I found that after ignoring 99% of online discourse about technology my sanity has improved. It's sad because I grew up on an internet where you learned something useful on the regular(except for elitist assholes), now it's pure shilling, false claims, and dogma around millionaire charlatans.
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Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening
PSA (especially to journalists): It’s not a “rogue AI” when a badly made security harness executes scripts fed to it by statistical text generation—it’s just humans making and/or using broken software.
get ready for a lot more news stories shaped like this
I was running eval suites, officer. the scores were extremely good, but, uh,
Nobody in this river float trip knows that the Jacobian Conjecture is false
Wait, you… use libraries? Code that other people wrote for you? You just… download it? Do you even read the code? Do you not care about the craft, the knowledge that comes from putting in the work yourself? Aren’t you afraid your skills will atrophy?
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Currently voting on conference talks based entirely on which talk is less about AI.
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
New Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-...
OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)
Anyone who attempts to market to me directly based on projects I've starred on GitHub can eat my entire ass.
crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
💥 Elixir PSA: update Plug *immediately* to the latest possible (1.20.1) The latest CVE makes it trivially easy to DOS a plug based server. cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-202... This one is a doozy stay safe out there and keep your deps updated! #elixir-lang
Plug: quadratic-time decoding of nested query/body parameters enables denial of service
This project handles the CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF).
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