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"AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job."
Brilliant headline and opening line.
Source: AI can't do your job by @pluralistic
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Brazil apologizes to families of victims of military dictatorship's mass grave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/g-s1-55614/brazil-apologizes-to-families-of-victims-of-military-dictatorships-mass-grave?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency
The conservative think tank’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department go back more than 40 years, a scholar writes.The Conversation
Coincidentally, a video I had planned to show my surveillance class today, overtaken by a more recent example of "opsec is hard".
youtube.com/watch?v=BwGsr3SzCZ…
Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
By: Matthew ColeThe CIA is no more technologically sophisticated than your average American, and as a result, has suffered serious and embarrassing operation...YouTube
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From @Zitron:
"Outside of NVIDIA, nobody is making any profit off of generative AI, and once that narrative fully takes hold, I fear a cascade of events that gores a hole in the side of the stock market and leads to tens of thousands of people losing their jobs."
Tens? I'll take the over.
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The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism
A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
Congressman Jonathan Jackson is calling on Pete Hegseth to resign.
This is how you do it.
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Did you know Elections Canada hires hundreds in each riding across the country to work during the election? Poll workers are needed for advance voting days, and many many more are needed Election Day April 28.
Pay starts at $20/hour (for a long day!), and training is paid too.
If you’re freelance, between jobs, or even want to take a vacation day off your regular job if you have that option… your local returning officer may have something for you!
Learn more: elections.ca/content2.aspx?sec…
Jobs during the election – Elections Canada
Information on employment to work for the 2025 federal election in Canada.elections.ca
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25 March 1912 | A Czech Jewish woman, Věra Ledererová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz. She perished in the camp on 1 July 1943.
We added an update checker that displays this warning to admin accounts when a security release is available.
It's been available for a while, so you should see this warning if you're running an outdated server!
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I really can’t overstress how insane this is from a security perspective. Apparently adversary espionage services get to play on easy mode for a few years.
Pixelfed v0.12.5 was released yesterday and includes an important security fix.
Please update ASAP!
Outdated servers: fedidb.org/software/pixelfed?v…
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.fedidb.org
Egg prices soar as outdated supply chains crack under pressure
Consumers and politicians blame cage-free egg laws and bird flu outbreaks for high egg prices. But the root cause is an outdated supply chain system.The Conversation
The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
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If you are outside of the US, you may not have heard of the complete security disaster that is the Trump administration.
This will give you a hint.
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‘Unbelievable’: Jeffrey Goldberg speaks out after Trump officials accidentally texted him war plans
Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg speaks out on his new piece: "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans."For more contex...YouTube
TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source
TitTok matrix ByteDance has open-sourced Lynx, a collection of frameworks and tools enabling the creation of native, cross-platform mobile apps using Web markup, CSS, and JavaScript. Lynx aims to deliSergio De Simone (InfoQ)
How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty
‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.The Conversation
How a journalist became an inadvertent eavesdropper on national security secrets
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5338784/how-a-journalist-became-an-inadvertent-eavesdropper-on-national-security-secrets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New lathe! Picked this up for a very good deal last week.
Waiting on some laser cut mounting plates before I can use it; also adding an E-stop, de-janking some wire, and a DRO with glass scales.
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Better than a weekend with the #FediverseChick 😄
These are the "curvy things" I love to see… that tailstock is absolutely gorgeous 😍
![shot-scraper javascript can now optionally load scripts hosted on GitHub via the new gh: prefix to the shot-scraper javascript -i/--input option. #173
Scripts can be referenced as gh:username/repo/path/to/script.js or, if the GitHub user has created a dedicated shot-scraper-scripts repository and placed scripts in the root of it, using gh:username/name-of-script.
