"Drugs are legal if you share"

Although it is hard to predict all of the insane things people are going to ask for, like the request scope being three orders of magnitude out of the norm as the post said. Easy to say "we never should have accepted that request" but hard to know where to draw the line ahead of time

I'm not 100% sure from the post, but it seems like memcached is trusting its callers to behave ("every RPC handler [...] does bounded concurrency"). I generally assume that the people calling an API aren't going to treat it gently, and build them to refuse to do work of a shape I know can't succeed

Silvos! I remember being so blown out when I first saw this guy. "He tramples _and_ I can regenerate him?! Amazing!"

A brief interaction with a generative AI where the user asks "It's 12:13 AM in California. What time is it in Tokyo?" and, after a lot of detailed reasoning which approaches the correct answer but never reaches it, the AI replies with a different, even more wrong answer.

However you use gen AI, you can never, ever _trust_ it, even for the most trivial tasks

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Seems more like conservation of characters to me. I think they're running out of scientists that a) the audience already knows and b) who haven't already fought him at one point or another. This way they don't have to introduce Dr. Somebody, eminent geneticist, and explain why he'd bother helping

Now I'm wondering if you could stand up a browser window as a node, and do a lightweight SETI-style thing just by getting people to visit a URL and contributing their computing resources

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of framing things as "whether or not I might have official permission, nobody's going to _stop_ me". Lesson for the modern world, that!

I think that we're not likely to literally destroy the Earth, so the environment will adapt eventually; but that adaptation may be very hostile to humans, so if we want to preserve our way of life, we should avoid making the Earth adapt to us instead of rolling the dice and hoping it turns out OK

I think the most important factor in someone operating this way is a deep and abiding intolerance of things that are _wrong_. In other words, the world needs more Haters TM

The human differentiator past a certain competency requirement has always been "do you just fucking go in and fix shit".

For 9/10 people, maybe more, they won't. They'll wait for permission first. It never crosses their minds that they can just.. fix it. That they can take action.

I can not stop thinking about how the ancient Greeks knew this and warned us about it (medium.com/@jbradhicks/...) and I wish we'd kept hold of this particular piece of wisdom

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

There's an old webfic, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, which has as a plot point that the omniscient AI believes what defines a human is "an information structure that gives it stuff to do". I think about that story a lot these days

There's a lot of adults suffering from Consequences Deficiency Syndrome, especially the incredibly wealthy ones, and once I started looking at it that way I couldn't stop seeing it

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

An image of the Magic the Gathering card "Ball Lightning", a 6/1 creature with trample and haste for {R}{R}{R} that specializes in smashing faces

The first deck I played in a tournament with was a haste-themed deck with all of the burn spells and haste creatures I could find. Some situations call for subtlety, but for everything else there's

The ancient Greeks agreed with you

This is no way to live, man

To this day I am still astonished by how much I *loved* 17776 (a.k.a. "What Football Will Look Like in the Future"). If anyone out there hasn't seen it yet, head to www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office.

Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

I can't take my dog to the park anymore.

The ducks keep biting him.

I should have known this would happen.

He's pure bread

Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song.

It was a Finnish hymn

"It corrupts the youth--"

My Brother in Christ, the youth are watching the entire government shuffle their feet while a babbling racist bombs Iranian children. You want to stop bad influences? Ban war. Don't let sex criminals be president. Fund school lunches.

Apple turns 50 today 💻

The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️

Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_...

#Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

i just realized THE 17776 day is in less than a week now

I think memes express a very specific emotion or experience, and just like a deep cut reference in a piece of media, the more particular it is, the more you feel seen. If you live in a pocket culture that shuns the outside world, it's easier to find those deeper cuts that really activate people

I've been sitting with this definition of slop for a sec and it feels about right, or at least directionally correct. It's also part of why I think LLM-generated code, fairly or not, avoids many of the same pitfalls as writing, images, or video.