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The replies to this made me laugh
Bluesky, how big is your box of old cables? If you know you know.
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The replies to this made me laugh
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Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
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Making ecological responsibility a security risk is a conscious decision by of an irresponsible company.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Making ecological responsibility a security risk is a conscious decision by of an irresponsible company.
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Been researching contemporary Linux migration from Windows 10 to keep my otherwise excellent desktop, now going on 12 years old, running. Upgraded its video card in 2014. Still does great work for most games. Got my Xbox 360. Phone: 2022, battery replaced. Finally upgraded my 8 year old iPad.
My current desktop setup is seven years old. My phone is four years old. Would I *like* to get a new computer and phone? Of course. Do I *need* them? Not until something dies. Or when the extension on Microsoft supporting Windows 10 ends.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Been researching contemporary Linux migration from Windows 10 to keep my otherwise excellent desktop, now going on 12 years old, running. Upgraded its video card in 2014. Still does great work for most games. Got my Xbox 360. Phone: 2022, battery replaced. Finally upgraded my 8 year old iPad.
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Similar to “the future is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed;” the heat of your take isn’t evenly distributed, and depends heavily on your network.
Stuff that’s milquetoast in one community will be blazing hot in another.
So when I say that AI is a bubble, that’s hot or cold depending.
Stuff that’s milquetoast in one community will be blazing hot in another.
So when I say that AI is a bubble, that’s hot or cold depending.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Similar to “the future is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed;” the heat of your take isn’t evenly distributed, and depends heavily on your network.
Stuff that’s milquetoast in one community will be blazing hot in another.
So when I say that AI is a bubble, that’s hot or cold depending.
Stuff that’s milquetoast in one community will be blazing hot in another.
So when I say that AI is a bubble, that’s hot or cold depending.
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what do people have against deterministic software
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
what do people have against deterministic software
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They are upset that the LLM changes the data in transport when it is actually synthesizing new data on the fly, and complaining about the token cost of processing all those braces on chatgpt or wherever
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
They are upset that the LLM changes the data in transport when it is actually synthesizing new data on the fly, and complaining about the token cost of processing all those braces on chatgpt or wherever
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Checking in on some of the AI subreddits and why are people using LLMs as JSON processors and network transporters just make a REST API omg
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Checking in on some of the AI subreddits and why are people using LLMs as JSON processors and network transporters just make a REST API omg
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oh also develop a deep understanding of how humans work in organizations and how not enough people have had therapy
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
oh also develop a deep understanding of how humans work in organizations and how not enough people have had therapy
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become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
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Gmail bundling all of its useful features with "the switch we're definitely not using for AI training, honest" is, I think, having a positive impact on people who are now forced to think about how they sort their mail rather than leaving it up to Google.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Gmail bundling all of its useful features with "the switch we're definitely not using for AI training, honest" is, I think, having a positive impact on people who are now forced to think about how they sort their mail rather than leaving it up to Google.
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tbh having gone to business school is why I do not believe ethics classes in computer science programs will accomplish,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,anything
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
tbh having gone to business school is why I do not believe ethics classes in computer science programs will accomplish,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,anything
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Big kid has had to explain to friends why they're not allowed on Roblox and it goes a bit like "because my dad works in tech"
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Big kid has had to explain to friends why they're not allowed on Roblox and it goes a bit like "because my dad works in tech"
“…if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.” Peter Coviello: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“…if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.” Peter Coviello: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Cory Doctorow doing tech support during his own interview. 👏
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Cory Doctorow doing tech support during his own interview. 👏
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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Can't say it enough: Canada's institutions and our media have not internalized that we are highly vulnerable to an erratic, authoritarian superpower, run by gangsters.
This is what a protection racket looks like, although they are rarely put in writing
US security guarantees guarantee that you will have to pay them for the inconvenience of being invaded
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Can't say it enough: Canada's institutions and our media have not internalized that we are highly vulnerable to an erratic, authoritarian superpower, run by gangsters.
“Let the computers work together, guys! We just want to move pictures of receipts around without getting a cloud server involved. Is that too much to ask?” @allisonjo1.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/825696/...
AirDropping stuff from a Pixel phone rules so much
Interoperability! In this economy!
www.theverge.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“Let the computers work together, guys! We just want to move pictures of receipts around without getting a cloud server involved. Is that too much to ask?” @allisonjo1.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/825696/...
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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This. This. This.
It's reflective of the broader fed-prov problem.
Health care funding = fed, but delivery = prov
So if the provinces ruin the system they know they can blame the feds and the media and voters are too damned stupid to get the trick.
Health care funding = fed, but delivery = prov
So if the provinces ruin the system they know they can blame the feds and the media and voters are too damned stupid to get the trick.
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This. This. This.
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This is the first time I've seen anybody state openly that the final stage of a procurement process is to have the president select the proposal that he prefers. This isn't a return to some older, more corrupt U.S. procurement approach—federal procurement has *never* worked like this.
Who's Your Train Daddy? Penn Station Boss Andy Byford All But Solicits Bribe For Donald Trump - Streetsblog New York City
Andy Byford is back in New York to build a shiny new Penn Station, but he's already admitted he's not the guy in charge.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is the first time I've seen anybody state openly that the final stage of a procurement process is to have the president select the proposal that he prefers. This isn't a return to some older, more corrupt U.S. procurement approach—federal procurement has *never* worked like this.
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I do love this idea. They absolutely should!
I love this idea.
Personally, I'm kinda sick of reporting bugs (accessibility, security, usability) to big companies who give nothing back.
Personally, I'm kinda sick of reporting bugs (accessibility, security, usability) to big companies who give nothing back.
Chris Yoong asks the question: “If big tech is happy to run security bug bounty programs, why not accessibility bug bounties?”
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I do love this idea. They absolutely should!