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  Friendly reminder that there is no Nobel prize for economics. That being said, we can do worse than a award for having policy makers, like, talk to the people affected by their policies.

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  If there is any problem that can only be solved by people coming together, hoarders of wealth will always deny its existence. There is no climate chaos that can be avoided with degrowth. No sickness that can be eradicated by vaccines. No river that can be crossed by a bridge maintained by taxes. No economical activity that should be held back by regulation. Also, the earth is actually flat. Here's some money if you regurgitate any of these points. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/1174...

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  In a new age of simulacra, online bubbles and cognitive dissonance, still nobody wants to discuss semantics. We're desperately thirsty for #philosophy and yet we won't take that sip of water.

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  For the next few weeks, the question on the mind of every aspiring trillionaire is who needs to get payed how much money to keep socialism out of the american senate. While socialism has completely been hollowed out in Europe, it can still mean that the government should do stuff that helps everyone. Which becomes pretty easy to define when anything else besides that is just elected officials looking out for themselves, even at the expense of democracy and the rule of law.

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  Having your MechaHitler brick your Swasticar and kill itself in the process is probably the best thing that can happen to you, given such a bad purchase decision.

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  One of the many advantages of having a social media account in some random mastodon instance ran by a hamster-powered toaster, is that your time and attention has zero chance of contributing to the wealth of an elite psychopath. Also, the toaster is sun-powered now and the hamster is enjoying a parental leave. Point being, social media doesn't have to feel like a bad deal with the devil.

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  Turns out that if you don't do both the cyber and the punk you actually get stuck in cybergunk. Cybergunk 2026

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  Para certas coisas, nunca falta policiamento: https://www.jn.pt/pais/artigo/carga-policial-contra-manifestantes-no-porto-deixou-varios-feridos/18137257 #Porto #Portugal

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  Claramente quem precisamos para resolver a crise na habitação é alguém com uma casa para cada dia da semana mais natal, ano novo e páscoa. Talvez possa ensinar esta nova maioria que tem zero casas a herdarem pelo menos dois ou três prédios rústicos. #Portugal

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  @Lydie@tech.lgbt @jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt @RegGuy@mstdn.social Used to connect to BBSs at that speed 👍 "Good enough" but not really, it was painfully slow.

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  Practical harm is way more relevant right now than theoretical harm. Given enough time, even if #ML researchers can't do nothing with it, we're saving lives by simply not having #AI accelerate the people-crushing machines currently at the center of our societies. https://toad.social/@KimPerales/117339458314218196

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  I love writing, https://blog.viewfromtheweb.com/is-it-a-clanker-writing-this-blog-96f4a978/ but I also love just making things with computers. #llm #writing #art #ai #blog #illustration

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  People keep saying that frameworks like #tailwind or even #stylex are good for agents, but are they working in our current reality where even frontier LLMs still suck at frontend and #CSS? I'm not even saying that you should look at the code, but often it helps a lot if you're able to inspect element into something that's wrong and be able to tell an agent what to do with actionable words. Like, this class, label or id, lose the padding, don't use absolute units, etc.

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  "The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." So... decades of growth powered by innovation, widespread suffering and environmental damage, followed by worker organization and political reform that eventually secure a broader share of that wealth across society? That is, if we get there. That industrial revolution? No wonder you get booed for saying that.

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  FBI: "HACKERS CAUSE CHAOS" Hackers: "hello sir yes you have a security bug here ok I'll wait"

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  The one cool thing about closed loop water usage of data centers is how they can only save water if we invest heavily on renewables. Otherwise, the heat only gets moved to where they consume more electricity to dissipate it and that will be powered by consuming more water.

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  Pelo Represas, batam em latas. Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes. Façam estalar no ar chicotes. Chamem palhaços e acrobatas. Mas não é o fim. #Portugal

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  "You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools" https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253/files Approved by 69% (nice) #genAI #openSource #Linux #FOSS #aiagents

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  Between micro and macroeconomics, we're still missing a trillionomics that explains why people can't afford a home or give their kids a planet they can live in.

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  Not sure if agentic coders are able to grok this: https://www.selc.org/news/trump-administration-attempts-massive-power-grab-in-defense-of-xai/ "hey, it's a cheaper 5.5"

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  "Before we go folding our clothes in a stack, let's see what the robots think. Before we go patting ourselves on the back, let's see what the robots think. Before we start working or dancing again, before we start writing love letters to send, before we start fighting or finding a friend, let's see what the robots think." -- Bo Burnham (Egghead, 2013)

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  Inflation is also rising artificially in #Portugal with a scheme that has already failed in Scotland, Malta, the Netherlands or Ireland. As always, "Volta" starts by charging more for plastic packaging and then eventually you can redeem it. But there's no incentive to make redemption actually work, so you just get charged more. Everybody profits except you. Let the boycotts begin.

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  Social media is just some websites on the internet that people keep going to. And governments like to make lists of websites they don't want people to go to. But they let you go to the website if it tells you to vote for them and that works.

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  Developers everywhere are using LLMs to get unstuck or try something new. You can get the flamethrower and ban all the Claude commits but that's only glancing the surface. People don't need to ship LLM code to do security audits, pinpoint bugs and bounce ideas, specially if they're working alone. We can all be benefiting from LLMs and still criticise abusive data centers and the many AI grifts. It's ethical consumption under capitalism all over again.

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  the road to hell is paved with good employees

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  Welcome to the Zero Pushback Podcast! Where we talk to so-called experts for five hours to mine all the clickbait and ragebait out of their grifts and crazy takes. Brought to you by whatever health supplement we're currently making money from.

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  @urlyman@mastodon.social @KimSJ@mastodon.social Mastodon is just chronological feeds which doesn't work for people used to going viral to pay their bills. It's kind of a privilege to be able to just chill on masto.

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  https://blog.viewfromtheweb.com/just-using-a-chat-app-for-my-to-dos-0cb188be/ Let's talk about something else on the blog 📝

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  I keep saying that any serious plan to introduce #ai in schools (whatever that means), has to include learning #philosophy as early as possible. Put down the google/microsoft subscriptions. Ban smartphones in classrooms. How do we know anything is true? Can you think for yourself and ask good questions? Can you feel how your choice of words molds your rationale?