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Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?
I do.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html
In a better world I would assume that this is a promotional stunt for an upcoming Super Mario movie.
The weight of the number of measuring spoons decides how slow it vents. Like and subscribe for more illegal instant pot techniques
Two posts in my feed today. In the first, what looks like four air-defense interceptors - Patriots, maybe? - missing an incoming Iranian missile.
In the second, the Ukranian military celebrating a soldier with a record six Shahed interceptions in one day.
I know they're not the same, I get it but Patriot missiles cost $4,000,000 each. Just for the missile, not the platform/deployment.
Those Sting FPV interceptors cost $700.
When I was about eight years old I watched my grandfather sit down at the breakfast table with a bowl of cereal, a jug of milk and a box of orange juice, pour himself a glass of milk and then pour the OJ over the cereal. I didn't laugh - you did _not_ laugh at the old man - but then he just... stared at what he'd done for a second, poured the OJ out of the cereal into a different glass, poured the glass of milk into the OJ-infused cereal and ate his breakfast without a word.
I'm not sure what you say to people who take something like this all the way from idea to shipping with no plan to get consent from the people whose voices you're imitating or deal with reception and blowback.
Further: I will bet $100 that there are a bunch of people at Grammarly, mostly women and minorities, who said "we should definitely not do this" who were ignored by Grammarly's leadership, who will face no accountability at all for this waste of time and effort.
“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3
Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.
I don't know that the world needs to Hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our collective thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.
And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.
These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking questions about who is responsible for the bombing of a school and the deaths of 180 children and their teachers, and I'd like to wish everyone at Anthropic a very happy complicity in war crimes.
Either you die a [checks notes] villain? Or you live long enough to be a [checks again] hot dog guy meme?
That can't be right.
It is important to understand that these are not "Meta workers" in the way you might think of them as "extremely well paid engineers in California."
These are the underpaid contractors in Kenya and Nigeria doing the soul-destroying work of watching every horror of the world so that some American congressman's kid or hyperindignant ragekaren doesn't inadvertently see a boob on a slow news day.
These people aren't being creepy, they're being exploited.
I guess I'm naive about this kind of thing but I actually believe that when military leaders boast about the precise accuracy of their impossibly expensive weapons and then use them to destroy schools and refugee camps full of children, and that somehow keeps happening and nobody is disciplined or court-martialed or sent to the Hague for doing it, that means those militaries are deliberately targeting schools and refugee camps full of children.
Spare a thought for the conservative punditry just now coming to the same revelation that this awful year has forced on the libertarians, that at the end of the day a "principled position" of selfishness and cruelty hasn't made them anything but useful idiots.
Or, alternatively: don't.
If your key takeaway from this is that the journalist was solely responsible for this mistake and should lose their job, and not that the company's editorial process failed while that company had an employee working to a deadline while sick, then I'm not sure what to tell you except that you're picking a side.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
Again, there is no "age verification", there is only "identity verification", and "identity verification at the OS level" means specifically that there is no such thing as free software in any inclusive, democratic sense and no such thing as "computer ownership" in any way that involves meaningful choice.
Germany and Japan set a terrible precedent in people's minds. It's hard to imagine western powers being willing to do years of reconstruction work today.
In a country where laws mattered there would be hundreds of public prosecutors out there crawling all over each other to sign their names to the easiest walk-off-home-run convictions in the history of law.
Rustaceans: I'm looking at some example code in ratatui; I'm trying to build a newish thing by modifying it while learning Rust. The example is in a workspace; it works within the ratatui heirarchy, but so far my attempts at peeling the example out of ratatui's heirarchy to replant it in its own repo are failing with dependency problems 'cargo add' doesn't resolve. Is there a known-right-way or tool for this? It's not mentioned in the book.
This song has never once failed me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmWEHccJS7s&pp=0gcJCY4Bo7VqN5tD
It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it. Call it 'autonomous' and yolo it out there for VC clout.
There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.
What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.
Killing dozens of girls by destroying their school to delay accountability for what he's done to dozens, maybe hundreds of girls for decades is entirely on brand, and so is the silent complicity of his party.
Anyone have a preferred metal plate laser-cutting service in Toronto? 3mm to 4mm thickness, aluminum, nothing bigger than 20cm x 40cm.
Could somebody who understands the language of cinematic trailers tell me the right words for describing why this trailer is so painfully, blandly formulaic? What's the name of that swoop-to-sudden stop crescendo, then louder, repeat twice until a Sudden Silence Where We Pan To A View Of The Important Person that's in Every Trailer For Everything now?
I love the good internet crazy: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
why do I feel so sad about touching computer says computer toucher touching the computer make me sad button on the computer over and over and over, maybe if I had ten computer and touched all the computer make me sad buttons with all my fingers at once
Turn on the mesh networking widget for the first time, first message that rolls in is 'just do it. It's probably super illegal tho.' Amazing. Definitely frontier technology here, one hundred percent in-character. Free as in the cops probably haven't figured this out yet.
I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.
(Via @jonathankoren@sfba.social )
“Software is cheap now this changes everything” no, no it’s not. Software is much more expensive now, but it’s cheap _for you_ because _your_ bills are subsidized by a tectonic amount of venture capital and labor exploitation. You aren’t paying for the world’s bandwidth bills or the environmental impact of the server farms or warehouses full of underpaid labor in foreign countries to make your software, but that’s still what your software costs. All you’re doing is freeloading off exploitation.
There's a Maslow's Heirarchy Of Terrible Commenters out there that has "Well-Actualization" at the summit.
The main ingredient of the "Biblically Accurate Thing" joke is that you be able to imagine the thing shouting "BE NOT AFRAID" when a reasonable person would very reasonably feel very afraid of whatever it is, so most of them miss the mark for me.
This one does not:
Speaking as a parent my current opinion on internet age verification laws is that after the state starts putting the Epstein class in prison en masse then maybe we can start taking anything else they say about protecting children seriously.