Charlie Stross
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @Colman@mastodon.ie
Same.
Also, I "want" a Macbook Neo (the shiny!) but I *don't* want a Neo (I've got a perfectly good Macbook Air M3 which out-does it in every imaginable way except cheapness). It feels really weird!
What might be a risk factor for Apple is that if my last-but-one generation Air were to die or be stolen I might *replace* it with a Neo (I mainly work on my desktop). If enough multiple-Mac owners think likewise, Apple may cannibalize a few of their sales.
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@Colman@mastodon.ie @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network Yes, and also: headphones that are $50 cheaper than a *new laptop*?!?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116239891076377747
This is the point at which the line graphing my declining elderly hearing crosses over with the line graphing Apple's drip of extra features and I nope right off the upgrade ladder. Got a pair of USB-C AirPods Max 1 that are perfectly good and don't get enough use, do not need to pay the price of a new Macbook Neo for a pair of headphones!
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New: Why this blog update is late — http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/03/why-this-blog-update-is-late.html
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@abhijithb21@fe.disroot.org Yes, that's exactly what they're doing. (Snow Leopard looked identical to Leopard on top, but worked better under the hood. It was consolidation and refinement—and it was needed.)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116232524241982831
Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)
Does this look familiar to you, too?
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I would be so, SO happy if iOS 27 reverted all the pointless UI changes since Snow Leopard and went back to that good old-time 2009 design language! Skeuomorphism is back, baby!
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@glynmoody@mastodon.social If they were serious about this they'd fund a new grid interconnect between England and Scotland, which has a renewable surplus that it can't export (and meanwhile the highest interconnect fees in Europe due to lack of capacity).
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @wronglang@bayes.club @Jer@chirp.enworld.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run Yep, we need stronger whistleblower protections. An assumption that "blame the messenger" is the default company response to whistle-blowing should be baked-in and determine the outcome of wrongful dismissal cases for *any cause whatsoever* for several years after the incident.
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@wronglang@bayes.club @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @Jer@chirp.enworld.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run I think a more urgent need is to globally abolish corporate personhood and apply criminal liability law for corporate harms to the individuals who caused the harm. Cut back companies to being a money shelter again, but not a responsibility shelter.
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#PennedPossibilities 957 — Does your MC have or wear a signature colour?
I have no idea. Frankly, a better question would be whether they have a signature hominin subspecies, because serial reincarnation via lossy brain scanning and downloading into a new body means next time around you might not even have the same number of toes, let alone skin colour. As for clothing, they tend to do with the currently-prevailing fashions from one century to the next …
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@MortonRobD@mas.to @glyph@mastodon.social @rayckeith@techhub.social Related phenomenon: apparently it's easier to fool a grifter than an honest person. They think they're too smart to fall for a con.
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@kithrup@wandering.shop @fatsam@mstdn.social Another possibility is so they can comply with legal restrictions on VPN usage—a thing internationally, Android is used worldwide.
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RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116173033360235850
News Flash: Tom Cotton wasn't saying "imminent", it's just that Fox News's talking heads are too illiterate to understand what "immanent" means to a Christian Dominionist like Cotton.
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“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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@jwz@mastodon.social @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net Also, per wikipedia, Dave Winer is 70.
That's not *old* old (from my young whipper-snapper 61 year old perspective) but it's old enough that with if there's post-covid cognitive decline on top, *then* he's old.
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@angusm@mastodon.social There is this one particularly mad Australian barista who works weekends at Bastard Barista on Queen Street (down in a basement along from the National Gallery) who does Lovecraftiana …
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @_tillwe_@mastodon.social @feorag@wandering.shop That's why SSTs aren't going to happen. The security issues and sheer cost mean it'd be a one-flight-a-day option with body cavity inspections before boarding and would end up flying to/from airports 100km away from the destination. Any Concorde-like or faster SST is a defacto hypersonic cruise missile.
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Today's eldritch coffee is The Great Race of Yith (from Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time"):
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer The former is more or less how rabbinical Judaism works. (Note that Hell is a Christian invention, as is Heaven: neither of them feature in Jewish eschatology.)
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@angusm@mastodon.social Also, the Iranian regime has, within the living memory of its surviving leaders, fought an existential war for national survival against a fascist dictatorship. This isn't their first rodeo.
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The Atlantic: Why Trump Didn’t Plan for the Strait of Hormuz
In wartime, the enemy always gets a vote.
(These people are deeply unserious. I mean, they *must* be old enough to remember the 1980-88 tanker war and the vital role the Straits of Hormuz played back then, right?)
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Firstly, it was an otter.
Secondly, there was a public consultation and the public VOTED FOR THE OTTER.
(Unlike Farage.)
Thirdly, we have a tradition in this country of changing the design on our ancient currency (we've used it since 1971!) every few years. To stop it getting boring.
(Finally, the day after the Brexit referendum which he campaigned for, he applied for a German passport. They—rightly—told him to fuck off.)
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Sigh.
So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.
Pop-sci explainer here:
Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):
"The wiring is the computation".
