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Tough love is back, baby.

‘The same Israeli officials who declared that there were no innocents in Gaza are now outraged by a film showing that this is exactly the principle the military has acted on.’ New: Eyal Weizman on 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Earth averaged about 5 heat storms a year in the 1960s, the largest of which covered 6% of the planet and lasted for 46 days. The average today is 102 heat storms per year, the largest of which affected 85% of Earth’s surface. Just turn up the AC the deniers say. newrepublic.com/article/2170...

Imagine a reverse-engineered Microsoft Teams being worse than the original. I'll believe it when I see it.

Fantastic news if true.

'in Capital Marx removed all references to mental labour, knowledge labour, and the ‘general intellect’ to replace them with the inventive capacity of the division of labour and the new figure of the collective worker, or Gesamtarbeiter.' #Pasquinelli

Sánchez has been Prime Minister here since 2018, his third term started in November 2023. Shall we say that his successive governments' capacity to reverse the flow of wealth from the bottom to the top of the class system has been 'underwhelming'. He speaks very well though.

'The experience of powerlessness is precisely what kills political imagination. And destroying political imagination is not an accidental byproduct – it is a central objective of the politics of cruelty.'

Neoliberalism as the transition from welfare states to warfare states, with fascism as the deepening of the latter. www.equator.org/articles/fra...

Tao: “In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the [intellectual] ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.”

"Every robotics company, every frontier AI lab, has a specific kind of data they want: industrial tasks, agriculture, household chores, small business work like pottery, garment-making, embroidery, candle-making. We go wherever the task is," www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A: 'Define socialism' B: 'Wealth moves down instead of up' A: 'He said it! He said the thing!'

Second, I knew computers affected the development of SCM; that seems obvious. What I didn't realize is that logistics, and inventory management in particular, directly affected the development of *computers*. All three early database models were designed to store inventory data.

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pretty much nails it: 'software engineers have spent the past 40 years writing vulnerable, dogshit software. LLMs are easily above the bar needed to break into said software.' LLMs themselves being examples of the same, obviously.

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

Salvase quien pueda.

Six more months to 3C. Christ.

I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Ten years ago today, eh?

That's okay, looks like I must have caught the window in which the server I was calling was being updated.

Wikipedia bitten by PHP catastrophe.

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

Of course they weren't right about everything.

Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-25p-AI-Slop

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Good review, identifying how 'identity politics' overrides all other forms of politics, but not using these exact terms.

Venn diagram of those that refuse AI becuase of its negative impact on society and the climate and those that refuse tourism for the same reasons.

'Many members of the Rust project and community find value in AI; many others feel that its negative impact on society and the climate are severe enough that no use is acceptable.'

Note here that the problem with LLMs isn't that they cannot produce 'polished PRs'.

Substitute 'expensive' and 'US' and the article still parses almost perfectly.

Given this question of asking questions fed to us by an external authority, a question fed to us by an external authority, where do we stand? Anxious, would be my answer, even though I know exactly where my work will take me - absolutely nowhere.

‘If we are to believe Fred, he remained faithful to Sartre his whole life. When he moves on to Marxism, he doesn’t abandon the insights into style, expression and consciousness developed in his first book.’ Toril Moi remembers Fredric Jameson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

and over and over, then once again from first principles, and over and over

Forgot to add - the only technology that's new here is the computing/guidance part. The tech change is that tiny computer chips with more navigation computing power than the most sophisticated 90s missiles can be ripped out of an old iPhone.

New TESLA. Model CARRERO BLANCO.

Excellent essay, well worth a read: 'While there is so much debate about what AI can and cannot do for humans, there is too little talk about what it’s doing to humans.'

You might like this adapted Foreword www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

'A useful takeaway is that when Linux first appeared, Microsoft was already a large corporation with over eight thousand employees, while the software that would become GNU/Linux was being built by a tiny community measured in individuals or perhaps tens of active contributors, not thousands'.