Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.

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I finally became a computer operator ko-fi.com/jbcrawford and you should too, I was not expecting much as in computer.rip, but I was surprised.

John Lions Distinguished Lecture Series 2025 YouTube video by UNSW Community

Recreating Lions' commentary for teaching OS at MIT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY7C...

Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person Oracle co-founder’s shares rose by 40% in early trading, valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk’s $384bn

I don't know what to say. You dream about it for so long and then when it finally happens you're in shock. I'm so proud of you Larry. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters

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Keynote: Hardware Support for Memory Hungry Applications By Margo Seltzer YouTube video by BSDCan

Very nice talk: Hardware Support for Memory Hungry Applications By Margo Seltzer www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWa...

musicforprogramming.net/ 110 hours of programming music, and mp3's can be downloaded

What Keeps the Lights On North America's electrical system is a miracle, but also kind of a mess. Blackout is always closer than you think.

Today, the folks at the New Atlantis have lifted the paywall on the latest installment in my series, How the System Works--a series about the systems that undergird our days, that have greatly improved life for billions of people, and that--arrgh--we seem to be forgetting about paying attention to.

Ignorance and confidence injected like an speedball.

“Look, I’m dancing at the edge of human knowledge!”

No, you just don’t have enough experience in the domain to realize you’re swimming in bullshit…

Emerson, AI, and The Force Notes from the Laude Institute Summit

On education and AI: On education and AI: nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai... by @nealstephenson.bsky.social

I was able to recover all my Go (game) books in iOS/MacOS Go Books program by signed open source commit (github.com/u-root/u-roo...) with my old google email that I no longer can access :)

This is a true power of open source. Play Go, Write Go!

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

looking forward for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhg... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S...

Once again I was beaten by bad defaults in virtualbox. Good luck running your kubernetes without hardware clock.

alias executive-order="git commit -a -m YOLO; git push --force"

Vertical lenticular clouds

The lenticular clouds with ocotillos

The lenticular clouds and ocotillos

The lenticular clouds and formations spread out at sunset

The lenticular clouds and formations were spectacular on Monday evening around Borrego Springs. Spread out over several posts (Photos: Sicco Rood). (post 2)

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Catholic church

Šv. Jonų Bažnyčia (Church of St. Johns, Vilnius)

sakura and cherry trees and neris river in background.

Some sakura from Vilnius.

Elon Musk now have enough baby mamas that they are starting to conform to Chinese imperial drama stereotypes. Grimes is the Beloved But Defiant concubine. She is the emperor's actual favorite, but because she refuses to conform, she suffered exile, ridicule and repeated betrayals. Grimes' historical analog is the Pearl Consort, clearly adored by Emperor Guangxu but eventually thrown down a well and drowned for disrespecting the the Empress Dowager. Feb 16, 2025 • 4:08 AM UTC 291 17 1,290 55 244 13,377

Shivon Zilis is the Perfectly Behaved Court Favorite. She is dutiful, competent, strategic and approved by the Dowager Empress. This is the concubine that plays her cards just right. But she will never be the favorite of the Emperor's heart. 4h Her historical analog is Consort Hui: The brainy, competent woman who secures stability but never had the Emperor Qianlong's full passion. She won the long game though...her son eventually became Emperor Jiaqing. 15 179995 • 2,353

The latest addition to the harem is Ashley St. Clair. She is the Scheming Upstart Concubine, another favorite trope. Usually the villainess of the drama, she is the overly ambitious new favorite who thinks she can skip the subtle maneuvering and go straight for the kill. The Valentine's Day public baby reveal is TYPICAL Scheming Upstart Concubine behavior. She overstepped, and the emperor is likely displeased. Her historical analog is Consort Gao. Power- hungry and unsubtly scheming, Consort Gao gets too bold too fast, a recipe for downfall in the Forbidden City! Will there be more baby mamas? Probably! But even without, there's a whole multi-season series right here! 68 17 135 5511♥3,134

Grimes @Grimezsz Replying to @AngelicaOung lol

This thread is funny

Partial rainbow

Partial rainbow

Partial rainbow looking west from the Borrego valley this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

It's finally happening!

"Grand Theft Autocomplete: Turf Wars"

Meerkat

Wow meerkat with coreboot system76.com/desktops/mee...

I need to play more cyberpunk 2077 or fallout to better prepare for AI future. I hope we moving more in cyberpunk direction, nuclear war will be more stressful.

Terminals or at least "ttys" are not modern. They are a chimera merging disparate properties of VGA, HDLC, and good old teletypes. I know I'm in the minority and always have been, but to me they are an anchor holding us back in our tech lives.

Your phone does not have a terminal.