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It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door.
Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance.
Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron.
The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies.
The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscated nearly 18 pounds of marijuana. They handcuffed the woman, whose name was Mary Jane Rathbun.
She didn't look scared. She didn't look guilty.
She looked at the officers, smoothed her apron, and reportedly said, "I thought you guys were coming."
She was booked into the county jail. The headlines wrote themselves. A grandmother running a pot bakery. It seemed like a joke to the legal system, a quirky local news story about an older woman behaving badly.
But Mary wasn't baking for fun. And she certainly wasn't baking for profit.
To understand why Mary risked her freedom, you have to understand the silence of the early 1980s.
San Francisco was gripping the edge of a cliff. A mysterious illness was sweeping through the city, specifically targeting young men. Later, the world would know it as AIDS. But in those early days, it was just a death sentence that no one wanted to talk about.
Families were disowning their sons. Landlords were evicting tenants. Even doctors and nurses, paralyzed by the fear of the unknown, would sometimes leave food trays outside hospital doors, afraid to breathe the same air as their patients.
Men in their twenties were wasting away in sterile rooms, dying alone.
Mary knew what it felt like to lose a child.
Years earlier, in 1974, her daughter Peggy had been killed in a car accident. Peggy was only 22. The loss had hollowed Mary out, leaving a space in her heart that nothing seemed to fill.
When the judge sentenced Mary for that first arrest, he ordered her to perform 500 hours of community service. He likely thought the manual labor would teach her a lesson.
He sent her to the Shanti Project and San Francisco General Hospital.
It was a mistake that would change American history.
Mary walked into the AIDS wards when others were walking out. She didn't wear a hazmat suit. She didn't hold her breath. She saw rows of young men who looked like ghosts—skeletal, in pain, and terrified.
She saw "her kids."
She began mopping floors and changing sheets. But soon, she noticed something the doctors were missing. The harsh medications the men were taking caused violent nausea. They couldn't eat. They were starving to death as much as they were dying of the virus.
Mary knew a secret about the brownies she had been arrested for.
She knew they settled the stomach. She knew they brought back the appetite. She knew they could help a dying man sleep for a few hours without pain.
So, she made a choice.
She went back to her kitchen. She fired up the oven. She started mixing batter, not to sell, but to save.
Every morning, Mary would bake. She lived on a fixed income, surviving on Social Security checks that barely covered her rent. Yet, she spent nearly every dime on flour, sugar, and butter.
The most expensive ingredient—the cannabis—was donated. Local growers heard what she was doing. They began dropping off pounds of product at her door, free of charge.
She packed the brownies into a basket and took the bus to the hospital.
She walked room to room. She sat by the bedsides of men who hadn't seen their own mothers in years. She held their hands. She told them jokes. And she gave them brownies.
"Here, baby," she would say. "Eat this. It'll help."
And it did.
Nurses watched in amazement as patients who hadn't eaten in days began to ask for food. The constant retching stopped. The mood on the ward shifted from despair to a quiet sort of comfort.
Mary Jane Rathbun became "Brownie Mary."
For over a decade, this was her life. She baked roughly 600 brownies a day. She went through 50 pounds of flour a week. She became the mother to a generation of lost boys.
She washed their pajamas. She attended their funerals. She held them while they took their last breaths.
She did this while the government declared a "War on Drugs."
By the early 1990s, the political climate was hostile. Politicians were competing to see who could be "tougher" on crime. Mandatory minimum sentences were locking people away for decades.
In 1992, at the age of 70, Mary was arrested again.
This time, the stakes were lethal. She was charged with felonies. The district attorney looked at her rap sheet and saw a repeat offender. He threatened to send her to prison.
One prosecutor famously whispered to a colleague that he was going to "kick this old lady's ass."
They underestimated who they were dealing with.
They thought they were prosecuting a drug dealer. In reality, they were attacking the most beloved woman in San Francisco.
When the news broke that Brownie Mary was facing prison, the city erupted.
It wasn't just the activists who were angry. It was the doctors. It was the nurses. It was the parents who had watched Mary care for their dying sons when the government did nothing.
Mary turned her trial into a pulpit.
She arrived at court not as a defendant, but as a grandmother standing her ground. The media swarmed her. Reporters asked if she was afraid of prison. They asked if she would stop baking if they let her go.
