Yeah, it's like when engineers create gloves that can "recognize sign language" and then translate them with text-to-speech. These guys don't consult with actual sign language speakers and miss the fact that there's more to ASL than hand gestures.
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Yeah, it's like when engineers create gloves that can "recognize sign language" and then translate them with text-to-speech. These guys don't consult with actual sign language speakers and miss the fact that there's more to ASL than hand gestures.
This piece is very important on its own merits and resonates with some initiatives I’ve seen for other causes like sex worker rights, reproductive justice, & harm reduction. You can’t just show up and ignore stakeholders/communities that your idea is more solid than their experiential knowledge.
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Draw rainbows across those signs.
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
People who use the word "charity" as a pejorative are assholes. They may be polite and soft-spoken assholes expressing their "concerns", but they're still assholes.
The map and buildings have a size that you can fill with workbenches, crop fields, etc. Instead of visuals, you get reports of stats. This might be more fun to design than play.
I play a lot of Rimworld and I really like all the systems and mechanics it has. I was thinking of how to design a simplified, text version of it. Not like Dwarf Fortress, but removing the 2D geometry altogether in favor of a "bag" approach...
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
I asked the LLM to write Python code, and instead of random.randint(0, 1) for each cell in a grid, it used: 1 if (hash((x, y, id(board))) ^ (x * 1315423911 + y * 2654435761)) & 1 else 0 Which... yeah I guess if you really don't want to import random and set a seed, that works...
I want to come up with a term for software products or services that are free of charge, do not have advertisements, do not require registrations/sign up, do not have in-app purchases, and do not require access to the user's personal information. The opposite of "enshittified". Fairware? Saneware?
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
My story is at the top of the @wired.com homepage, read my scoop about the Democrats secret paid influencer efforts! www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
When you hear "crabtaur" do you think of: 1. Crab head, torso, arms and horse body 2. Human head, torso, arms and crab body
Things that are cool when rich people do them: speak multiple languages, get money from the government, spend the night in a tent, drink alcohol, do drugs, have a lot of kids, spend too much money on minor luxuries, drive a large vehicle...
If you have Python installed, you can install and run new games with `pip install rpsarena` and `python3 -m rpsarena`
And they're technically unicode emoji text, not graphics.
There is a slight random jitter and units push away from like units so that they don't all bunch up.
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
`pip install rpsarena` to install Rock Paper Scissors Arena, a thing I've been working on. I think I should start an online gambling site around it.
Chances of a retraction when the inevitable happens?
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
Uh huh. He's pulling the "how am I supposed to explain this to my kids?" homophobic BS? Yeah, we all know what you really want to say, Snoop.
the Cuomo and Adams responses to Zohran’s scavenger hunt are the most “we’re going to lose this race by 30+” responses I’ve ever seen
Yup. "Who else is he going to throw under the bus?"
Thank goodness for the people I derided as “gun nuts” preventing a tyrannical government from sending soldiers into American cities to crush dissent, just like they said they would. Oh. Wait.
Heeheehee, the recap PDF includes a photo of me with my fake-arm snake puppet I used in my talk. 🐍🦾 "Make Python Talk, Make Python Listen" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUv...
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But I knkw this: Mamdani won the primary. If the Democratic establishment wants the left voting blue no matter who, they damn well need to be visibly providing their full-throated support when a candidate from the left beats the establishment pick in a Democratic primary.
But Mamdani isn't a serious candidate until he molests my wife, kills my grandmother, and resigns in disgrace.
Ack! 1999? That's right, they were talking about Y2K in it. It came out a quarter century ago. :(
Game on.
"If you don't vote for Newsom because of his anti-trans policies, you'll be the reason he loses!" That's right. So what is Newsom going to do to attract the votes he needs to win?
I made an Office Space reference online and then realized that movie came out 20 years ago. :(
It's funny that the fascists use any tattoo as an excuse to accuse any brown-skinned man of being a gang member, because the cops with sleeve tattoos think of themselves as hunters of men, not civil servants. This one is rolled up for show. www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-fi...
