In which I engage in heresy: The purpose of a system is NOT what it does: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/09/24/The-Purpose-Isnt-What-It-Does #POSIWID

The Purpose Isn’t What It Does

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How do you explain recursion? This one is pretty fun. I had Claude Opus 5.5 make: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." All code, no images. Nine genre shifts, one prompt...

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

Tim Cook just logging into the maps admin interface and renaming the frontier lab companies directly on the map

I want this on a t-shirt.

Yal@yaru.itch.io · 3w ago

I've always found the whole concept of data lakes stupid, especially since it's used as the opposite of data warehouses ah yes let's put the data in an intentionally unorganized storage form, that will DEFINITELY be useful you want the latest data? go fish, here's a webhook

The line about "not a third bloc only to become a third party rival just with better manners", following up with "resilience so no-one, *no-one* can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten out territorial integrity or undermine our freedoms, our democracy, our rule of law" - OUCH.

Nu händer det! Vi tar facket ut till några av landets allra mest utsatta arbetare. Och du kan vara med! Du kan vara med fysiskt på den buss som åker mellan gårdarna. Och du kan vara med vara med och sponsra busshyra, boende, tryck av material, mat, skyddsutrustning med mera.

Everyone is unique, but not everyone has an outgoing style that is distinctive and appealing to the segment they want to be appealing to. So, “be yourself” definitely works for some people, but some people need other ways to execute marketing and positioning.

10 klimatbeslut från Tidöregeringen – en påminnelsetråd 🧵 1. Miljödepartementet lades ned Tidöregeringen nedmontering av Sveriges klimat- och miljöpolitik symboliseras kanske tydligast med att det första de gjorde var att stänga Miljödepartementet www.di.se/hallbart-nar...

Miljödepartementet skrotas – ”förödande konsekvenser”

Ulf Kristerssons nya regering lägger ner miljödepartementet. Istället ska frågorna inordnas under klimat- och näringslivsdepartementet.

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The billionaires have already been building bunkers for a while. Whether that is for their plan A or their plan B is anyone’s guess.

Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE question is how will the productivity gains be shared? If capital hordes all the gains while tons of people lose their jobs, there’s going to be an uprising. www.anthropic.com/institute/ec...

🚨 Announcing Pushin 🚨 Now officially: I'm announcing Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe. Think GitHub/GitLab but European, better, and faster. Built with #ElixirLang and #RustLang. peterullrich.com/announcing-p...

Announcing Pushin

I'm launching Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe.

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Interesting and educating article, but I would say that Spain falsifies the theory: motorcycles here enjoy all the same benefits mentioned, but only cyclists are hated.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3w ago

So, after seeing a discussion of why drivers hate cyclists so much I thought, what does social science say? and found this. "Altruistic punishment" also explains the rage against shoplifters I hear daily. If anyone has newer/more/better research, happy to have it! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

via @erlend.sh

Making software hurts now

and hurt people hurt people

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Besser kann man es nicht treffen

En återkommande tankefigur på Ms valaffischer är att ”ansträngning ska löna sig”. Tycker de verkligen det? Tycker de att människor ska få lön i förhållande till hur stor ansträngning de lägger ned i sitt arbete? Är inte det ett jätteradikalt omfördelningsprojekt?

To international historians in the 2050s, the major geopolitical story of our time will be entirely obvious: the oligarchic and institutional self-destruction of the United States and its displacement by China as the global number one.

Everybody in the know knows we need to do something about AI. Some even dare to say it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...

Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit (Gift Article)

In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

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BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Una Dolly Parton menos en el mundo quiere decir que los demás tenemos que ser extra amables y hacer cosas bonitas por los demás, como ella hacía, para llenar el hueco. Y que rebose.

Det här är toppen för alla datacenter som inte vill förarga lokalbor men stigade elpeiser. De producerar sin egen el med gas. Det här gäller ETT av Googles nya datacenter. "Det tillåts som mest släppa ut 33 miljoner ton koldioxid om året. Inget annat kraftverk i hela USA släpper ut så mycket."

Enorma gaskraftverk ska driva AI-revolutionen

Amazon, Elon Musks AI-företag XAI och Google satsar på gas för att driva AI-boomen.

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Vi ska absolut inte göra några uppoffringar för att rädda liv och undgå en klimat- och ekologisk kollaps. Men vi ska vara beredda att offra våra liv för en stat som föraktar fattiga, invandrare & arbetslösa, som ställer utsatta grupper mot varann samtidigt som den ekonomiska eliten blir allt rikare?

Vansinnet i C-O Bohlins blick@abrehet.bsky.social · last mo.

Jag är så jävla trött på det här rövgänget.

Well, pointing *is* a very rude thing to do.

Riku Voipio@suihkulokki.kos.to · last mo.

This might be hard to grasp for my American friends, but the big scandal in Finnish news today is Cop pointed a gun at someone https://yle.fi/a/74-20241394?utm_source=social-media-share&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon

Hade det där varit en teckning på en ledarsida hade man ju knappt höjt på ett ögonbryn. Och det finns ingen risk att någon tror att det är M:s eller SD:s eget material.

joel@joelesvensson.bsky.social · last mo.

Hur kan detta vara brottsligt www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/oE...

Exactly.

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

If you are one of the people replying with something like "he plagiarized and got caught and that's good": Do you suppose this is the only plagiarism scandal in academia? Why do you know about this one and not the others? This is rhetorical. You know exactly why

Detta! www.gd.se/kultur-noje/...

KRÖNIKA: Quislingtweeten bryter yttrandefrihetens kontrakt

Sverigedemokraterna gick i quislingdebatten förra veckan till ännu en hård attack på press- och yttrandefriheten. Men…

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This thread is such a good reminder that there's no point to writing a million caveats to things you say online. People who want to be upset about internet strangers' posts will find a way. It's Typical of the internet but at the same time it's fucking wild. And I'm sorry that happened to you.

A dark day for human rights.