I'd feel maybe not 10x better if OpenAI were truly an open altruistic organization operating for the benefit of humanity rather than concentrating wealth and power ever more into a handful of lucky rich. But at least sqrt(10)x better.
We're updating our terms and conditions mindset.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5mo agoI guess the real problem here is that you can only opt out by leaving. that's insane. this system should be a box with a switch and lights on it and it should default to off and the doctor should ask you if they can flip the switch
Educational software was the original co-op. The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) started in 1967, buying a mainframe to timeshare between school districts. They made lots and lots of educational software. You’d know them for Oregon Trail.
I wonder if a coop model like @waldo.net has talked about before could work for something like this.
Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 5mo agoDuring our struggle with this I understood Richard Stallman better. My frustration with i-Ready was identical to his frustration with the campus printer that spawned the whole open source movement. Public schools should use open source software.
NJ Transit released a new GTFS static data source that as far as I can tell is just completely incompatible with their GTFS-RT feed. There is no documentation or upgrade path or recommended replacement, it just suddenly doesn’t work! And the old static file schedule ended on May 1. It’s a mess.
Hopefully the pendulum will swing back towards prioritizing ”it works” as a feature of software products.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6mo agowooooow: "I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software."
You can get the LLM to generate a Mermaid spec! You can even use something like the Playwright MCP to find and fix its own mistakes.
dan@danabra.mov · 8mo agoppl should stop using ai-generated diagrams. you know i’m not anti-ai but they’re just not good at this yet! the problem is that diagrams have a very specific purpose: they’re meant to compress understanding into few key bits. ai vomits out poor approximations that aren’t conceptually compressed
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b... RIP to Umberto Eco you would have loved this
The New Fabio Is Claude
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All across this great nation dads are standing at the window with their hands on their hips going “it’s coming down real fast”
Incredible courage from this woman.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 9mo agoJUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago
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@macwright.com Hey! I was reading your nice blog about post-Tidbyt Tidbyt(macwright.com/2025/04/12/t...) — are you running a TronByt server as well somewhere? Or is indiepixel sufficient for everything? I want to move mine off the old cloud server.
Tidbyt without the company
Avoiding the curse of e-waste by hacking and freeing my Tidbyt device
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Plenty of options to get there, especially if he books now.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: An effort to get Eric Adams to drop out of the New York City mayor's race is said to involve a plan for President Trump to nominate him as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
You GOTTA read the indictment against Broadway Stages for bribing Ingrid Lewis-Martin: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/21/r...
READ IT: The Argentos Bribed Lewis-Martin to Halt McGuinness Bike Lane, DA Says - Streetsblog New York City
Two members of a powerful Brooklyn theatrical production family bribed Mayor Adams's chief adviser to block the safety redesign of McGuinness Boulevard, court papers show.
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BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
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