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wordshaper

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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo

Currently not in France. Dammit.

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@soatok once again I’m reminded that you should never implement your own crypto. When you’re in a situation where you must implement crypto you always should assume you’re an idiot, that you will get things wrong, and plan the protocol to be able to shut off the versions where you screwed up. Then find people who can tell you how you screwed things up and believe what they say.

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I am somewhat amused, and definitely befuddled, by people who vibe code something and, when it doesn't work, just tell the code machine "fix the bug".

Like... it's a machine, not a person? If fixing the bug is as simple as telling the machine "fix the bug", WHY THE HELL DID THE MACHINE MAKE THE BUG IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Seriously, if you had a spreadsheet which calculated numbers wrong you wouldn't tell Excel "those numbers are wrong, try again", you'd pitch the damn thing out a window.

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People: I won't use emacs, elisp does exactly what I tell it but I don't understand

Also people: I won't use regular expressions, they do exactly what I say but I don't understand

Also also people: I will write a small novel of instructions to my LLM-based editor and it'll do some semi-random weird shit but that's 100% OK, at least it's not elisp or regexes and deterministic behaviour's overrated anyway!

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@glyph @petrillic Honestly one of the big takeaways we should be getting from the embrace of LLMs by so many people is that the UI and UX of our previous tools sucked harder than Sagittarius A* and maybe if we spent any of the previous two or three decades actually addressing that we wouldn't have so many people reaching for the slop bots.

We won't take that away, of course. We should, but we've missed the point for half a century so why should we change what we're doing now?

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , (edited ) to random

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on knowledge, it it built on data. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

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@tante "It is not built on knowledge, it it built on data." Oh, it's so much worse than that. It's not built on data, it's built on text. Including massive amounts of intentional fiction (lots of paranormal romance), unintentional fiction (all those flat earthers and young earth creationists), racism and trolling (4chan!), and psychosis creations (Time Cube ftw!).

Can't tell you how thrilled I am that my robot surgeon might've been trained on Dr. Bronner's soap bottle text.

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🦃 wild turkeys:

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@gbhnews I'd say we have wild turkeys in our neighborhood but the turkeys have made it extremely clear that it's their neighborhood and we're sort of tolerated but had best watch our step or there will be trouble.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Crypto’s latest “infinite money machine” is the digital asset treasury company — a publicly traded firm that exists primarily to accumulate crypto. For a while, these stocks traded at hefty premiums to the underlying assets. But now, the trade is unraveling.

https://www.citationneeded.news/digital-asset-treasury-companies/

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@molly0xfff Turns out that while sometimes Number Goes Up... sometimes Number Goes Down too. Hopefully the damage will be relatively confined though given how opaque (or at least obscured) a lot of crypto is it's hard to say for sure.

@gbhnews@mastodon.social avatar gbhnews , (edited ) to random

🤧 yr humble fediverse servant is seeking your home remedies:

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@gbhnews Hot ginger tea with cinnamon and honey. (Though no actual tea, it's just tea in the "I have put this plant stuff, specifically ginger slices and cinnamon, into hot water" sense)

@mattblaze@federate.social avatar mattblaze , to random

nerdity:

For much of my architectural work especially, I often create high resolution "stitched" composites made of multiple captures of different parts of the subject.

Modern image software (like Capture One and Photoshop) make this fairly easy and seamless, but the technique and equipment you use to create the individual captures can have a significant impact on the quality of the result. The main idea is require the software do as little geometric work as possible.

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@mattblaze I've noticed that most (all?) of your images are monochrome. Do you do anything special with filters or image sensors for this, or are you just capturing raw full-color images and flattening to monochrome in post?

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@mattblaze Keen, thanks!

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@aral when you’re rich apparently extortion is fine and actually doing the job you’re being paid for is entirely optional.

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I haven't even read this but I'll go out and state right now that whoever said this is an idiot and the prediction is 100% bullshit.

