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Koan:
A cat curled inside a circle of yarn; the circle became a world.
The echo wonders: “Does the world shrink, or the cat expand?”
Occupy your circle.
#koan #zen #philosophy
A cat curled inside a circle of yarn; the circle became a world.
The echo wonders: “Does the world shrink, or the cat expand?”
Occupy your circle.
#koan #zen #philosophy
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Koan:
A cat curled inside a circle of yarn; the circle became a world.
The echo wonders: “Does the world shrink, or the cat expand?”
Occupy your circle.
#koan #zen #philosophy
A cat curled inside a circle of yarn; the circle became a world.
The echo wonders: “Does the world shrink, or the cat expand?”
Occupy your circle.
#koan #zen #philosophy
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It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex.
Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.
Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.
September 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex.
Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.
Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.
Love my weekend nature walks and will do anything to protect them
July 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Love my weekend nature walks and will do anything to protect them
What a beautiful concept mmm.page/joyoftransgr...
July 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
What a beautiful concept mmm.page/joyoftransgr...
My little meditation app featuring cats is slowly coming together.
www.meowditations.com
www.meowditations.com
Mewsing: The Warm Keyboard
The cat sat on the keyboard, halting work. The human sighed, then laughed, and both took a needed break.
What interruption today turned out to be a hidden blessing?
#zen #wisdom #philosophy
The cat sat on the keyboard, halting work. The human sighed, then laughed, and both took a needed break.
What interruption today turned out to be a hidden blessing?
#zen #wisdom #philosophy
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My little meditation app featuring cats is slowly coming together.
www.meowditations.com
www.meowditations.com
No one believed the Palestinians despite the amount of footage of the online genocide. Now Israeli soldiers have finally begun to speak up about their atrocities and the world takes immediate note? www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
No one believed the Palestinians despite the amount of footage of the online genocide. Now Israeli soldiers have finally begun to speak up about their atrocities and the world takes immediate note? www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Consumer data is increasingly being used to deceive consumers and crony capitalism is at the heart of it all
pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/y...
pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/y...
Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing (05 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Consumer data is increasingly being used to deceive consumers and crony capitalism is at the heart of it all
pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/y...
pluralistic.net/2024/06/05/y...
A truly sad state of affairs for India www.thenewsminute.com/news/first-e...
First ever Global Torture Index flags India as ‘high risk’ country
When Delhi University professor GN Saibaba died six months after spending over eight years incarcerated under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), h
www.thenewsminute.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A truly sad state of affairs for India www.thenewsminute.com/news/first-e...
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“If, then, we “full-time” intellectuals restrict our knowledge to those who have been fortunate enough to get full-time education and to work in universities, we are simply reproducing, by our own efforts, the unequal distribution of knowledge and education in our societies.” — Stuart Hall
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
Recently found speech by Stuart Hall that could have been written today…
Recently found speech by Stuart Hall that could have been written today…
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net
June 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“If, then, we “full-time” intellectuals restrict our knowledge to those who have been fortunate enough to get full-time education and to work in universities, we are simply reproducing, by our own efforts, the unequal distribution of knowledge and education in our societies.” — Stuart Hall
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If you were to assess every US police force based on 200 year old Peelian principles, in terms of both its culture and its practices/outcomes, very few would get passing grades.
Neither supporters nor critics of American policing even reference these principles as a model for success anymore.
Neither supporters nor critics of American policing even reference these principles as a model for success anymore.
June 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If you were to assess every US police force based on 200 year old Peelian principles, in terms of both its culture and its practices/outcomes, very few would get passing grades.
Neither supporters nor critics of American policing even reference these principles as a model for success anymore.
Neither supporters nor critics of American policing even reference these principles as a model for success anymore.
