Notices by Chief TWiT :twit: (leo@twit.social)

DOGE gave Russia access to private government data: https://leo.fm/2025/04/18/doge-gave-russia-access-to/

The Covid lockdown began in California five years ago today. Many of us turned to sourdough baking for consolation.

Not surprisingly I’m back at it.

We may have lost our democracy but at least I’ve gained the perfect sourdough bagel.

Can someone please tell this orange nitwit that “transgenic” is not “transgender.” No we are not making transgender mice. Scientists are using genetically modified (i.e. transgenic) mice to find cures for human diseases. WTF.

Um. Don’t you mean nerdy?

We're tearing down the paywall!

https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/club-shows-now-open-everyone

Mikah unboxed the Vision Pro yesterday. It was more fun watching him play with it than actually trying it myself.

I just completed "Wait For It" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/6

Well that was easy.

Christmas Eve in Petaluma. Happy holidays everyone. I hope you’re spending time with someone or something you love. ❤️

I'm freaking out. I just created a GPT to help me answer Lisp questions. I uploaded 10 of the best Lisp books (including Graham, Norvig, Siebel, and Touretzky) and it's giving me great answers. This is even better than the Hyperspec. What an amazing tool. It took me less than half an hour. I'm blown away.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-HrUtFVno8-lisp-expert

@jramskov @jsnell Kagi is not playing these games.

Don’t kid yourself. “Artificial intelligence“ is just Big Tech’s way of saying “hey, it’s not our fault. It’s the machine’s!“ In point of fact, every malign use of “AI“ is really just some human-composed algorithm doing something that maximizes profit at the expense of people. We must not let these companies off the hook. They’re in charge. Not the machine. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

Happy May Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZaJDg6E0A

Sodden thought: do you think there’s a connection between the number of tattoos person has, and the number of bumper stickers on their car?

I haven't tweeted in months.

Christmas cocktails with the TWiT team.

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

@evan
Somewhere, some day you'll get the credit you deserve for all this.

Thank you! You did it first!

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/37?autostart=false

@mastohost Not only do we understand, we applaud you.

You have been doing amazing work, Hugo. And I really truly appreciate the opportunity you have given us.

Thank you. ?

Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...

...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.

If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.

First! ? Only. ?

Welcome to the new TWiT Mastodon Instance! It's like Twitter but open, federated, and dedicated to TWiT Fans. My new handle is @leo - see you there!