Mastodawn

This is a good time to remember that as happens every few years, those EVs which are apparently low demand are suddenly in high demand from people who want their mobility decisions made by them and not a war they have no control over on the other side of the world.

Dan Mar 11

Riley S. Faelan Mar 11

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

Dan Feb 28

Paul Cantrell Feb 26

Things have been a •lot• quieter in Minneapolis the last 5+ days. There have been only a handful of kidnappings. (“Only a handful of kidnappings!” Words I can’t believe I’m actually saying….) Some days 1. Some days 0. (0 known, anyway.)

Things are •much• quieter. I am doing things I’ve been neglecting for weeks, months. I am posting about programming again.

And…not “but!”…and—

Nobody here, nobody, thinks we’re done with ICE and CBP.

Dan Feb 25

Draken BlackKnight Feb 25

@pluralistic on how Dozing Donald's horseshit is a funhouse mirror version of reality.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/

Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Dan Feb 25

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RantingCanuck Feb 25

@GarrickWinter @joshbuddy @pluralistic

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (because I've said it multiple times)... Canada Post has all the physical infrastructure required to replace Amazon for online shopping in Canada. Creating an online market place where Canadian vendors can list their wares on a fully searchable site with Canada Post providing the warehousing, order consolidation, and delivery / return functions would increase Canadian sovereignty, improve our domestic economy, and make things easier for Canadians.

Dan Feb 25

Marcus Hutchins

Feb 25

We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?

Dan Feb 18

maschmi Feb 16

Heard today: We need to use LLMs to write code faster. We need to use LLMs to generate user stories faster.

My take on this: you can do that or you can look for the underlying issues. More content and more code will not save you. Someone has to read, understand and maintain this.

To say it with the words of @pluralistic "Code is a liability". The same goes for me with content aka user stories. The longer they are, the more likely they won't be read and contain conflicting points.

#AI #LLM

Dan Feb 13

Gabriele Svelto Feb 12

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.

Dan Feb 5