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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen@c18.masto.host

I remember about 10 years ago a trans guy in one of my classes was explaining that OnlyFans was pretty much his social media now, to the shock of everyone in the room. He said that while he was transitioning and needing support from other trans people to know what was normal or not during surgeries and hormone treatment, the only place he had found where everyone could show photos and be honest and descriptive was OnlyFans. The censors drive young people to porn sites by nuking their language.

Bay Area Denny's takes down plaque commemorating Jensen Huang

"🎶 ...and the pig got up and slowly walked away. 🎶"

Thinking, today, for no particular reason, about the Taggart Tunnel train crash in Atlas Shrugged...

How it started: The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety. (published yesterday)

How it's going: FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flights due to ‘extraordinary circumstances’ and safety

The last time there was a nationwide ground stop was in January 2023 when a pilot notification system went down. Prior to that, the last time a nationwide ground stop was issued was after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Edit: February 25, 2025: Musk has inside track to take over contract to fix air traffic communications system.

In much the same way as it's emerged that the only uses for cryptocurrencies are scams and extortions, I think we're seeing the LLM situation reveal itself: SF Gate: Wine Country Women's Festival turns out to be an AI slop scam.

Oh: Before Resigning, Jensen Huang Admitted He Was Facing an “Avalanche” of Excess Wafers and Memory, New Report Sheds More Light on the GPU & RAM Crisis. Referencing Wall Street Journal: Before His Ouster, Jensen Huang Belittled the Executive Replacing Him (paywalled), the article notes:

[CFO turned CEO Colette] Kress was concerned about Nvidia’s growing financial exposure and wanted to rein in the company’s “circular financing” commitments to cloud providers, and AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

And acknowledges that Ed Zitron was, once again, right:

Reports of glut of unsold hardware have been around for a while, but only now mainstream media is catching up to what Nvidia was reportedly doing. Many industry analysts including Ed Zitron reported months ago how Nvidia and other companies have exposed themselves to devastating financial risk, and also made sure to channel stuff META, Google, Amazon, and others by leveraging their FOMO.

How it started: Microsoft: From AI ambition to enterprise execution: Our Customer Zero journey

How it's going: CNN Live Updates: Microsoft reports email service is ‘approaching normal levels’ following widespread global outage

(inspired by)

Field evidence of polygamous mating system in the moray eel Gymnothorax eurostus

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social

(profoundly unable to stop myself)

when reports from the field show some lascivious eels, that's a moray

Apparently unpopular opinion: throw/catch mechanisms should be used for actual errors and not, for instance, as control flow in parsing.

Because it's a pain in the ass when I set a breakpoint on errors and I get a break every time the parser is figuring out if this is a number, string, array, or object.

Copperfield's has a whole section for Jensen Huang updates...