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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

This is important, and speaks the truth. I wish my "AI"-using friends would heed it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair www.brainyquote.com/quotes/upton_si…

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If the devil was running against Mike Rogers, the devil would get my vote.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today I reread "Superluminal", by the late great Vonda McIntyre. It is a stunningly good book which you should read. It has been >30 years since I last read it. Superluminal was published in 1983. I found this on pages 37–38 of the original, hardcover edition […] [Original post on federate.social]

Ever since she had left the water, her message signal had been glowing, a pinpoint of light just behind her eyes. Granting acceptance, she received the messages through her internal communicator. They scrolled across a screen she imagined in her mind, and she scanned each one quickly.

A note from a friend pleased her; junk announcements broadcast to everyone on the port irritated her. She killed

each one as soon as she had read far enough to identify it. The people who wrote them got cleverer and cleverer. Orca’s message bank contained a strong filter that was meant to discard most advertising and other solicitations. Some of the circulars had confused the program enough to make it let them through. Orca would have to rewrite it and strengthen
its criteria. The escalation never ended.

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Fuse, n., business jargon: A person who is accountable for the outcome but has no authority over the process. Their purpose is to be fired and replaced with another fuse when something goes wrong, protecting managers who have authority over the process from being held accountable for its […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

What if, instead of this all or nothing win/lose style of "government", we actually tried things out, looked at the results, improved the good bits, reduced the bad? There has been some experimentation, in communities. And of course there are many ideas in place around the world. Maybe we […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@RonJeffries/117368… Er I mean, these two stars get five stars from me! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Also ✨🌟💫🌟✨

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

In the Cyberpunk world, the AIs live in the network, not isolated to some data center somewhere. With massive servers like AWS and the other cloud services out there, a moderately "intelligent" AI could crack some server passwords and host itself hundreds or thousands of times. I see no reason […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom For the umpteenth time: Quit trying to analyze Trump. Quit trying to figure out why he says and does the things he says and does. I'm so fucking sick of listening to some panel on CNN try to discuss his latest bizarre pronouncement like he's […] [Original post on c.im]

A tweet by Joe Walsh criticizing Donald Trump, expressing frustration over attempts to analyze his behavior and labeling him as a sociopath and a Russian asset. The message emphasizes Walsh's disdain for Trump's character and actions.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I can't live in rage all the time. I can't live in shame all the time. I can't live in horror all the time. I have to look away. I have to think of other things, of nice things, happy things. Denial sometimes seems like the only way to survive. But I know. Folx are hurting. Evil abounds. I do […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Incremental harm: My car only adds a tiny bit of pollution; My steak only wastes a tiny fraction of wasted vegetation; My plastic only kills a few otters; My tokens are a tiny fraction of data center usage. Going along with things doesn't seem that bad. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I just […]

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday scribbling, one of my fave things to draw, a crow! carbon pencil on cartridge paper #art #drawing

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

If you have a vampire problem, I recommend becoming ordained by the Universal Life Church. Then you can make your own holy water and use any symbol you want as your holy symbol.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I've been writing concurrently with programming for so long that I almost can't program if I'm not writing concurrently. Weird. Or, possibly, I’m just losing what little edge I have left.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Wait! An iterator can loop! Of course! Why didn't I see that? Tiny fool!

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Did you ever make a decision that you didn’t agree with? Very odd feeling.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I think maybe I have written a nifty Lua iterator. Further tests needed. It may be that it should be done with coroutines, but that's not clear yet. It does have that flavor of having more than one way to decide what to return next. We'll see. Beginning to gain traction with VS Code and Lua […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/1173297… Please vote. Please vote Dem. Read what GeePaw says here. It really matters.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

My hat's going to be off to the first woman reporter who kicks him in the balls if he lunges at her. Even just "back off, pedo, or I'll hurt you". Maybe the SS would jump her, but it'd already be over.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@jcoglan Nope. All you can do is write the function somewhere, typically inside the function that wants to pass it, and then pass the name. It's a pain, but not the worst pain I ever felt. 😀

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Blargh. Spent much of the day getting Luau working in my Mac, first under sublime, then in PyCharm, then in VSCode, which I think I'll have to use because reasons. Anyway, kind of sloggy, but not that horrid frustrating thing where something doesn't work despite the clear instructions. I did […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Someone said something about calling out others for something bad they did or said. Doesn't matter who or what, that's not my point. My point is: if in fact we want someone to think seriously about what they said / did, calling them out in public is probably the worst way to accomplish that […]

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Bunneh Usagi-Chan @bunnehusagichan.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Atheist Cat sleeps in on Sunday, but not #Caturday !

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

So, I don't know, but it seems to me that if someone toots something public, it should be ok to reply to it, unless that very toot requests no replies. Even then it would seem odd to me. I know that others feel differently. I just don't get it. In particular how are we supposed to know when we […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

So, for historical reasons, I use Transmit to move my site from local to server via FTP. Transmit 4 requires Rosetta, still present in MacOS 27, but it'll be gone in 28, I should live so long, so I bought Transmit 5, because I like it and it has served well. Probably could have had a free […]

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I have recently read books by two well-known authors who think that Corvettes have back seats. They have never had back seats. Why doesn't everyone know this?

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Ron Jeffries @ronjeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Just finished The Everlasting, Hugo winner by Alix E Harrow. Strange, lovely, intricate. A worthy winner. Also read her most recent "annual post": buttondown.com/alixeharrow/archive/… and the amazing story she refers to […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm hard to insult. Everyone should be. This isn't hardly an original observation, but insults are either true, in which case what are you bitching about? Or they're lies, in which case you're dealing with a liar, or that notable pure subset of liars, a conservative. You have to give the putzes […]

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