David Blume

@dblume
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A rock-climbing father of two and software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He/Him
Websitehttps://dblu.me/
GitHubhttps://github.com/dblume
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InterestsPython, C++, Web 2.0, Climbing, Reading
just saw this and wanted to share #time #Takiwatanga #Māori #Autism
Sean is exactly right.
Every American would be basking in luxury, or at least square meals and healthcare, if our government only thought that investing in ourselves was more prudent than destroying everybody else. A country led by self-proclaimed "fiscal conservatives," no less. They're throwing our riches away.
Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/3418197

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/

#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora

The vim command to convert links from MarkDown to DokuWiki:

:%s/\[\(.\{-}\)\](\(.\{-}\))/[[\2|\1]]/gc

Also: Hi Future Me! I knew you'd be back. This, too, shall pass.

"Cognitive offloading comes when you shift a discrete task over to a tool like a calculator; cognitive surrender comes when... the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the A.I.’s judgment as their own." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt-gemini-mcluhan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.nvg6.teoA33kuV9gh&smid=url-share
Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.

The New York Times

The insanity but done under a normal voice

THIS, this is the ‘President’ of the #US

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?