Mastodawn

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

David Mason Jun 6

Wonder of Science Jun 5

A stunningly beautiful jellyfish (Crossota sp.) spotted by an ROV at a depth of 2.3 miles near the Mariana Trench.

📽️: NOAA OER

David Mason Jun 6

Paul Tichonczuk Jun 3

For pride month, you can no longer use the phrase "let me get this straight".
You have to use "just so we're queer".

David Mason May 7

Daisy Leigh May 6

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

David Mason May 7

Information Is Beautiful May 6

WTF is a stone?

by Reddit user u/rwired

David Mason Apr 16

Information Is Beautiful Apr 16

Ever heard of the Butter Line?

David Mason Apr 15

Jonathan Schofield Apr 15

So far, only about 1% of the British electorate has registered an interest in having a vote on channeling water management away from dumping effluent for profit and instead into public ownership for health.

Perhaps we can bump the numbers a bit, at least to the point where how not to enshittify what we drink and cook with might be debated by MPs?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

Petitions - UK Parliament and UK Government

David Mason Mar 23

Happy #worldbearday!

Celebrate by listening to Bearnoises, "A band from Manchester, England with a BEAR as a vocalist."

https://www.bearnoises.com/