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#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for October 11, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/10/11

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I've been kind of wondering if one of the reasons why LLMs are hitting software devs so hard is because of our anecdotal but well-known skew towards neurodivergence:

"Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/

Add how agent task management/switching conflicts with monotropism and executive dysfunction and you might have a group with a higher vulnerability towards chatbot-induced mental health episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism

Was pleasantly surprised this morning when New Guy and I actually had fun playing the two card games I designed after coffee this morning. I have, however, learned a lot about the importance of exact language, and the ambiguity of such concepts as "a hand."

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I love reading the photo captions people write here. Often they're more entertaining and illuminative than the toot itself. A great example of how improving accessibility for a marginalised group winds up benefiting all of us.

(Anyway, this farmer is currently running for office, and she barely won last time.)

(If you're interested in keeping people like this out of power, the guy running against her is James Gailliard and he's got a handy dandy little website right here: https://jamesgailliard.com/)

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit!

I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities.

Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

Glad to see actual research showing that there's more nuance than just "social media bad for children's mental health".
https://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-10/digital-technology-experiences-of-children-and-young-people-project-report.pdf

I know so many mainstream people who miss the boat on what the issues are, so this is a useful tool to have in our pockets.

The report itself has a bit more language here about recommending legislative regulation of social media than I'd like to see, but the content is useful.

#socialmedia

Oh no! Jitsi is limiting video calls to 95 minutes. The need for a Wikimedia hosted server grows even larger.
https://jitsi.org/blog/changes-coming/
#jitsi

So annoying when a journalist writes a good, factual account of AI and how it doesn't actually deliver on it's claims, but then feels the need to throw a bone to the AI-pilled with a "but it's still early days" caveat at the end. Like bruh, why? Is your editor making you do this? Is it to keep the AI-pilled trolls from filling up the comment section? What is it?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/

Make sure to scroll down to the "staff pick" comment at the bottom, for an on-the-ground confirmation.

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117396625341557692

Hey #FreeBSD folks, NetBSD hit more than double their funding target after adopting a strong no-LLMs policy. Something to think about while you draft yours, perhaps?

I recently discovered a marvelous thing: instead of prompting an LLM, you can also prompt... yourself? Like, you express a desire for a drawing of a cat and then... an appendage of your choice picks up a pencil? And a cat is drawn? I'm still not quite sure how this works

Monthly creation of new AI bad debt slows, as lenders wonder if they're issuing just a bit too much future defaults

https://app.ft.com/content/9c13d40e-d2b2-45d5-921c-a68cd4b308f9

> AI-related debt issuance globally dropped to $23bn in September, less than half the amount raised in the previous month, according to data compiled by Morgan Stanley, which covers both public bonds and private placement transactions. New financing has steadily fallen since the market hit a peak in June, when companies raised a record $113bn to help pay for infrastructure critical to the technology, including data centres and chips.

> In the US investment-grade market, where blue-chip tech groups borrowed around $306bn between January and August, AI-related bond issuance ground to a halt last month.

@WeirdWriter my mainstream pieces is mostly in Polish, or example:
https://oko.press/chatgpt-cala-prawda-o-wielkich-modelach-jezykowych
https://oko.press/ai-nie-rozwiaze-kryzysu-klimatycznego
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/ibm-microsoft-technologia-ludobojstwo/

Here's an English piece on "AI" and the job market in Iceland:
https://grapevine.is/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

And I write a bunch about this on my blog, for example:
https://rys.io/en/180.html
https://rys.io/en/181.html
https://rys.io/en/182.html

10. We oughtta be building more wind, especially in seasonal climates like Europe. Solar will get built anyway, it’s cheap, but wind blows at night and in the winter. We’re going to need something to charge the batteries in winter, especially with rising heatpump use.

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end-November 2026.

It's the book I should have read before trying to get a job in renewable energy. Reviewers say it is “to the point, important, and taught me a lot” and “surprisingly entertaining, don’t be put off by the title”.

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0437#t=aboutBook

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117420992135195411

Good morning to everyone except #WSocial people who are forcing me to work on a Sunday.

New article about their latest scandal coming soon (tomorrow or Tue morning at the latest). There is SO MUCH more to unpack that hasn't been revealed yet - and I've got plenty of evidence to share.

The W Social people had a meltdown about this yesterday on the Atmosphere, asking critics "who is funding you?"

This reporting is entirely self-funded, with childcare help from my in-laws and my husband 💁‍♀️

Looking at routing in #BengalOS I stumbled over an issue at #NetworkManager that explains why Linux clients started having problems on my home wifi: via #DHCP I sent a router (option 3) and a static route (option 121).

Background: at the time of configuration I used a VPN connection while connected to my wifi that routed 192.168.0.0/16. I needed one /24 subnet to be routed over my default gateway. The static route for the class-c net had the smaller netmask and overruled the class-b route for the VPN-connection.

After the change I was missing a default route, added it to NetworkManager as a local entry and had been done until stumbling over it again with a new installation.

Now I know … 😉

Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC

Call link: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Calendar event: https://coopcloud.tech/ics/public-interest-infrastructure-2026-10-15.ics

Dramatic countdown: https://time.is/countdown/19:00_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public_Interest_Infrastructure

https://time.is/19_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public-Interest_Infrastructure

HUGE thanks to @la_rosa for the awesome flyer!

– 3wordchant

#Coops #Libresoftware