Donald Abrams

The FTC's settlement with John Deere actually has teeth, unlike previous settlements that largely maintained the status quo.

At first glance, I thought this homeless guy was wearing a linkedin cap

i will NEVER say anything

Com licença, onde ficam os sanitários?

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

No comment — from https://dgprogress.eu/p/dg-progress-dawn-of-the-28th-regime

Can you spot the countries that rely on nuclear and renewable energy?

Are any LLMs any good at "guess the prompt that made this output"?

I'm a Chesterton's Fence guy - if we don't like how email works, we need to be honest about WHY it came to be the way it is over 70 years To wit: the danger from third-party PDS spam is that everyone ends up on Bsky not because they can't easily deploy their own PDS, but because adversaries can

Mine is actually my handle: hypaethral (or hypethral)

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

An old TTC ad from a while back

#Strawbuilding #Strawhouse is so obviously convincing that it's almost funny that I still have to explain it everywhere. Study shows how far you can transport insulation materials so that it still extracts more CO2 than it emits. Straw doesn't even fit fully on the scale. zenodo.org/records/6599...

This is not a drill: GHC (the #Haskell compiler) now runs in your browser. See the announcement (and please report any bugs) here: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-ru...

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

@scalzi.com I was not expecting the Dog King and I love it. It makes me think you could write a solid Orville episode!

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

For everyone who's now suddenly nostalgic for The Sound:

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing. help.aol.com/articles/dia... ht @mat.tl

This is how they need to explain reintroducing wolves

lies, the first draft's job is to be a referendum on the value of my existence, and whether everyone who has ever disliked me was correct

My 3 year old, while setting up a soccer game with his lego models, forgot the word for referee so described them as "the people who stop us when we fall down"

We launched our list of Top engineering voices to follow in 2025 to spotlight engineers whose writing, posting, and contributing make the whole community smarter. Read the full list: incident.io/blog/top-eng...

#Microsoft, under oath before the French Senate, refused to guarantee that U.S. authorities couldn’t access European data—their France director admitted no absolute assurances could be made.

When the journalist emailed to arrange a call, the arms dealer replied "What year are you in, 2004? Even my teta uses whatsapp" followed by both the old man and wink with tongue out emoji They also expressed concern that the decline of X could negatively affect sales but had hope for FB marketplace

Keep in mind: heat pumps deliver greater than 100% efficiency because they're performing a kind of thermodynamic magic trick. This means in a lot of cases it would be more efficient to heat a home with electricity generated from natural gas than it would be to heat it directly with natural gas.

DUNE AND DUNER: Make Arrakis Great Again

TBH this could be a problem for them

Oh this is brilliant. I could just pretend the code I write is LLM generated!

The “vampire routing” proof-of-concept, also known as “vampire mode”, solves the problem of finding ways to avoid direct sunlight with a new type of technology. It suggests footpath routes that preferably run in the shade – just like vampires that avoid the sun at all costs.“

I'm still shocked that turnout is that low, 400k = 5% of NYC total population

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

I think fancy autocomplete is a great mental model for both LLM capabilities and limits! Don't know what to order at a restaurant? Fancy autocomplete! Invoicing a client? Not autocomplete! Position paper you don't care about? Fancy autocomplete! Filing a lawsuit? Probably not autocomplete!

"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible" In this singsongy tale, a top cop discovers religion, uncovers the heroic legacy of a young woman's father, and enjoys the peace of nature with his best friend

why did something happen