Notices by Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)

“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them.” From @anildash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

“If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”

It occurs to me that “the purpose of the system is what it does” and “the intent of the system is what it does” are subtly different statements and tightly intertwined but very often conflated and it could be productive to disentangle them a little bit

@ariadne my inability to tell whether any text I enter into text box or command line on my computer will get sent to another computer is drubbing be fucking nuts

@amydentata always has been

@amydentata I often say that a lot of safety engineering is laundering the principles of intersectional queer feminism for a mostly cis straight white male audience, and the haters can be referred to chapter 13 of Prof. Leveson’s book

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world.pdf

@silvermoon82 @inthehands @KimPerales I have something even worse for you: DOGE either directly compromised by or actively in league with Russian foreign intelligence

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

@skinnylatte I am told that the way one gives a penguin an MRI is one puts it in a traffic cone

@futurebird @psentee @wroong We’ve spent billions of dollars and finally made computers worse at math

@skinnylatte there’s a really awesome biriyani place in Santa Clara. Golkonda.

@inthehands @dpiponi Oh that is in fact the book on my bookshelf which I had been meaning to get to, well then

@inthehands @dpiponi it occurs to me that some of the L-systems playing I’ve wanted to do might be easier in a turtle framework

"What I'm asking [us] to do is build a better world for [ourselves], for everyone around us, and for all other life on the planet—and as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with #climate change! And as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with physical pollution!" –@debcha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8riA6Mk5gU

@whitequark Russia

@lzg @igb i mean, it’s probably lying, the little shit, but man I would love to know how much classified-looking information you can get out of it

@skinnylatte Honestly every time people were like, how do you live in SoMa, I’m like sure too many of my neighbors live in tents on my sidewalk but we take care of each other

@skinnylatte It turns out most people are great, actually. (The world works, I say, because most people want it to work.)

“Why does all software require a subscription now” well you connected all the computers to the internet and now shit like this happens you dingdong

https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/113709550379921425

@Bronwyn And yeah it fucking sucks that my neighbors don’t know where they’re going to sleep tonight, maybe let’s build a lot more fucking housing and stop whining about our property values okay

@Bronwyn I lived there four years. It was fine. I had fourteen housemates and in the whole time we had only one time there was anything remotely threatening to any of us (attempted mugging). The guy living in a tent on the sidewalk outside the house rescued my road atlas when my car window got busted in and gave it back to me. It’s purely aesthetics and lies that people are mad about it