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• Post #4311824

  Um, isn't software engineering an AI thing now? "Pentagon launches ‘War Force’ campaign in push for software engineers" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/07/06/pentagon-launches-war-force-campaign-in-push-for-software-engineers/

• Post #4311823

  Wait until the day GPAs suffer the bubble popping… "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% - Ars Technica" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

• Post #4311822

  Spotted on LinkedIn. So do we still need to show up anymore for anything?

• Post #4311821

  I have seen mentions here and there of AI tools used to maybe establish comms with whales and dolphins (Day of The Dolphin but without George C Scott, perhaps), is anyone working on enabling them to vibe code? 🤔

• Post #4311820

  unionized or unionized… I thought this article was about something else entirely. "Virtual Environments Are Changing the Way We Experience Architecture | ArchDaily" https://www.archdaily.com/1054064/virtual-environments-are-changing-the-way-we-experience-architecture

• Post #4311819

  Why learn anything anymore? "I stopped using CAD software and let Claude design my 3D parts instead" https://www.makeuseof.com/stopped-using-cad-claude-design-3d-parts/

• Post #4311818

  Ah yes, people who know what they’re doing are finally in charge… "The Trump administration is now dictating access to frontier AI models" https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/17/white-house-ai-access-anthropic-openai.html

• Post #4311817

  Could I get funding to create a physical space for private and semi-private social networking workout algorithms, but with coffee and snacks? I'm going to need about $10M "Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads | TechCrunch" https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/yope-raises-12-3m-to-build-a-private-social-network-without-algorithms-or-ads/

• Post #4311816

  Guess what's legal in Nye county? Shouldn't be data centers… https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/residents-question-developers-during-pahrump-town-hall-on-proposed-data-center/

• Post #4311815

  This may explain JavaScript framework proliferation… "Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-millennia-ago-humans-may-have-spoken-thousands-more-languages-than-we-have-today-during-a-linguistic-golden-age-180989197/

• Post #4311814

  I think this already exists, doesn't it? Customers… https://www.fox7austin.com/news/new-device-could-help-spot-problems-power-grid.amp

• Post #4311813

  So they're going to block everybody from Nevada after their attempts to block everybody from Nevada from using the platform failed. Is there some way we can wager on this? I assume fishduck is completely legit. https://fishduck.com/2026/07/kalshi-agrees-to-fully-exit-nevada-after-geoblocking-failures-exposed/

• Post #4311812

  Mmmmeans of Production? #USSA https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-eyes-government-stakes-in-7-more-companies

• Post #2830121

  We can accelerate the forgetting with AI! "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s" https://spacedaily.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-voyager-spacecraft-code-in-a-1970s-era-programming-language-that-almost-nobody-on-earth-fully-understands-anymore-and-the-handful-of-engineers-who-do-are-now-in-their/

• Post #2830120

  Not In My Backyard, but how about in the side yard, next to my extra catalytic converters? https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-us-start-up-wants-to-pay-you-to-host-a-data-center-on-the-side-of-your-home-and-says-it-wont-disturb-you-at-all

• Post #2830119

  Hmm, will the PostgreSQL logo be an elephant from the other end, responding in kind to Gemini Slop PRs? "Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work" https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/05/18/google-tells-database-devs-to-lean-hard-on-ai-for-postgresql-work/5238070

• Post #2830118

  Your good news for the day: There are about 2 billion people on the planet who still know what Friend, Like, and Follow mean, and they are the better for it. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1131780/stratospheric-internet-take-off/

• Post #2830117

  It's too bad there isn't some markup that is like a superset of html where a schema could be defined and documents could be validated, with an existing pile of libraries and utilities that are focused on data structure over human readable documents. Bummer. "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | Claude" https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html

• Post #2830116

  One of my colleagues back in the day was employee 104 at Apple, said Woz was the real deal. 💯 https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5

• Post #2830115

  I’ve been saying this the whole time https://engineering.grab.com/one-click-data-ingestion-platform-with-apache-flink

• Post #2830114

  Give them time around you, marca https://www.aol.com/articles/marc-andreessen-says-ai-coding-085901000.html

• Post #2830113

  The best time was a hundred years ago. Second best time is now… "There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/computer-science-major-coding-ai/687279/

• Post #2830112

  💩 "Amazon Introduces New Alexa+ Feature for Producing AI-Generated Podcast Episodes" https://people.com/amazon-new-feature-on-alexa-ai-generated-podcast-episodes-11978244

• Post #2277930

  Well at least they'll increase the supply of consumer DDR5 ram and—oh really? The bubble needs feeding, the rest go thirsty… https://www.techradar.com/pro/fuelled-by-ai-microns-usd50-billion-chip-factory-in-idaho-will-use-billions-of-litres-of-water-every-year-but-the-us-tech-giant-stays-silent-on-where-that-new-water-will-come-from

• Post #1941687

  Maybe the bubble is made of cardboard 🤔 "Arizona students construct a full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history | TechRadar" https://www.techradar.com/pro/neurodivergent-teacher-uses-dyscalculia-superpower-to-recreate-full-scale-whale-sized-replica-of-worlds-first-programmable-digital-computer-21st-century-eniac-used-almost-3-000-sq-ft-of-cardboard-and-nasas-artemis-ii-may-be-his-next-big-challenge

• Post #1941686

  I'm waiting for the announcement: Agentic Ballroom It's coming

• Post #1941685

  It looks like somebody was delayed getting this April 1 article published… "Amazon targets mass hiring with agentic software, goal to humanize AI | Reuters" https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-targets-mass-hiring-with-agentic-software-goal-humanize-ai-2026-04-28/

• Post #1941684

  Prime calls out Microsoft adding the Fourth E to GitHub (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, and the fourth is courtesy of @pluralistic , if you don’t know go grab the book). 💯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b13m-iuu4XU

• Post #1941683

  Doomed. https://www.popsci.com/technology/new-texas-instruments-graphing-calculator-dumb/

• Post #1941682

  I asked [insert your favorite AI chat tool] whether these various AI Prognosticators are providing real insight, the response: “That is a great question! You will find out soon enough…”