If there's one takeaway from everything I learned from my research and interviews in the last year: It's extremely likely that a large-scale cybersecurity attack will be successfully carried out on US infrastructure in the next year. And it will have been completely preventable.
Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.
& yes the right to play is a human right in the Intl Convention on the Rights of the Child. Signatories "recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts."
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Utena Characters Dancing in Space
ALT: Utena Characters Dancing in Space
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Wake up babe, the CEOs are finding out about Goodhart’s Law again
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoAmazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores ft.trib.al/z4t6Orl
Are you an OpenBSD user and afraid you won't be able to use it while blind? Come to the "OpenBSD and Temporary Blindness" talk given by Sean Howard: www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetab... Only at BSDCan 2026! www.bsdcan.org/2026/registr... #BSDCan #BSD #OpenBSD
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I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo agoThe child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”
Yes. The pseudoscience never stays in a box, medieval peasant brain is never contained. You can’t let this shit in the tent. We did the ‘well they’re not like *right*, but the people they’re angry at *are* bad, so what’s *really* the harm…” with woo-woo shit and it contributed to HHS Sec. RFK Jr.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3mo agoone reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...
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It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
For those that are Canadian There's a Survey on Headlight Glare. Make sure to have your input in the situation, and maybe things will change for the situation: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate... Had to use chrome, to go through this survey properly.
Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night
Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.
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The BSDCan 2026 Schedule has been posted. 30 regular talks, one set of lightning talks, and one Audio BoF. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD will be holding two day Dev Summits across the hall from each other in DMS. Schedule: www.bsdcan.org/2026/schedul... Registration: www.bsdcan.org/2026/registr...
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In the world of BSD conferendes, BSDCan 2026 bsdcan.org is next, on June 17-20 in Ottawa, Canada. Read more in "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #networking #sysadmin
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Well I don't know, but it would certainly be a good idea to stop assuming tech CEOs are tech geniuses. There's no reason why they should be, and they often make silly claims about the tech their companies are building. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts
The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
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a truly stupendous amount of this is Israel’s fault *but* there is going to be growing horseshoe pressure to claim that it is *all* Israel’s fault and I don’t think that’s true
I’m not a laws of war expert but it’s my impression that just the threat to commit genocide is a war crime. Threatening to destroy a civilization is a war crime, whether or not you carry through. Not that the sort of people who support Trump care.
It would be cool to recover some of the shared optimism, sense of pride in collective achievement, cultural support for smarts and skill, and other positive elements of the space program, instead of associating space with Nazi weirdos who want to trade horses for sex.
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 4mo agoFour people are now farther from Earth than anyone has ever been, with no ability to talk to anyone back home, for around 40 minutes.
It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
The under-discussed tangent to this: Trump's posts make him sound weak and totally out of leverage If I were hypothetically an Iranian mullah, I'd read that Truth Social post and think "we're winning by more than I even thought" bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴@kevincarson1.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs has been said a million times, Trump has no theory of mind and will never understand the enemy gets a vote, so he'll be absolutely gobsmacked when Iran starts hitting power plants and dumping hundreds of mines in the Strait that won't be completely cleared for years.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
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I am extremely excited by all the atproto apps, but I am a bit uncomfortable with how many store data in the repo but don't surface in the UX the fact that you can see other users' data. You and I know that all data is public (for now!), but the average user needs the UX hint or very explicit text.
A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man
"ai assisted coding is making software worse" it's not because ai is bad. it's just proof of how few devs actually bother or know how to review PRs. don't let ai write all your code for you without reviewing it. also have a design & standards doc. fucking duh.
