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This is a pretty apt image for how we prioritize the space in our cities in general, not just during the San Francisco marathon.
@david_chisnall @rc2014 @tilton
Personal computing peaked with the Imlac PDS-1 and Xerox Alto, even though neither were convenient to carry around.
I've had 3 double espressos and think I might be invincible. Quick, throw stuff at me.
@TheBreadmonkey Shall I throw a bag of decaf at you, to be on the safe side?
Stupid'o'clock alarm clock was, indeed, worth it.
…At root, this is the chasing of eyeballs above and beyond *any other consideration*.
It’s why people like Carole Cadwalladr and Medhi Hasan/Zeteo and Channel 4 News and Nate Hagens are on Substack.
It is fuelling the very thing these folks claim to be trying to tear down.
Broadly speaking, once metrics become the primary objective, you’ve lost
…People have been saying versions of “the map is not the territory” for centuries.
We must just be intrinsically wired to do it anyway
@dogtrax wow, that's crazy!
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i can still ship shop orders to Belgium, Czechia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Italy, Lithuania and Netherlands 🫶 (for now)
countries outside of EU are unaffected, so i can ship there just like before!
please make sure to sign the petition and send it to your EU reps so that we have better chance of beating this - https://c.org/MFGQ8NH7sH
#artshop #relatablequotes #cuteart #animalart #mastoart #art #handmadeart #artwork #originalart
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A long time ago, when I worked in Soho, I wore one of these https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/kneel-before-zod_16959/ to work. I was chatting to a colleague and I made the flippant claim that General Zod was Terence Stamp's finest hour, and she said no, that would be when she shagged him 🤷♀️
RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104
Years ago when I lived in Canterbury, they brought in a phone to pay thing for parking. I wrote a letter to Canterbury city council saying this was a bad idea as someone could put a sticker over the phone number, and scam people for their credit card details. CCC said this wasn't a realistic attack, and they proceeded with the roll out.
The phone number is now a QR code.
And I was fucking right.
@quixoticgeek Basically, never scan a QR code, particularly one that appears in public.
Unless you are really convinced that it's legitimate. Sometimes you have to, eg you've just bought a widget and the only way to get at the documentation is to scan the QR code on the widget's label. And ones that appear on your computer or telly screen, eg to link an account on one to the other, probably haven't had anything stuck over them!
The worst I've seen is supermarket click-and-collect, where on arrival you're supposed to scan the QR code, in a publicly accessible car park, to tell them you've arrived and are waiting for your groceries.
Fascinating to see how many folks think these are identical.
I remember once being called a "lumper" in school—trying to make the case that many different categories were in fact indistinct, thereby rendering the discussions of differences moot. This is in contrast to "sorters," who prefer to highlight differences.
I can see how these two things look similar, but I also think it would be imprudent to regard all the tools of oppression without distinction.
Or perhaps y'all think one is a subclass of the other? Are LLMs just gambling? I find that a tad reductive, if I'm honest.
I guess I turned into a sorter with time.
I answered before reading your clarification. Generative AI is far more important to get rid of, but I voted for gambling as that genAI would not exist without gambling.
Not, however, because they are the same, or one is a subset of the other. They are quite different. But GenAI doesn't produce anything - it exists only as a by-product of a circle-jerk of companies inflating each other's stock prices.
The stock market *is* gambling.
No gambling -> no stocks -> no AI. QED
Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407477
#HackerNews #Canada #US #trade #war #tariffs #politics #diplomacy
@codinghorror The Bangles - Manic Monday
Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day
Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up
Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey
@waltman I'm liking the Marley suggestion. was gonna try Them Belly Full but I like this better
TI 2026 grands, lets go
love a mid sand king
@urlyman
>but nowhere does it say what that costs
tbh i read that and thought
~id be surprised if the answer
is not "your data"
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@pt_ickle indeed
Volcanoes that made history
Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/volcanoes-that-made-history/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
My projects that use LLMs for help with documentation, code review or automated actions (refactoring, tests) currently have no mention of it in the README (Holos and FediHood).
Mostly because I am uncomfortable saying I use such tools. But for full transparency, I have to mention it there too, not only here.
Contributors who are against LLMs will not waste their time on a project they would have avoided if they had known. Not everyone follows my Fedi account or my recent posts to know about it.
@apps Just do whatever helps you be most productive for your projects!
Israeli air strike near Gaza refugee camp kills one person and injures two
@svavar
Noted.
And I’m under no illusions about where that leaves us: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114286441153716789
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In which 'Winnie-the-Pooh' turns 100
by Samantha Balaban
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
