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Nothing like colonoscopy prep during a severe thunderstorm.
You will be unsurprised to learn that EFF's decision to leave the site formerly known as Twitter is not popular over on the site formerly known as Twitter.
update on the "FPGA IBM System/370 mainframe" -- this isn't gonna be one of those spiffy fancy-dancy big mainframes crammed on a chip, it's gonna be a clone of the IBM 37T -- basically an IBM 4331 (with a workstation adapter for 3270 displays and an integrated DASD controller for attachment to hard disks) with a 1280x1024 VGA controller, mouse/keyboard interface, and Ethernet adapter

the goal is for this to be a usable computer when I finish it sometime in August!
The tl;dr here is that something that most people in Silicon Valley already know: Sam Altman lies a lot. Just constantly. About big and little things. And every effort to hold him accountable has failed. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

The New Yorker
I have added Chinese Five Spice to the matzoh balls and I regret nothing. The chicken broth will include sesame oil and jalapeno.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dey/116348931324173897

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

burning down your own house by unchaining ai will get more expensive

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907074/anthropic-openclaw-claude-subscription-ban

Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra

The popular combination of OpenClaw and Claude Code is being severed now that Anthropic has announced it will start charging subscribers extra to access its AI with third-party tools. 

The Verge

RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116343709194773175

AI is Bias at Scale.

AI is making a product of "We've always done it this way."

Microsoft Copilot terms of service have been updated to include this gem: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service/
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

: Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

The Register