Standing ovation for Dolly Parton at the Bonnie Raitt show at the Minnesota State Fair. As it should be. 🦋
I can feel both the immense heartbreak of the world and still the awe inspiring inspiration at the same time today. My feeds are filled with all the wonderful messages Dolly left us. Just one post after another. Rest in peace Dolly.
I think it's important to occasionally state this, but LLMs are purely static and immutable sets of numbers and do not "learn" or change with use.
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · last wk.Tech execs do not have, like, a theory of mind for people who aren’t tech execs. If they did, they wouldn’t be so frequently baffled by how repulsive normal people think their whole deal is right now
I will never, EVER get over the fact that Aaron Swartz died because he allegedly trespassed while trying to access works that were mostly IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, but open plagiarism and theft is acceptable now because it's suddenly in capital's interest for it to be.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)
From evidence, here’s the appointment for the virtual meeting to discuss The White House singling out Colorado when it comes to federal funds.
"It's unethical to watermark the text *I wrote* with an LLM!" The whole point is you didn't write it, you used the automated capitalist plagiarism machine 🤷♂️
Because it's mentioned a lot: Brave is run by a homophobe religious fanatic with money from Peter Thiel. Don't use it.
It's 2026 and sfc /scannow still fixes 90% of the frequent issues I have with Windows. Ridiculous.
Is it a good idea to discontinue your only in-demand product? Asking for reasons
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.Sources: SpaceX started turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 rides beyond 2028, and stopped building some non-reusable Falcon components (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The "Taco Bell diarrhea lettuce" is actually from Taylor Farms, *the largest fresh produce processor in the world*, and you can get it at Burger King, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Olive Garden, Wendy's, and IHOP, as well as Walmart, Kroger, Aldi, and Whole Foods. Why are we making this about Taco Bell?
I cleaned my coffee grinder which involved disassembly and I think it may have never been assembled correctly because it could barely handle a drip brew and now makes the finest coffee powder I've ever seen 😳
The pocket on the back of the passenger seat is called a map pocket 😎
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2mo agowho else had the spiral bound thomas guides under their car seat because they did not fit in the glove compartment
I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.
Starlink is in the news again because they claim to be starting a mobile phone service, but they keep burying the fact they can only support a very low density. In fact, generously only 7 subscribers per square mile according to this analysis: thexlab.org/wp-content/u...
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The first time I saw James Carville on TV, I just thought he was a nasty Republican. Turns out I was right.
I'm glad Europeans have discovered ranch dressing. Maybe they'll stop eating mayonnaise on fries now.
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating.
Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” A ma...
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Dolby Atmos in Apple Music is horrible. I was listening to a song I've heard hundreds of times and suddenly it sounded like the singer had a lisp. I'm glad I could disable it.
This is clearly a plot to eliminate the independent developer. Why let them take revenue from you when you can buy their code, train a model and slop together a first-party competitor with preference?
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoGoogle is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.
Lovely essay equates Waiting for Godot with AGI. "The persistence of waiting, therefore, reflects a distribution of roles whose coherence depends on anticipation rather than on settled judgment" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Tech does not exist outside the context of other things happening in the world, and neither do we
Jared Polis needs to be removed from power and Colorado Dems need to start doing things to limit his power and impact
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) is commuting the sentence of Tina Peters, making her parole eligible next month.
Ah yes, who doesn't love an overexposed, out of focus photo with fake bokeh
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 4mo agothe sony account on x posted these pics to demonstrate how their new "AI camera assistant" works, and folks i'm 99% sure they mixed up the "before" and "after"?? right?? (via @mrgan.com)