Mary looked into the cameras, her voice gravelly and firm.
"If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS," she said, "they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window."
The quote ran in newspapers across the country.
The court didn't stand a chance.
Testimony poured in. Doctors from San Francisco General Hospital wrote letters explaining that Mary’s brownies were medically necessary. Patients testified that she was an angel of mercy.
The charges were dropped.
Mary walked out of the courthouse a free woman. But she didn't go home to rest. She realized that her personal victory wasn't enough. As long as the law was broken, her "kids" were still in danger.
She needed to change the law.
August 25 was declared "Brownie Mary Day" by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. It was a nice gesture, but Mary wanted policy, not plaques.
She teamed up with fellow activist Dennis Peron. Together, they opened the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club—the first public dispensary in the United States. It was a safe haven where patients could get their medicine without fear of arrest.
But Mary wanted more. She wanted the state of California to acknowledge the truth.
She campaigned for Proposition 215. She traveled the state, despite her failing health. She spoke in her simple, direct way. She didn't talk about liberties or economics. She talked about compassion. She talked about pain.
She forced voters to look at the issue through the eyes of a grandmother.
In 1996, Proposition 215 passed. California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
It was a domino effect. Because one woman refused to let her "kids" suffer, the public perception of cannabis shifted. The Economist later noted that Mary was single-handedly responsible for changing the national conversation.
She never got rich.
She had always joked that if legalization ever happened, she would sell her recipe to Betty Crocker and buy a Victorian house for her patients to live in.
She never sold the recipe. She never bought the house.
Mary Jane Rathbun died in 1999, at the age of 77. She passed away in a nursing home, poor in money but rich in legacy.
Today, over 30 states have legalized medical marijuana. Millions of people use it to manage pain, seizures, and nausea.
Most of them have never heard of Mary.
They don't know that their legal prescription exists because a waitress in San Francisco decided that the law was wrong and her heart was right.
They don't know about the 600 brownies a day.
They don't know about the thousands of hospital visits.
Mary didn't set out to be a hero. She told the Chicago Tribune years before she died, "I didn't go into this thinking I would be a hero."
She was just a mother who had lost her daughter, trying to help boys who had lost their way.
She proved that authority doesn't always equal morality.
She proved that sometimes, the most patriotic thing a citizen can do is break a bad law.
Every August, a few people in San Francisco still celebrate Brownie Mary Day. But her true memorial isn't a date on a calendar.
It is found in every oncology ward where a patient finds relief. It is found in every dispensary door that opens without fear.
It is found in the simple, quiet courage of anyone who sees suffering and refuses to look away.
Mary taught us that you don't need a law degree to change the world. You don't need millions of dollars. You don't need political office.
Sometimes, all you need is a mixing bowl, an oven, and enough love to tell the world to get out of your way.
Sources: New York Times Obituary (1999), "Brownie Mary" Rathbun. San Francisco Chronicle Archives (1992, 1996). History.com, "The History of Medical Marijuana."
After years of careful observation and listening, I am firmly and deeply convinced that neurodivergence is real.
I have serious doubts about the existence of neurotypicality, though. 🧵
What I mean by that is I doubt there is even one single truly “neurotypical” person on this Earth whose brain is actually average in every important dimension of brain variation.
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In the 1950s, the Air Force realized that planes were crashing because cockpits didn’t actually fit the pilots’ bodies. Wrong size = danger!! They commissioned a researcher to develop a new, more correct set of standard dimensions for the seat, yoke, etc.
That researcher, Gilbert S. Daniels, came up with 10 body measurements that matter to cockpit size. He gathered measurements of several thousand pilots. And the number of people who were at the average for all ten measurements? Zero. Not a single one.
“Average” proved to be a statistical construct, not a thing that actually exists as a person.
99percentinvisible.org/episode…
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In many ways, the built world was not designed for you. It was designed for the average person. Standardized tests, building codes, insurance rates, clothing sizes, The Dow Jones – all these measurements are based around the concept of an “average.99% Invisible
High-dimensional data has this property: it is extremely unlikely that there will be a data point situated at the exact center.
