“Agentic” is meant to seem sci-fi, but I can’t help but think it’s terminal business-speak. It’s the clearest statement yet of the attempted redesign of the computer from a personal device to a distinct entity separate from oneself. One is no longer a user or administrator, one is instead passively waiting for “agents” to complete a task on one’s behalf. This model is imposed from the top down, to be the strongest reinforcement yet of the all-important moat around the big vendors’ cloud businesses. Once you’re in deep with “agents,” your workflows will probably be so hopelessly tangled, vendor-specific, and non-debuggable/non-reimplementable that migrating them to another vendor would be a nightmare task orders of magnitude beyond any database or CRM migration. If your workflows even get any work done anymore at all.

Oh joy, I can perform a threat display by twirling it around my head like a bolo. I think I will get the pink or bright yellow one

ok, cool. when does he start selling off all the super limited-edition anime waifu merch? asking for a friend

‘Genetic engineering to merge with machines’ is both a stream of words with negative meaning

Iron-compatible osteoblasts that build bio-steel! Synapses with silicon, no, make that graphene neurotransmitter filters in the gap! C’mon, Sam, hire me and we can technobabble so much harder than this!

I must insist on cash payment, though. No stock options. And I prefer to be paid weekly.

Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that’s even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.

I think he exists in the tension between rationalism/transhumanism and what he can get away with selling to the public, and that necessarily means his schtick appears dumber and more incoherent. He’s essentially got two major groups he’s trying to manipulate simultaneously; true believers and those who have yet to be persuaded. As he runs out of hype on the public-facing side, it’s suddenly a desperate scramble to keep the true believers that make up the bulk of his workforce on board. Hence his pivot to marketing his latest and by far most important product: publicly traded shares in OpenAI.

Apropos of nothing, L. Ron Hubbard died in a dingy trailer in Creston. Ever been to Creston? It’s a long ways from Hollywood.

you know, if those ASML folks in dutchland weren’t quite so busy what with their EUV lasers and all that, we might not be in quite this same pickle right now,

Broke: Wyoming gold mine

Woke: Wyoming bison ranch

Bespoke: Wyoming AI lab

All 3 of the major Japanese manufacturers (Casio, Seiko, Citizen) have solar-powered radio sync models, but so far Casio is the best in my experience, and has the widest range of models. The Casios tend to have an auto-DST setting that relies on an internal calendar as well as the time signal. I have a chonky Seiko solar-atomic pilot’s watch (with rotary slide-rule bezel!), but it doesn’t have auto-DST so I have to bounce it back and forth between time zones. And it also doesn’t seem to be as adept at receiving the WWVB signal as my Casios; it needs to be next to a window, while the Casios don’t seem to care as long as there’s not too much building mass to the east. I haven’t had a chance to try a Citizen yet, but they now have solar-atomic moon-phase watches, which is tempting.

I hope Yud doesn’t mind if I borrow Mr. Assi for my upcoming epic crossover fic, “Naruto and Batman Stop the Poo-Pocalypse”

Wait a minute, what do you mean, it’s not supposed to be that kind of ass?

Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:

https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/

The man just can’t get a normal hobby. We tried Labubus, but he just sat there sweating all over everything and ranting about how it’s the inevitable scapegoat for the collapse of Western aesthetic sensibilities

All humanity has to do is scale up those Chinese battery-pack ejection systems for EVs that have been making the rounds lately, bing bong so simple

Omarchy apparently doesn’t include Ruby or Rails by default

Lightly concealing his identity behind a generated anime avatar may be the wisest thing that kid ever did

Kinda interesting that Google’s TPUs are back in the news. Seemed like they had fallen by the wayside for a while. Of course there are no technical details, just blah blah revenue blah blah, but that’s CNBC for you.

The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy’s given up on framework development and he’s just a culture-war grievance blogger these days

Props to Lemmy for doing… something… with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.

Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don’t see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don’t know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. “Hey kid, want to try some Linux?”

I propose a 450-foot-tall statue of the most famous parts of Kirk Johnson’s anatomy, facing southwest back towards the city

I hope it’s still going after 8 full years, if the company’s even still in business. Trust is only built back with accountability.

more EA on EA violence

these fools can’t successfully whack each other because they’re too busy whackin’ off