“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3d agoHoly shit.
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Alex Winter@alexwinter.com · last mo.RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · last mo.A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
The world of Toejam & Earl is pretty weird, bit I think I’ll be okay. bsky.app/profile/mrsc...
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
Folks are understandably taking @mattyglesias.bsky.social to task for the 'HR training' focus, but I am struck by the inability here to recognize an educational failure. It is *your* (/our) job to explain to those voters that the collapse of democracy *will* have a greater impact on their lives.
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
i personally don't think child molestetion should be required to play volleyball
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme
Spoiler: AI is not conscious. Clearly explained, once again, by @emilymbender.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hierarchy of software assurance techniques (1 being best): 1. Compiler stops it. 2. Compiler warns about it. 3. Linter warns about it <-- Go is often here. 4. Style guide tells you to avoid it.
@katef.bsky.social, you’ve got some competition in the alt text championship!
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo agoI've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
0/19 In which I post a long multi-part ramble which scratches the surface of my life experiences (as a white person) with racism in Alabama in the 1960s.
@adventofcomp.bsky.social, is there an audio-only feed for Adjunct? Seems a waste to download an hour of video I can’t watch because I’m driving
I should have posted an explanation of this machine then - Notwithstanding the "decset8000" label, this is a PDP-8. The originals were built with discrete components. By the time this one was built they were made with 7400-series logic. 1/12 bsky.app/profile/kenr...
ken@kenr707.bsky.social · 8mo agoWent to VCF SoCal today and there was a PDP-8 in a new-to-me color scheme. Learned to program on one of these in 1973. @adventofcomp.bsky.social gave a hilarious talk about INTERCAL, the Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym
let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 4mo agoOscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” — has died.
This is going to be remembered fondly in the same way Jerry Ford’s pardon of Dick Nixon is
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 5mo agoGov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...
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Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct
this post is stealing valor from mushroom addled college freshmen
![4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih2hocndvj6rupk5itttpmxce7tdl465uzaf5iibkzipzyvoy4tuq)