It’s the high dimensionality that’s important here. One person might be at some sort of average on •one• dimension, but for them to be at the average on •all• dimensions grows exponentially less likely as the number of dimensions increases.
It’s like trying to roll all threes with a set of dice. Odds of that with one die? 1 in 6. Odds with two dice? 1 in 36. Odds with 10 dice? 1 in ~60 million.
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Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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My general framework for thinking about this stuff:
- Brains vary a lot, in a lot of different ways.
- We have names for a few variations, or common patterns of variation. That can be useful, but it’s hardly complete.
- There’s a wealth of as-yet-unnamed neurodivergences out there.
- It’s all but certain that •everyone’s• mind is atypical is one way or another.
- Comparison with, aspiration to, or forced conformance to the nonexistent “average” mind is unhelpful, frequently harmful.
- Embracing variation is the only reasonable (or humane) approach.
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In that story of the Air Force measurements, the research team came up with a completely radical suggestion:
Make the seats adjustable.
WHOA 🤯
“Adjustable seats.” seems to me like a great starting point for thinking about variations in human minds.
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None of the above is even proper neuroscience or psychology. It’s just a framing of the question, a way to avoid ridiculous assumptions and broken approaches, a way to avoid hurting people.
Variation is normal. Let’s expect it, design for it, work •with• it — in others, and in ourselves.
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“Make the seats adjustable” is a thought I bring to teaching, for example: Does the context I’m creating for learning accommodate people with all different kinds of minds? What variations am I not accommodating? Can I make some things more individually adjustable to better embrace those variations? Can multiple instructors / learning environments / schools offer the flexibility that I can’t offer myself?
Total adjustability is impossible; infinite flexibility is impossible. But as an ongoing effort, as a •direction•, this work is both feasible and useful.
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Several replies think thoughts along the lines of this one from @dalias, and I strongly agree. The •most• neurodivergent who simply cannot conform to narrow, normative expectations are doing the hard work of creating flexibility for •everyone• (see “curb cut effect”).
hachyderm.io/@dalias/112199018…
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz @karlhigley@recsys.social I have a pet theory that there's really no such intrinsic thing as neurotypicality, just susceptibilities to being forced into various kinds of conformity and eases of performing it.Cassandrich (Hachyderm.io)
Per replies, something I need to clarify:
We’ve often use the word “neurotypical” to mean “neither autistic nor ADHD.” That might be useful as a shorthand, I guess, but it’s that mode of thought I’m specifically arguing against here: creating a single catch-all category defined as a negative, calling it “normal,” and assuming that it fits most people.
That doesn’t stand up to empirical scrutiny, and I don’t think it’s particularly healthy or helpful.
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A lot of conversations about neurodivergence take the form of the first image below. I’m arguing to adopt the framing of the second image instead (except 100- or 1000-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional).
We’ve identified a few clusterings in a space of extraordinary and beautiful variation, and given those clusterings names. How useful those names are! How little they capture, even so! How much variation remains unnamed! How much variation must exist within every human being!
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There is variation in everyone, but society / context / environment makes that variation more burdensome for some than for others. “Neurotypical” is not a thing that anyone •is•, but rather an archetype that human systems are designed for / evolved around.
When we recognize that “neurotypical” is an archetype and not an actual person, we can reach the same insight that the Air Force reached: you don’t build things to some single optimal set of “normal” dimensions; you make things more adjustable, flexible, accommodating of variation.
/end
@hosford42
That’s a kind offer! I don’t really feel like I’m in need of a diagnostic label: I have a pretty good sense of how my brain works, and I’m quite comfortable with it and generally able to navigate the world both effectively and happily. Now 13-year-old Paul probably could have used that…!
(I’ve heard mention of some people arguing for “giftedness” as a form of neurodivergence in itself, and although that term really gives me the ick, I suspect the category may be a good fit. Among other things: “encyclopedic recall for areas of interest” describes me too! I remember doing one autism self-diagnosis where the entire first section on “giftedness” was all, “yup, yup, oh wow, yup! Maybe I am…” and then the •all• the subsequent sections were just “nope, nope, nope, not that either, nope….”)
this is very much my reasoning for why I don't fully buy that cis het people exist. I mean practically speaking they do and they're the majority, but the ideals might not actually describe anyone.
