Zac

Zac

@ztj.lol

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<str>> {Err("Yo")?} https://ztj.dev/ https://hachyderm.io/@ztj https://github.com/ztj

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maddie raspberry ★
@othatsraspberry.com

konami asked me to draw PEACE WALKER characters as CATS and I said YEAHHHH!!! 🐈✨ this poster will be available for preorder from the Official Konami Shop during CatCon!! (Oct 10-11)

Zac
@ztj.lol

The rumors about Robert Eggers's take on R + J are strange, and should be ignored. The movie isn't even on his IMDB yet. It’s obviously extremely early. But let’s remember that Eggers has only released 4 full-length films. They're all worth watching, even if…

Zac
@ztj.lol

…only The Lighthouse bears any real chance of maintaining importance long term. I don't think his output quality or judgement is predictable yet. That said, his other films are definitely interesting and probably earn him a little deference if he actually decides to get really weird with R + J.

Zac
@ztj.lol

@gruber.foo The AirPods 4 & 5 cases with wireless charging do have magnets, they're just the apple watch charger magnets. And the reason they don't have MagSafe magnets is because the cases are too small, the radius of the MagSafe magnets would exceed the case size substantially.

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Jake Gold
@jacob.gold

There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

Slow down frontier model development. Bring open weights to current frontier. Build out local inference providers, stabilize hardware prices, focus on cost and token throughput for a bit. Get our software updated to handle what's being thrown at us. I would not mind spending a beat on distribution.

Zac
@ztj.lol

There should be criminal charges.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

Wow. Turns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks: simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...

simonwillison.netOpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGemsBombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week. …

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Meredith Whittaker
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comWhy ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - NatureA review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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childsplaycharity.bsky.social
@childsplaycharity.bsky.social

After a sudden diagnosis and major surgery, a young Pokémon fan required a mechanical pump to keep his heart beating. To help him cope, his care team 3D-printed a miniature “PokeMate 3” version of the heart device he now relies on and attached it to his favorite Pikachu.

Zac
@ztj.lol

In the 1980s, let's say 1987, it typically cost $29.95 for a copy of a feature film on VHS. That's not all that far off from a UHD Blu-ray copy today, at least at MSRP. Which is to say, buying a movie today is comically cheap. $30 in 1987 is equivalent to about $88.50 in today's dollars.

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Zac
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So basically if you think things like movies and games cost too much today, the reality is they are ridiculously cheap. The real problem is you're getting fucked by the ownership class, or whatever you want to call employers. You should be making so much more money for what you do.

Zac
@ztj.lol

In the 1980s, let's say 1987, it typically cost $29.95 for a copy of a feature film on VHS. That's not all that far off from a UHD Blu-ray copy today, at least at MSRP. Which is to say, buying a movie today is comically cheap. $30 in 1987 is equivalent to about $88.50 in today's dollars.

Zac
@ztj.lol

Of course, you don't feel like it's cheap because the working class has been so massively, ridiculously screwed over starting principally in the late 1970s where increases in worker wages stopped going up to match increases in worker productivity.

Zac
@ztj.lol

(Actually it really started in the 60's) Even if you ignore productivity, minimum wage should be about $12.35/hr by inflation alone. But if you account for productivity, it would be nearly double that, ~$23.84 which is over 7x the minimum wage when a new movie cost ~$30.

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Philip Schiller
@pschiller.bsky.social

Happy 250th USA. 🇺🇸 🎆 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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John Gruber
@gruber.foo

“It's like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world's biggest hammer manufacturer.” daringfireball.net/2026/07/clau...

daringfireball.netClaude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside JobFelix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out t...
Zac
@ztj.lol

If you go by algorithmic media you might believe that everyone hates Supergirl and it's sooo terrible. 54% Tomatometer! But the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is 76%. That's really good! It's also a reminder that critics and algorithmic media are garbage 95% of the time and should be ignored.

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Zac
@ztj.lol

For my part, one of my all time favorite movies has a 30% tomatometer score and a 63% popcornmeter. I can recognize its strengths and many weakness, but that doesn't change the fact that I enjoy it every time I watch it and it still has one of the best movie soundtracks of its era. (It's The Saint)

Zac
@ztj.lol

I plan to watch Supergirl when I can stream it to my home theater. Based on what I've seen people saying, I expect it to be a misunderstood movie with some unimportant flaws that will be a nice addition to a series of comic-based movies that feel better than the genre has, overall, in years.

Zac
@ztj.lol

If you go by algorithmic media you might believe that everyone hates Supergirl and it's sooo terrible. 54% Tomatometer! But the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is 76%. That's really good! It's also a reminder that critics and algorithmic media are garbage 95% of the time and should be ignored.

Zac
@ztj.lol

That doesn't mean you're going to like the movie, it's just a reminder that you should form your own opinion on things or at the very least, establish an extremely strong reputational relationship with sources of opinion instead of being mind-controlled by techbro slop feeds.

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Signal
@signal.org

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

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Molly White
@molly.wiki

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

influence.citationneeded.newsTech Influence WatchTracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
Zac
@ztj.lol

Share a panel that always makes you laugh. IYKYK

Anne Loves Comics@annecomics.bsky.social

Happy Sunday Evening Share a panel that always makes you laugh This one is from Thanos Annual #1, 2018 by Chris Hastings, Flaviano, & Federico Blee

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LaurieWired
@lauriewired.bsky.social

Supercomputers / ML clusters / HPC often brag in FLOPS.
 The database world likes to show off something entirely different: tpmC tpmC is a highly complex measurement of the transaction performance…of a fake company.