Regular people have trouble understanding that rich people don't go to the Power Store to buy power by the pound. Money helps, but the power for A to make B do C is different from wealth. You have to do seemingly bizarre and definitely wasteful things to convert money into power.
NEW Renegade Cut on my YouTube channel. It's on The Saboteur, a game about anti-Nazi resistance movement. Topical! Be sure to hit LIKE and subscribe to the channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ebi...
Fascism. Yeah, the Nazi Germany kind.
Honestly, the days of ‘reaching’ MAGA partisans is over, imo. If it ever even existed. We’re entering an era where you’re either against authoritarianism or you’re for it. The days of ‘Well, maybe they’ll wake up’ are long gone.
Part of me wonders if I should write all my blog post ideas as zines, as this will require me to think about length and visual imagery. Twitter's length limits made me a better writer, maybe the zine format would make better blog posts.
Fascism. Yeah, the Nazi Germany kind.
...and then at the last second, the scorpion pulled the football away and the frog kicked empty air, causing them to fall over. "AUUUUUGH," shouted the frog. "You blockhead," said the scorpion.
"If you're making good points, then why am I aggressively misunderstanding them?!?!"
"Excuse me, could you keep an eye on my laptop?" Whoa. The fortune teller lady said I'd get a free laptop today... "..." ...so you're lucky that I already stole this laptop from the Apple Store. Sure, I'll watch your laptop.
the times objectively thinks bribery by the staff of the current mayor is less urgently newsworthy than the admissions application for a mayoral candidate to a college he didn't get into.
"The vibe coding trend has cured my impostor syndrome because now I've seen what real impostors look like."
People are saying the bribe amount was insultingly low, but what they don't realize is that there's an implicit promise of getting a SECOND offer of a light snack...
*meanwhile at the Greco home* HUSBAND: "Honey, why are there sour cream and onion potato chips in the bank envelope?" GRECO: "Whaaaa? But that would mean... oh, gee golly jeepers!" *boing sound effect. audience laughter*
DE BLASIO: ‘WELL, WELL, WELL, NOT SO EASY TO FIND A MAYOR THAT DOESN’T SUCK SHIT, HUH?’ theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
Well, any time you open a potato chip bag with bribe money, you're going to be disappointed by how much of it was air.
To be fair, the potato chip bag with bribe money is mostly air...
I've spent several days reading vibe coding articles and subreddits and I cannot stress enough how true this Onion headline from two years ago is: theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
"Target CEO steps down as company faces weak sales and customer boycott" Not enough. I'm not buying from Target until they put the previous DEI initiatives back. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
FreeVPN.One, a Chrome extension with over 100,000 installs and a verified badge on the Chrome Web Store, is exposed by researchers for taking screenshots of users’ screens and exfiltrating them to remote servers. cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-e...
I lived in the bay area in the 2010s and hung around EA folks. They're exactly what you imagine: people who suck at life but are good at math so they try to turn everything into math. Some got rich off bitcoin. Others would have but lost their encryption keys. Both think that makes them geniuses.
I JUST CHECKED WIKIPEDIA AND I'VE GOT GREAT NEWS FOR EVERYONE.
Sometimes I forget if Colin Powell is dead or not.
We've already outlived Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Swaggart. Let's make it a hat trick.
A rat done bit my sister Nell, (With Whitey on the Dyson Sphere) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_...
Lousy jay-eaters. Learn how to have lunch and get out of the way of my car!
Lousy jay-eaters. Learn how to have lunch and get out of the way of my car!
I spent way too much time writing this comment on my trash picking hobby, so I decided to post it to my socials: www.metafilter.com/210017/This-...
OH: "give us huge $ investment, and when we make AGI, the AGI will know how to give you huge returns." Tech bros love reinventing trains, and buses, and even Pascal's Wager. Now they're reinventing the prosperity gospel.
I asked ChatGPT 5 to create a Python program for an interactive periodic table of elements. This is what it gave me:
Hey fellow olds, can you ask a teenager if they know what a "screensaver" is and what it's for? Is there another term for "software that just makes cool visuals for you to stare at for a while"?
