Seeking Sustainable Sponsorship

Hi Elixir friends,
After 3 years on Hologram full-time (transpiles Elixir to the browser), I'm at a crossroads.

60+ hr weeks balancing contracts & dev isn't sustainable.
Where we are & how you can help: hologram.page/blog/seeking...

Even sharing helps 💜

#Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

42=6x7

Coincidence? I think NOT

PyPI and Shai-Hulud: Staying Secure Amid Emerging Threats - The Python Package Index Blog Shai-Hulud is a great worm, not yet a snake. Attack on npm ecosystem may have implications for PyPI.

There's a nasty #OpenSource #SupplyChain worm going around named Shai-Hulud. It's also capable of exposing some projects' long-lived PyPI API Tokens. Read more on what's happening, and what you can do to protect your projects.

TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦

blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...

Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your knowledge of language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Paul Helbronner was a French cartographer at the turn of the C19th and C20th century who specialized in maps of the Alps. He made a beautiful & long (over 620cm!) panoramic map of the view from Mont Blanc in 1921 and included his climb to the top, with his footprints in the snow @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

everything that is wrong with Elon Musk can be summed up in the fact that there’s nobody in his life who can sit him down and tell him how embarrassing this is

Seems like a dangerous escalation of rhetoric that could go to very bad places

Bruce Schneier on the Agentic AI trilemma: “Fast, smart, secure; pick any two. Fast and smart—you can’t verify your inputs. Smart and secure—you check everything, slowly, because AI itself can’t be used for this. Secure and fast—you’re stuck with models with intentionally limited capabilities.”

China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran...

Last week I wrote a long piece on how oil demand destruction is likely higher than the consensus and I explained why that is likely. Electrification of trucking in China was a big reason.

I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.

Well good news! Now there is.

My team and I were miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a soviet defector in the hopes we could deploy the ship's microsurgery to clear a blood clot in his brain. Unfortunately the Russians deployed their own nanonauts in an attempt to sabotage our mission. We took care of them, don't worry. Dr. Clark is wounded...might not make it. But we can still make the brain in time if we take a shortcut through the carotid artery. It should be noted in the log that Dr. Wells feels this is an unnecessary risk, I have registered her complaints as required by regulation, and we are pressing on. Wish us luck. Should be in by 11:15.

At my last job you were supposed to send an email if you were going to be late. These are some of my late emails.

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Where were the other reporters?

I say this as a woman in the workplace who has experienced something not dissimilar a couple weeks ago at work.

This is a must-see five alarm fire.

Brilliant yet disturbing journalism from @philinvestigates.com.

Trump is “creating a media monopoly in order to keep himself in power...the larger pattern, not just TikTok...we have seen countless media companies like the coming under control of right-wing oligarchs. We have seen constant pressure on the press, new rules from the Pentagon...”

One potential downside of gerrymanders is that they break during waves.

When official sources of information dry up or become unreliable, rumors and conspiracy theories take their place. That does not always bode well for whoever is in power.

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.

Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Dix pourcent des revenus, ou 16 G$, de Meta en 2024 venaient de publicités frauduleuses ou de produits interdits selon des documents internes vus par Reuters.

L'entreprise reconnaît que ces publicités sont la source du tiers des arnaques aux USA.

Dans quelle autre industrie cela serait acceptable?

De faux « médias locaux » générés par IA apparaissent sur Facebook Des sites web propulsés par l’intelligence artificielle (IA) se présentant comme des médias locaux comblent l’absence d’actualité sur Facebook depuis le blocage des médias canadiens en 2023. Ils repre...

Reportage ce matin par @nicholasderosa.bsky.social et moi.

Ces faux médias plagient des articles de vrais médias à l'aide de l'IA.

Puisque l'IA ne peut pas reproduire texto des citations des textes originaux, elle fait tout simplement en halluciner de nouvelles. Très cool! 🙃

Fascinating study, in line with the general unreliability of LMs at ToM reasoning I've seen.

I expect they'll be unreliable about other propositional attitudes (want, hope, expect, suspect, etc.), and suspect this is bc they're not trained on data that grounds this vocabulary.

“Dude. Get vaccinated!” Heidi Lucas texted her sister Ashley in May from her home in Jefferson City, Missouri. “Nope lol,” Ashley Lucas texted back from Orbisonia, Pennsylvania. “Don’t you work with old people?” “Yeah”

This exchange from a 2021 article about two sisters -- both nursing professionals, but only one of whom was willing to get the COVID vax -- is something i think about when i hear people discarding logic and common sense because it discomfits them.
www.propublica.org/article/dont...

AI systems are not being used here “despite their biases,” but because of them. We live in a time where power means the power not to care. I wrote recently on the weaponization of AI & error. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...

“.. It’s not that erotica is bad per se, but .. there were clear warning signs of users’ intense emotional attachment to A.I. chatbots. .. We decided A.I.-powered erotica would have to wait.

“.. OpenAI now says the wait is over ..”

@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Hearts at the PSF are full today from the responses about the recent grant turn down news we shared. All of your kind words of support & solidarity, as well as your donations & new memberships, mean the world to us. We're so grateful to be in community with each of you 💛🐍💙

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you