Joe Oswald

@jaoswald
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I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."

#AI #GenAI #VibeCoding #Programming

Call your Reps (edited since it is now in the House’s hands) now. @5calls can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.

#USpol #bbb #Indivisible #50501Movement #democracy #NoKings

RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.

Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.

(Published 2022)
https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirth-vaccines-pregnancy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Covid #Vaccines #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Health #Pregnancy #Women

“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.

A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.

ProPublica
@azonenberg not sure there is anything that meets your requirements but maybe modelers have something that could work? Model ships have need for tiny lines being tied down in various ways. E.g.
https://www.midwestmodelyachting.com/Turnbuckles-Rigging-Screws_c_161.html

On May 28, 2025 Eleanor Young will give the talk "The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System" at the 2025 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industry Summit (CCECE). She will discuss what other historical software recovery groups can learn from the Medley Interlisp Project.

https://ccece2025.ieee.ca/technical-program

https://ccece2025.ieee.ca

#retrocomputing #interlisp #lisp #SoftwarePreservation

Technical Program - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2025

IEEE CCECE 2025 – Technical Sessions ML1 Tuesday, May 27 | 08:30 – 09:45 | Room: MCLD 3018 | Chair: Hamed Aly 08:33 — Genetic Algorithm-Driven Feature Selection for Total Harmonic Distortion Prediction Using Hybrid Machine LearningMahmoud Kiasari, Hamed Aly 08:51 — Adaptive Security for IoT: Lightweight Device ...

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2025

Note to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):

the hachyderm admins blocked me personally - if you try to follow me from hachyderm, it lies and tells you this account is "suspended" - and i still have no idea why

coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.

they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was

and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos

it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness

so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself

feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate

edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocutious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. https://github.com/hachyderm/community/issues/579

edit 2: it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me! that they lie that my account is "suspended" and go into sub-GPT blathering when asked why is, I submit, a good reason to reevaluate hitching your wagon to their hungover seaside donkey

@[email protected] shows "account suspended" from hachyderm.io · Issue #579 · hachyderm/community

What would you like to discuss with us or let us know? I have been following David Gerard's written work regarding cryptocurrency and AI hype in addition to other rot-economu issues for some time. ...

GitHub
@amoroso Is this PDP-10 erasure?
1. BREAKING

Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

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to those who tell me it's not AGPLv3's fault:
- i claim this is the primary way in which the AGPLv3 license is utilized, in terms of number of deployments
- FSF encourages "selling exceptions"
- FSF encourages copyright assignment
therefore, FSF and AGPLv3 explicitly encourage this behavior. even if you try to claim it is not the "intended" one, it is the one that happens in practice