Hackers wear cat ears to indicate how easy it is to get them to do what you want them to do.
As any hackspace will confirm, dealing with a group of them really is like herding cats.
Cats with opposable thumbs who can fuck around with mains voltage and email servers.
@sturobson Showed that to my husband and he sent me this. Tiger prawns!
what do you mean you're "never eating toad in the hole ever again"
People say Trump is an incapable president.
Yet days before the midterms, he has managed to send oil to its highest price in four years.
You cannot fake that kind of talent.
Words cannot express how much I love this chonky little gnome.
:angery:
The cat sat on the mat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #caturday #autumn #cosy
Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy this beautiful scene that I passed while riding my bike yesterday in a local park. #autumn #nature #cycling
#landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #GetOutside #weekend
Most firms that use generative AI in production report their GPUs sitting idle at least half the time:
A survey of firms finds that AI adoption has raised annual labor productivity growth by 0.2% over the last three years, despite spending more than $300 billion on AI this year alone:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34836/w34836.pdf
Firms report a significant increase in the production of code, with no resulting improvements to productivity or employment, because the code is slop that requires commensurately more review and revisions.
Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs after reporting £2.3B in quarterly profit. American Express is cutting 3,500 despite strong earnings. Both cite AI.
AI lets companies do more with fewer people.
The big question is whether AI will also create enough new companies and jobs to offset the layoffs as businesses need fewer people?
The CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned russian company, not the UAE
While the majority are struggling with the cost of living, politicians are perpetuating a system that rewards the super-rich and punishes the rest.
All humans have the right to decent housing, good education and a good life.
It's only a real complaint if it comes from the region of Complaigne.
Otherwise it's just sparkling whine.
“Multiple Reports Say Nvidia Manufactured the Gaming GPU Crisis by Forcing Big Tech to Stockpile Unused AI Hardware”
> the problem comes from Nvidia reallocating manufacturing capacity to force-feed enterprise clients AI hardware that they don’t have the capacity to use
Because of course.
Report: Palantir Targets UK MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
"British MPs who criticised Palantir in parliament received 'intimidating' letters from the US spytech firm".
Eg, Palantir warned Clive Lewis that it "was surveilling his activities relating to Palantir last month", a letter that Lewis described as “very Big Brother” & an “implicit threat”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palantir #PalantirIntimidation #news #democracy .
Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/wolves-roam-into-finnish-villages-after-google-destroys-1-300-acres-of-forest-for-ai-data-centers-forest-where-wolf-packs-used-to-live-are-now-an-expanse-of-mud
When you need to multiply 7*8 do you simply have it memorized, or do you need to add, subtract or otherwise connect it to another math fact that you know better?
That is do you simply think "56" or are there more thoughts that lead to 56?