a beautiful history of the first and most effective educational television show

heartwarming, but also, it feels like a eulogy now

(rip teaching preschool kids how to be good humans and good citizens and good Americans)

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/1239646567/throughline-sesame-street

Last night I finally did a little #coding project with an #AI assistant. The tech is really good. It reminds me of pair programming with an eager, super talented junior dev: fast and competent, but with some bad habits and in need of guidance.

It’s so sad that we just got the #StarTrek computer, but instead of ushering in a post-scarcity socialist utopia, it’s going to destroy the climate, demolish creative craftsman jobs, and squeeze out the middle class for the benefit of greedy psychopaths.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer: the critics who think we’ve bought out the government are refusing to engage with the nuanced and complicated fact that Trump used to be anti-crypto before we started spending hundreds of millions of dollars on politics

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency

Why did Elon just say “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”? Apart from being a deranged sociopathic narcissistic fascist, he’s also part of a Silicon Valley death cult. These nuts made up a modern religion, with the trappings of scifi tech substituting for mysticism.

Simulation theory, effective altruism, autistic/IQ supremacy, conscious AGI BS… all emerge from the same core pre-rational parts of their (our) brains that presume and yearn for immortality, that wish to transcend icky bodily and prosocial demands, to be the player in a cosmic game of The Sims.

TESCREAL is another name for this modern cult of death and immortality and transcendence of human bodies and humane morals. The acronym stands for transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and longtermism — read the article by its coiner for more terrifying details:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

Tried to gather some thoughts about the “deletion” of 18F. Bottom line: None of this is about efficiency. We’ve known it for weeks and it’s plain as day. They’re simply removing any barrier to privatization, oligopoly, and plutocracy.

https://hillary.medium.com/deleting-18f-59fa6294628b

Reminder that Firefox has a pathway to specifying some settings, including ones not exposed to users any other way, with a config file stored on disk.

They call it enterprise policies but anyone can use it by just putting a file in the location indicated on that site.

You can disable entire features, opt out of Telemetry before your first launch of Firefox on a new install, declare you never want to be part of studies, turn off their ML integration and keep it off, force about:config preferences in a way that can't be "accidentally" reverted, etc.