Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 41

@josh Haha, indeed :)

Meanwhile, in the United States of Absolutely Fine and Normal… https://theblower.au/@nando161/113307495194664666

@apropos Asshole vs Asshole

@berrakbiz The Nazi bar has the best TV screens, eh?

“When you did a (less generous) buy-out offer 33% of your team left, vs 8.4% of mine.”

https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/

#SillyConValley #techbros

@RustyBertrand Thanks 💕

@FreezePeach I’d rather not encourage them… what with enjoying having a habitat suitable to human life and water to drink and all that.

@RustyBertrand …

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction
on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say
this but because of all that I value in human experience and
human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell

@RustyBertrand … and the
sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy
and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit
are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing
fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association
between us.

…

@RustyBertrand …

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have
given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always
difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is
so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I
take exception to the general points made by you but that
every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, …

@RustyBertrand Alt text:

In December 1961, the British fascist, Oswald Mosley, sent Bertrand
Russell two of his books. Mosley wrote of “the two root differences
between us” in international politics, and subsequently invited Russel to lunch.

On 22 January 1962, Russell declined the invitation in these terms.

…

@gabboman It’s so sad you have to say that while living in a “democracy.” The state of our democracies today… *smh*

@can The only form of capitalism I’ve seen in practice has been neoliberal so I’m just going with what I know :)

Hating billionaires but loving capitalism is like hating kings but loving the monarchy.

@fvsch No worries, appreciate the effort :)

@arrrg Yay, happy to hear it :) Do let me know if you ever have any questions :)

@fvsch Thanks, yeah, I saw the ~1,000 number online but there’s no way that’s the size of the Firefox dev team. Would love to know the exact number of people working specifically on Firefox… but I guess that’s a secret that only an insider would know at the moment.

Oh, this? Just Microsoft Copilot bullshitting about how to get started with Kitten¹.

(Hint: there is no `kitten init` command and you do not `npm install kitten`. In fact, kitten is a completely different npm module and isn’t, but could very well have been, malware.)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#AI #LLM #microsoft #copilot #kitten #bullshit #hallucination

@chris No, that’s just their C-suite.

@stefan @rolle (And yeah, this reminds of a startup I met at a conference once. Was sitting with their CEO at the speaker dinner and he was telling me how they found that their reading app really helped people with dyslexia. So I asked him how they made money. He looked at me like I was daft or something: “we know what you’re reading.”)

*smdh*