Just an old geek. Learned about computers on a CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation). Then the math teacher at HS got an old Navy surplus computer with drum memory. It had a high speed optical paper tape reader. From there it was BASIC, Cobol, FORTRAN, CMS-2Y, Jovial, Ada. Did some Java and C but never got that good. In retirement learning Rust.
Note: the main picture is from the B-24 my father was co-pilot on in the South Pacific
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This is hilarious. After decades where the conservatives pushed for “religious exemptions” based on “sincerely held beliefs”, a Catholic woman working at tech company just won a religious exemption: she won’t have to use AI in her work.
https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6
really loving @davidgerard's "no LLMs, please" standard he is developing, especially the AGENTS.md file. https://codeberg.org/awful-systems/AAA-NO-SLOP.md/src/branch/main/AGENTS.md
EDIT sorry, it's @zzt who is developing it 💪
The Intercept: Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
"...Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals.... “Domestic violent extremists (DVEs) are likely interested in targeting artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, posing a physical and cyber threat to infrastructure in the Philadelphia regional area,” the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center wrote in a December alert...."
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance/
Well, MAGA, here’s proof that Trump isn’t woke.
#MAGA #trump #republicans #25thamendment #iran #middleeast #epstein #woke #Israel #news #worldnews #embarrassment #politics
It's Friday! Woohoo!
Having a bit of a gaming session with the family & nearly forgot I had failed to post this earlier due to spotting Problem Sparkles at the last minute (the main problem being that I had forgotten to add them 🤦♀️).
Anyhow, now the Friends dance, and the wee Fairy Foxgloves have some sparkles.
As ever have a good weekend if you possibly can 
*heads back to gaming*
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