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social @c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza Yeah: I woke up with Bell's Palsy one morning in Talinn, Estonia, and recognized that it *wasn't* a stroke when I realized I was typing google searches for the symptoms with both hands. Face was hemilaterally paralysed for a month (cranial nerve inflammation) but the rest of my body was unaffected. A course of steroids cleared it. Horrible, but not life-changing.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social I'm willing to guess that machine translation of prose may serve two uses: firstly, as an assist for human translators (by preparing a very rough first cut, which they then have to refine), and secondly, as an assist for human editors in figuring out which foreign-language-works to pay a human translator (with or without AI assistance) to work on (translation costs money: knowing where to spend it is important). But those are assistive roles, not human-replacing ones.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social Yeah: my mother had a series of small strokes, increasingly debilitating (until the final one that killed her in the night, aged 90) and to be that sharp and articulate afterwards is unexpected to say the least.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@2600/116205957190365895
I hope he makes a full recovery: if he's able to form sentences and communicate (per the article) that's a very good sign.
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@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @datarama@hachyderm.io This is new this century. I think things were rather different in the 20th century, changing significantly from the early 1970s through to the late 1990s. The new finance focus has really taken root since 2008. (Which was, oh, 18 years ago, so a generation. /me: old now.)
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@pzmyers@freethought.online @javierg@mstdn.social @gjm@mathstodon.xyz Some of us also caught on 40 years ago, but apparently: yes.
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@burningTyger@nrw.social My eyesight isn't good enough to examine images. (I'm awaiting cataract surgery in one eye and am half-blind in the other.)
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@burningTyger@nrw.social Yes: but if you click through, the original larger image looks a bit more plausible. Except it's greyed-out until the website fully goes live in a few hours. If it *is* AI generated, then the potential for blowback is enormous.
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@jon@gruene.social That track sounds like it's not continuously welded?
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@Infoseepage Good point!
But it will almost certainly also identify works whose authors are adamantly opposed to the use of LLMs, that are off-limits for training, and where the copyright owners will sue. (If this had existed in 2016 it'd have made the Anthropic AI class action lawsuit an absolute slam-dunk.)
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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop "A Song of Stones" was, IMO, Iain's *worst* book, by quite a long way. (Better starting points might have been "The Bridge", "Whit", or "The Crow Road"; or, for his SF, "The Player of Games" or "Against a Dark Background".)
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot The problem is gatekeeping. With the cost of self-publishing almost zero, there's no incentive for slop merchants to label their product as such: rather, the incentive to stand out applies to those of us who write artisanal 100% human-crafted prose.
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@Moonlight_Crazy@mastodon.social Don't know, they haven't launched yet. Check the web site.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social The only use of LLMs in my current work-in-progress is this (fictional) translator's note:
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The Society of Authors (UK) is helping launch this: an identifier for human-authored (i.e. non-AI) books: https://humanauthored.co.uk/
EDIT: aaaaaand they used AI-generated artwork 🤦🏻♂️
EDIT UPDATE: they ditched the AI-generated art. Good.
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#WritersCoffeeClub March 10th—How informal is your prose? Is there a limit to informality?
It's entirely contextual. Describing a formal dinner among posh aristocrats? Go formal. Describing a drunken argument in a pub? Go informal. Prose style is like mood music in a film—it should reflect the emotional background tone but not overpower the foreground (the prose itself). Think of it as metadata for the narrative.
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@ploum@mamot.fr @rorystarr@mstdn.social He made absurd promises AND GOT LUCKY. Lots of other folks made absurd promises and got bankrupt (or worse) at the same time, but we don't remember them.
Do not mistake his success for anything other than sheer blind luck.
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@JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social @glsk@mastodon.social @blotosmetek@circumstances.run As it's actually printed ON A BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF I'd say it's possible that you're not wrong.
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@rorystarr@mstdn.social He's an object lesson in "privileged white man hits middle age, has crisis, gets angry, takes it out on the world around him". I mean, he didn't need to end up this way: he did it to himself.
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@WellsiteGeo@masto.ai No, I'm paying tribute to Slippery Jim and Angelina.
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@AlisonW@fedimon.uk Psst: I renewed my driving license online a week ao and the new photocard arrived within 4 days—and probably only took that long because Royal Mail are piss-poor these days.
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@bithive@social.tchncs.de Tough, it's less than 10% written and there's another book in the queue ahead of it that won't be out before 2027 now.
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@Infoseepage@mastodon.social WTF is "creamed corn"? Is this some kind of USAn gastronomic abomination?
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@beecycling/116200735999564033
Reichenbach Falls ending or go home.
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Oh look, it's like one of those movie scenes where two characters you dislike are fighting on a cliff edge and you're just hoping they both go over. 🍿
BBC News - Anthropic sues US government for calling it a risk
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@bithive@social.tchncs.de No, they're trying to create the Skullularity. Like a Singularity, only made out of Skulls.
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That thing where the focus in the novel you're writing moves from two protagonists burgling a museum and escaping ahead of a torrent of rabid mole rats and switches to a space princess with a side-line in investigations being advised that someone is stealing all the skulls in the necropolis. And it's a BIG necropolis.
(Do I need to explain that I'm having fun right now?)
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@howtophil@mastodon.social iPhones don't do that. But they recognize QR codes in images and offer you a link to tap on.
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