Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

A couple of days ago @analog_ashley and a few friends put on a science storytelling event at UCSD. Seeing the love and care put into this event really warmed my heart: they coached speakers with multiple rounds of writing workshops and feedback, and Ashley brought her "backyard brains" kits to do scrappy neuroscience with the crowd in theme with her story about creating long-distance labs during the pandemic that students could do in their bedrooms ❤️ theme was appropriately: Adaptation!

girl who flirts with you by sending you drone parts (with firmware to extract and reverse-engineer)

#rustlang Could be a Good Beginner Language scp-iota.github.io/software/202...

Rust Could be a Good Beginner ...

I'm going to be in Switzerland (Zurich, but also traveling around the region) at the end of August/beginning of September for .NET Day Switzerland (https://dotnetday.ch/)

Really delighted to be giving the closing keynote on the Psychology of Software Teams ❤️

Setting up some meetings in Zurich already on software innovation in Europe, evaluating AI in a human-centered way, and research schemes for the future of the science of developers 😎 if you know someone you think I should meet... lmk!

what's the opposite of async? afaucet?

Apple just Sherlocked Docker

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/dubdub/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Awoo!

Working on a draft. Is it too hard to lead with this?

The deployment of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a disaster for the human race. They have allowed a select few to gain "higher productivity"; but they have destabilized society, have made work transactional, have subjected artists to indignities, have lead to widespread psychological suffering for the hackers that build the tools AI companies rely on, and inflict severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of this technology will worsen this situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.

It's another kind of space race, so we all "win" in the end. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-2030-self-driving-car-bet/

Some notes on Shisa v2 405B, a new open weights LLM release from Japan that's an example of Sovereign AI - the ability for nations to build models that reflect their own language and culture
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/shisa-v2/