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Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution

Sports are political.
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Code reviewing was never the most interesting thing to do. But it had one important element. That, if done right, it was knowledge exchange between the reviewer and the coder. That can be quite motivating. Helping a fellow coder to become better. Reviewing "AI" written code does NOT come with that potential reward. The machine doesn't learn the way a human does. This turns code reviewing into a menial, fruitless task that leads to frustration instead. That's my observation and opinion.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for July 5, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/07/05

#Humour #Cartoon

OpenAI's Stargate UK was completely fake

just a press release

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/04/openai-apparent-failure-visit-key-site-questions-stargate-uk-project

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845902133405690

An excellent thread here. So much of what I see people pointing to as LLM's benefits for coding relates to long-standing problems in software engineering that the field just hasn't addressed. And LLMs don't solve these problems, at best the just paper them over and make dealing with them less tedious -- while reinforcing the problematic dynamics.

So yes it's great that people with no programming skills can create software to solve their prolems. But if we had collectively spent a chunk of the literally billions of dollars that are going to "AI" building on the early approaches to this from 25+ years ago (Hyperscript, Logo) that don't have the same downsides, we'd be in a much better place today.

I know we've talked about this before but I'm just so disgusted with how useless most search engines are now. They all second guess me.

The most obscure or unusual word is ignored so it's very hard to search for the intersection of a popular thing and an obscure thing.

I have a theory that for many people search has never worked well for them since they just didn't use computers very much, or it was not explained well. Now those of us who found search effective get to see what it was like.

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@vampiress

"ethically fucked averaging machine" is genius. It's my new favorite term for AIs.

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

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Knowing the difference could save a planet. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/3/800064438/cartoon/climate-exhaustion-or-denial/

New reviews up:
ALBUTEROL
LAMICTAL
DEAF BLIND & DUMB
THE DISILLUSIONED
BIG
ANIMATED VIOLENCE
BARREN CANYON

thanks to @THINK @ThinkAndGrowRich and @somepunk

https://the-counterforce.org/tag/reviews/

America turns 250 this year, and we brought some receipts.
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“What all these people really opposed is that the United States was not founded to be a Christian nation, in the way they imagined a Christian nation should be.”

A 250th anniversary read on religion, democracy and the fight over America’s founding.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/christian-right-founding-fathers-conservative-movement-trump-american-heretics

In 2024, Trump and Vance turned Haitian immigrants in Springfield into political targets.

Now TPS protections are being stripped from Haitians and Syrians, putting communities at risk of deportation.

The opposite of independence and freedom.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-vance-migrants-springfield-ohio-2024

The Secret Service agent who cuts his hot dogs so he doesn't choke should take today off.

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.