Lilly HunterQuite a phenomenal campaign ad from the Greens down in England. Strong. I firmly believe that any political party not running this same message will fail.
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MostlyHarmless
Plague PoemsYour friends are right
when they tell you
that laws
and institutions
and politicians
and media outlets
are not going to save us,
but your friends are wrong
when they tell you
that nobody
is going to save us,
for each of us is somebody
and so it falls to us
to save each other.
when they tell you
that laws
and institutions
and politicians
and media outlets
are not going to save us,
but your friends are wrong
when they tell you
that nobody
is going to save us,
for each of us is somebody
and so it falls to us
to save each other.
Steve Herman“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. … I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true
tofugolemWhile we are all discussing a health insurance system that murders 60k Americans per year for profit, I would like to remind everyone that this reporter released the Panama Papers, exposing a global network of tax dodging by wealthy people. No wealthy people went to prison, but she was murdered.
Not enough of us got angry about that.
Spotify screwing artists again; my take: find another streamer for your music https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ (hat tip: @gruber )
John GruberLooks like it’s time for the European Commission to launch an investigation into Apple Music: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/
Mike Schreiber 
#askatp Can you recommend a Mac and/or iOS app for playing albums that I own? Think ripped CDs, DRM-free iTunes purchases, Bandcamp MP3s, etc.
I use Apple Music for streaming, but I *hate* its matching service, which constantly replaces my uploaded music with tracks that are *similar*, but not quite the same. And from what I've seen, there's no way to opt out of matching when you use the Apple Music service.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)I can’t remember if I posted this here before but, I case I didn’t:
LLMs are the new memory-safety bugs.
The reason that memory-safety bugs are so bad is not that they’re common (they are, but they’d still be bad if we fixed 90% of them), it’s that they step outside of the language abstract machine. When a memory-safety bug occurs, the program will do something completely unpredictable. You can’t reason at the source level about what will happen. Some piece of unrelated state will me modified or used as input to some calculation.
This is how LLMs work by design. This is not a bug. They arrange data in an n-dimensional latent space and will give outputs that are nearby in that space, but you have no way of articulating the shape of that space in anything the resembles source code. If you ask a question about a topic, the latent space may contain nearby replies that include knowledge of that topic, or the gaps may have been painted in with something totally unrelated.
David HembrowThe frame is made of steel with really nice lugs and good quality brazing and very good paint. There is no rust anywhere. The mudguards are probably stainless steel. Again, there's no rust. Other parts are aluminium, and of course there's a bit of plastic and rubber.
I can still buy all the inexpensive parts I need to repair this bike, but I can't get the parts required to repair some modern bikes. Electric bicycles in particular become completely unmaintainable after a few years so I usually can't help people with those. But if you have one of these lovely old bikes and you take a bit of care of it, it'll last your whole life.
This is the level of reliability we should demand from manufacturers of everything that we buy.
