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Whenever I think, "When are the kids going to learn [to XYZ]?" and then reflect back on my own life I realize the answer is, "Sometimes in their 20s, or 30s, or 40s, or maybe their 50s, or maybe never."

Just discovered this apparently popular artist via this great cover youtube.com/watch?v=hysbWNn9WqI

It's weird living through 2001 again 14 years later

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

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/