OK, if you live in Washington, there's at least three things to call your state legislators about:
• I-3276: subjecting trans and cis kids to genital inspections (https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115856394630529912)
• HB 2112: Our own KOSA-like age verification law (https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2112&Year=2025)
• HB 2321: Requiring 3D printers and CNC machines to have draconian government-controlled DRM (https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2321&Year=2025)
@estrogenandspite The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Hey Washington, there's a profoundly bad law making its way through the state level.
This law, will require ALL 3d printers to send copies of the files you print directly to the government to be check against a database of "banned shapes".
Literally turning your 3d printer into spyware. And if you don't voluntarily turn your printer into a spy, you will be a class C Felon.
This law affects ALL CNC machines, not just 3dps.
@azonenberg @mhoye If you only want to read the code, and not build it, lint it, examine macro expansions, etc., then… don’t check the box?
But I don’t think your usage is typical for an IDE.
@20002ist I don’t get it. This isn’t their only and final ‘take’ on weight loss drugs as a cultural phenomenon, is it?
If Americans’ bodies are changing so much that it measurably impacts aircraft fuel consumption, I find that connection interesting.
(To be clear I haven’t subscribed to NYT since their “No Clear Link to Russia” garbage.)
@mhoye How many language build systems don’t insist on the ability to execute arbitrary code?
I feel like this battle was lost with the Makefile.
*Kitty Cat Kill Sat*
by Argus
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Centuries into the future, long after the colonization of the solar system and subsequent collapse of human societies, Lily the (enhanced) cat delivers justice to the surface of Earth from the giant orbital bombardment platform on which she is the sole sentient creature.
Or.. is she?
Kinda feel like a sucker paying for books one at a time when corporations can just steal terabytes without consequence. https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/
Stumbled across this reference of 74-series logic chips and it's very handy, it certainly beats my collection of random PDF datasheets. They're missing a few like the 373 but this is definitely going to stay bookmarked.
https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/7400-series-integrated-circuits/
@glyph I didn’t go to college, the only blue book I know lists used car prices. 😅 I don’t have a WSJ subscription to read the actual article.
This doesn’t seem to support the hypothesis that AI usage by students is declining?
@glyph This is the ‘Recommendations’ section from the Brookings report discussed in your Forbes article. It doesn’t seem to suggest anyone thinks it’s going away.
The US Census questionnaire data show “yes” answers roughly doubling over the last year.
@glyph If you truly believe that it requires an “elaborate suspension of disbelief” to find utility in this technology, I’m not going to try to change your mind.
@glyph I spoke with a college teacher/information director about it the other day. Most students (and faculty) are using it. It’s not going away.
@glyph I’d actually started typing “(this is not a moral argument)”, but I figured it was implied by “In practice, …” and erased it.
‘Popularity’ is just not a useful way to frame the problem.
LLM AI is a powerful technology, with all the implications for humanity. It wouldn’t make sense to discuss the moral implications of, say, petrochemical engineering in terms of its ‘popularity’, would it?
But in a world where 80-90% of students rely on petrochemical systems to get to and from school every day, the discussion proceeds differently.
A day in the life of a perfectionist:
1. Be making a bullet list.
2. Don't put periods at the end of each item because they are short and it's cleaner without them.
3. Eventually reach a bullet that has multiple sentences. This one is.
4. Ugh, have to go back and update them all to have periods, otherwise they are inconsistent.
@glyph It’s the folks on Mastodon who are the vocal minority.
In practice, 80-90% of students today report using AI. Whether or not you judge them all to be morally bad people, that view is unlikely to prevail in the long run.
@glyph No normal person is going to accept an invitation to engage with the starting premise “you are a bad person”.
At best you’ll get debatemebros or folks who want attention.
@seldo.com On my devices, they lose the privilege of notifying me.
@ehrenschwan @command_tab It’s kinda awful how he makes it look so easy 😅
