If only there was some kindly billionaire who genuinely cared about the safety of women and girls who could affect change in the UK's laws around libel & gagging orders to prevent abuse of the legal system by powerful men.
Excuse me, I am being handed a note...
So, #Bluesky kinda looks like the end of Return of the Jedi right now, but do keep in mind: "Yub Jub" Means "Devour The Weak" - https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yub-jub-means-devour-the-weak-an-authoritative-study-of-ewoks-from-the-field-notes-of-davo-atten-boru-and-pladdo-cardigun-exo-naturalists
And people say I'm hard to shop for. https://teeporia.com/the-enterprise-used-resistance?s=hanes-5250&c=Black&p=FRONT
A reminder that the UK's Royal British Legion has explicitly shifted the focus of the Poppy Appeal from solely Remembrance to also include "Support for today's Armed Forces”.
To me that is crossing a line. Blanket support for soldiers who may have committed war crimes & then benefited from official cover-ups is not something I will be part of. #UKPol
A biplane is a plane that is attracted to other planes but also submarines.
There is no correct way to "write women", because there is no uniform group called "women".
Our bodies are different. Our experiences are different. Our general feelings about ourselves are different.
The thing that male authors often fail at is not that they fail to get inside the "mind of a woman". It's that they fail to remember that women also have interiority & thoughts & feelings specific to themselves. It's not "misunderstanding women's minds". It's forgetting that women's minds exist.
Good news - #BCN council vetos stopover cruises coming to #Barcelona and announces tourist tax for cruise ships to rise to the highest in Europe by 2030. #Catalonia #Catalunya
“I am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration. When you read Current Affairs, you are going to be reading the thoughts of a human, and seeing the results of human artistry.”
“Why We’re Banning AI”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/117496377274602134
I adored Rachael Whiteread's Embankment when I saw it in 2005.
Not sure I can fit a trip to see this in, but I really, really want to.
Once I made a typo in a search trying to find out why orthodox priests have beards. I found something way better instead.
The #AI labs doomerism is utterly cynical performative bullshit: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/malwaretech_dont-regulate-me-bro-ugcPost-7517712019110944768-eXSd/ #LLM
Obligatory french version pour les camarades.
TornadoVM version 7 brings #GPU workloads directly from #Java - https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/tornadovm-7-gpu/ #llm
One of the patterns I’ve seen with people using Claude for programming is:
A programmer in the past looked at a tradeoff space and decided to make a common operation fast and an uncommon operation slow.
Claude lacks proper context of the use of the software but spots a pattern that looks like things it’s training set has flagged as slow and so points to the slow path as a bottleneck.
The user asks for a test case and Claude provides a simple microbenchmark that triggers the slow path.
Now that it’s confirmed as slow, the user asks a ‘agentic’ harness to explore the design space and optimise for the benchmark. The swarm of Claude instances makes plausible changes to the code and reports back with a modified version that passes the test suite and improves the microbenchmark.
The test suite doesn’t exhaustively cover all possible race conditions and so the new version may include subtle concurrency bugs. It also probably makes the common case slower and so is a regression overall.
I don’t know if other LLMs encourage this flow, but I’ve seen it several times from people using Claude.
I suspect Linus’ recent embarrassing interaction with his kernel’s virtual memory code may have been an example of this pattern. It’s very easy to do with an LLM because each step appears to be a demonstrable improvement. It comes with an objective benchmark, it passes all of the tests. Unfortunately, software often depends on a load of extrinsic knowledge that the LLM is trying to infer from a load of likely misleading data points.
Men are so confident they understand artificial intelligence that a study finds more than half of them claim to recognize every name on a list of AI experts, in which all the names were made up.
https://gizmodo.com/men-are-shaping-the-future-of-ai-that-doesnt-mean-they-know-what-theyre-talking-about-2000825911
RE: https://mastodon.social/@readystack/117471870104789443
If you are using the Oracle JDK binaries for #Java21 please note the license changed in the way Oracle announced it would. Luckily there is a market of supported #OpenJDK releases: https://adoptium.net/marketplace?version=21
There aren't many bits of music that make the hair stand up on the back of my head (Fanfare for the Common Man is one if them). This was an unexpected entry to the list… "Cornwall my home" by Fisherman's Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCcSJiZR1I
🇨🇦 If you live in Alberta I urge you to get out and vote down the seperation question on the ballot. Don't buy the protest vote bullshit that the seperation side is pushing. This is a real and serious exercise in expressing your will to stay in Canada. Vote early and familiarize yourself with all 10 questions.
Dear Lazyweb,
Due to dumbasses squatting me, I'm gonna need you to go click "thumbs-up" or "stars" or whatever on this repo so that it bubbles up to the top of the list in search results: https://github.com/xscreensaver-official/xscreensaver
Thank you in advance for this utter fucking waste of everyone's time.
https://jwz.org/b/ylB0