I think even if you were to try clustering things, it would be multiple clusters, not one big cluster around the means of all the parameters.
Adjustable seats is a great metaphor for freedom in general. You can't paternalistically design society for everyone even if you wanted to.
"Autigender" was an interesting word I learned in this space. I'm cis het male, sure, but I very much do it *my* way, not the standard one. I'm not performatively male. I'm just me, and that happens to line up mostly with those descriptors most of the time.
RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11576…
While I very much like the goal of "make the seats adjustable", I would really like to see a little more acceptance of the (neuro)diversity of teachers --- there used to be an attitude that a student should figure out how they can learn from a teacher --- now it is all on the teacher to figure out how to accommodate the student.*
Maybe there's some way to talk about meeting in the middle?
* You wouldn't believe the amount of work they are now demanding I do to accommodate hypothetical students who have never actually asked for changes. I'm getting very close to saying "F*** it. I have other, more important things to do." I do like teaching. I enjoy it. A lot of students love my class. Many have said that it was their favorite class they took in college. But teaching is supposed to be one small part of my job (if at all). The extra work being demanded is interfering with the rest of the important things that I do. At some point, these burdens are going to preclude me being willing to do the work.
“Make the seats adjustable” is a thought I bring to teaching, for example: Does the context I’m creating for learning accommodate people with all different kinds of minds? What variations am I not accommodating? Can I make some things more individually adjustable to better embrace those variations? Can multiple instructors / learning environments / schools offer the flexibility that I can’t offer myself?Total adjustability is impossible; infinite flexibility is impossible. But as an ongoing effort, as a •direction•, this work is both feasible and useful.
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Accommodation should always be a two-way street. A dialog, not a declaration. The abilities and resources of *both* parties have to be taken into account.
I saw this firsthand when an artist friend of mine didn't provide alt text. Someone chewed her out for it, and then she didn't feel comfortable posting her art anymore. What the other person failed to account for was that the artist herself is *also* disabled, and struggles to find the words to describe images. The end solution that made her feel comfortable posting online again was when people made it clear to her that it was okay to post and then ask for help with the alt text.
Whether someone is officially classified as disabled or not, there are always things they can't do. The whole point in accommodation is to treat *all* people as having intrinsic value, and to make room for each other as best we can.
"It's weird to be normal," will now be one of the things I say to people who expect normalcy. lol
@alter_kaker
Yeah, just vast terra icognita; most of our understanding of the mind is still “here be dragons.”
The things is, my “average is highly unlikely to exist” argument doesn’t depend on knowing any of that. If we assume the space of possibly variations is highly multidimensional, then it’s basically QED without any further knowledge needed!
I kept thinking of hypervectors as I read all this. The way cosine similarity drops off exponentially faster with increasing dimensionality.
I've heard it phrased as "everyone has some neurodivergent traits, but not everyone is Autistic/ADHD/AuDHD".
When someone says "everyone is a little bit autistic", wherever they are coming from, it comes off as minimizing, dismissive, invalidating, or all three.
I don't think that's what Paul was saying, though. We have identified these categories because those of us who fall in them (like me) often struggle more than others to conform to societal expectations. But that doesn't mean that anybody is "normal". You can say nobody is normal, or nobody is typical, without denying that outliers exist and face greater challenges in society.
beautifully communicated and thought out
'average isn't real'
this is in so ways why we as a species are 'failing'. we have built a society on an average (determined by the most privileged among us).
racial average. gendered average. abled average. prosperity average. medical average.
none of this averaging works because on an individual basis it is never accurate. we are all a bunch of overlapping blobs and spending all of this time trying to precicely categorize each and every one of us into specific boxes is both a gigantic waste of time and an oppressive tool that guarantees our needs won't be met.
this is of course extremely relevant in the conversation (and widespread adoption by those in power) around AI, as one big gigantic averaging tool.
Yes. And note the “average” here isn’t always even truly the midpoint of the population, but rather the locus of power: much of society is built around men, for example, when being male is not even typical.
