Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/
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My friend David Adler (@davidrkadler), a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days.
Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him.
Don't let anyone ever tell you that Zionism is about the protection of Jewish people. Zionists reserve special hatred for Jews who reject their genocidal project and who insist on the equal humanity of Palestinians.
X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.
Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.
Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.
(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)
Tell me you've never seen Blade Runner or Star Trek without telling me you've never seen Blade Runner or Star Trek
"Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the way humans can. Those naysayers will be hard-pressed to wave away The Great Gatsby, the debut novel from the super-advanced Xerox 914 photocopier—an exciting new voice that wrote Gatsby after being trained on a data set comprising a paperback copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/book-review-the-great-gatsby-by-the-xerox-914-photocopier
I use Tailscale for home purposes, mostly so I can access movies from other locations without having to deal with reverse proxies and security. It's great software. I'm just saying this as preface: I would recommend it to anyone looking for a remote networking solution.
Yesterday they sent out an email about various events they would have a presence at, general marketing stuff, mostly in tech hubs and cons. Nothing remarkable. One of the events was that they were sponsoring a family movie night with another company. The movie picked was Harry Potter, but most people don't care, and it's a fine family movie. I shrugged and moved on with my day. Life's too short to get pissed off about stuff like that.
Well, today they sent out an email apologizing for the choice of movie and promising to do better in future.
I'm not stanning a corp. I wish there were a decent open-source option (well, they're built atop the open-source option, but goddamn do they make it easier). But it was nice to see. In a world which has gone full-on transphobia and doesn't seem to think that Jowling Kowling Rowling is worthy of comment, I guess enough technical people who use Tailscale aren't assholes and complained, or who knows, maybe someone at the company pointed it out, but whatever the reason, they rethought the movie choice. And they didn't just do it, they apologized for it to everyone on their mailing list.
It's a small thing, but I thought I'd share it both to say that I will continue to use Tailscale because it really is good software, but also if you need a nice thing, I guess this is a nice thing.
"These rent-seeking chokepoint obsessives have one move: corner a market and squeeze. They've been ratfucking renewables for decades because it competed with their existing racket.
But they aren't emotionally committed to setting fire to old dead things – they're just nature's most compulsive toll-booth operators, and they're sure as shit going to be looking for ways to stick toll-booths in our renewables future." - @pluralistic
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The #Rust based Binder driver has hit linux-next and thus is slated for inclusion in #kernel 6.18. Congrats to Alice and everyone who helped making this possible!
From the patch description (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513):
""We're generally not proponents of rewrites (nasty uncomfortable things that make you late for dinner!). So why rewrite Binder?
Binder has been evolving over the past 15+ years to meet the evolving needs of Android. Its responsibilities, expectations, and complexity have grown considerably during that time. While we expect Binder to continue to evolve along with Android, there are a number of factors that currently constrain our ability to develop/maintain it. Briefly those are:
1. Complexity: […]
2. Things to improve: Thousand-line functions, error-prone error handling, and confusing structure […]
3. Security critical […]
The biggest change is obviously the choice of programming language. We decided to use Rust because it directly addresses a number of the challenges within Binder that we have faced during the last years. […]""
I enjoyed this devious snippet for overriding malloc/free at runtime on the assumption that a program's authors can't be trusted to use them properly.
https://donotsta.re/objects/2436471c-b046-44cf-b347-01763940b3e1
How do you build a mental model of a system where "Wrong PIN" means "Your computer's hard drive is full because you bought a phone?" How?
How can anyone be expected to navigate a world like this?
My friend @grimalkina wrote this a few weeks ago: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/
... and you should read it, but I have to believe that she is, as she always is, being far too kind.
Maybe "being technical" just means, "I'm willing to act like this bullshit is normal and acceptable."
@mike
The Antifa organization has a long history of aggression, Antifa seen here in action, june 6 1944 👇🏼
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