Drew

@horseshepherd.bsky.social

Apparently, crime leads to a life of politics. Classical Piano. Rock & Roll. Puns. Epistemology & Sci Methods(PhD) MSc CompSci Saved by Horses & dogs. Sun'ka wakan Macaulay Library Try some etudes. They can help.

"Left behind"? Hey wait just one minute here. Elon promised me a ride to Mars... so, I won't be left behind! I just wait for the robot to tell me that it is time to go and apparently it is very very soon! Elon knows everything. And it will happen... VERY VERY SOON !!!!!

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · 4w ago

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

i am sooooo happy about this. Linux has an extremely healthy ecosystem of distros. I tried for many years to ditch microsoft and apple as much as possible. it seems now is the time for it to really happen. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS SUPERIOR IN EVERY SINGLE WAY www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-marke...

Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

The start of something big, or is something else affecting the numbers?

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🔥 WATCH: “Smug, entitled, elitist, know-it-all arrogance. Repulsive.” Hasan Piker responds to bill maher’s *threat* to leave the Democratic Party if exciting young DSA (like Zohran) keep winning — saying “smug” Maher is “the poster boy for the party’s failures”

"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

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Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.

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To Altman: "We look to bound variables in connection with ontology not in order to know what there is, but in order to know what a given remark or doctrine, ours or someone else's, says there is; this much is quite properly a problem involving language. But what there is, is another question." Quine

The pseudo-intellectualization of planned warfare has been a "thing" for a long time (1970's). The Fourth Generation Warfare business did quite well and persists with the Flynn brothers, one of whom is now with Palantir. IF you're new to the topic, this is a wonderful article. Close to my thesis.

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 5mo ago

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

If you are thinking of air travel, please awaken to the second and third level correlates of "shoot-from-the-hip" military aggression. There have already been incidents of bomb threats and at least one boarding of a plane with weapons drawn.

We had a broadband outage (for the whole area) for several hours today. Grateful that at present none of our critical things like hot water, heating, washing machine etc don't need WiFi to function.

Yesterday, the lambs were screaming... Hannibal Lecter suggests civility is an illusion; that savagery is the default state of humanity, highlighting the darker aspects of human nature. This reflects his belief: when people are driven by power and rage, they can become more savage than any beast.