it properly,” Svetlana, wearing a winter coat with a fur collar, said.
“But now, yes, it has come.”
In her town of Ramenskoye, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of central Moscow, police had cordoned off an area where a drone hit.
The attack shattered the sense of comfort that Svetlana — a supporter of the Kremlin’s offensive — had
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 14:55:42
Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-28 19:02:22
The rolling robots that deliver groceries and hot meals across Los Angeles are getting an upgrade.
Coco Robotics, a UCLA-born startup that's deployed more than 1,000 bots across the country, unveiled its next-generation machines on Thursday.
The new robots are bigger, tougher and better equipped for autonomy than their predecessors.
The company will use them to expand into new markets and increase its presence in Los Angeles, where it makes deliveries through a partners…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-12-31 10:11:11
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
POOLA: Chesil... I think I've got something. [Chesil moves to look at Poola's screen.]
CHESIL: Aren't you going to report it?
POOLA: No. Wait! [They watch as a spacecraft-shaped dot crosses the screen.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/50…
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us2026-02-25 14:47:35
A 1999 Oklahoma newspaper clipping that described a man’s final moments before execution inspired Julie Green to begin their series “The Last Supper.”
“He asked for a final meal of three fried chicken thighs, 10 or 15 shrimp, tater tots with ketchup, two slices of pecan pie, strawberry ice cream, honey and biscuits and a Coke,” they read aloud in a short documentary about the series.
You can see 377 plates Green painted with these last meals at the Georgia Museum.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-26 05:56:46
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-24 13:36:03
All other (valid and invalid) arguments aside—the worst thing about "AI for coding" is that no one ever even mentions how this is better for the people who end up using the software produced.
(Spoiler: It isn't.)
No, what it's used for is product managers offloading product design decisions on programmers, because "with AI they can now just churn out features" and "we'll keep what sticks". (The first feature they're forced to churn out is to add useless LLM-based crap to applications. You know the feature: the one that all power-users of the software desperately go to Reddit for in an exercise of futility trying to find out how to permanently turn it off.)
It's a self-feeding feature creep and software bloat moloch—eating programmers and users.