Systir mín, sem er höfundurinn á myndasögunni Kötturinn og ég, á afmæli í dag. Í tilefni afmælisins þá rifjaði mamma upp eftirfarandi sögu sem gæti mögulega útskýrt teikniþrjáhyggjuna: ‚Mér hefur verið hugsað til atviks sem átti sér stað fyrir löngu þegar við foreldrar hennar vorum á göngu með börnin okkar við fjöruna í Morecambe á Englandi, skammt frá þar sem við bjuggum á þeim tíma...’

Programmers will debate endlessly the correctness of code implementing a “taser my genitals” button, its ‘accessibility’, and how to place it on the screen to minimise accidental activation, without ever pausing to ask whether frying the end-user’s balls is a good design or not, or why the fuck their bosses think the user’s balls should be fried “If I get Claude to generate it as JS embedded in HTML, then the genital-zapping function will be more reusable!”

“Barnum's Law of CEOs - Charlie's Diary” https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html > LLMs are effectively optimized for bamboozling CEOs into mistaking them for intelligent activity

Mid-winter photos:

Mid-winter photos

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Toot Café

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)

But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/but-i-worry/

The thing about writing end-of-year reviews and thoughts in these times is that it makes for fucking grim reading. View quoted note →

But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall:

But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

“They’re buying more GPUs than there is data centre capacity or available power! They must be warehousing unused GPUs!” Or the GPUs have a much shorter service life on average than claimed, so they constantly have to replace failed units, which is both more plausible and worse news for the industry

Last year, I started going on walks during noon, the time when there's most daylight, and that worked quite well at tackling Seasonal-Affective-Disorder (the short days here in Iceland in winter can get rough) This year I've also added basically 80 watts worth of daylight-balanced LEDs as a desk light and that seems to have helped a bit more It's almost shocking how every time I turn it off, I realise that up until the moment the light hit my eyes, I hadn't actually fully woken up