BashStKid
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”
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RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115893212283711380 We need ALL STEM education to include mandatory coursework (with exams!) on ethics.
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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I like to look at it like this; the chemists had ethics smacked in their face after WW1, the physicists after WW2, biologists came to their own realisations after Asilomar.
Computing and systems folks have never had that salutary punch in the face that they too might be held strongly accountable.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13. Are you actively building your working vocabulary? How? Not specifically these days, but I instinctively look up unfamiliar words I run across when reading. When I was about
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Postscript wrt. #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13: My current WIP contains some obscure words. Per scrivener, some dictionary words used once (in 116,000) include: efficacious blithe chandler phenethylamine d
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Jan 13, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Instar in there, then.
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RE: https://mstdn.science/@MarcAbrahams/115888187533129347 Does this mean that wombats talk shit?
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Jan 13, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Meanwhile, crabs are going ‘I can pee through my face! That’s far more interesting!’
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Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Jan 08, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Considering the usual terrible consequences of us paying attention to others’ struggles, maybe not being hyped up the news is a good thing.
May people stay safe while uninstalling the regime.
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Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "guilt-free slaves" already, your target audience already know exactly that you mean https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Jan 08, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop I think that was in Čapek’s mind to begin with …
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What happens when you add a terminal 'e' to "death star" (and disturb @Menhit@mstdn.strafpla.net in her sleep):
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Dec 25, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @Menhit@mstdn.strafpla.net She’s making a list, and checking it twice …
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Back at work on the Starter Pack redraft today, got 750 new words down, brain has turned to cold porridge, who knew that writing gud buk is hrd wurk?
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Dec 21, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Is Menhit helping or hindering?
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RESEARCH QUESTION (for work): I know what an instar is
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Dec 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Yes, but sure I’m a bad example.
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Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products. https:/
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Nov 29, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I think that can be upgraded from a hypothesis. One hand is definitely washing the other.
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Could be worse: he could have implanted the chip in his dick! https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115628349141387312
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Never had this sort of thing in Neuromancer.
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Bah. It's sunny outside and I wanna go out for a walk, but it's also blowing a strong gale (literally Beaufort Scale 8 winds) and I live on a street with lots of slate roof tiles of questionable vinta
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Crash helmet?
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New Dalek Invasion strategy just leaked: this time, use camouflage! https://cupoftea.social/@Erased_Citizen/115626778004821440
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Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Has anyone ever tried humanising Daleks with googly eyes?
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Ooooooh shit: the AI boom sits on top of a $610Bn stock fraud (detected by trading algorithms on Thursday evening) https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I assume all the bullshit Xmas ads for AI-powered this, that, and the other are only exacerbating nvidia’s gap between supposed sales and actual money in the bank.
The high inventory is odd though. Even sale-or-return stuff should actually go.
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Circa 1993, Vernor Vinge wrote that the first working AI would be the last thing that humanity ever invented. We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run at
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Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out. It was
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done” Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.
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Nov 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I recall ‘not being finished or working’ being used as a sales pitch via ‘get in on the ground floor with something that can be personalised to you’.
Plus ça change …
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