https://www.faros.ai/research/ai-acceleration-whiplash
"Engineering throughput is up. However, bugs, incidents, and rework are rising faster."
"One finding holds across all segments of data: All organizations suffer from the Acceleration Whiplash, irrespective of their engineering maturity. The organizations with strong pre-AI engineering practices see the same quality degradation as those without."
Well that's nice.
For the record, AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work.
That industrialization of knowledge work has 2 parts. First, is mechanization. Making knowledge work dependent on some particular machine. This is already the case, with computers generally. Knowledge work is thoroughly computerized. But, those computers are small, cheap, universally available commodities. That doesn't serve the second part, so they're forcing in new layers of mechanization, and removing access to the old machines.
Second, they ensure those machines can only be obtained through large investments of capital. Thus, all knowledge work can be done only at the pleasure of the capitalists who own the machines. Personal computers don't help them, there. But a black box hosted service that consumes the entire web to build and a whole country's worth of electricity to operate sure as hell does.
"AI" is merely the banner under which they are organizing and justifying this project. The implementation details are just the implementation details.
@jenniferplusplus For a while, I specialized in the finance sector, and had a few of boutique investment banks as clients. At that time, the hip phrase for them was "The scarce resource." They used it the way we use "moat" today, but it came down to the same thing:
They would only invest in things where their money bought the scarce resource. As mining gajillionairre Peter Munk said when asked why he liked mining in the age of computation, "Two guys can't invent competition in their garage."
so you see your honor it makes no logical sense for me to write a bug into my own code, and therefore I submit there must be foul play afoot
I find this sort of show-off online design irritating, for it adds little to nothing to understanding and drags out reading.
The Astounding Discovery That Could Link Eastern and Western Medicine https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/11/magazine/interstitium-anatomy-acupuncture-medicine.html?smid=tw-share
Ridiculous. This #BrokenPost report about Target's troubles doesn't mention DEI, the company's surrender to Trumpist racism, and subsequent customer anger. I don't shop there anymore.
Target lost its retail magic. Can an insider get it back? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/11/target-earnings-ceo-michael-fiddelke/
A weird thing happens when you run things on off-grid solar for long enough. You start treating power as a resource again.
"Yeah, we have enough in the tank today for some FF14 and probably a movie."
If there isn't enough sun, you just...can't do that. You wait until another day.
You quietly dispense with the Always On.
I don't even know what is real anymore
@ichbinjazz das tut mir leid. Alles Gute und das vor allen Dingen schnell!
@pallenberg Danke Palle, freu mich seit Stunden auf den Feierabend, ich sag’s dir!
sometimes you can live your life, mentally prepending gnu/ to every word due to it being inexplicably funny somehow
@cpsdqs thank you gnu/cpsdqs
sometimes you can live your life, mentally prepending gnu/ to every word due to it being inexplicably funny somehow
@fdroidorg That doesn't seem to answer my question...
@realcainmosni That page lists real-time (instant messaging) venues, our forum and the actual F-Droid Client development forge. Surely one of them can be used for you to offer your feedback.
There's one book that crystallizes my thoughts on this better than any other: Naomi Klein's 2023 *Doppelganger*, which analyzes our politics in terms of (warped) "mirror images." One of the mirror world pairings that Klein analyzes is the progressive movement, a coalition of liberals and leftists (led by liberals).
5/
@pluralistic reserved the physical book at my library on your recommendation.
@WTL Totally agree 1-3 are a product of their time. Just like 4-5-6.
🌸 Video recordings and slides from CHERI Blossoms 2026 are now available!
Whether you want to revisit your favourite sessions or catch up on what you missed, you can watch the recordings and download slides on our website: https://cheri-alliance.org/events/cheri-blossoms-conference-2026/#recordings-slides
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For a quick overview, check out the event showcase: https://youtu.be/U4C9W7B-8uE?si=szvOUbhclyx5Jkfp
@dougmerritt @albertcardona ... Especially for the poor bastard(s) whose brains are destructively sliced'n'diced in order to build the map.
(Hint: they won't be uploaded, they'll be very dead indeed. The first several thousand of them, most likely, even *if* the most optimistic outcomes for mind uploading *are* possible—and they very likely aren't.)
E per la prima volta Milano sarà la capitale mondiale dei cocktail bar
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/05/11/news/milano_ottobre_cerimonia_classifica_the_world_50_best_bars_2026-425337650/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Be more like a dog today, especially if you’re a boss 🐶
A management professor argues that different dog breeds embody traits many leaders strive for — resilience, courage, optimism, emotional intelligence and kindness.
RE: https://stiftungen.social/@volkswagenstiftung/116515329780058534
Wir vor einer Woche: "Wir schauen uns Mastodon erstmal in Ruhe an."
Fediverse: "Herzlich willkommen, hier sind sofort ganz viele Menschen."
Damit hatten wir ehrlich gesagt nicht gerechnet. Danke für den warmen Empfang, die vielen Follows und die netten Kommentare in unserer allerersten Woche hier! 🤗
@volkswagenstiftung hach ich liebe solche Stories. Schoen, dass ihr hier seid!
RE: https://stiftungen.social/@volkswagenstiftung/116515329780058534
Wir vor einer Woche: "Wir schauen uns Mastodon erstmal in Ruhe an."
Fediverse: "Herzlich willkommen, hier sind sofort ganz viele Menschen."
Damit hatten wir ehrlich gesagt nicht gerechnet. Danke für den warmen Empfang, die vielen Follows und die netten Kommentare in unserer allerersten Woche hier! 🤗
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