Mastodawn

Space exploration isn’t wasteful. Letting the worst of humanity do it their way for all the wrong reasons is wasteful.

“That money could be spent on real problems here!” We solve real problems here via science and engineering, both of which are advanced by space exploration.

Nobody is starving because we have a space program. People are starving because we have billionaires.

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Andrea Junker

2d ago

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire undocumented immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

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Ron Gilbert (Turing Complete)3d ago

I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.

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mcc 2d ago

I am happy with my dinky little ThinkPad running Linux. I am happy with my dinky little homemade LISP which I am currently transforming into a macro system for assembly language.

I feel like maybe, if the world could stop distracting me with new horrible things, I could sit on my dinky little ThinkPad, and work on my dinky little homemade LISP, and I could play a bit of "Tetris: The Grand Master", and I could have a day where I just really, unreservedly enjoy myself.

Maybe it will be tomorrow.

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Asta [AMP]2d ago

copilot deez nuts bitch

is what I'd say, but I'd rather my balls be cut off than use copilot

in fact

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Dr. Cat Hicks 2d ago

Feels like it's socially relevant information that every guy I knew in CS/HCI who was an unrepentant grifter dude making extreme unevidenced claims about human cognition ten years ago is flourishing in an AI position now and has "AI expert" all over their socials. Every. Single. One. Meanwhile every single woman I worked with back then is in like a laborious, rigor-intensive, multidisciplinary research role

God I wish I had our salary data

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mcc 3d ago

Targeting a pretty specific audience here, but: if you like the band Autechre, and you live in Japan, they just added two Japan concert dates (Osaka and Tokyo) to the end of their current tour, in February 2026 https://autechre.warp.net/shows?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=twentytwentysix&utm_campaign=Autechre%20-%20Japanese%20Announce

SHOWS

The official Autechre Store

AE_STORE

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Antifa International 3d ago

Fair warning.

#thelorax, #antifa, #respectmytranshomies

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int*domi;*domi=0; // @ GPN (call DOMI)Mar 24, 2024

oh, this train has power sockets! #MARCHintosh

Akkoma

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✧✦Catherine✦✧3d ago

not actively inviting a company that does mass surveillance for fascists into the community shouldn't be a high bar, for anyone, least of all a programming language whose team claims to care about equality and inclusivity

years ago i asked rust-lang to align their decisions with their stated values (of "black lives matter"), which they very much did not and as far as i know do not to this day. well, i've got a few more decades at least to keep reminding everyone of this