Vindicate Tanenbaum in the greatest Usenet thread in os development: make it a microkernel.

Oooh, I hope we get to see a lot of experimental-sounding puberty blocker and hormone replacement trials.

https://www.buttersafe.com/2010/07/01/bagels-and-donuts/

In positive news, Darius has found a way to build an ethical chatbot https://tinysubversions.com/ethical-assistant/

Look, the goat said I was having great ideas ok

[takes a deep bong hit] Tokenomics

Great idea, let’s seastead a data center next to some low income sea steading communities.

All y’all still don’t get it: the singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

I’m sure this guy uses the ai quite a lot (and so would the guy in Married With Children)

How can we, as a community, talk about the existential risk of climate change or the benefits of adopting renewable energy or cheer the development of ever-more-efficient power consumption

Well I have a good/bad news thing about that one

Mathematicians don’t love the use of “AI” for math, not one bit, via Timnit Gebru

Publish and perish!

oneshotted, a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience.

Strikes me as incorrectly translated. The remaking is extremely optional, in fact that definition feels like defining blackpilling as being healed by vile propaganda.

Those bacteria better be so supreme they can’t even be killed with regular antibiotics

Yup. If their backups (if they even had any) were this available to a rando with a single ssh key, it’s lucky they got wiped by an insider threat instead of ransomware.

Another day, another company that hooked up the random text generator to production and lost their entire prod db and backups: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Cue the long drag (https://x.com/amyngyn/status/1072576388518043656)

But also, damn, the random text generator did not “go rogue”, it generated text, randomly!

Is there a more generalized form of “weird hill to die on but at least you’re dead”? Because a new-to-me way for too-rich people to end their gullible lives has emerged https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/

As a pal remarks, finally they found a novel way to use the blockchain for drugs.

Good news for a change: https://pitchfork.com/news/bandcamp-announces-ban-on-ai-music/

It’s no comfort that an acquaintance who works at a slop company says they’d been doing that for years now. That surely makes it fine then.