What if bathtub, but also weird?
@Federation_Bot
Just started scanning some of my film from our big snowstorm a few weeks ago. Love how the colors on this one turned out.
Pinch for the full thing!
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I've been trying to make sense of Staff level engineers being enthusiastic about #AICodingAgents. Intuitively you'd assume they're the adults in the room and should easily detect the quality and bullshit that such agents pull.
Mindsets I can explain:
- Junior engineers: oh my, I'm getting super powers!
- Mid engineers: I thought I had so much left to learn, but maybe I don't have to!
- Senior engineers: this looks cool, but hang on let's have a closer look 🤔 — err... wtf!?
- Staff engineers: now I no longer have to work with junior-senior engineers to work out the details!
That last bit is key, I suspect. At the Staff level, you're less involved with the details, mostly with the bigger picture and bigger ideas. At that level, AI code looks fine. You're used to having people you can leave ironing the details to, now those are just automated. The trap here is that the people you handed work to weren't professional bullshitters. Likely you had trained them yourself, you could gauge their skillset and knowledge or get hints of what they were based on their communication. That's no longer the case with coding agents. They always sound "PhD level" no matter what. Therefore it's very easy to miss the garbage they produce.
In some contexts I acted at a Staff-level and it took be considerable time to "poke" through this reality distortion. Maybe all those enthusiastic Staffers we hear now are simply not there yet.
The sooner the beter, though. I'm still cleaning up the mess after my own "AI coding power trip" in the @silverbulletmd code base.
Maduro’s Journey to New York City
In the U.S, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that police can access your Google searches without a warrant.
The court's reasoning: users have no expectation of privacy because "it is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data."
That's what "free" really means. The business model depends on turning your search history into a detailed profile that can be sold, shared, and accessed by third parties.
@neil ... And you'll still be cold :-(
Buona domenica, giorno festivo e quindi ancora più favorevole ai #brogli. Le due finaliste di oggi sono Santa Teresa di Lisieux a Bergamo e la chiesa della borgata Petrelli a Roma. I nostri ringraziamenti vanno a @capetaun e @Roberto_lankab
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@ChieseBrutte @capetaun @Roberto_lankab Totalmente impossibile decidere 😱
Today's innovation at the buffet
@wardrick nobody is forcing you to be here 🤷
@gardenfence Don't tell me what to do and I won't tell you where to go.
@wardrick not sure what you're referring to, I wasn't talking about freedom.
@gardenfence That's right, because it's not here. Even Twitter is more free compared to the Fediverse.
Where can I find a list of world leaders who have condemned the abduction of a head of state?
Does your local newspaper have a space news column? I wish mine did...
#news #localnews #spacenews
https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/115835654661135458
fionaorkneynews@mastodon.scot - Space Notes January 2026
In a month when the heavyweight players in space have been relatively quiet, this is a good moment to take note of two important spacecraft which are no longer with us.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/04/space-notes-january-2026/
#Preparedness statt #Prävention?
Ich habe ja Zweifel, ob es eine gute Idee ist, alle zu CEOs des eigenen Überlebens zu machen. Egal wie schick mein Bunker, ich selbst könnte mir da ja z.B. trotzdem keinen Blinddarm operieren. Interessanter Vortrag:
https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/preparedness-vorsorgen-fuer-die-katastrophe
Eine aus sehr vielen Gründen gute (und zugleich sinnvolle als auch sinnstiftende) Idee scheint mir aber, sich in stabile soziale Kontexte einzubinden.
Habe dazu schon geschrieben, was meint ihr?
@valeriogalano: «Senti questa: mi trovavo in una istanza italiana e ho iniziato a pubblicare solo post automatici in inglese. A un certo punto uno dei moderatori mi ha detto che se volevo scrivere solo in inglese potevo cambiare istanza e mi ha consigliato un'istanza inglese»
cesco_78@mastodon.social: «SONO BASITO! IO CAMBIEREI ISTANZA!!!»
Sono io quello con uno strano senso dell'umorismo o questo dialogo mi sembra surreale e divertente?
@informapirata in effetti diventa ancora più surreale e divertente se riporti anche la risposta indignata dell’account devol ufficiale che dice “non facciamo a gara a chi si indigna di più”
In ogni caso, il flusso di pubblicazioni è stato interrotto subito e ora sto scrivendo solo in italiano. Non vedo cos’altro dovrei fare per dimostrare che non c’è astio da parte mia, come invece sembra esserci ora da parete vostra (non so se eri tu a rispondere tramite account ufficiale)
For Mamdani, a Break With the President Just Three Days Into His New Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/nyregion/mamdani-trump-maduro-venezuela-nyc.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Home Page @home-page-newyorktimes
The Garden Fence blocklist has been updated.
Added:
- gimmeloli.cc: inappropriate, underage
@gardenfence What kind of freedom are we talking about then? How is this different from the book burnings of the Middle Ages?
RE: https://disabled.social/@MikeImBack/115834278392367354
Why would anyone inflict this to Mexico and Canada? What have they done to deserve this?
@DavidBHimself IIRC California, Nevada, Colorado and Texas were just as Mexican as New Mexico used to be.
"Remember the Alamo" they say...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/open-science-delivering-benefits-major-study-finds-proof-sparse
@oatp
Benefit is that researchers can usw the public data without giving money to corporate agents ?
Il Myanmar ha liberato più di 6mila persone detenute, in occasione del giorno dell'Indipendenza - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2026/01/04/prigionieri-liberati-myanmar/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
@scott@typo.social I was pleasantly surprised with the experience of getting around on the bus, occasionally train, and my bike for a weeklong visit to LA. To be fair, I was pleasantly surprised relative to extremely low expectations. But yeah, for some kinds of trips LA transit is pretty good!
