Dr. jonny phd

RE:

Mastodon

Alison Pitt :blobcatcoffee: (@adastra1930@mastodon.social)

Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s you...

can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera View quoted note →

RE:

mas.to

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

Attached: 1 image Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google. I expect to see more testimonials from a...

keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different character archetypes wrapped by a (n assemblage of) IDE and CLI tools. the "skill issue" FOMO trap is just a trap and the question was never "whether they work or not" but rather "how they reconfigure the dynamics of informational power by dramatically consolidating it in the owners of informational capital." View quoted note →

Catching up on some corporate hatereading, [Alphabet Q3 Earnings Call](https://seekingalpha.com/article/4835072-alphabet-inc-googl-q3-2025-earnings-call-transcript ) > Q: About 20% of Google's search queries are commercial historically, and you've talked a bunch on this call about how AI Overviews are kind of expanding the breadth of queries. Could you talk about how new products from the monetization side, like AI Max, are potentially increasing the percent of commercial queries? > A: [...] over time, there's an opportunity to actually take, let's say, queries that are not fully commercial but could have an adjacent commercial relationship to basically expand this into more attractive ads offerings without -- while really creating a really interesting user experience at the same time I love the pause after "without..." where he might have said "without making it obvious we're steering people's need for information into buying something"

Al Jazeera

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro ‘captured’ after huge US military strikes

US says Venezuelan president will face drug-related charges in New York as Caracas decries Nicolas Maduro's capture.

> Explosions have been heard and plumes of smoke are rising in the Venezuelan capital Caracas [...] > the explosion occurred near or around Fortuna, the main military base in Caracas. > “Fortuna is a key military base there. A series of explosions were reportedly heard throughout the area followed by a blackout,” Newman said.