Framing legislative social media bans for kids as a triumph against tech giants is a mistake I think. I see it as an admission of failure to impose any meaningful regulation on any of the corporations & as essentially admitting defeat & ceding the territory to them after erecting a makeshift fence.
RealHackHistory på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Douglas adams’s story about the civilization that built a giant computer that gave the ultimate answer but nobody knew what the question was so they put all their resources into building an even bigger computer just to figure out the question … it feels more plausible every day.
Azul på Mastodon (link til indlæg)
Log Lady: A drunken man walks in a way that is quite impossible for a sober man to imitate, and vice versa. An evil man has a way, no matter how clever to the trained eye, his way will show itself.
Twin Peaks (via Twin Peaks Quotes)
This Juneteenth, we should remind ourselves of two facts:
1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.
It’s as simple as that.
– Andrea Junker på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces All that scaling it up accomplishes is waste. LLM true believers are effectively arguing their tech accomplishes free energy when the costs mean it’s effectively the opposite
Baldur Bjarnason på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Donald Trump’s presidency is a morality lesson. He is a living example of what happens when a man is given power that far exceeds his character.
– William S. Becker: Resignation is Trump’s last chance at redemption. The Hill, 20.04.2026 (Link til artikel)
– every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
Poppyhaze på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
It is a well-established fact that the universe has a sense of humour. It is less well-established, but increasingly obvious, that the humour is of the kind best enjoyed from a great distance, like, let’s say the moon.
– Gold and Geopolitics. March, 19-21: God is a comedian
It will never stop being funny to me that the whole “you can’t trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it” scare happened and now Wikipedia is the only trustworthy website because it turns out profit motive is the reason things turn to shit.
– Al Sweigart på Mastodon – link til indlæg
It genuinely doesn’t matter how many technical skills I’ve learned. The skill I use the most is ‘writing clearly’. Being able to explain and communicate anything simply is more important to me than any degree of wizardry.
– Adrianna Tan på Mastodon (link til indlæg)