Migrating #swifts loyally return every year to nests in buildings, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/migrating-swifts-loyally-return-every-year-nests-buildings-study-finds which makes this: "government in England has repeatedly refused to oblige builders to include a £35 swift brick in every new home." unforgivable...
at this point I’m done apologizing to these dickheads, because the apology and the optics of the “other side” apologizing is exactly what fascist school board assholes and LLM boosters with right-wing ties want.
I don’t go into pro-LLM spaces to harass people and neither does any AI critic I know. all of us think pro-AI spaces are too gross to touch. that’s why it’s a fucking tragedy when a space goes pro-AI: it sucks the oxygen out of everything else and turns everything into slop. it’s fucking depressing.
I’m not apologizing for some shit that neither I nor nobody I know did. I’m out of patience for supposed AI critics acting like authorities in a space I’m extremely active in, pretending that we’re doing something we don’t do. I’m tired of finding out those supposed critics have been critihyping AI for years and run in right-wing circles.
Down the #LinkedIn rabbit hole for research and...
I was reading the feed of a French tech bro who has egregiously cringy daily posts.
I almost spit out my coffee over his advice "Be the CEO of your body" 😂 Thankfully my computer is safe. But I will never drink coffee while browsing LinkedIn ever again.
Waiting for #Techrights to excoriate the Linux Foundation's Akrites announcement as a GAFAM front intended to apply FUD to free software and promote LLM (AI) usage.
@_elena yeah, it’s all wellness shit, startup shit, or people getting laid off trying to figure out their next gig.
It’s a wasteland.
First #hydropower projects in Great Britain in 40 years given go-ahead - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/first-hydropower-projects-in-great-britain-in-40-years-given-go-ahead ok, but that's assuming there will be enough water for them...
‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat clever, but it does mean stressing the river...
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa