Bumping into people

“The problem isn’t that he’s wrong” The problem is that critical thinking capacity is critically low among a populace of critical mass, that enables him to continue to spew nonsense.

“Children being brainwashed into critical thinking”

name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

AFP finds out that a woman is not concerned with proving that she is old. 😱

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

He means to say - “We shouldn’t pause money flowing to our pockets”

Property value - that’s all they care about. 🤦‍♂️

Looks like they removed all the ads from the start menu. 😂

This is exactly the kind of non-deterministic future that we need NOT accept. AI should not dictate how we interact. Make knowledge transfer great again! 🙂

I think Brexit is an extreme case of “familiarity breeds contempt”. The UK is so far off track that they don’t even realize how disingenuous this whole thing is for them.

I love this logo!

Anytime you hear someone say "It's hard for me/them to do [x]". Read a book/vote/ride transit/cook a meal whatever… And your first thought is "Well, it's easy for *me* to do it." Keep your mouth shut until you have a second thought.

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

Regular reminder!

I love how Satya Nadella has avoided using both Artificial Intelligence and Superinterlligence when announcing something related to AI. 😂

This is so funny and accurate! 😂

i'd like to report a serial killer

In the process I learned there is no good open source contrast algorithm so we're doing a survey on contrast to make one. Would be cool if you could take some minutes out of your day and do it. For science! contrastsurvey.earendil.com

Will this be encroaching into iPad sales? Definitely a small % at least. www.theverge.com/tech/1008422...

Trumpistan. That’s what I’ll call the US from now on!

This is so bad and wrong for so many reasons! No matter your views on death penalty, the perversity of turning it into a PR campaign is completely devoid of humanity. This enables radicalizing the extremists.

“The hard problem in AI is where you hide the human.” “Mythos is not magic. It’s a heavily subsidised vulnerability scanner that runs on humans and exists to sell you Claude. It’s not nothing — but it’s not much.”

Because it is much cheaper to make software, I could see a future where there will be more, less profitable SaaS companies and they’re going to compete on the Service part of their name now that the Software part is a commodity.

University fees scam. Run by the US administration.

“Back to my home planet”

How I arrived on Bluesky

Yay! Now I can start. 😄

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... “Software developers are not okay” by @baldurbjarnason.com

DR. NO was released 64 years ago today. The first Hollywood entry in the iconic James Bond series, and still among the most popular 007 films, the story of how it was made will leave you shaken and stirred…. 1/52

The street you live with is not the street you have to keep. livestreetsmart.com

What is this grave danger that communities in the US seems to be watching out for that other countries don’t experience? Seems like it is competing with China in cameras per sq ft.

Whoa! This is true.

Strong disagree. The likely destabilization of the economy and the potential job losses caused by AI in my opinion are most likely to result in a further rise of the far right, lack of focus on climate change, and a general crash in core public services for the working classes.

The accord on AI was not AI generated? How sad? /s

5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.

We wanted robots that would relieve us of menial tasks and free us up to be creative. Instead, we’ve ceded our creative selves to robots and ended up with all the washing and cleaning.

I figured out that a) I am often not the smartest guy in the room about the particular thing everyone in the room cares about right now; b) no one in the room will care about <some technical problem> 10 years from now, and for sure I will not; and c) people less smart have solved < problem> before.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

I have a social inept but kind hearted uncle who keeps using phrases like "water get place" and "liquid-sourcing shaft". He means well.