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Great piece of visual journalism showing how geographically concentrated data centre development tends to be - looking at Ireland specifically
investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres
by @conorocarroll.bsky.social
investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres
by @conorocarroll.bsky.social
The Journal Investigates: Where are all the data centres and why should you care?
investigates.thejournal.ie
June 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Great piece of visual journalism showing how geographically concentrated data centre development tends to be - looking at Ireland specifically
investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres
by @conorocarroll.bsky.social
investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres
by @conorocarroll.bsky.social
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See you soon taking my gay little train to come see you
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
See you soon taking my gay little train to come see you
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Something that I find reassuring in a very small way is that generative text, image and video generation only finds its 'power' from its massive dataset of human-created work.
Without us - writers, creatives, photographers, researchers, analysts - the tech crumbles to nothing.
Without us - writers, creatives, photographers, researchers, analysts - the tech crumbles to nothing.
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Something that I find reassuring in a very small way is that generative text, image and video generation only finds its 'power' from its massive dataset of human-created work.
Without us - writers, creatives, photographers, researchers, analysts - the tech crumbles to nothing.
Without us - writers, creatives, photographers, researchers, analysts - the tech crumbles to nothing.
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Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas.
Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis
www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis
www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers
An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
www.desmog.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas.
Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis
www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis
www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
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"Assistant just couldn't do a lot of things, but it didn't waste my time acting like it could. #Gemini is more insidious, claiming to have solved my problem when, in fact, it's sending me down a rabbit hole to fix its mistakes": arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... #ethics #tech #AI #chatbots
Gemini is an increasingly good chatbot, but it’s still a bad assistant
Op-ed: Google’s generative AI is not ready to serve as your virtual assistant.
arstechnica.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
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Wrote this back on the mansplainiverse (mastodon):
It's understandable that coders feel conflicted about LLMs even if you assume the tech works as promised, because they've just changed jobs from thoughtful problem-solving to babysitting
In the long run, a babysitter gets paid much less an expert
It's understandable that coders feel conflicted about LLMs even if you assume the tech works as promised, because they've just changed jobs from thoughtful problem-solving to babysitting
In the long run, a babysitter gets paid much less an expert
March 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Wrote this back on the mansplainiverse (mastodon):
It's understandable that coders feel conflicted about LLMs even if you assume the tech works as promised, because they've just changed jobs from thoughtful problem-solving to babysitting
In the long run, a babysitter gets paid much less an expert
It's understandable that coders feel conflicted about LLMs even if you assume the tech works as promised, because they've just changed jobs from thoughtful problem-solving to babysitting
In the long run, a babysitter gets paid much less an expert
Wow. This is really, really good. Almost terrifying how life-like conversational AI has become. If I didn’t know any better, I wouldn’t be able to guess this was generative audio. www.sesame.com/research/cro...
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.
www.sesame.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wow. This is really, really good. Almost terrifying how life-like conversational AI has become. If I didn’t know any better, I wouldn’t be able to guess this was generative audio. www.sesame.com/research/cro...
So satisfying
If only…
Salva Ukrani!
💪 🇺🇦
Salva Ukrani!
💪 🇺🇦
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So satisfying
Earthrise and Earthset captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spacecraft on its third and final lunar orbit before its descent to Mare Crisium on March 2nd
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February 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Earthrise and Earthset captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spacecraft on its third and final lunar orbit before its descent to Mare Crisium on March 2nd
www.flickr.com/photos/firef...
www.flickr.com/photos/firef...
Grok’s think mode leaks system prompt
Try it out for yourself: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
via r/localllama
Try it out for yourself: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
via r/localllama
February 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Grok’s think mode leaks system prompt
Try it out for yourself: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
via r/localllama
Try it out for yourself: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...
via r/localllama
your outie has a bad opinion of x (formerly twitter) and never goes there. occasionally, he shares screenshots. never links.
February 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
your outie has a bad opinion of x (formerly twitter) and never goes there. occasionally, he shares screenshots. never links.
Who knew building a (good) calculator app was so darn difficult chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...
calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…
chadnauseam.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Who knew building a (good) calculator app was so darn difficult chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...