Gregory's Server
There seems to be a very strong correlation between tasks that can be accomplished by generative AI and tasks that are necessary solely as a result of bad choices made earlier.
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I was raised in a household where abortion was the biggest possible sin. I was progressive over all, even when I was still pretty religious, but abortion was a wedge issue. What started changing my mind was the realization of who was actually getting late term and partial birth abortions. Seeing beyond the idea of abortion, to the people who actually needed them, was fundamental to my understanding of it. I think Pete handled this perfectly: 
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@RickiTarr Anti-abortion people never stop to consider a woman's motive, her reason for getting an abortion. Sure, there's always talk of "the mother's health", but it's perfunctory and glossed over. They always assume that women who get abortions have selfish, evil motives. They take it for granted that the abortion is being casually employed as a kind of after-the-fact contraception, for convenience sake, when that is probably very rarely the case.  @RickiTarr I wasn't sure what to think about abortion but I know women don't do it for fun, like it must not be an easy decision...
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 @pluralistic i just finished reading this substack and am speaking happy to see Ed circulating. I'm a huge fan of both writers, Cory and Ed @pluralistic capitalism rewards those who own the right thing at the right time, whether due to luck, or knowledge. Generally it would be luck, because somebody has to own it but nobody can see the future. Teenage #trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference
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 @alspals Brave, courageous kids. They were scared, and went ahead anyway. I’m in awe.  It just occurred to me that the last time a Republican won the popular vote without the incumbency advantage was 1988. Wild. Mainstream media in Europe is having a meltdown over the relatively slow growth of electric cars and it's so silly because it's such a car-centric POV. Sales of electric bikes, mopeds and microcars have been booming. So the transition to electric vehicles is actually going fairly well if one realizes that there's life outside of the auto industry.  CVE -12000-0001 Agricultural Revolution will lead to unintended consequences many of which will be serious (CVSS 9.8) I had a dream last night of a version of the web in which all URLs have a SHA hash of the body section of their target at time of URL creation, allowing you to verify that their content hasn't changed, and have the browser automatically annotate contemporary changes. I can see several pretty big issues with this, but it felt like a fun idea.  computers are mostly about avoiding stuff these days. i mostly use computer like its a bullet hell shooter game "Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history." Read the full story: https://wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B   > Several major record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony, and Capitol, sued the Internet Archive over its Great 78 Project, a digital archive of a niche collection of recordings of albums in the obsolete record format known as 78s, which was used from the 1890s to the late 1950s. The complaint alleges that the project “undermines the value of music.” I'm... sort of becoming hopeful that we might just get on top of this whole climate change thing at some point? I don't want to rock the doomer boat too much, but the uptake of renewables over the past year or two has been utterly staggering. The numbers feel made up. Don't jump in my replies with "what about baked-in warming?" or "what about the insects?". Yes, yes, I'm a gardener. It's scaring the crap out of me already. But the energy transition was always one of the biggest components on the critical path out of this mess, and it does seem to be happening. Climate change is past-present-and-future at this point. It's already happened, it's continuing to happen, and it will continue to happen. But there's an enormous spectrum of possible outcomes here, and I'm starting to think that the more hopeful ones - where we fuck a lot of things up, but not quite enough to actually do us all an extinction - might be more plausible than I thought. Later today Britain’s last remaining coal-fired power station will shut down, bringing to a close 142 years of power generation that began when the world’s first coal-fired power station, at 57 Holborn Viaduct in London, started operation on 12th January 1882. When I created https://grid.iamkate.com in 2012, coal accounted for 40% of Britain’s power generation. It was overtaken by gas in 2015, nuclear and wind in 2016, and solar in 2019. As I write this, wind is producing 40% of Britain’s power.
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@kate Absolutely horrified by the attacks on Lebanon & my first thoughts are with friends and civilians caught up in Israel's genocidal rampage. But Syrians are celebrating Nasrallah's death today after the horrors he inflicted on our community. May all war criminals meet their end. linux software names: - Simple “People have called me a prison concierge” the mega-wealthy truly live in a different universe |
@david_chisnall not entirely related, but i thought of this quote from house
House: "she's loading me up with pointless paperwork"
Cuddy: "well, you're way behind on you're pointless paperwork"