RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/116150179474021938
The answer to the mystery: because my function had a `yield` in it, it was compiled as a generator. But executing the function never ran `yield`, so iterating it produced an empty sequence. The value from the return statement is ignored.
TBH, I know there is a way to get the returned value, but I have never needed to, and I don't know how.
The solution was to delete the code after the return.
@gknauss @Migueldeicaza I have a better solution to the problem of reading Twitter threads and it it this:
Utterly disregarding the thoughts of anyone who is still choosing to use Twitter in this, The Year of our Dystopia Two Thousand Twenty Six.
Anyone who is still making that decision is not worthy of my attention. I do not care what they have to say. They have disqualified themselves utterly.
This was on point too.
On a catchup call, I told my friend Nick Wignall how someone had trained an AI model to write blog posts in my style. It was a pure research exercise on their part. The idea was to train the tool on my past work, then give it the headlines and opening paragraphs of my 2025 […]
Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
I was recently quoted as saying, about online media, that we can “change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed.”
I thought I should offer details. So here’s a little scenario, the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how to make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/01/C2PA-For-Social-Media
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