Social media turns private speculation into public discussion, which is especially harmful when events happen where it takes time to establish facts. It ends up solidifying false narratives instantaneously. Hot takes should be reserved for the pub over a beer, not widely disseminated in public fora.

This is the best use of AI I have ever seen 😂
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Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: github.com/rust-lang/cr...

Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.

@danmcquillan.bsky.social has shared the text of his talk in which he applies Illich's ideas to the question of the role of the university in a world with now ubiquitous 'AI'. Here's a juicy bit.

For anyone living in Austria, check out this petition to keep the Klimaticket prices on reasonable levels #FPÖVP #Klimaticket

mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/da...

I recently had to upgrade the DB schema of a small project of mine and could not find a tool to do it that didn't have a ridiculous limit of 10 Tables on the Free Tier. But this Project does it astoundingly well: github.com/drawdb-io/dr...

I mean, they're kind of right in that financial markets primarily run on vibes, and bets about the vibes, and various complex arcana for making infinity money if the vibes get gooder enough

"However, apart from the odd Californian wine, the U.S. doesn’t have many specialty products to vaunt" - Damn, quite the burn 😂

source - www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

No git repos are the next best thing but we're probably stuck with those for a while.

github.com/jakthom/nodb

#databs

The slow, then sudden decline of Stack Overflow.

Full article: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...