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the whole thing is a crime, but those railings are an especially acute crime against the vibe of the entire structure from an architectural standpoint

I'll believe the democratic party truly understands what they're dealing with when someone acknowledges the donor list is a roadmap of companies to destroy

I mean, ngl, the inside scoop on Welsh Labour's internal backstabbing would be fascinating for most of us, but if you're a CCP official you've probably seen things that make it pale in comparison.

what I love about all this is that the actual product getting back to Beijing was probably incredibly trivial stuff. Like, 'smart Google search' levels.

honestly S4C should produce a political drama like this, i'd watch the hell out of it

getting really into it like a mid-day soap opera

RE the hosting story, yes, my biggest anxiety is that the models don't become locally runnable. I do think that would be a disaster for the world. I am pinning my hopes that it's a challenge will be solved, but it's a core risk.

The other concerns are legit but... nuanced

I use ai in my coding. I'm not worried about professionals using ai for the productivity boost. The immediate danger is trying to get ai to replace professionals. It can't do that.

It's a powerful tool. In the hands of an expert it's a boost. In the hands of a layman it's dangerous.

I think the Average Software Developer Income is extremely variable, even when not accounting for other financial circumstances (ive worked a few software jobs that paid quite low for what i was doing to the point i was working off very cheap hardware) which is why I'm passionate about pricing

for workable coding models, you are talking "affordable to a software developer" expensive, though. Not "car" expensive.

I don't use a Strix Halo box to run things like qwen-coder, but people in my discord do, and are very happy about the perf they're getting out of it.

There is hope for smaller local models, though. I think we might see also hardware change in the not too distant future. Would you buy a specialized machine that runs a local model and can produce high quality code?

Right now I am with you. The big fundamental models centralize power.

From my perspective, AI can be used for good and for bad, and I’m asking myself how it can improve personal computing. I think agents can make people more independent from big business, not less.

AI shows up in the world in some pretty negative ways, especially around misinformation, slop, and spam, and dealing with those issues in a social network are increasingly a focus of my time. I don't have a hard time understanding why a lot of people are suspicious of it as a result.

Part of why we've openly talked about our use of coding agents is to be transparent about it. It's also because it's a shocking change to our practice, and I frankly don't know how I could avoid talking about it as a software enthusiast. I genuinely can't believe what these things can do.

Denzel Washington-Starring ‘Hannibal’ Biopic —Directed by Antoine Fuqua —Set to Start Production in June for Netflix — World of Reel Antoine Fuqua’s Netflix-backed biopic of the legendary Carthaginian general is shooting soon. Furthermore, the DP is Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer

Well, I do have one piece of amazing news today in the midst of *gestures to world* and that is that this will one day exist and I will one day teach with it. 🐘 ⚔️ www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/3/...

I do want to make sure we're being clear about this:

The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

Fetterman's already said he's voting for this guy but that asshole aside, no Democrat votes for this guy

that's the thing, they actually own so many great IPs and studios! a number of which would probably be better off not being under the microsoft umbrella, but I've no idea how they get out of there intact at this point

They're reading my feed

extraction shooter where everyone plays as some variety of shirtless, improbably buff dude. barathon

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen.

Then came a FOIA request from @weareoversight.bsky.social.

"Trump says he should have role in picking Iran's Leader," headline in New York Times

some day a future president will be forced to apologize for the crimes of her predecessor

Pokopia title card and font saying 'i don't want to get a switch 2'

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AJ is reporting that they're hitting Iranian water infrastructure, something I'm sure the gulf states, with their big undefended desalinization plants, are thrilled to hear.

“How gay will Jacob Tierney’s Alexander the Great series be” idk kinda feels like that one answers itself

Right after Congress refused to rein him in, too.

Back as when i was undergrad, I did an internship at a firm that did a lot of oil contracts & securities (I mostly did research fur them), & the joke was, “you want to see a global recession? Close the Strait for a month.”

It’s not so much a joke as an accurate observation.

That may help consumer gasoline prices, but nothing will help when container ships can't bunker up and the flow of all the shit-we-don't-make-here-anymore stops cold.

Singapore has already said they have no bunker fuel for sale.

You know what isn't tolerant of an even slightly shaky power grid? Advanced microchip production. A fraction of a second voltage dip ruins a wafer in process, and processes take weeks. If you think Computer Crap is expensive now, wait until TSMC's defect rate explodes and production rate craters.