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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:12:00 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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   Also, I think using hosted models is strictly unethical for surveillance and energy usage reasons.

   It *is* true that there are models you can run locally that are much, much more efficient, and I suspect the energy costs on training them can be dramatically reduced.

   I don't use either presently, but using a local model to help you navigate a codebase (as opposed to generating code) is a very different thing, I think. But it's also not what most people are doing!

   And hosted AI models, as I said, I think are fully objectionable from an ethics perspective.

   Datacenters are an antipattern in the general case. AI datacenters, triply so.

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   Bernard Marks (bernard@friends.ravergram.club)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 04:10:03 JST Bernard Marks

   A new study has exposed waste and abuse in the industry that is meant to ‘end’ homelessness. It revealed that taxpayer dollars that have been earmarked for this problem have been funneled to radical left wing causes for political reasons.

   It actually makes perfect sense. There are lots of people who make a ton of money fighting homelessness. Why would they want the problem to be solved? That would mean an end to their industry.

   This is a reminder that progressives do not actually care about the homeless. They see them as a means to an end. A way to fund their preferred political causes.

   A new study just exposed the corruption behind America’s homelessness crisis

   A groundbreaking investigation, “Infiltrated” – backed by more than 50 pages of documentation from the Capital Research Center in cooperation with Discovery Institute – pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. It reveals how billions in taxpayer funds intended to lift people out of homelessness have instead bankrolled radical activism and anti-American political agendas, betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless they were meant to help…

   It exposes how radical networks have quietly embedded themselves within leading homelessness nonprofits, sharing infrastructure, donors and ideology.

   What began as a movement rooted in compassion has metastasized into what can only be described as a Homelessness Industrial Complex – a sprawling web of nonprofits, bureaucrats and activists feeding off the very crisis they claim to solve.

   They’ve built an empire of corruption draped in “evidence-based” slogans that shield politics, protect paychecks and betray the vulnerable.

   The report lays it bare: these networks posture as defenders of America’s homeless, yet in truth, they have become their greatest exploiters, dependent on failure to sustain power.

   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-study-just-exposed-corruption-behind-americas-homelessness-crisis

   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/study-reveals-taxpayer-funds-meant-end-homelessness-are/

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   WesDym (wesdym@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 12:14:48 JST WesDym

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   @br00t4c If we can't trust the judgment of a man who drinks from a grinning turd, who can we trust?

   Sometimes people are right for the wrong reasons.

   It probably was politically motivated, but also predictable. Kirk's own followers have said, in so many words -- and to his face, in public, on camera -- that they want to shoot HIS enemies for that reason alone.

   THEY gave EXPLICIT license to THIS kind of violence. That made it all but inevitable that it would eventually happen.

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   Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:42:42 JST Patricia Aas

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   4/ Fundamental "logical" conclusion of the book:

   To *force* an organization to produce micro services (the epitome of software development) and not to risk a monolith (because those are the only two options that exist to man) one must create an organization that mimics micro services by eliminating as much cross team communication as humanly possible.

   An organization that cannot communicate is the optimal organization.

   Such an "optimal" organization consists of teams full of drones that do what what they're told, have no need to understand the broader context in which they exist, and that don't have the "cognitive overload" of integrating that context into their work. They will NOT (unless carefully orchestrated) communicate with anyone outside their bubble.

   This is optimal because reasons.

   It is a made up intellectual exercise that undermines decades of proven progress in software development, creating countless silos with all the associated problems. It is anti-agile, anti-devops, anti everything, and they don't even realize.

   The rest of the book is other peoples work.

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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 05:11:16 JST jwz

   Yeah, so, yesterday I wrote a whole-ass VT100 emulator from scratch. I had my reasons.

   It's way more complicated than it has any right to be.

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   LiteralGrill (literalgrill@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 04:42:55 JST LiteralGrill

   Bluesky users celebrating Jesse Singal topping the most blocked chart when literally only .2% of the site's user base is blocking him...

   I hate this. He should be removed, but it's extremely clear a massive majority simply don't give a fuck and they'll likely just ignore this. I wish that .2% would just come over here, but I don't see it happening for a wide number of reasons.

   It just sucks overall.

   #Bluesky