Andrew Layton

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility

International Transgender Day of Visibility - Wikipedia

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is heading for a loss of 14 billion dollars this year. Its market share is plummeting, and CEO Sam Altman recently admitted that they have “screwed up” their product. All it takes now to accelerate that decline is ten seconds of your time:

Cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

#QuitGPT

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.

The Verge
COLLINS: After you told ICE to get the F out of the city, I've seen a lot of Republicans criticizing you for escalating tensions. What do you say to that?

JACOB FREY: I'm so sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but here's the thing: if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb and on the other you have someone who killed somebody else
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time
People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam. Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.
Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

@npc @brendonbigley @viticci @johnvoorhees

Just listened to the latest episode of NPC XL, and if I could, I would like to suggest any other company besides Framework to support. Their ideas around sustainability are good, but not if we’re sustaining a future with Nazis in it.

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_controversy/

Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

: Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance

The Register