I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems
– Liza Daly på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Forfatter: Morten Juhl-Johansen
Singularitet opnået
Fake AI is generating a very real bullshit singularity where the amount of stupid accumulating exceeds my ability to make fun of it all.
– @seldo på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Sometimes it sticks
I have grudges old enough to run for Senate.
– @donaldball på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Too big to fail/too flawed not to fail
Look, if you think the fact that my Internet of Shit door-lock failed because the company that designed it made no plan to let me into my house if they went out of business would make me sympathetic to that company, you are out of your fucking mind.
– Cory Doctorow – Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023)
Den lange rejse til…
Han var et menneske, der dannede sine meninger, mens han sagde dem, eller måske efter at han havde sagt dem, hvilket betød, at han var nødt til at ævle løs temmelig længe, før han fik ordentligt greb om, hvad hans overbevisninger var. Dette gjorde talens brug til en opdagelsesrejse for ham – en opfattelse, andre ikke nødvendigvis delte.
– Tom Rachman: Storhed og Fald
Oh, last night
She handed me my Harlot Red lipstick. Okay, it was called Cherry Berry, but they’d have to rename it after the way I’d behaved last night.
– Susan Hatler: License to date
Den store ubalance
At nogle mennesker vågner af sig selv om morgenen og er friske, er simpelthen den største urimelighed. Der kan man tale om chanceulighed.
– Jakob Mark: Fartblind
Den urokkelige hvisken
Instant messaging combines the ephemeral nature of a whisper, with the incriminating permanence of a stone tablet. Worst of both worlds in that sense.
Betændt
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
– W.H. Auden: A Certain World
Godt for ondt
I am not scared of hell. It is just heaven for bad people.