Enrique

What if Valve just started their own competing payment card service

Please tell him adulthood is a fucking scam. Growing up too.

Occam's razor says rich people love yachts because of the Implications.

It's a hotel where their underage masseuses literally can't run away from.

Every AI evangelist makes it sound like I’m basically gonna be a witch in a decade because I can still tell time, make change, write cursive, read/write/speak multiple languages, read maps, hold focus for longer than two seconds, do math in my head, engage with culture

Using chatgpt deskills you. It atrophies your reasoning and memory.

Part of the hype of chatgpt is that its whales, its biggest and loudest users, are no longer able to perceive that it is shit, that they are less productive than they used to be, etc.

Feral hognado

Also, more people should learn that the etymology of the word robot is the Czech word "robota" which means enslaved. This was not an accident, and it reflects deeper truths about the relationships we have with technologies that are built to emulate human cognition as a step in serving us.

Dune, 1965

Interviewer: There are aid trucks, UN aid trucks that are unable to enter Gaza, and not allowed to distribute aid while people are starving. But [private security contractor] SRS was able to bring in Domino's Pizza to one of their sites?

Whistleblower: Correct.

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

A Textbook Case of Genocide Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

To say a few obvious things —

By the end of October 2023, I considered it important to register Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocidal … and I grant that people who rejected the word “genocide” had good reasons.

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YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

You have to hand it to the Swiss bankers. They are the single most inclusive, non-discriminating people you can find on this earth. They will not reject money, be it from Mexican drug lords, dirty American politicians, mass murdering dictators, ecocidal oil barons, and arms dealers. True inclusion.

What a story from Steve Yegge from his time at Google, back in the day:

Using a "blind" and unbiased process, interviewers would not have hired most colleagues who were actually at the company!

Food for thought on how building a soild hiring process remains tough

When devs use AI tools, they save the most time with:

A) Code generation
B) Something else

Surprisingly, based on the research DX did with 180 companies, it's not code generation! Stack trace analysis and refactoring both save more time (!!) @lauratacho.com shares details:

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.

I have been saying for years that all this "anti-woke" rhetoric is straight up Nazi propaganda rehashed for the 21st century, and now Grok, with "woke filters" removed, is praising Hitler.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76

@rugimx.bsky.social

El buen RuGi hablando de Neo4j en la JConf Dominicana

"When I ask AI to do something I'm a novice at, I find it awesome; but when I ask it to do something I'm an expert at, I find it awful"

Great talk about AI by @venkats.bsky.social at JConf Dominicana

That last pic is from Alien 3

Let’s cut to the chase.

The United States is kidnapping and trafficking human beings based on the color of their skin.

"Free as in speech, not free as in lunch"

Yeah we're angry at the fucker, but definitely can't feel embarrassed, since we had nothing to do with him being where he is now.

EPSTEIN FILES

Read the title and spent two full minutes staring at that picture, trying to decipher the hidden clues in the Android's head that suggested this merge... the shape looks the same as before... maybe it's the cap?

Then I read the caption.

Album cover from a band called God Lives Underwater

Album cover from a band called God is an Astronaut

Talk about a long commute...

Fifths tuning on a guitar makes for some interesting chords. Major and minor 7 chords are very easy to play, with the 3rd and 7th one octave up. And you can still play power chords but they look "upside down".

The most surprising thing about the MechaHitler episode isn’t that it happened, because with Musk that was an entirely predictable outcome, but how few people didn’t find that to be a red line to get off the site