Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Pretty much any time you see an "Open" (blank) "Alliance/Coalition", it's actually just Google doing Google things. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/google-accused-of-shadow-campaigns-redirecting-antitrust-scrutiny-to-microsoft/

The "Open Handset Alliance" was Google's way of preventing anyone from forking their supposedly open source software, lol.

“OpenAI’s stated corporate mission remains “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”

Lol

by age 30 you should have:

- acid reflux
- a friend you only call by their last name for reasons no one can articulate
- a fingernail that grows a bit strange due to The Injury
- 12 boxes of unsorted miscellaneous junk at your mom's house that you refuse to take or throw away

tfw you notice you've started the first half of a sentence with words starting with the same letter and you spend the next half an hour trying to finish the sentence without breaking the pattern

If "research" is "come up with endless variations on a theme, all different" then I sure can do research

@aral he's a nationalist, not a fascist. You must not now what fascism is and use it as "bad guy" but when you call people fascist who are obviously not, you just come across as ignorant.

https://factorcode.org/ is really sweet

the whole listener / inspector is reminiscent of smalltalk

AI is "inevitable" like "racial hierarchies and inequalities are natural and inevitable"

https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-perplexity-scientific-racism-search-results-ai/

Except racial hierarchies and inequalities are neither natural nor inevitable. They are lies spewed by white supremacists, with no base in science or fact.

AI is not inevitable. AI is happening because too many of us are cowardly, lazy and greedy.

Doug McIlroy — Unix pipes, diff, spellchecking, macro pioneer whose work fed into Hart's impementation of Lisp macros, &c, &c — on driving to MIT from NJ to hear McCarthy give a talk on Lisp in 1959.

@breadandcircuses @gerrymcgovern Sometimes it feels like nature "is working on it" by setting our species into overdrive suicide mode.
There is just no other, reasonable explanation why globally everybody is going crazy, politically.

“The importance of Indigenous Peoples in the protection of the Amazon is not reflected in the design of international climate policy. Given their historical and ongoing struggles against extraction, guidance from Indigenous Peoples must be central to any climate justice approach.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/study-redd-doesnt-work-without-indigenous-peoples-but-fails-to-engage-them/

The Global North is implementing a silent policy of extermination of Indigenous people and biodiversity in its pursuit of precious metals, in its righteous cause for the Green Transition.

@joe Those who would give up expressive liberty, to purchase a little type safety, deserve neither expressions nor types.

TIL you can link directly to text content in a web page without using an ID attribute

#WebDevelopment

https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

I'm old enough to remember the outrage and hand-wringing from western politicians and media when the Taliban destroyed ancient cultural and religious sites in Afghanistan.

Now? You could hear a pin drop.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-dynamites-historic-lebanese-village-mhaibib-rubble

I tried to type a post about a mistake I made in a program, and my phone changed to "in a problem".

And yeah, I get it. Many programs would be better referred to as problems