pies @pies@qoto.org

The first wedding anniversary is the "paper" anniversary and traditionally you should give your spouse a book. Tradition doesn't say what kind of book, but from experience I can tell you it's not Spider-Man erotica

could you imagine explaining this to anyone

Stop anthropomorphising billionaires.

I’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund.

The piece that the the New York Times made about the latter from #OpenAI and friends about the existential risks posed by AI has so much bull in it that it might have been written by a chatbot as well.

Seriously stuff like: "They say the technology has shown signs of advanced abilities and understanding [...]"

Sure, take the points made by an executive at face value, it's not like he's trying to hype the thing into the stratosphere and pump up his shares.

On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution.

It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it.

A thread 🧵

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839669 1/6

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

When Henri Matisse Was 90 Years Old, He Couldn’t Go to His Favorite Swimming Pool, So He Created a Swimming Pool as a Work of Art

https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/matisse-swimming-pool.html

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

My old bud JC is getting surgery this week and I was on the phone with him and said "Good luck under the knife" and he said "What?" and it seemed a little weird so you know how you don't say "good luck" to actors before a show, you say "break a leg" because "good luck" is bad luck to actors? I propose we have a different phrase for "good luck getting surgery" and my proposed alternate phrase is "Punch an angel."

There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰

Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt

Sorry, had trouble with the earlier Mastodon post, so I posted an extended article on Substack:

"LLMs are better than you think at playing you"

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/llms-are-better-than-you-think-at

"Evil sorcerers" vs "ordinary mediocrities"

https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

#Facebook #DopamineLoops

What self respecting election geek doesn’t love a good chart? I’ve got plenty of them in today’s piece, courtesy of Catalist. They tell an amazing story about youth and women voters, especially in the battleground states. Check it out: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-deep-data-is-in-and-democrats?sd=pf

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