Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

Claiming that large language models will give rise to AGI is like me saying, "Soon my toaster will be making bread from scratch."

If I’m honest, I think React is bad technology, and I’m mad at what it and the surrounding JS community has done to the web.

Respect to all workers, but there are better ways.

Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.

10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.

Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.

Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

A neat little reminder for Christofascists you may run across.

Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)

Could we maybe stop shaming people for reading kids’ books? Adult books are full of sad people having affairs while kids’ books have magic wardrobes and worms driving around in apples; you tell me who’s winning.

I work for the government, and every year I have to take an ethics course to remind me not to do the things Clarence Thomas has done.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-lavish-gifts-propublica-supreme-court.html

@reedmideke

Modern Parenting Tips:

1) Have your kids’ phones by your bedside at night

2) Explain to your kids that if anybody does something that makes them feel weird, they can tell you and you won’t get mad

3) If a Washington Post reporter asks if he can record your kid, on the record, talking about how your son is planning to lie to the FBI to protect his online friend who turns out to be an adult and also, coincidentally, the most wanted man in America, say no.

You folks were super enthusiastic about my posting more on Mastodon, so let's try this.

RT/boost and let's see if there's interest in a regular #Ukraine thread!

Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For the last year, I've been tracking a notorious Russian unit known for its role in killing 100s of civilians.

This past month we published how we found them.

Yes we have had 146 mass shootings this year, but have you considered how bad things would be WITHOUT all the thoughts and prayers? We would have:

-Super cancer.
-Spiders with chainsaw legs.
-Babies being born with full sets of adult teeth.
-Golden Retrievers going extinct.
-The same number of mass shootings but they were all done by Keanu Reeves, the celebrity we love and trust the most.

Every pro-AI example on Twitter is like:

Still not convinced on AI? I spent less than an hour knocking together this rube Goldberg contraption that produces lies and terrible inaccurate results. Jobs that can be replaced by garbage generators are consigned to the dustbin of history!

Iceland goes hard

Reading this sure was a blast from the past. Wild to see people finally learn about places like Hillsdale. As ever I am quite struck by the fact that these wildly impactful Catholic hard-right educational institutions are not even known about by so many. Places like this were all that I thought "college" was when I was a teenager.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/10/the-christian-liberal-arts-school-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars

I think it would be pretty healing right now to hear any kind of awareness from the "you're an alarmist/this isn't fascism/trust the institutions/stop your shrieking" dudes & dudettes like Ben Wittes etc. that they were wrong. Instead, they're out there "ringing the warning bell" at least a year behind us, as per usual.