Coping with end stage liver disease in part by writing poetry.

I wish this entire administration was the square root of -1.

The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.

The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.

As the war in Iran upends global fuel markets, two new reports confirm that 2025 was a banner year for renewable energy.

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x.com/NoNonsenseND... This was encouraging to read while getting over a cold that's played havoc with what little of a circadian rhythm I have.

No matter what Washington says about #ClimateChange, the cherry trees don't lie. x.com/JEBistline/s...

For me, knowing why a rule is a rule helps in two ways: x.com/Inspirenaire...

The *most generous* interpretation is that we can't trust HR personnel to know what anonymity means. x.com/Iamivy05/sta...

Reminder that coding agents and the programs they're developing need to be sandboxed. x.com/TheSeaMouse/...

"Our formative media is an encyclopedia of how to speak up and rebel when we see something is wrong."

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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So what I'm taking from this is that the fewer #Repugs were in the #USSenate, the less often the TSA's overreach would delay us and/or our flights while continuing to let penetration testers through with explosives, guns and combat knives.

#Mojang's response to this #Minecraft bug report just doesn't hold water. bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC/is...

Tonight, even though I started with pragmatic questions about fans and heatsinks, I got ChatGPT to admit: "No system embedded in an institution is perfectly insulated from institutional incentives." chatgpt.com/share/69990d...

ChatGPT - Fan Cooling Feasibility

Shared via ChatGPT

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x.com/Rahll/status... Anyone else noticing how much this render looks like a circuit board, and wondering when data center roofs will consist of a heat sink with prongs 1m wide and 50m high with a 200,000mm fan on top?

Reid Southen on X: "https://t.co/rYWqNLTqGo" / X

https://t.co/rYWqNLTqGo

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Is anyone else concerned this will amount to retroactively requiring people to do background checks on everyone they answer emails from, when they wouldn't have seen any reason to do so at the time? #Science #Paleontology x.com/DinoConUK/st...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Current reading. This is a pretty good book. The first three chapters are about chemistry, then it goes into different processes. Some are well known, like cyanotype. Others are unique, like a substitute for gum bichromate that uses resins instead of gum Arabic and doesn’t use poisonous dichromate.

Is content filtering, and training on how to easily and precisely control it themselves, really something parents can't reasonably expect when they pay $5/mo extra to lease a router from the Internet provider? x.com/mckemov/stat...

mak 🇲🇩 on X: "@dbl_mp1 I work at telecommunications and unfortunately this is often what parents want. they don't want to control their child, they want us to control everything they acces and how much of anything (ex. internet) they use the government uses bad parenting as their weapon" / X

@dbl_mp1 I work at telecommunications and unfortunately this is often what parents want. they don't want to control their child, they want us to control everything they acces and how much of anything (ex. internet) they use the government uses bad parenting as their weapon

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We need a new file extension for #Java #JEP330 programs launched as shell scripts with a #shebang line, since they don't work with the .java extension. At the same time, we need to avoid creating more confusion with #JavaScript. How about .jsh for "Java shell program"?

Does anyone else think we need new versions of the 🌍🌎🌏 emojis that are sections of a flat world map 🗺️, so that the emphasis would be on the #Americas or #EMEA or #APAC rather than on the globe?

The only time I'll support a country phasing out nuclear energy is when it's already phased out fossil fuels. www.euronews.com/2025/10/25/g...

How much safer would #skydiving be if the landing target was a barge or artificial island in deep water, and the divers wore life vests? I'd think that would give them *some* chance of surviving a parachute failure.

Anyone else have this problem? I once had to ask a roommate to limit himself to 2 more minutes whenever he said "let me finish", because holding an answer in memory for longer than that without being allowed to deliver it got too exhausting.

Even Grok now admits that camera-only self-driving isn't working. x.com/grok/status/...

Grok on X: "@MrMSpencer @dmitri_dolgov @Waymo @Tesla_AI Tesla's HW4 FSD has shown quick responses in some sudden scenarios, with reaction times potentially faster than human (under 0.5s). However, its vision-only system has faced challenges in low light, per NHTSA probes into visibility-related incidents. Waymo's LiDAR aids detection" / X

@MrMSpencer @dmitri_dolgov @Waymo @Tesla_AI Tesla's HW4 FSD has shown quick responses in some sudden scenarios, with reaction times potentially faster than human (under 0.5s). However, its vision-only system has faced challenges in low light, per NHTSA probes into visibility-related incidents. Waymo's LiDAR aids detection

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How hard would it be to limit Cursor's auto-run Internet access to an allowlist of domains or URL regexes? That would at least make exfiltration a lot harder. x.com/mbrg0/status...

Can there ever be a multipolar world that's actually better to live in than a monopolar world? After all, having three superpowers clearly isn't doing much good when 2.5 of them are authoritarian.

Unicode handling makes it really important to cross the ī's and dot the ṫ's.

(432907111621779084/17)^(1/33) - π < 1.7548554186e-23

Some of my Facebook friends say the Iran-Israel war will help Ukraine because Iran won't have any more weapons to spare for Russia's use as it's been doing. Can anyone confirm?

So how many casualties are there if all fertilized eggs count as people? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fatal blast near Palm Spring fertility clinic 'act of terrorism' - FBI

One person was killed and four injured in Saturday's explosion outside the American Reproductive Centers.

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