Oh look at that, another report on the economics of ai datacenter buildouts https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/

Oh don’t worry, in the second Dyson sphere datacenter they’ll just heat up a metal heat sink per request and then eject that into the sun. Perfect for reclamation of energy.

JFC some CSAM collector stormed a Wikipedia conference with a gun https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/wikipedia-editors-conference-gunman-culture-war.html

lol, lmao: as if any cloud service had any intention at all of actually deleting data instead of tombstoning it for arbitrary lengths of time. (And that’s the least stupid factor in this whole scheme; is this satire? Nobody seems to be able to tell me)

I’m excited that Silicon Valley tech has finally managed to invent thinking. Makes this book obsolete at long last.

I didn’t see this article here yet, but I just saw it elsewhere and it’s pretty good: Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models

Poor rich guy, forced by the leftmost party available to support the party that is now constructing concentration camps.

Epic announced that it had pushed a hotfix to address Vader's unfortunate profanity, saying "this shouldn't happen again."

Translator: “We are altering the prompt. We pray that we don’t have to alter it further.”

Thanks. I simply switched to Fastmail over this bullshit. (“Simply” mileage may vary)

Ohhhh, so this is a forced-birther agenda item. Got it

I’m temporarily-boating up to Boston

About a year ago I exported my bookmarks from there and dropped them in a self-hosted instance of linkding (using the recipe that puts it on fly.io with backups to b2). It works like a charm.