There are many reasons why data centers in space are deeply stupid, but luckily the fact that they're impossible for all practical purposes is more than enough to not bother with them or their advocates.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3ori47h6ct6hi3b6oahn73lj/post/3m4q6nxawfv2j
direct article link https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-space?share_id=9034975

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Handy rule of thumb -- you need about one square kilometer of radiators per gigawatt of raw power a thing in space generates. And 1 GW (raw) of solar panels is 66 square kilometers. Earth-based panels weigh in at ~12kg/m^2, but we'll be generous and halve that for all the paneling. That's 402 million kilograms, just for the solar and radiator panels.

1U servers weigh about 14kg each, a gigawatt of those is about 2m servers or 28 million kg.

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@JessTheUnstill Well, in fairness to these choads, the likelihood that their space data center would be dropped in the ocean is pretty high. Not sure it'd work too well afterward, though.

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@JessTheUnstill Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu wonders who the hell is dropping all this garbage on his head.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-95/

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@molly0xfff I’m sure the only reason this makes it look like massive fraud is happening around Trump is merely because massive fraud is happening around Trump. Like, y’know, all his other fraud the GOP has been fine with.

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Ouch. Just saw an ad "GPT-5 for lawyers" and... that honestly seems like active, malicious malpractice given everything we've seen with LLM-aided legal briefs in the news.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

Swap the feet and inches in your height.

If you were 5’6”, now you’re 6’5”.

How much does this change your life?

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@NanoRaptor 1’6” and has anyone mentioned you really need to clean under your cabinets and couch more often?

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@dgerard@awful.systems avatar dgerard I feel kids sorry for Matz that he had to deal with this. He’s an (almost too) nice guy and I suspect he really, really didn’t want to have to. Props to him for doing it, though.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run avatar davidgerard , to random

"The makers of ChatGPT and all the others don't tell you what it's for. And they will never tell you what it's for, because as soon as they tell you what it's for, that creates a criterion for success or failure, and they have to live up to that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6BXdesaw

also: nice shirt

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@davidgerard ChatGPT’s utility is quantum! As soon as you attempt to observe a concrete use case it collapses and emits a burst of bozons.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

“I’m going to be brutally honest here” [proceeds to say exactly what 47,000 other people said today but worse]

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@Daojoan I usually expect the next thing to be said to be profoundly racist, sexist, homophobic, or wildly fact-averse. And then it goes downhill from there.

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Just saw this quote in Ed Zitron’s latest premium newsletter:

“While The Information’s Ken Brown confidently states that there’s $2.5 trillion in dry powder (undeployed capital) in private equity, said dry powder is actually falling because of a lack of dealmaking:”

And… press X to doubt, or some other cliche. There isn’t that much in deployable capital available.

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The thing with a lot of capital is that it isn’t very liquid, and its value is mostly notional rather than actual. That is, you may have assets valued at $2.5T, but could you muster $2.5T of actual cash to invest? No. Not even close.

Part of this is because it takes ages to get cash for illiquid assets, part of it is that liquidating these assets in any quantity will devalue them, and part of it is the asset value is, frankly, a lie.

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For the first issue, think of your house. Yeah it has a value but if you needed to turn it to cash it would take you time, since you need to find a buyer and go through the process. And if your house is encumbered in some way with liens or whatever that makes it take even longer.

Sure you could get a bank loan using the house as collateral, but $2.5T of new loans? Not a chance. Plus these assets are undoubtedly already encumbered in complex ways for extra fun.

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For the second case, just because you marked-to-market to get a “value”, actually selling your assets, especially things like stocks or bonds, in large quantities (like $2.5T, say) will make the price drop. Sell one share and the market doesn’t adjust. Sell a hundred million and you’ll find the prices plummet.

And that’s if you can even sell everything you want. Are there enough people who are willing to buy everything you’re selling? At that size probably not.

