
Faith is belief without evidence. By definition that is the abdication of reason.
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

Faith is belief without evidence. By definition that is the abdication of reason.


Even ‘ls’ has an assload of sorting options - by last accessed time, last modified time, yadda
A simple shell or Perl script will do if you want to sort media files by metadata, an AI can easily code one up for you.
But you sure don’t need to do a few billion matrix multiplications every time you do this sort routine.

Funny I volunteer doing wildlife rescue, the local library, and the local food pantry. I’ve made deep personal connections to my community in those ways…
… without sacrificing my reasoning capacity


Anyone pointing out that this was a subcontractor not CISA itself should review the FedRAMP requirements that CISA played a big hand in shaping.
Contractors and subcontractors are subject to the same requirements/standards as the main project. And are supposed to be audited for compliance on a regular basis, usually every 90 or 180 days

Double down on bad information. It’s the worldwide Conservative/hyperneoliberal/post-truth playbook.
They never change their position based on new information.
This is what happens when the faith-based mindset dominates politics.


Sort of an anti-admire, train wreck appreciation
What if Trump were way WAY more radical and less rich


This entire pie chart makes up the less than 5% of the actual Universe made up of particles that our crude senses and instruments can detect.
We are a bit of cosmic pollution; the Universe would be essentially unchanged if all normal matter in it disappeared.
And some people think Sky Daddy made the whole thing Just For Them
Le mató
Policia
May the servers run smoothly and the RAM never leak
How long offline? If less than a week not going anywhere


behave in war in ways that have no relation to the actual realities of war
Can’t help but think of Trump’s delusions about the state of the Strait


Wow… I did not know about “Hedgehog 2025”. It is kind of a slap in the face wake-up call


If you have AI generate all of your code, you’re going to have a bad time
I agree with “all”, but the percentage AI can do usefully is increasing quickly and depends a lot on your having written down and documented everything the super-smart-sometimes-hallucinating new employee needs to know.


Consider research or academia.
Or on the other end, go into setting up networks & hardware.
Computer science isn’t going away. Computer programming is.

Trump and the Religious Right following Bibi and the Religious Likud backward away from secular democracy and into religious barbarism
Erosion of democratic structures like an independent judiciary, a functioning Congress, an independent media, an educated public…


Should have gone with Ukrainian drone defenses


This is a good time to consider Calyx Institute private SIM cards
https://calyx.org/help/memberships/sprout-membership/setting-up-your-sprout-sim-card


Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic have been knocking it out of the park reporting on the Trump administration


Wrong
We fire the Sr Dev and get the cheaper Jr Dev to oversee the AI
vim all day
They will take it from my cold dead hands
Save the Ugandan children