that KH Switch collection pack thing sure has some interesting cover art
interesting choice to give Donald a mismatched number of fingers on each hand, and a beak that absorbs into itself
"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off
Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
*Your "smart TV" is a burglar crowbar for the slop racket
*I'm not sure how AI-refuseniks can even get properly indignant about this situation. Seems like this will need some real framing-work
blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-...
Sarah Osment
Jill Walker Rettberg
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Call for Abstracts: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 50th Anniversary Issues
1st issue "Reflections On Computing History" is guest edited by David Hemmendinger.
2nd issue "New Perspectives On Computing History" is guest edited by LaborTech member Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social.
One thing a lot of 20th Century sci-fi got wrong was that the personal technology of the future would become increasingly unobtrusive and frictionless. In fact, as such technology has mostly turned out to be a vector for advertising, making it deliberately difficult to use has become the point.
