A gentle reminder that unsourced news stories are usually bullshit, even when they play to your biases about the Nazis all being Russian bots.

Protecting of Jewish identity: Political parties that do great replacement theory and are stuffed with neo Nazis Basically Hitler: Saying Palestinians have a right to exist I don't think it's particularly helpful for the sensibles to keep pushing this line.

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

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Good news! The Chief Mouser Larry is back at Downing Street 🐾

Can confirm. I mean, being in the Epstein files per se isn't necessarily bad, like when you're in the Epstein files because Richard Dawkins used to complain to Epstein about how much he hates you, but I definitely know a couple of people who knew people who were _on the island_.

…and it went Labour. Though it's hard not to notice the person all the news channels want to talk about this morning isn't Sagal Abdi-Wali MP, but Zack Polanski.

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

Of course, the UK media is out in force with their antisemitism schtick after the Greens adopted a motion that Zionism is racism this weekend, but while I'm sure this will hit Zack's national polling hard, as we've seen mainstream media attacks have previously, I honestly don't think it makes […]

Today is the eve of the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. I've honestly tried not to think about it, because it's such a close race and it feels better not to get anyone's hopes up, my own especially, and take the outcome in stride. Basically, it's on a knife's edge between Labour's continuity […]

If LLMs make us stupid because you can just pay them to do stuff without thinking, does that mean rich people have always been stupid

COSMIC is an OK desktop system, by the way. Not a lot of bells and whistles, but most of what you need. No faff, no mess, no baggage, good out of the box experience. I could survive with COSMIC if for some reason I couldn't use KDE, in a way I'm not sure I could with GNOME, and _certainly_ not XFCE.

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

Ooh, I know this one, is it because software engineers are the only working class people well paid enough to have the slightest hope of buying an actual damned farm?