Zoom needs to have an "Add Pants" filter for whenever you stand up. Visionary ideas like this are why I make the big bucks, people.
The PSF board election starts Sep 2. I endorse @simonwillison.net Simon Willison is one of the co-creators of Django. In the current hype bubble, he is one of the only people I trust to be knowledgable and sober about AI. PSF Fellow, previous PSF board member. inventwithpython.com/blog/psf-can...
The Python Software Foundation's board elections begin Sep 2. I am pleased to endorse the following nominees: Abigail Dogbe, Archana Vaidheeswaran, Daniele Procida, Jannis Leidel, Sheena O'Connell, Simon Willison inventwithpython.com/blog/psf-can...
New signs were up this afternoon and bands were playing
Cops and klan go hand in hand. Police are there to protect literal nazis, and the nazis know it. They constantly bait and do simple assault against anyone who stands up to them.
If you're making a good point, then how come I'm aggressively misunderstanding it?!?!
Little side quest I finished up: Python whereismyip package, which uses free, no-registration, geolocation services. pypi.org/project/wher... It complements my whatismyip package pypi.org/project/what...
"Rich people are smart!" Most pancreatic cancers are terminal, but Steve Jobs had a rare kind that was operable. Jobs did not put billions into pancreatic research afterwards. The cancer came back and killed him before his €105 million super yacht was finished. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(...
All computer problems can be solved by turning it off and then not turning it on.
QUIET, INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS.
I have a new idea for a project but I am not immediately registering a domain name. Please clap.
I was called anti-American in college cause I said the Iraq invasion was stupid. Meanwhile, the frat that countered our anti-war protest held up a bedsheet banner with "Kick their ass and steal their gas!" They know what they are and what they really believe. Words don't mean anything to them.
More vibe coding experiments. ChatGPT5/Gemini/Claude can produce a basic notepad.exe program, but when told to make a pinball game it keeps producing pong instead. When I dive into more specifics, it produces, uh, this. The right flipper flips the wrong way. Ai iS GoInG To rEpLaCe pRoGrAmEmRs
The narrative around AI and coding is so bonkers and contradictory. It's going to replace programmers. It's a tool for senior devs and no one will hire junior devs anymore. It lets junior devs work with the productivity of senior devs. Productivity gains of 95% or 15% or loses of 15%.
I took a guess and thought /r/Gemini/ would be the subreddit for Google's Gemini LLM, but it's actually for some crypto company. All of the posts on the front page are people complaining about getting their accounts locked and losing their money. LOL.
while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by triangulating on trans liberation < thread >
Sometimes I wonder about the timeline where a young Spielberg made a hugely popular movie about lions instead of sharks.
Recurse Center interviewed a bunch of software engineers about their thoughts on LLMs and AI-generated code: www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...
Vibe coding challenge: Get an LLM to, using only Python's standard library and tkinter, create a geography quiz that shows a borderless map of Africa, prompts the user to click on a country, and then highlights the border of that country for a few seconds after they click. It can't be done.
"We have discontinued our Work From Home policy and you will be expected to be back in outer space on Monday."
I recommend watching Andor. It's what Star Wars would have looked like if they didn't try to sell toys.
Python Software Foundation board candidates have been announced! Reminder that if you're a PSF member you need to reaffirm your intention to vote online. More info: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno...
A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES.
Start using a password manager and backup system, folks.
People keep laughing at me behind my back about the lengths I go to for privacy and security online. They tell each other that the amount of inconvenience I accept is unreasonable for their day to day lives. I know this because their email password is qwerty123.
This is correct. The claim is supported by the number of *views* the tweet got, and that’s it. That’s genuinely it, it’s not an exaggeration.
I assume the website dictionary keeps their brand in mainstream consciousness. I go years in between remembering Encyclopedia Britannica still exists. Apparently they still show ads in their games even if you pay for a subscription.
I have never found an instance of "when am I ever going to need to know this?" that couldn't be responded to with, "When people try to scam you by exploiting your ignorance." Math? Statistics? Historical events? The legal system? Cleaning products? Basic biology? There are scams in everything.