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
Bare Metal STM32: Increasing the System Clock and Running Dhrystone
hackaday.com/2025/12/18/bare-m…
When you start an STM32 MCU with its default configuration, its CPU will tick along at a leisurely number of cycles on the order of 8 to 16 MHz, using the high-speed internal (HSI) clock source as …Hackaday
Maggiori informazioni su https://casoratesempione.ils.org/2025/12/05/mezzora-damicizia-fpga/Italian Linux Society - Video
George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
This is a post about LLMs.
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
«I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active “bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, & Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly.»
— Paris Buttfield-Addison
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and…Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
That's the level of harm that would at least have me threaten a civil case.
I also wonder if, within the domain of the GDPR, at least access to the data could be compelled. Maybe Australia has a similar law?
At least they have a possible explanation.
I only ever used my Apple ID for downloading free stuff from the Mac App Store and to add music to my iTunes wish list. I have no clue why it got disabled.
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RT @moultano on Bluesky:
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You’re telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
I just found a page on from what I can tell is an actual food cooking site that is an entry on Yocto recipes. Because the tool Yocto used to create Linux distros calls their directions to install certain software "recipes".
Does this site scrape other sites and copy anything about "recipes"? Did someone that does Linux development post this to the site? This is just funny.
eathealthy365.com/the-ultimate…
Struggling to add your software to a Yocto image? This step-by-step 2025 guide shows you how to create a Yocto recipe from scratch. Go from zero to a working package!Silas (Flavor365)
@mwl man, respect to food bloggers. I would at first want to make fun of them, but they out there putting work into their own site, not on a social media platform, but their own blog at their own domain.
So I might scoff at their recipe blog "Carrot and the Crisp" or something with curated pics of all the ingredients in their own bowls, but I'm still making their roasted cauliflower recipe.
Food bloggers understand platform, branding, and owning your intellectual property.
That's why they write long posts. The recipe itself is not copyrightable, but commentary around it is. It lets them track scrapers.
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Just want to clarify, this is not my Substack, I'm just sharing this because I found it insightful.
The author describes himself as a "fractional CTO"(no clue what that means, don't ask me) and advisor. His clients asked him how they could leverage AI. He decided to experience it for himself. From the author(emphasis mine):
I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me. I wanted to experience what my clients were considering—100% AI adoption. I needed to know firsthand why that 95% failure rate exists.I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.
Now when clients ask me about AI adoption, I can tell them exactly what 100% looks like: it looks like failure. Not immediate failure—that’s the trap. Initial metrics look great. You ship faster. You feel productive. Then three months later, you realize nobody actually understands what you’ve built.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidenceJosh Anderson (The Leadership Lighthouse)
What's interesting is what he found out. From the article:
I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me. I wanted to experience what my clients were considering—100% AI adoption. I needed to know firsthand why that 95% failure rate exists.I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.
RE: cosocial.ca/@timbray/115639842…
OMG it turns out this is due to the Mac APFS filesystem’s default case-mapping behavior, so things like SSH and LS work (bleccch).
(h/t @stoey.bsky.social over on bsky)
On Mac, open up a terminal and type or copy-paste: ßh (Doesn't work on Linux)Tim Bray (CoSocial)
Nice that they were given something to snack on. Better than some airlines.
I assume that’s what the branches on the sides were for.
A headless mystery
Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
@kaasbaas BTW if the "Sea Peoples" thing is not widely known...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peop…
Mysterious people in ships who decimated multiple civilisations in the late Bronze Age.
You meet the users where they are.
You have literally no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the entire firm doing this
opl.it/evento/24-11-2025-CHI-T…
CHI TI HA DETTO CHE ERA AMORE? Sguardi, parole e responsabilità di fronte alla violenza di genere e al femminicidio
Evento accessibile da remoto, organizzato dall'Ordine degli Psicologi della Lombardia
“Chi ti ha detto che era amore?” è una domanda che rompe il silenzio e smaschera narrazioni pericolose. Invita a guardare con occhi nuovi ciò che spesso viene normalizzato, negato o giustificato: la violenza che si nasconde...opl.it
Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.
Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.
Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.
I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.
nos.nl/artikel/2591258-kerkdie…
Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.Rolinde Hoorntje (NOS Nieuws)
EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:
"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."
This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.
ORIGINAL:
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
Automatically blocking any account that uses Harry Potter to farm engagement. It is time to move past Harry Potter as a society, we do not need to keep maintaining JK Rowling's cashflow or propping a series that actually is not very well written and chock full of offensive racial stereotypes and literary cliches.
