Seattle friends! Two screenings of Ghost in the Machine at SIFF, Sunday and Monday.
I'll be part of the post-screening Q&A :)
https://www.thestranger.com/arts/the-siff-films-were-still-talking-about/
@emilymbender Neat. 😊 Years ago I saw "Into Great Silence" at the SIFF.
Good story on Gawker. TIL Tim Cook killed a show based on it. Boo. Best quote: "Gawker eventually became like Lennie from Of Mice and Men, where it didn’t understand its own power.”
At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/inside-gawker-legacy-1236585677/
search engine product people in 2026 be like "i have never met a person but if they were real im sure they would only use the internet to find products to buy"
Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. Download times and installed disk space are really important.
Also the Google Chrome Team: We’re going to bundle an LLM with the install. Sure, it’s ten times the size of the whole of the rest of the browser, but I’m sure it’s fine.
Its not fine.
Some scholars have argued that over-exploitation of the common resource is by no means inevitable, since the individuals concerned may be able to achieve mutual restraint by consensus. Others have contended that the metaphor of a common pasture is inapposite or inaccurate because its exemplar – unfettered access to common land – did not exist historically, the right to exploit common land being controlled by law.
The work of Elinor Ostrom, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics, is seen by some economists as having refuted Hardin's claims.[1] Hardin's views on over-population have been criticised as simplistic[2] and racist.[3]
Some scholars have argued that over-exploitation of the common resource is by no means inevitable, since the individuals concerned may be able to achieve mutual restraint by consensus. Others have contended that the metaphor of a common pasture is inapposite or inaccurate because its exemplar – unfettered access to common land – did not exist historically, the right to exploit common land being controlled by law.
AG Campbell Launches $500,000 Phone-Free School Support Grant https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-launches-500000-phone-free-school-support-grant
In a way, computing embodies the essence of humanity. We take a blank canvas of electrical fields - a purely physical phenomenon, devoid of inherent meaning - and imbue it with assumptions, values, and purpose, manifesting order despite a chaotic, uncaring universe; creating beautiful pockets of defiant structure, each clock cycle shielding these brittle gardens from entropy's relentless encroachment.
@andrewrk ah, so it is sort of like mold too? 🤣
We report: in time, we have come to understand that when cirrus appear on their own in the sky, they tend to precede warm fronts. Now, we have to stay here, and figure out whether they are getting thicker, or remaining the same. This could take a good while longer.
Canvas hack is extremely bad, the "biggest student data privacy disaster in history" because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: "There's personal circumstances, medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations, like all sorts of stuff would be getting reported to the instructor using Canvas."
University teacher here:
I've been saying this for years. That the introduction of Big Tech into the college/university setting has been a net negative. In some ways, it has ruined what it means to learn. Here, Canvas probably fell behind in what they should have been doing to protect students. Even the Canvas experience has gotten worse, become more cumbersome.
Ugh.
Good story on Gawker. TIL Tim Cook killed a show based on it. Boo. Best quote: "Gawker eventually became like Lennie from Of Mice and Men, where it didn’t understand its own power.”
At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/inside-gawker-legacy-1236585677/
yall the bar is so low for a good search engine. you don't even have to do anything fancy just give us working exclusions and exact match searches
search engine product people in 2026 be like "i have never met a person but if they were real im sure they would only use the internet to find products to buy"
book delivery taunting me from behind closed doors of post office (i forgot its saturday and they are closed)
@jpm oh sorry, meant electrical discharge machining. It's basically using electricity to "burn away" metals. And it looks like they only do bulk EDM (which is great for really high aspect-ratio holes), but do not do wire, at least yet.
Wire lets you do some bonkers tight tolerances.
@petrillic ah gotcha, yeah I think I saw that service a couple of months ago? They keep adding new cool shit, then dropping the price of everything. Their flex-PCB service is now $5 for the most basic options
the two most stolen items in the world
#anarchism #marxism #memes #economics #politics #history
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
There's a false narrative that envisions a world where the data work will improve as these systems are capable to self-train, and that somehow, we will benefit from this technology long term.
I would gently point to a historical example, like the cotton gin in the US South... It might have made cotton picking more efficient. But gluttonous demand meant that exploitation grew (slavery), and the whole economy of the south became dependent on the textile industry.
Brighton Repair Cafe
Saturday 9th May
10am – 12pm
St George’s Hall, Newick Road, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN1 9JJ
Clothing, bags, small household appliances, electrical appliances, laptops for software updates and/or mending.
https://brightonrepaircafe.org/
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafe #Repair #BrightonRepairCafe #RepairCafes #BrightonAndHove #Brighton
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