Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@bruces The only question in my mind is whether Boeing's C-suite and board have or ever will work out that profit-taking to the point of devouring your seed corn, and being a global leader in innovation, are fundamentally incompatible objectives.

"Russian soldiers have nearly stopped concealing their crimes feeling total impunity for their looting in the country's border areas."

https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-soldiers-caught-red-handed-while-looting-belgorod-resident-50449364.html

@gloopsies @thomasfuchs
Hey, how many people remember what "Meme" was really coined to mean, as opposed to "smart-assed text over a JPG"? Or what "Avatar" meant, before they repurposed it to "web forum profile image".

"The street finds uses for things" - William Gibson, 'Neuromancer'. In like sense the intarweb finds spectacularly dumbed-down uses for words.

@bruces I think the least forced 26-letter one is "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx."

@kravietz They haven't yet managed to steal enough toilets from Ukraine, and they haven't managed to build out sewer systems to the ones they have stolen.

@mjausson @w7voa

Weekly blood transfusions from kidnapped children will do that

If one of the 21st century's greatest threats to the Constitution says you're a threat to the Constitution... you're probably a threat to the Constitution.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html

@davidbrin So, is he going to bring back a nicely lethal strain of COVID for which we have no immunities or vaccines? Because that's what it took the first time.

@EugeneMcParland
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I haven't the slightest idea who's paying me more money than I ever saw before in my entire life, now gather 'round to hear my in-depth analysis of geopolitics.

@davidallengreen @mart_brooks

Nowadays the studio would look at the title and say "that's no good, it leaves no scope for a sequel. Please call it 'Something About Eve".

@davidallengreen
Immediately made me think of this scene

https://youtu.be/TpicfnfcEiM?t=130

Stewart Lee in the Guardian, re undead Oasis self-resurrecting at next years Fringe:

"Edinburgh fringe performers’ and audiences’ whole month’s accommodation budget would go in a night, so by my reckoning the first two weeks of the festival just got totally fucked, Oasis singlehandedly murdering what 14 years of the Tories’ war on the arts couldn’t quite kill off. Sorted!"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-reformation-tour-2025-nostalgia-hotels-edinburgh-festival

@baldur I can cosign this from personal experience. AI assisted code of any complexity; even as little as a four or five line function, tends to be thick with hidden flaws, of a kind a novice programmer might commit but an experienced programmer detects immediately on reading it.

I have almost never been able to save time by describing a function to an AI bot; the product it comes up with is very convincingly described, but it is quite easy to spot the inherent, trivially reproducible failure modes.

Predictive autocomplete can be a little bit handy, when it isn't just irritating. Actual AI code authorship is a waste of time -- when you in the end don't accept it -- and a catastrophe if you do.

@anneapplebaum