Overheard from someone who's in management at a large company that you definitely know:
Job application systems are so overloaded with AI slop resumes, and AI is so bad at sorting the AI-generated resumes from the quality ones that we are back in the "you get a job based on who you know" era
Hmmm, one of the territorial flags of Utah has a familiar design element... 🤔
I guess it's naptime
Searching for glasses in the dim dawn light
The love in his eyes. 🥹 Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Spicy Deidre is the BEST Deidre. #utpol
Don't get left behind: the next frontier in computing is FLAVOR!
Large Language Models are the past - get in loser, we're making Large Lingual Morsels happen!
Everyone knows that the only thing that matters about Modern Food Content is flavor, with enough flavors and a few hundred billion dollars, everything else, like nutrition, texture, scent, and the ability to form complex epistemologies and perform moral reasoning just falls out.
We've ensured that our models can recreate the entirety of all global cuisine via extensive training on the full range of unique sensations available to your taste buds: Sweet, and that other one.
We know that the biggest problem you have is that you only have one tongue and it's stuck in your mouth, your tiny little mouth. Why is your mouth so tiny, weirdo? That's why we've created Lingual Agents, autonomous tongues that roam Flavortown even while you're asleep, licking everything they can on your behalf.
In the future no surface will go un-licked, and if you don't start licking now, the spittle on those boots might be someone else's. Just imagine what you're going to think you might have missed out on someday!
Oh sure when our models replace all flavor, you may miss your mom's cooking, but that's okay, you'll get over it, we don't really like your mom anyway, good riddance honestly, what are you some kind of mom-lover who values the social context of eating over Extruded Flavorful Food Content? Loser.
The only thing we really have to worry about is that our models may become more delicious than all of us, creating Souper Ingestion, which is why it's a moral imperative that farms be razed to build more Flavor Factories and nuclear weapons be deployed against our competitors, if you think about it rationally this is really the only way things can turn out and we owe it to all the future humans to take the actions that lead to maximum expected flavor.
The future's gonna be delicious!
Anthropic CEO Warns There's an LLM Under Your Bed While Holding Flashlight Beneath His Chin
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/anthropic-ai-replicators-warning
Anthropic, of course, is not just riding down the vibe bobsled, they have rocket packs attached to the bobsled, careening at record speed https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
Nothing helps you learn keyboard shortcuts quite like having your mouse crap out on you
Submit nominations for the 2027 award period of the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize until November 23, 2026
2027 Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP): nominations open!
Have recent networking research that could inform Internet standards and technologies—or know someone whose work deserves more exposure?
The ANRP recognises outstanding applied networking results, promising research ideas, and emerging researchers. Recipients have the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the IETF and IRTF communities.
We particularly welcome researchers and ideas that might otherwise have limited exposure to the Internet standards community. Self-nominations and nominations of others are both encouraged.
📅 Deadline: November 23, 2026
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Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague, and share this call with your research groups!
Ilhan Omar spent four years in a refugee camp and ended up becoming a Congresswoman. She represents the best of America, while Donald Trump represents the worst.
Why are people still bitching about "both sides" as if we didn't have an election two years ago that proved how wrong that trope is? I understand being driven nuts by what is happening in the U.S. right now, and remembering that no past government had clean hands, but please. We know by vivid recent experience that one side is MUCH worse, and that the worse side can only get away with a lot of its shit because it also holds the legislature. We also should, if we're paying attention, know that there's more than one side, and that a few real progressives are running for Congress and other important offices. Despair is the enemy of progress. Buck up, read about all your local candidates and propositions, and save the fears for 2 a.m. like everyone else. #USPol
Rep Ilhan’s success is a threat to the mediocrity of racists.
La Mariconear cumple año!!
Este fin de semana CUMPLIMOS NUESTRO PRIMER AÑO 🧚♀️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Se registraron docenas de personas y hoy tenemos 18 usuaries actives!
Hicimos 2 talleres practicos de mastodon presenciales, y en menos de una semana haremos el primer taller virtual, donde ya se anotaron más de 20 personas
Fuimos parte del #FLISOL y vamos a estar en la #punkwarecba así como se difundió el taller y la instancia en el #39encuentropluri
Gracias a toda gente maricona que participa, a todas las instancias amigas que nos acompañan y al equipo tecnico/moderación @javi y @ant
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117426942991153158
I think the sensible course is to meet halfway and call it superficial intelligence.