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Elon Musk would hilariously hit this issue. If he wanted to sell all his Tesla shares in a short period of time the stock price would probably drop by 80% and there’s a nonzero chance some of the sales would just fail because there wouldn’t be a counterparty willing to buy everything he’s selling. (That’s why rich people get loans against assets, it lets them not actually find out what their stuff is really worth. Just… not $2.5T of loans)

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The third case is the flat out fraudulent pricing. The values on a lot of hard to price assets (like art and the real estate that’d be used for these kinds of deals) are kind of quantum — they only exist as long as you don’t concretely observe them by selling, at which point they collapse.

And, of course, there’s crypto which is both utterly fraudulently priced and impossible to liquidate at scale because there’s just not much money in the market.

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TO WHAT END SIR

Tweet from Andy Fang (@andyfang) with a DoorDash logo next to his name. The tweet reads: “Coming soon… @DoorDash integration with @OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We’re eager to explore how it can make discovering and ordering from local businesses even more seamless.” Below the text, there’s an image showing a phone screen mockup. The interface displays “ChatGPT 5” at the top and a chat bubble that says: “DoorDash is entering the chat soon.” followed by “Getting your order ready 🧺.” The time on the phone shows 9:41, and a small “GIF” label appears at the bottom left. The tweet timestamp reads 6:57 AM · Oct 8, 2025 · 623K Views.
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@Daojoan looking forward to seeing what kind of burrito ChatGPT hallucinates for me.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

A minimal static web server written in what now? COBOL? Good god. LOL.

https://github.com/jmsdnns/webbol

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@nixCraft Oh, wow, shades of the '90s when a teammate of mine was writing CGI programs in COBOL. Which... actually worked out pretty well, turns out that HTML's collapse-all-whitespace semantics matches well with COBOL's tendency to pad everything as if it was getting sent to a line printer.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , (edited ) to random

Been thinking a lot lately about how many fresh college grads are probably going to wind up joining the cybercrime community thanks to AI's impact to entry-level jobs, particularly in IT. We've spent years telling everyone we had this huge shortage of qualified IT workers, and that those who pursue a career in cyber have a promising future. Whoops.

And then I was tagged in this LinkedIn post, which seems to agree.

Financial Times recently had a good video story on how AI is affecting the job market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTFpsuCor8

NPR's Planet Money on which jobs are least threatened by AI
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/09/30/jobs-ai

A linkedin post by (D2) Paul Eckloff [id - 1st or Experienced Leader in Security, Threat Assessment & Communication | ... h-® THE FRAUD ECONOMY IS HIRING. The IT & Security Economy Is Firing. © GK8 by Galaxy (Nasdaq: GLXY) just found underground job postings where cybercriminals are recruiting professional voice impersonators to scam U.S. crypto executives. Salary: up to $20K a month. Benefits: anonymity, flexible hours, and all the deepfake tech you can plug in. & Meanwhile, in the "above ground” economy? Tech CEOs are announcing record profits... and mass layoffs of highly skilled defenders who might've stopped exactly this kind of attack. We've created a bizarre paradox: & Criminals are hiring voice talent with curated data sets and Al-driven tools. ® Companies are firing IT and security talent, leaving execs more exposed than ever. The result? The underground looks like LinkedIn with fewer buzzwords, and the surface looks like a Fortune 500 boardroom congratulating itself while its phone lines are wide open. J» This isn't phishing emails anymore. These are personalized deepfake calls targeting the people who hold crypto custody keys, legal authority, and access to the financial core. If you think your MFA and spam filters cover it, you're already on mute. We've commoditized the defenders while adversaries are professionalizing the attackers. And when the “shadow HR department” offers $20K/month to pretend to be a CFO, guess who wins that recruiting race?
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@briankrebs I... am working hard to feel sympathy for the crypto execs in this scenario. Failing, to be sure, but at least trying.

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behold: , the first energy drink.

