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jbeckers Jan 19

Augie Ray Jan 19

Wow, the northern lights over Greenland are incredible. 😆

jbeckers Jan 16

Shouty person Jan 16

Tell DuckDuckGo where you stand on AI.

https://voteyesornoai.com/

AI should be a choice. Here’s where you stand.

Voting has closed. See the final results of the public vote on AI.

jbeckers Jan 7

@jbaert eentje voor Marian Verhelst!
https://mastodon.social/@fj/115852652626696361

jbeckers Dec 19

mhoye Dec 18

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

jbeckers Nov 25

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!Nov 25

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years
Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years
Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years
Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years

Wishing another fifteen (and many more) to Randall Munroe, his wife (name unknown but it's not Megan), and everyone else. #FuckCancer

Two Years

xkcd

jbeckers Nov 14

Davey Nov 14

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.

jbeckers Jul 9, 2025

Ludic 🧛Jul 9, 2025

Someone did a writeup of a bunch of "AI-powered" startups attending a pitch competition, and it:

a ) is fucking hilarious
b ) involves one of the startups accidentally screen-sharing that their patentable technology appears to just be forked from an academic's work with no credit
3) further includes a radiology company admitting they haven't consulted any radiologists lmao

https://4u.lol/writing/artificial-innovation/

jbeckers Jun 26, 2025

Jeroen Baert Jun 26, 2025

Op het huwelijk van Jeff Bezos moeten de gasten tussen twee gangen door ook snelsnel in een flesje urineren, of ze worden vervangen door efficiëntere gasten.

jbeckers Jun 1, 2025

@jbaert ik neem aan dat deze al op je radar verschenen is. ‘t is echt heel heel goed
https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/114597559801440108

mandy brown (@[email protected])

I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

Mastodon 🐘

jbeckers May 22, 2025

JP May 21, 2025

Time for a new variation on a classic.