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It's weird living through 2001 again 14 years later

daniel.industries/2025/04/27/culture-is-what-we-collectively-agree-upon/

@lcamtuf ...which recreates the conditions for the cataclysm, restarting the cycle

Looking at photos of California Condors, the 10yo boy says, "Looks like a drunk Lorax"

#catsofmastodon

I started system updates on the Mac, which forever insisted "1 min remaining". In the meantime I switched to my PopOS machine, ran system updates, browsed the Fedi for a while, and am now posting this. The Mac is still updating.

#BikeTooter

"I think I need an EDC setup for my commute from my bedroom to my home office."

-- @bjhess

bjhess.com/posts/appreciate-everything-endlessly-ii

"The people who make LLMs have little discernible interest in cognition itself. Some of them may believe that they’re interested in cognition, but what they’re really focused on is product — that is, output, what gets spat out in words or images or sounds at the conclusion of an episode of thinking.

"Seeing those products, they want to simulate them so that they can commodify them: package them and serve them up in exchange for money."

blog.ayjay.org/the-irrelevance-of-thinking/

Wow, this is unexpected. New track by Wild Colonials.