Discovering that Elon Musk was impersonating his mother on twitter (and, judging from the phrasing, his father too) really highlights both that

- capitalists have free time to engage in pathetic antics like this because they are utterly irrelevant to economic production, and

- the grotesque inequalities of wealth and power we experience have not managed to make the ultra-rich like Musk happy, either.

今度こそロール付与​​ #ioわいわいGW2026

Fully endorse. #bigtech

“Asking platforms to do better won’t work. We need to force their hands..”

https://werd.io/asking-platforms-to-do-better-wont-work-we-need-to-force-their-hands/

This Wednesday: our community update. Three demos, a new working group, and updates across the board. 07:00 UTC or 16:00 UTC.
Register to join us: https://www.crossref.org/events/crossref-community-update-2026/
#CrossrefUpdate2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@asymco/116556065531107429

“There’s never been a semiconductor boom that’s not followed by a semiconductor bust. Never. And they [RAM suppliers] know it.

So they’re happy to make mint on this volatility right now. So much so that I heard Samsung’s making more money now with memory than Nvidia’s making with their processors. So memory suddenly is the new gold. A year ago, two years ago, it was about compute. Now it’s memory. Who knows what’s next?”

@sundogplanets

🤷‍♂️ I pay much closer attention to interviews with people who really do look like they’ve just stepped out of their lab or office or classroom or goat pen than sleek coiffed media ready talking heads.

Thank you for the time to give to the public good!

New blog:

I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed. You’re trading a temporary speed boost for permanent indenture.

Oh, you want to know *why?* Sure. Let’s go for a drive.

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs

summaly出したので、眠いので私は寝ます
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@misskey-dev/summaly

Global streaming revenue of music still hasn't eclipsed what physical sales used to reap. Though this should probably be plotted against 'musicians average earnings'. Most of this revenue presumably is going to record companies and other industry behemoths.

(source: unknown)

@podfeet It may be worth noting that I'm on the iPhone SE, but that shouldn't make it this flaky, I would assume it'd just run a bit consistently slower, if anything. It was working great under previous version of the OS, mostly.

Correction de bug : les commentaires de lieux ajoutés via un compte @eurosky.social fonctionnaient, mais sans photos.

Merci @rednegra.net pour l'alerte !

Évidemment, ça devrait maintenant marcher avec n'importe quel fournisseur AT indépendant de bluesky.

Has anyone done #bitemporal stuff with postgres 16? I understand SQL:2011 support has landed in postgres 18 but I'm hesitant about upgrading (being very conservative). I'm aware of https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal and https://github.com/xocolatl/periods but I'm no database expert and I feel like a baby engineer dipping my toes in. What do y'all recommend?

(I don't want to use #xtdb or #datomic because I know even less about these and I want to be able to maintain what I build)

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#privacy

one of my students showed me clang's error: too many errors error message and:
(1) that's not a fucking compile error! that's obviously an info log

(2) this isn't explained in the help message. it was completely fucking unclear whether clang was experiencing an ICE or something. nope! it was a "helpful" change to the default behavior.

(3) it's a mean thing to say to a student! it reads like "you're hopeless, i'm not even grading this"

#WritersCoffeeClub May11 Share something you saw or read recently which really inspired you.

I finished Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" last night and I was really impressed with how the ending tied everything together. It really made me think about how to construct a narrative where everything builds to a point and pays off.

why would you ever limit errors by default?

(a) improved the oops! all errors! benchmark by 50% [demonstrating why benchmarks are fascist]

(b) now you have to add a new flag to get the same behavior again, which breaks gcc compat

(c) if you want to restrict access to build error logs to people with access to modify the clang cli [google internal corporate politics]

@juergen_hubert Legitemacy is one thing... but the issue of the abandoned pregnant common girl is what I'm thinking of. Were they really abandoned by everyone? Or did the family / community take care of them?
What reality these tales reflect?

A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/

Reimagining just, low-carbon immersive futures

https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-study/how-to-apply/studentship-opportunities/low-carbon-immersive-futures

Creative practice PhDs most welcome, especially those bringing an arts lens/ socially engaged creative research practice.

The deadline is soon but should be extended into June 2026

If you are interested... let me know and I'll pass you forward to learn more

@bagder @troed Myh Opera thing $¥st€m? In this.0xF00C3D b41SiC instinct €conom¥.?!