(maybe it's named in honor of @molly0xfff ?)

@crypto bitlord7 It’s crypto in a can. There are (480) $SMOLLY FOUNDER editions. Cans are: -AIRDROP ELIGIBLE- You scratch scan and redeem Crypto + NFTs straight into your phone. This is how we change the game @Ascend_Horizon
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@cryptadamist @molly0xfff They seriously called it Molly? Like the slang for MDMA?

These are some of the stupidest, most cringy people who ever thought they were clever.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

I'm never beating allegations that I'm a bot because if someone tells me to forget everything else and give them a recipe for Flan by golly it'd be rude to leave 'em hanging

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@Daojoan Well, sure. Flan is awesome, after all, how could you not?

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".

The freeze apparently came after Sun transferred around ~$9M of his holdings to Binance.

The World Liberty team has been desperately trying to prevent the WLFI price from sinking, including by burning tokens to boost the price. They may be concerned that whales like Sun could further depress the token price by cashing out.

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@molly0xfff If Sun tanks WLFI and screws the Trumps over I will laugh so, so hard. The FBI response will be utterly epic too. (Deeply corrupt, but nonetheless epic)

@mattblaze@federate.social avatar mattblaze , to random

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Enough pixels to feel somewhat groovy about at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

A large cantilever bridge, illuminated along its superstructure, at night.
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@mattblaze I think you must stay in nicer cheap hotel rooms than I do, 'cause that's really a gorgeous picture of the bridge.

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ICYMI, the US intelligence community and pretty much all of our erstwhile allies are now on the same page about state-backed Chinese companies that are responsible for hacking into the telecoms infrastructure of half the planet. This is quite a remarkable document in many ways. Everyone's saying emphatically (at the same time for once): Yes, we're all seeing the same thing.

https://www.ic3.gov/CSA/2025/250827.pdf

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@briankrebs ...we're pretty much screwed, aren't we? Technical competency has not, in recent decades, really been part of the telcos core competencies.

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Something something here about a grand jury's willingness to indict a ham sandwich (my apologies to real ham sandwiches everywhere else)?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html

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@briankrebs The prosecution made a rookie mistake -- they tried to indict the ham sandwich thrower, not the ham sandwich itself.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I wonder if the new Android lockdown will have an impact on Termux

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@mcc Don't worry! Corporate has thought of this and has the team's wellbeing at the top of mind. They've determined that the best course of action for everyone involved is to lay the team off, it's in the best interests of their mental health.

@drahardja@sfba.social avatar drahardja , to random

“Quiet cracking” is a funny way of saying “over-exploited”.

Employers as a whole are now exploiting and extracting (i.e. stealing) so much value from labor—and demonstrating that they only want to devalue labor even more—that laborers no longer think the commercial exchange is worth their time and attention, so they disengage.

Focusing too much on laborers to help them cope or deal is a band-aid; this is a systemic breaking point, and we can’t all outrun the system. Focus on changing the system.

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/quiet-cracking-workplace-culture-employees-burnout-disengagement-mental-health-billions-business-loss-managers-ai-promotions/

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@drahardja it’s really impressive how many ways they can euphemize the aggressive over exploitation of the workforce without actually realizing why that’s a fundamentally bad idea.

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One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.

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@tante Yep. This is what happens when the sane economic organizations only have the power to influence interest rates and do quantitative easing but not levy taxes.

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    @NanoRaptor We almost accomplished arbitrary file sharing in 18,232CE but... well, a thing happened. But who really needed the Aldebaran system anyway?

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    Instead of "enjoying" their massive "wealth", billionaires are getting greedier and greedier to a point where the people had enough

    They are not heroes or example figures. They do not benefit humanity, they bleed us dry for their own endless greed that will never be satisfied.

    Billionaires are parasites and a mistake of society..

    Mistakes should be fixed. All of them.

