Charlie Stross

Psst: Microsoft's suicide note just dropped

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 (@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Golden opportunity to become a reverse centaur! You only need to audit/review 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour!

It's December 23rd! Have a Merry Christmas Adam everybody! (Always comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.)

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 23: What's a facet of the modern era of writing for which you're thankful? Everyone else is yelling about word processors or electricity, but what *I'm* grateful for is mass literacy. It's only really been a thing since the 17th century at the earliest (and more realistically the late 19th century), it's a fragile, tenuous thing, and without it the modern era of writing couldn't exist.

The most interesting aspect of this is that we now have *TWO* insurgent fourth parties (counting the Liberal Democrats as the traditional third party). There's a *huge* protest vote out there, and it looks to me as if Reform only picked it up because there was no viable left-wing party. (The LibDems might have been a contender if they hadn't gone into coalition with (ack, spit) David Cameron in 2010, painting them into a centre-right corner.)

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Pablo Martini (Geezer) (@PabloMartini@climatejustice.social)

New poll shows Reform lead ‘cut to three points’ – as Green surge continues Should Reform start looking over their shoulders? Their lead at ...

Look what just arrived!

I *WANT* to believe, but … (Vernor called it "the net of a million lies" for good reason; he was WAY ahead of his times in that particular respect.)

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Damon (@DamonCrowley@mindly.social)

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Back at work on the Starter Pack redraft today, got 750 new words down, brain has turned to cold porridge, who knew that writing gud buk is hrd wurk?

This thread is gold dust. If you know what I mean. Hurr hurr …

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Nanoraptor (@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social)

Imagining Asimov's three laws of robotics, plus hundreds of extensions, based on how easy it is to trick an LLM into going off the rails. Law 12: ...

#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Dec. If you were to teach a writing course, what would be the most important lesson? That the text on the screen or paper in front of you is no longer a part of your mind: it's dead words, and editors and readers can dissect them without hurting you. (Yes, it came out of your mind, but it's not *you* and you will never be able to improve as a writer if you can't distance your ego from your work.)

NEW NIGHTMARE FUEL: Imagine the Tangerine Tyrant's dementia advances so rapidly that he's on a ventilator by this time next year. New POTUS: J. D. Vance, who has all the charisma of a dead squid. POTUS 48 needs to appoint a VPOTUS who is good assassination insurance. Who's *less* popular than Couchfucker …? Meet your next VP: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Then events eventuate, the sofa strikes back, and in 2028 the USA sees a campaign to re-elect President Kennedy …