Josh Berkus

Pretty much all the linux devs and power users use command line tools for this (including MC). They work on GUIs *for other people* and not for themselves, which means that they don't really care about performance.

16 States (Plus Washington DC) Launch Joint Legal Fight for Trans Health Care “[The] DOJ’s intent in issuing the subpoenas is not enforcement of the specific prohibitions of those laws but the chilling of medical care with which the administration disagrees ideologically.”

1. 16 State AGs + Washington, D.C., have filed federal suit that the President is illegally intimidating healthcare providers into dropping trans care.

The legal battle could determine the fate of states’ rights to protect gender affirming care.

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Hard to find a paper I’ve agreed with more in recent times. And it comes from a source who has every incentive to paint the opposite as being true.

research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/slm... Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI

As a former Perlie, I am amused as heck about YAML.

At least Iggy is getting an income out of it. ;-)

A cat standing at a sewing machine.

She's still altering your dress. Please come back later.

This isn't a thing Apple would do, but if I had Cook's ear I would get him to aquihire a really good open source LLM and promote the heck out of it, crashing the market.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.

PBS and NPR have been defunded by law passed by Congress, not just an executive order. The government agency that funds them will wind down in a few weeks.

It’s crazy all of this was mapped out in Project 2025 and is being executed like clockwork. A well oiled machine of societal sabotage.

World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels

UN chief António Guterres says the world is on the brink of climate breakthrough. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects commissioned in 2024 were less expensive than their fossil fuel equivalent. Solar was 41% cheaper on average and land wind 53% cheaper. buff.ly/EWOfRu6
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House Republicans are targeting communities of color in Texas in order to rig the midterm elections.

Promotional image from Microsoft display the smiling, blob-like, corporately inoffensive new face of Copilot.

Radio Dead Air Tech Q&A tonight at 9pm ET.

Copilot AI has a face now! This is a great idea and Microsoft is totally not recycling Clippy and Bob in desperation! We'll talk about it!

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GitHub - jjasghar/ai-irc-slack-discord-ollama-bot: An Ollama wrapper for IRC/Slack/Discord, you want to run your own AI for chat? Here ya go. An Ollama wrapper for IRC/Slack/Discord, you want to run your own AI for chat? Here ya go. - jjasghar/ai-irc-slack-discord-ollama-bot

Do you want to use Ollama with a trusted AI model like #granite from #IBM on #slack #discord or good ol' #IRC?

So I'd like to show you this: github.com/jjasghar/ai-....

Also, they don't write the books either. In the past it was ghostwriters, but today it's probably AI.

Every single neighborhood group in NE Portland shares all event info in the form of photographs of physical flyers shared over social media. Webpage? Clickable links? Pastable dates? What are those?

Oh! It never occurred to me to print pegboard widgets. Thanks!

Just tell a story. I know you have stories that last more than 45m, I've read them.

Pete reminds me of a bunch of the white gay men I knew on The Castro, in all the worst ways.

His record on racial issues ain't great, either.

Yes!

Per Mikel Jolett: "After you reach $999 million, every cent goes to schools and healthcare. You get a trophy that says "I won capitalism" and they name a dog park after you."

Not just income, assets. No person, no extended family in fact, over multiple generations, needs accumulated wealth in excess of $999M.

No, never have.

Some people (who claim not to be company shills) would like us to stop calling payment processors to object to them stopping us from spending our money on things we want. They're hopping onto threads about how we're going to get innocent call center workers fired, how dare we?!

Trump: Global baseline tariff will likely be 15% to 20% The figures are significant because they represent a major increase from the 10% baseline tariff Trump announced in April of this year.

Cutting taxes on the rich and then putting a 15%-20% sales tax on imported goods is extremely regressive. The poor are hardest hit as they spend almost all their money on goods and services while the rich have extra money which they use to buy appreciating assets like stocks.

Trickle down 2.0

As we talked
about the future
my friend, the epidemiologist,
said that at the rate we’re going
the masked
shall inherit the earth,
and in response
my friend, the climatologist,
said that at the rate we’re going
there won’t be much earth
left for them to inherit.

YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin' Holding Out for a Hero - Hildegard von Blingin’ & Whitney Avalon (Bardcore | Medieval Style)

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Here's another, very different, cover of Holding Out For a Hero I think you'd enjoy: bardcore.

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FOSSY 2025 | Presentation: RAGtime with Postgres: AI Power with pgvector and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

This Friday, August 1, 2025 at 17:30 PDT, I'll be at FOSSY in Portland, Oregon with my talk "RAGtime with Postgres: AI Power with pgvector and Retrieval-Augmented Generation"! See you there 🐘🔥 2025.fossy.us/schedule/pre...

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109. These things are human rights: medical care, housing, good food (and enough of it), being able to sustain a pet.

This has always puzzled me. "I wish I could read my cat's mind" some folks say. I don't get it; just by watching my cat I know *exactly* what he's thinking.

I think maybe most folks are just bad at reading body language of any mammal -- including other humans.

17. If you spend enough time learning about best practices for dog training, you will look at your own work habits and say "what the fuck am I training myself to do?"

Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality fo...

Thanks to the ongoing lawsuit between OpenAI and the New York Times, your chats are not being deleted from ChatGPT’s servers.

Additionally, ChatGPT isn’t a doctor or a lawyer so don’t do anything stupid like confessing crimes to it.

(what Powell's is doing: each and every person attending is required to buy a copy of Queen Demon. So if you're a married couple with a kid, you have to buy 3 copies to attend. They will not back down from this)