Literally anything in, garbage out.

https://imgur.com/gallery/ive-met-cats-dogs-smarter-than-gemini-claude-Qrux62h

Fully supportive of this.

Pro sports needs two things, IMO. Relegation and public ownership.

Loving your local sports team should be a voluntary tax. Seats should be affordable for the citizens.

https://mastodon.green/@odaraia/116755732417117576

The rumor that Artefactual staff miss paychecks on the reg because their entire HR toolchain is vibecoded homebrew warms my heart like a campfire.

I recently discovered an online game hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Each day there's a set of 10 objects with anywhere from 1 to 10 photos and you're asked to identify the place from which they come & their approximate age on a timeline, with up to 5,000 points each for location & date. If you guess the opposite side of the world you might get 2 points out of 5k (as I did today) but despite my ignorance I usually total 60k-70k. You might enjoy it! https://anthropeum.com/.

bouba's retrieval company

Here's the original https://johnfinnemore.substack.com/p/ill-take-up-the-tuba-instead

Bruce Banner canonically has 7 PhDs and honestly the fact that he periodically turns into a giant green ragemonster after spending that much time in academia without tenure is the most believable thing in the entire Marvel canon.

The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blacked-com-can-sue-meta-for-scraping-its-porn/

The idea from @bagder is so interesting that it gave me the idea to extend the "GCVE-BCP-02 - Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure" with "Temporary Closure of Vulnerability Intake Windows"

#gcve #cve #vulnerabilitymanagement #vulnerability #opensource #cybersecurity

🔗 Proposal https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/temporary-closure-of-vulnerability-intake-windows-potential-annex-extension-for-gcve-bcp-02/1104
🔗 Original BCP-02 https://gcve.eu/bcp/gcve-bcp-02/

"Free as in beer" and "free as in speech" can only coexist in the total absence of liability, and software without defined liability can't last.

It's been genuinely alarming watching the FSF/OSI crowd thrashing on what are IMO pretty shallow questions about LLMs and licensing when the entire episteme underneath it is built on this faultline.

https://social.kernel.org/objects/bc6c59fe-a58c-47f7-9f1a-604d21b7f003

Dev 1: If this service fails the Ops team gets scrambled and you get an email inviting you to the postmortem when you get in on Monday.

Dev 2: If this service falls over at oh my god o'clock on a Sunday morning you have five minutes to acknowledge the page and ten to join the incident room or you're fired.

These two people write very, very different software, and they write it very differently.

Re-upping this for the Nth time:

99% of the harm inflicted on children as a result of social media comes from their parents[' generation] using it, not children using it.

Progressive pricing for utilities ASAP.

https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116753759080500051

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116752805722997877

In its infancy, the idea of "DevOps" was that if you wrote the software, you carried the pager for that software. It wasn't "Operations was handled in a developer-style environment", it was "the developers share the operations burden" and aligned incentives are magic.

Today DevOps just means "managing service contracts in a terminal window", and it is not magic.

A blanket ban on social media for under-16s is the wrong choice. It's not working in Australia, and it won't work in the UK.

Social media harms don't magically stop affecting people as they get older. Bans are also rarely difficult to circumvent. So by failing to ask the social media companies to bear any cost - cleaning up their act, making them legally responsible for content they actively recommend and promote through their content algorithms - Starmer has failed to tackle the problem.

But also, for child protection, this is a double-edged sword. Yes, social media exposes some children to things they should never see, but it also exposes children who've been brought up in terrible situations to the possibility that what they're facing is wrong and an alternative world exists. Britain has for decades been obsessed with the danger of strangers, but statistically it has always been the case that more children are under threat from members of their immediate family and community.

That feeling when saying no to your kid is so hard you’d rather do 1984.

Loyal dissenters, as studied by Dominic Packer, are people who strongly identify with their group but *are also capable of dissenting with their group's norms.* They are key agents of reshaping and moving groups toward better. They are, as he calls them in a delightful paper title, "rebels with a cause."

Disrupting the empathy dampening is absolutely possible, and the more you cultivate habits of empathy, the more you become willing to point out hypocritical groups, the more you play this role

The Ford government in Ontario closed the Ontario Science Centre on the flimsiest of pretexts two years ago - this book is a history of what they stole from us by doing so: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/fea-excerpt-pleasetouch/article_7dfc531f-8102-40cc-a19b-1888be837cb4.html Meanwhile, the guy who pushed through permits for a mine in Ontario while working for Ford? Yeah, now he works for the company that he got the permits for: https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/as-a-ford-government-staffer-he-helped-get-through-permits-for-a-controversial-gold-mine-now-he-works-for-the-company-as-a-lobbyist/article_96bdda6d-8be3-4b75-bfe3-a86d6371452f.html

Sort of loving the fact that these threads interweave so well.