Mike Agg @countingquoll@social.cleverlibre.org

“The largest percentage of Twitter Blue subscribers are people whose identity as howlingly obvious marks seems to have supplanted virtually everything else about them. They are drawn to Elon for the same reason that moths crisp themselves on lightbulbs.”

Where Twitter is at. Very good. https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house

Meeting fellow dog-walkers is a sureally friendly affair when you think about it

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

"I see you also have a distorted wolf on a string"

"I do indeed"

"Carrying a bag of their sh*t around, eh?"

"You know it!"

This is an outstanding reply to, and analysis of that Pamela Paul column in the New York Times that began this way:

"A paper that says science should be impartial was rejected by major journals. You can’t make this up."

Dave Karpf, an academic, takes it apart. He also testifies as a particiant in the peer review system. Worth your time.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/pamela-paul-cancel-culture-grifters?utm_medium=ios

#nytimes #journalism #peerreview #science

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general ♫

While out mountain biking, my back mudguard came off!

I carried on rear guardless.

A scientist grows up

Moin 😀👋

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/714028676481777664/

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

Fairphone does what tech giants refuse to do | Android Central

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-does-what-tech-giants-refuse-to-do

John Mastodon’s rocket wouldn’t have exploded. Just sayin’.

Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.

10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.

Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.

The only two viewpoints on generative AI that get any play among tech punditry are:

1. AI is a lever that helps people do better
2. AI is effective automation that will replace people, or be a threat to them.

The third viewpoint, that AI tools are kind of shit and, if used in their current form at scale by corporations and governments, will “enshittify” large portions of our society, doesn’t seem to register with them at all.

*to the tune of Shout by Tears For Fears*

Cat
cat
Little potat
He wants to know where the treats are at
Come one
He's meowing at you
Come on

When my girlfriend is upset, I let her color in my black-and-white tattoos, because sometimes she just needs a shoulder to crayon

bro I’ve figured it out!

" #ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil... It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence and ultimately offers a 'just following orders' defense, shifting responsibility to its creators."

There are things I should have done today.
There are things I _did_ do today.
There are also things I did not.
#NormalForMe

Having read the information leaflet, the largest demographic who will be screwed by the new voter ID rules are... recently-married women who changed their surnames and I would love nothing more than for the tories to accidentally murder the traditions of marriage.