Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

this isn’t something I made up. this is how leaded gasoline was approved for sale to the public. here’s a Wikipedia hole I recommend falling down:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Kehoe (pay special attention to the Kehoe Rule, you’ve seen it recently)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. (the inventor of leaded gasoline, who was poisoned by it multiple times before the conference on its safety)

we understand the moral outrage, but these topics have already been well-discussed and are therefore out of scope for our final vote on whether leaded gas should be legal:

- the neurotoxicity of lead
- pollution
- the deaths caused by leaded gas production
- any comment with the phrase “what is wrong with you”

protestors should be satisfied to know that our inclusive policy limits lead levels in gasoline to 10%, resulting in cheaper and more efficient fuel with no negative effects worth noting

When the real world usage metrics on Google+ eventually came to light, we learned that the average user session was .... about five seconds long. The overwhelmingly dominant "user story" of that entire effort was "User wants to click the back button."

If the rumors I'm hearing from inside the big G are anywhere close to representative, when the real information from Gemini comes out, if it ever does, it's going to be absolutely hilarious.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens | Kevin Patel

｢ “It’s a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern web apps,” said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string ｣

https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/

#npm #satire #cybersecurity

we're strange and we like it

• 2006: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems
• 2016: AWS, GitHub
• 2026: rolled our own janky hosting, version control, CMS, and backup systems

ShePlusPlus is here!!

#Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt #CodeGals

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

i am so tired of "ethical concerns aside" being a phrase i see every single time someone tries to defend the use of LLMs. fuck that! ethical concerns front and fucking center! it is very revealing that tech is currently in such a state that the quiet part can be said out loud without any pushback.