#bookstodon #movies #books #films
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Coope...
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008.Jason Bergman (The Comics Journal)
Folks it is now about one hour until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to filter out the hashtag, now'd be a good time to do that.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is VAMPIRE ON BIKINI BEACH (1988), which I can only assume is a documentary about vampire bats in California.
No? Huh.
Anyway it's free with ads on Tubi over here: tubitv.com/movies/712244/vampi…
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: archive.org/details/vampires-o…
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there ^^
#Cinema #Movies #Cinemastodon #Horror #Scifi #Vampire #Bikinis
perfect programming language. Contribute to TodePond/GulfOfMexico development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Absolutely ghastly—I approve!
(Only one quibble: array base being fixed to -1 is *boring*. Why not steal the discontinued Perl idiom of the array base being a special variable $[ which you can assign to, so you can start enumerating your arrays from -1, 0, 1, or pi? Much more powerful and general! Also, can we have rich markup syntax is comments, please? Markdown is ubiquitous so how about using nroff with the -ms macro package by default?)
@cstross delightful!
The 'const 5 = 4' is very like early FORTRAN where you could redefine numeric constants. The official line was "don't do that", but nothing stopped the determined programmer.
@cstross what’s wrong with PostScript for documentation. Let’s hear it for stack based executable documentation!
What could go wrong?
Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdfGitHub
RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 science fiction and horror all October long
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
A community-supported 24/7 streaming TV channel based on public domain media and original content. We're in Halloween Mode all October long. Support us at http://patreon.com/philnelsonRetroStrange TV
If someone comes into a dev mailing list and says "my AI told me … I don’t understand it, but you sure do" that means that many people will either ignore it completely or read a wall-of-text that isn’t known to actually be useful.
Please read your search results yourself, and if you find something useful, summarize it and only ask about the stuff that you actually need to know to move forward.
Please respect the time of people in mailing lists. Don’t drop generated walls of text.
Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis
berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-…
<- Bert Hubert nails one of the big problems in contemporary IT management
The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned.Bert Hubert's writings
Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
@mart_brooks *Wags reproving finger*
I really wish the BSDs could resolve their differences, and more of the people focused on things like Plan 9 instead, but there's room at the table.
🗓️ Linux Day è domani! 25 ottobre 2025 - 25° edizione in Italia 🎉
Incontra la community più vicina:
linuxday.it/2025/
Grazie a tutte le città attive! Arona, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cairate, Casarano, Casorate Sempione, Cesate, Cosenza, Crotone, Este, Fabriano (parte 1 ..)
#LinuxDay #LinuxDay2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 #SoftwareLibero #Italy
A #Torino, farò una presentazione di #LINEAGEOS, #FDROID, #XMPP durante la #LINUX DAY TORINO 2025
Https://linuxdaytorino.org/2025/#schedule
Orario 14.00
Dove: arsenale della Pace, Torino
Prima di tutto, vi invito a venire e partecipare numerosi
Puoi, questa presentazione è l'occasione di offrire un'alternativa a #Google, e aumentare la #Privacy
Pertanto, vi invito a divulgarlo presso i vostri colleghi, amici e famiglia torinese che volete convertire a #LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP
La presentazione spiegherà come installare LINEAGE OS, F-DROID e XMPP.
Dei QR code gratis per #MONOCLES da GOOGLE PLAY saranno distribuiti.
Sperò di esser stato esaustivo e vi aspetto, voi, i vostri amici, colleghi e famiglie, sabato 25 ottobre 2025, a Torino, alle 14.00, Arsenale della Pace, per la LINUX DAY TORINO 2025, nella AULA MISC.
#jabber #dino #monoclesim #gajim #movim #siskin #monal
"The villain is a gay Muslim terrorist who looks like Prince doing a terrible Doctor Strangelove impression with a monkey scurrying around his shoulders. He's aided by an army of lesbians led by Colonel Honey Hump."
My latest newsletter is about my fav weird movies:
buttondown.com/charliejane/arc…
Hi! Thanks for reading my newsletter. My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster has been out for a couple of months. It’s about a trans woman who teaches her...Happy Dancing
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