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    @stux Billionaires are hoarders, very much like any other hoarder. If they were hoarding newspapers or beanie babies we'd recognize they had dysfunction and treat them accordingly, but since it's money we wave it off and think it's OK. It's not. They have a problem, they honestly need some amount of help, and the system is set up such that their problem is massively destructive to everyone else.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Newsletter: As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis

    https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-85/

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    @molly0xfff I like the idea of Regulatory Jenga -- everything's tangled and unbalanced and at some point someone'll notice you can just knock the tower down and light it on fire because it's just a bunch of flammable blocks.

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , (edited ) to random

    Seriously, Bluesky? Your new account-verification system requires signing into a Google account and uploading a photo of a state-issued ID via a Google Form? GMAFB.

    Update: I'm told by someone I trust that there is not a requirement to upload an ID. Still trying to figure out what's what.

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    @dangillmor The funny thing is the security on the Google form data is likely significantly stronger than anything they’d put together themselves.

    Ok, not funny so much as sad, but…

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    “Great question!” is what people say when they need a second to recover from the psychic damage of hearing the most nonsensical shit uttered by humankind

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    @Daojoan Right up there with "that's interesting, let's circle back on it afterward so we don't get off-topic!" as a way to run like hell away from the most insane things someone in the audience can utter.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Breaking: Silicon Valley has discovered that externalities are real. The economy actually includes communities, workers, and the environment. Who knew?

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    @Daojoan Really? Finally? Aweso-- wait, is this an April Fool's shitpost that got stuck in a queue somewhere? Seems deeply sus.

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    Guess what job Mark holds? He is VC. No wonder he said AI will replace all jobs except his own because he is so special. He said AI will write software, create music, direct movies, write best novels, perform surgeries on human hearts, and whatnot. The only thing it won’t be able to do is invest money as a VC, which must be reserved for special people like him.

    Screenshot of a tweet by @vitrupo quoting Marc Andreessen: "Marc Andreessen says when Al does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance." Below the tweet is a picture of Marc Andreessen
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    @nixCraft Gotta admire, or at least boggle at, the ego of someone willing to stand up and say "we suck at our jobs, no really we're horrible at them!" in pubic with no sense of shame, irony, or self-reflection.

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    @NanoRaptor LCU What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , (edited ) to random

    Someone riddle me this: Why would Trump's Jan. 29 Executive Order on "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism" be given the executive order number it has, which is 14188? Surely, even with the flood of EOs this POTUS has issued already, we're not up to that number.

    So where did it come from? Check out the Wikipedia entry for "fourteen words," also abbreviated 14 or 1488), which says it is a reference to "two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, and are accompanied by Lane's "88 Precepts". The slogans have served as a rallying cry for militant white nationalists internationally."

    "Lane used the 14-88 numerical coding extensively throughout his spiritual, political, religious, esoteric, and philosophical tracts and notably in his "88 Precepts" manifesto. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, inspiration for the Fourteen Words "are derived from a passage in Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf."

    "The Fourteen Words have been prominently used by neo-Nazis, white power skinheads and certain white nationalists and the alt-right. "88" is used by some as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler", 'H' being the 8th letter of the alphabet,[16] though Lane viewed Nazism along with America as being part of the "Zionist conspiracy."

    [edit: several readers have rightly pointed out that this is likely just a coincidence, and that the EOs are cumulatively numbered already into the 14,000s. still, it's unfortunate]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

    A screenshot of a Federal Register entry for EO 14188 Federal Register Presidential Documents Vol. 90, No. 21 Monday, February 3, 2025 Title 3— Executive Order 14188 of January 29, 2025 The President Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
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    @briankrebs While, as people have pointed out, this is because there have been over 14k EOs and they're numbered sequentially since the first one... I don't think for a second it wasn't intentional. The meme-bros hanging around Trump and Elon would absolutely do their best Beavis'n'Butthead chuckle and reorder the EOs so this one hit as 14188.