@misty this is a many-dollar question and i am certainly eager to see how it plays out. one thing i'm unclear on is what the collective breaking point is for websites, apps etc getting so wretchedly slow that average nontechnical people start revolting.

If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?

What would happen to your work?

What would happen to your hospitals?

What would happen to your emergency services?

What would happen to your banks?

Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.

What would happen?
Is your country prepared?

#DataSovereignty

@ltning @gloriouscow someday I want an emulator that'll properly simulate the correct color of smoke that comes out when you break different components

Just picked up milk and noticed the label says "100% milk from real cows". This wasn't something I was worried about before now.

The six month moratorium on major electrical infrastructure projects is the latest tactic meant to delay the massive data center meant to support America’s nuclear weapons.

https://www.404media.co/township-fights-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-a-moratorium-on-electrical-infrastructure/

@alexhall And yet, people are doing useful and impressive things with this mess. I'm coming around to the conclusion that I should focus on the positive and see what I can do to make things better.

The machine isn't special here: I assume that of my own code, and everyone else's too.

TIL about "cool pavement". are you all familiar with this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCHxXIAf1fs

i wonder how often they have to apply it and what the cost is 🤔

#adaptation #ClimateChange #phoenix #heatwave

The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

"My male secretary, Roger" Oh, the 80's

#Monsterdon

RE: https://wandering.shop/@troublewithwords/117147417113637857

It's fine, though, because now we have non-deterministic LLMs, whose outputs can't even be predicted by the people that made and maintain them. They were trained on the insanity that is the modern world's code, and people demand that they write new code to do new things. Problem solved.