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I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights. Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

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And, now you know.

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Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

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Every accusation of a secret trans cabal that supposedly controlled silicon valley was in fact an admission.

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the world does not need you to have a take on everything

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Some personal news: meet my new replacement at the all new Observer newspaper. Yes, it’s Facebook’s very own Nick Clegg. Congrats to everyone involved in this absolutely stellar signing. Take a bow. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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Are there any companies that do #continuousdelivery #cd in #dotnet and modern c# in London ? I mean, actually do it well? Any at all?

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Just like with Covid those watching who actually understand what is happening know that we haven’t even seen the impact yet. The ripples haven’t started to turn into waves yet and they will. America is about to go through some things in a way that many do not even remotely understand.

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Since I couldn't find it in @ardalis.com's feed, I'm stealing it from his Linked In Post:

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It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

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woke up with this in my head and now it's your problem

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The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products. Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe. Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because of a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.

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Good morning. Here is a love song to the filth we left behind. And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible iandunt.substack.com/p/a-love-son...

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A large-scale study of dev activity in the IDE found that only 1.7% of developers did TDD at least some of the time. This is a number worth remembering when listening to strong opinions - positive or negative - about TDD.

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WHEN I BECOME PLANETARY EVIL OVERLORD: Let it be decreed that henceforth: a) "Football" will only ever mean the sport 'Merkins call "soccer" b) The Thing known currently as "Football" in 'Murrica will be known henceforth as "American Rugby".

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Tried it. It's true. LLMs don't say "I don't know" when they don't know. Because they have no way of knowing they don't know. Because they don't know anything. A factually accurate response and a completely hallucinated response are the same thing to these models.

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There it is. The clam before the storm.

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Labour seem unable to understand that they did not win the last election, the Tories lost it. The country is crumbling around our ears and the Tories didn’t care. Labour got in because people wanted a better world. Working public services, better life for their kids, liveable spaces. Not this.

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every single time, the meaning is clarified if you just replace "Judeo-Christian" with "Christian"

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The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

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Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: tomcox.substack.com/p/some-photo...

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Pope Francis was the first pope to take an entirely new papal name since Pope Lando.

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"'After a fat pope, a thin pope."

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The live action remake of Conclave has the chance to do the funniest thing

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LLMs are like a shimmering oasis on the horizon - beautiful, persuasive, and full of promise. You walk toward it, only to find it was never really there. The closer you look, the more the illusion breaks down And yet, you're thirsty, you keep chasing the next shimmer, hoping this time it's real

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good morning, found out about the news by waking up, opening WhatsApp and seeing that a friend had messaged "Oh my god JD Vance has Liz Trussed the pope"

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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Every few years Western democracies elect conservative demagogues and travel alongside them on their learning journey to discovering that huge challenges like meaningfully cutting spending, changing global supply chains, and forging peace in war zones are actually quite complicated.

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Kicking off our Open Source Sponsorship program this quarter, where our developers picked a project we'll sponsor for 12 months: 🙌 Shouldly Assertion Framework We're using it ourselves, and here's why you may want to: duende.link/w4whryh #dotnet #testing

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Excellent thread from @andrewprlevi.bsky.social. I'd put some of it slightly differently, but the basic framing is right IMO.

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