For example, to run this readability.js script against any web page you can use the following:
shot-scraper javascript --input gh:simonw/readability \
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/qwen25-vl-32b/
The output from that example starts like this:
{
"title": "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter",
"byline": "Simon Willison",
"dir": null,
"lang": "en-gb",](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/349397 "shot-scraper javascript can now optionally load scripts hosted on GitHub via the new gh: prefix to the shot-scraper javascript -i/--input option. #173
Scripts can be referenced as gh:username/repo/path/to/script.js or, if the GitHub user has created a dedicated shot-scraper-scripts repository and placed scripts in the root of it, using gh:username/name-of-script.
For example, to run this readability.js script against any web page you can use the following:
shot-scraper javascript --input gh:simonw/readability \
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/qwen25-vl-32b/
The output from that example starts like this:
{
\"title\": \"Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter\",
\"byline\": \"Simon Willison\",
\"dir\": null,
\"lang\": \"en-gb\",")
shot-scraper 1.8
I've added a new feature to [shot-scraper](https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/) that makes it easier to share scripts for other people to use with the [shot-scraper javascript]() command. `shot-scraper javascript` lets you load up …Simon Willison’s Weblog
microsoft/playwright-mcp
The Playwright team at Microsoft have released an MCP ([Model Context Protocol](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp)) server wrapping Playwright, and it's pretty fascinating. They implemented it on top of the Chrome accessibility tree, so …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Not sure if you noticed it, but Pydantic AI quitely shipped MCP support for both clients and servers. ai.pydantic.dev/mcp/
I haven't written an MCP server yet, but it's next on my list and Pydantic AI seems like an approachable way to write one now.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) - PydanticAI
Agent Framework / shim to use Pydantic with LLMsai.pydantic.dev
Fire them ALL.
#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
My cat sleeps for most of the work day, only waking up occasionally to demand food or spontaneously whack me. All in all, not the worst boss I've had.
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Glow In The Dark PCBs Are Pretty Cool
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Glow In The Dark PCBs Are Pretty Cool
What if circuit boards could glow in the dark? It’s a fun question, and one [Botmatrix] sought to answer when approached by manufacturer PCBWay to run a project together. It turns out that it…Hackaday
U.S. border: Eggs seized more often than fentanyl ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-bo… “In the first two months of 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized fentanyl on 134 occasions, down from 197 seizures in the same time frame in 2024. Meanwhile, CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.”
We need an egg czar! Now!
U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year
U.S. President Donald Trump has made stopping fentanyl at both the northern and southern borders one of his administration's top priorities, but American law enforcement data shows that another commodity appears far more often in seizures: eggs.Tammy Ibrahimpoor (CTVNews)
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/g-s1-55600/hamdan-ballal-palestinian-no-other-land-filmmaker-attacked-susiya?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I love flower beds. My Mom had lots of flower beds. My earliest memories are of walking through flowers that were as tall as I was. Tiger lilies. 🥰
@HackAWeek ai that’s a pretty image 💞
I have picture of me in a field of wild daisies waayy over my head, around 5 or 6 years old. It was magical.
Another of a neighborhood girl dancing through the California poppies that lined our sidewalk. I love flowers 💗
A timeline of DOGE's invasion of the US Institute of Peace includes the delicious tidbit that the building is equipped with a gun safe. Sort of the other side of the coin of "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!".
nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/poli…
Showdown at the Institute of Peace
A 911 call. A lockdown. A master key. Here’s what happened when the Trump administration seized control of a Washington institution.Aishvarya Kavi (The New York Times)
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Playing for Time: What the Kremlin Wants in New Talks with the U.S. on Ukraine
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/23/playing-for-time-what-the-kremlin-wants-in-new-talks-with-the-us-on-ukraine-a88445?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Playing for Time: What the Kremlin Wants in New Talks with the U.S. on Ukraine
As high-level delegations from the U.S. and Russia arrive in Saudi Arabia for the second round of bilateral talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Moscow’s envoys will have one goal on their mind: buying time.Pyotr Kozlov (The Moscow Times)
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The ones asking you that obviously have never seen the quality of AI code. AI is a good tool though I would never use it independently of human supervision.
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