harness (n.)

So I finally got round to running OpenCode+DeepSeek on an old Rust project of mine, and the results were quite upsetting. That's a 'there's no way devs are not going to use it' upsetting, by the way.

Marx's every work reaffirms the fact that humans make value--not machines nor money itself--so making it difficult for me to understand the claim that he left his earlier 'humanist' phase. I don't believe he ever left it, rather that he continually provided ever more precise evidence for it.

We get to embrace <checks notes> the life of the Persian Gulf, apparently.

Jason Hickel@jasonhickel.bsky.social · 5d ago

This grotesque headline is from the Telegraph. 3,000 people in Britain have been killed in heatwaves this year so far. 20,000 in Europe. Even if Britain did get to “embrace Mediterranean life”, what about the actual Mediterranean, what do they get to embrace? What about India?

[Fedora Magazine] Find out how your Fedora system really feels (with the linux-mcp-server!) #Fedora #Linux

My great-grandparents, who had my grandparents as teenage children 100 years ago (just) were, on my Dad's side: 1. Servants in a well-known English stately home 2. A Hansom cab driver in London I don't know my Mum's side.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Finally able to go through this visualization of how AI is used in military kill chains. It's an invaluable resource to demonstrate all the points AI pushes the military toward killing civilians, justified under the banner of "impartial" tech. Bravo, @airwars.bsky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social

Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

ai-killchain.airwars.org

Protesta multitudinària a Palma de Mallorca contra la pressió turística ✍️ Thelma Castro

Protesta multitudinària a Palma de Mallorca contra la pressió turística ✍️ Thelma Castro

elpuntavui.cat

One of our friends, a 92 year-old distant relative of my partner, was the saddest we've ever heard her yesterday. She told us that the huge amount of forest consumed by wildfires this year feels like 'the end of the world.'

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Floating (indistinctly).

This one is amazing too

Shoot, shoot!

Impressive two-on-one win against both Argentina and FIFA.

Chupala

I know next to nothing about football, which puts me in the good company of just about every anglophone north american who posts on the subject.

Of course they would.

6. The vast majority of the periphery is not moving into the core. On the contrary, the share of the world population living in the periphery has increased from 80% in 1960 to 86% in 2023. The core has become an increasingly exclusive faction of the world economy.

"buried with a powerful arsenal of weapons . . . which archaeologists have continued to dismiss as "purely symbolic" But. . . "evidence the princesses knew how to use them, based on the state of the muscle attachments on their bones, and the signs of injuries" www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyp...

Bones of Ancient Egyptian Princesses Reveal They Were Kind of Badass

Ancient Egyptian princesses actually knew how to use the weapons they were buried with, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

sciencealert.com

From this morning's walk, registered here: www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trail...

Tòfol@cristofol.org · 3w ago

Good morning.

Good morning.

A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

As an aside to other more major technical and political issues that I have with LLMs, one of the more personal reasons for my dislike of them is that they are boring.

As it was written.

OMG

Tòfol@cristofol.org · 3w ago

Lol. Lmao even.

Lol. Lmao even.

I remember Microsoft software being bad, but now all their client-facing stuff is in 'the cloud' with either a browser or a thin client as interface it is just terrible. Dreadful. I hate having to work with it.

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Forced by no.2 son to watch Spain again. They're pretty good at keeping the ball and keeping their nerve, right? Kind of cerebral, if you will. Technical, precise, surgical.