Jernej Simončič �

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Today in 1962, 63 years ago: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

#OnThisDay

@dannyjpalmer Advanced Persistent Teenagers.
Imagine if we collectively spent just 10% of the resources that go into the AI bullshit hype machine on solving, you know, the myriad of existential problems humanity faces.
Really hilarious how you're all "covid is over" until it comes to conference registration when it's suddenly back, but the only purpose is not to keep anyone safe but to release @ACM from any and all obligation to do anything. #CovidIsNotOver #AlliesWearMasksChallenge #compass2025 🎭 🎉
I think about this a lot.
GitHub - kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in. Contribute to kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
@futurebird Address checkers are the worst, since they insist on including things like county or region, neither of which are part of our addresses, and they often reformat the street into something that's not used here (we use "Streetname 123", not "Streetname street 123", nor "123 Streetname", which some address checkers insist on).
More attacks by the US against the UN and ICC, we are going through scary times:
US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions
US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza

Trump administration targets special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, in latest action against critics of Israel’s war

The Guardian
Many seem to harbour wild fantasies about a superintelligent singularity enslaving humanity. In reality Skynet would fail the moment a certificate expired in one of its microservices and its "AI agents" got into an infinite fuckup loop trying to replace the cert with random strings scraped off Reddit.
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Yeah, thanks Jira.
@tdp_org Is this the dreaded JQL?! 🤔
@tdp_org Don't encourage Jira. It's been bad and it knows it.