living in the Bay Area is so fucking weird sometimes dude

Say, old-timer, what was the 1976 bicentennial like?
This. It was exactly like this. https://archive.org/details/200bicentennial

simple and creative

#creative #humor #beaches

How it's done. 🤟🏼 #Tidal.

Bullet point #3 is huge. So much slop is generated just to get $ from sheer volume. Take that away and the incentive to flood the platform goes away.
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Here are the highlights of our new AI Policy:

• Tidal will identify and tag AI-generated music in our app. Listeners will see an "AI" badge next to music we detect as wholly AI-generated.

• Tidal will not tolerate AI-generated music that impersonates an artist or group, or that facilitates fraudulent activity. We're implementing automatic tools to remove these releases immediately and on an ongoing basis.

• Tidal will not allow music that is 100% AI-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will AI-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.

• We will expand these policies to music that is substantially AI-generated when AI detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.

https://tidal.com/ai-policy?lid

My most evergreen post.

Artwork I did for a microcomputer game called Jupiter Mission 1999. It to was short lived.

All pen and ink, Blender had not been invented yet.

Sweet dreams are made of geese
Who am I to diss a beak
The shareholders counted the golden eggs
Everybody's looking for value

Some of them want to goose you
Some of them want to be goosed by you
Some of them want to accrue you
Some of them want to be a goose

Number goes up
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up...

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager.

(My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.)

He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly report for his boss.

So one day the department head held a meeting with all the team managers who reported into him (including my boss).

Data-driven decision-making was the future, he announced.

He tasked all of them with producing a monthly highlights report for their teams. He would select the top highlights from those reports for his report to the C-level executive.

Naturally, my boss, and everyone at that same team manager level, wanted to show the department head that they were a great manager.

So all the team managers tasked all their reports (at my level) with producing a monthly report of their own. All the key highlights and stats from everyone's month had to be documented.

Reporting became a critical task. For at least a couple of days each month, all nonessential tasks had to be paused for reporting.

So imagine: A few dozen staff at my level each producing a personal report over a couple of days each month.

Those personal reports were compiled into team reports by the team managers over a couple days each month.

This was followed by countless meetings with the department head, where each team manager pled their case for their team's achievements being included in the report to the C-level executive.

Eventually, the best highlights from those team reports were culled into the department head's monthly report to the C-level executive.

Anyway, one day the C-level executive called everyone into a Teams meeting. He announced he was leaving the organisation.

At the very end, there was a Q&A.

Someone asked him about the reports.

He said he never read any of them.

#corporations #corporate #business #management #leadership #capitalism

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116817499565264483

It's worth reiterating, always worth reiterating:

In this situation, the LLM does not in any sense •understand• why it did what it did, and its response is not in any way an explanation or a window into how it works. Its response is not even based on whatever underlying mechanism made it start responding in a different language. Really, it's not!

Its response is a generic response to being asked “Why did you switch to a different language?,” generated from answers people typically gave to similar questions in the training dataset. That's why it answers with a stereotype about Hindi.

It's roughly the same process as a kid making up an excuse when confronted about some impulsive thing they did. First comes the action, then comes the question, then they look at the question and try to generate a reasonable-sounding response.

@dev #Goose valued
Art by @anubiarts

@troublewithwords

#softbank #goosewasnotvalued

With all the recent notions of art being replaced by machines, I'm reminded of this wonderfully gentle comic by Lynda Barry.

#Art #Artwork #Artist #WomensArt

PHENOM

Be the elephant you wish to see in the room.

“The California Science Center (CSC) in Los Angeles gave a sneak peek today of its long-awaited, much anticipated attraction — the towering Space Shuttle Endeavour in its ‘full stack’ configuration. The spacecraft was the last of five orbiters ever built and the most advanced. After a long wait, the public will soon be able to view it in all its glory inside its purpose-built permanent display building.

Endeavour is the centerpiece of The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. It is a 200,000-square-foot expansion of the museum and will be ‘the only place in the world to see a complete, authentic space shuttle system, displayed in a 20-story launch position,’ CSC said in a media release on Wednesday.”

https://www.twz.com/news-features/space-shuttle-endeavour-looks-absolutely-incredible-in-all-its-full-stack-glory

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

Wikimedia Foundation's UK staff -- our second-largest workforce by country -- have officially requested recognition by WMF as a branch of UTAW-CWU (United Tech & Allied Workers)

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/#2026-06-24-UK-Wikimedia-Foundation-staff-seek-union-recognition

it's hard to imagine anything important ever being done at facebook, so this doesn't really have any consequences, but it IS funny that their universal key logger was also (predictably) a universal key exfiltrator

In this time of political instability and uncertainty, just a note that Larry has now outlasted six prime ministers.

#cats #catsofMastodon #UKpol