itβs not an AI bubble. but just in case, weβre talking publicly about government bailouts. but itβs not a bubble
11.11.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/06/chinas-clean-energy-revolution-will-reshape-markets-and-politics
07.11.2025 11:05 β π 3 π 66 π¬ 0 π 0
The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.
05.11.2025 02:54 β π 310 π 96 π¬ 11 π 4
Bar chart captioned "Lateral bias in sleeping positions of domestic cats." showing a preference for leftward (266 instances) over rightward (142 instances) sleeping positions.
Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500507X
26.10.2025 18:46 β π 8 π 42 π¬ 4 π 0
The βDonβt Ask, Donβt Tellβ Era of DEI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Grateful to @anildash for naming the fact that tech has entered the "don't ask don't tell" era of DEI.
Unfortunately in many parts of academia, we don't even have it that good. We *are* being asked, with all the burden that such an expectation entails.
https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/07/dadt-dei/
23.10.2025 03:18 β π 0 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
A screenshot of Hyperspace. It shows that 3.7 million files in 170 thousand folders were scanned, with a resulting savings of 1.23 terabytes from 1.8 million files
Hyperspace by @siracusa is basically magical.
This is *after* having already reclaimed ~500 GB and is almost entirely from unzipping all of my βdownload my dataβ archives (which was 1.18 TB compressed) and having Hyperspace find all the duplicate files.
19.10.2025 17:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Original post on infosec.exchange
Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas:
It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there.
Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of [β¦]
24.09.2025 17:56 β π 10 π 60 π¬ 4 π 0
Original post on hachyderm.io
This video is so good and a great example of why cis allies are so important. Jasper goes through where the rapid rise in transphobic legislation and rhetoric has come from and how wrong it all is.
If you have the time, I highly recommend it. Itβs kinda long (almost 5 hours) but broken up into [β¦]
19.09.2025 04:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Original post on hachyderm.io
This video is so good and a great example of why cis allies are so important. Jasper goes through where the rapid rise in transphobic legislation and rhetoric has come from and how wrong it all is.
If you have the time, I highly recommend it. Itβs kinda long (almost 5 hours) but broken up into [β¦]
19.09.2025 04:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Anyway, as @marcoarment has said many times on ATPβ¦ itβs time for Cook to go. Apple shouldnβt bend the knee like this.
11.09.2025 12:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm shocked. *Shocked*.
β¦well not that shocked
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teaching-artificial-intelligence-adapt-to-trump-era/
11.09.2025 12:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
An illegible new watch face is an appropriate way to βcelebrateβ Liquid Glass.
09.09.2025 17:20 β π 0 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
What a quote to start the event with. Yeesh.
09.09.2025 17:01 β π 0 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
Ok sure but. Will literally any of these phones fit in my pockets? (The answer is no) #appleEvent
09.09.2025 18:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
Itβs not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself [β¦]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
06.09.2025 20:43 β π 501 π 648 π¬ 26 π 5
Original post on hachyderm.io
Hey, Alan Dye? Instead of trying to force the Mac into Liquid Glass, have you considered a different liquid? Maybe something *lickable*? Likeβ¦ waterβ¦ maybe call it Aquaβ¦
What Iβm saying is, with the new graphical capabilities of modern Macs, a refreshed Aqua (with its candy-like buttons, check [β¦]
01.09.2025 19:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"These people do it naturally"
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to other times in our history, and I came across this quote from a politician in the lead up to the Civil War discussing the virtues of black people and how they're fundamentally different from everyone else:
> We canβt let our farmers not have anybody. You know, these are very these people, theyβre you canβt replace them very easily. You know, people that live in the inner city are not doing that work. Theyβre just not doing that work. And theyβve tried, weβve tried. Everybody tried. They donβt do it. These people do it naturally, naturally. I said, what happens if they get it to a farmer the other day, what happens if they get a bad back? He said, they donβt get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die. I said thatβs interesting, isnβt it? In many ways. Theyβre very, very special people.
That's pretty tough to read, right? This suggestion that black people are "naturally" gifted in doing farm work and that they simply don't feel pain like other people because if they did they would die? I mean, we've all gone to school and heard about the racism of that era and the concept of certain races of humans being "naturally" suited to do hard labor, but it's always pretty shocking to hear them say it out loud.
You may have guessed this by the inane rambling style, but of course this wasn't a quote from some random politician in the 1850s, it was the current President, Donald Trump, on CNBC this week. He wasn't talking about black people, he was of course talking about Mexicans who are "naturally" predisposed to do hard work on farms in a way other people simply aren't built for.
Photo by Win McNamee for Getty Images
Anyway, yesterday Apple CEO Tim Cook personally presented him a gold trophy. I understand the incentives here are tough for Cook, but it's an inditement of both the government which demands this sort of groveling and the executives who have amassed great wealth and power but are quick to bend the knee. We can only judge people by their actions, and based on his actions, it seems safe to say that Tim Cook adores Donald Trump and has nothing bad to say about him or his policies. If he doesn't or has misgivings about some things, he's made sure no one knows about them.
07.08.2025 12:26 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
