We can’t forget our spirit of protest. The thing to do right now is double down on fixing the problems the capitalist machine won’t solve. Build for the least privileged among us. Build for old hardware, slow internet connections, disability, privacy, consent. Always remember that we can do things they can’t because we do this with genuine care for other people.
In his first 150 days, Mayor Mamdani has:
- closed a $12B deficit
- collected $9M in unpaid fines from Bezos
- recovered $5M in stolen wages for gig workers
- raised minimum wage to $30/hr
- drove violent crime to record lows
- marched for trans rights
I don't ever want to hear an excuse from a single Democrat ever again. Turns out the "radical leftist agenda" is just competent representation.
Especially now. More than ever. This is the way.
Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.
Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.
The model doesn't climb toward AGI — it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it 👇
https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/
What a time to be alive:
"For gaming, Microsoft views steamOS as the benchmark, and is working to optimize the platform so that steamOS and Windows gaming performance are comparable."
So they're trying to make Windows beat Linux at running... Windows games.
like the fact that LLMs "really can" do some parts of programming reads to me not as a demonstration of their economic utility but as a brutal indictment of our tools *for* programming. it feels productive to have these things emit mountains of boilerplate because *we constantly need mountains of boilerplate* and gosh I wish we could address that problem
It’s a little known fact that Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne had a smaller brother called AAA Milne
"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."
Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
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@scottjenson I do not want mastodon to become more amicable to right wing ideas. The more hostile this place is to Nazis and AI and the manosphere etc the safer it is for people like me. See the parable of the Nazi bar etc. This is an inherent concept to queer spaces. You cannot make a space safe that welcomes both sheep and wolves. Keeping the wolves out is a feature not a flaw
Happy international transgender day of visibility!
Lol
Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.
This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.
Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf
Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.
Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.
Also, given recent events: I know that Matrix is far from perfect but please fedi for a brief moment can we stop constantly hating it publicly???
While every (open) option for a platform to move to is a mess, Matrix is probably the least terrible option for people who have been using Discord.
During WWII, the French called American soldiers “les sommobiches” because, well, that’s what they said all the time.
In the Hundred Years’ War, the French called English invaders “goddamns” for the same reason.
When Vikings seized Normandy and settled in 918, vociferously adopting Catholicism and shouting “bi God!” to prove their piety, the French called them *bigots*.
“Bigot” means and has always meant “an asshole whose shallow piety is only a rhetorical device for cynical validation.”
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