swlabr

Wow fuck them. All those courses sound fun and interesting.

back on my posting sorta off topic shit: well, we’ve talked a bit about anti-academia nutters, so here’s a developing story about (western) academia having a normal one.

Headline: Oxford’s Rafflesia Messaging Sparks Debate Over Representation, Scientific Credit, and Global South Visibility

My summary: in an announcement, oxford performs erasure by only really naming researchers from oxford amongst a team where most of the contributions were from southeast asian researchers.

Pastor Malabrigo Jr. and Adriane B. Tobias are listed as the first and second authors, while other authors are from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor Botanical Gardens, University of Bengkulu, and Forest Research Institute Malaysia. The Author Contributions section also shows that Southeast Asian researchers wrote most of the country-specific content, compiled distribution data, and produced scientific figures. Yet none of these appear in the Oxford press release as scientific authorities.

This article is by “scientific watchdog” with a “.id” domain, which is Indonesian. Seems a little bespoke for the article, but, hey, all the facts are verifiable.

pretty much every programming language discussion I’ve ever been in has at least one person come in with a chip on their shoulder, ready to burn down civilisation in the name of readability or ease of use or memory safety or what have you.

IMO it’s an abyss staring thing; you spend enough time in the code mines and you’ll discover some gleaming orb of fascination. Hypothetically this is cured by grass touching. I have been both places.

That is why I’m proud to announce my new, everything safe programming language: C’thlaglthorp, or Ctt for short.

One would hope! Don’t piss in the popcorn, as they say. Also, don’t do any stupid shit that might cause more work for our glorious admins, i.e. leave a trail of breadcrumbs back to awful.systems.

"I even labeled it as an experiment. A social experiment, some might say. I'm saying it was just a prank, bro. But really you're the bad person because you were mean to me." This is DARVO, right?

You're right that sharing this stuff leads to harassment, at least a lot of the time. I have no interest in personally engaging with this fuck.

BB and BCS were both kinda slow burns IMO. That’s not to say the new show is worth holding onto (haven’t seen it), just commenting on the trend.

JFC, man. Fuck this snivelling weasel. I read the whole thing. How dare he even suggest he has a fleck of humility in his being. He goes in saying he submitted his changes as an RFC instead of a pull request, but goes balls deep on trying to defend his work as worthy of submitting. Utter bullshit.

Some quotes:

My explicit statement of having "no desire to actually learn about the Mesa code-base" was not seen as a gesture of honest humility,

“I have no intent on understanding this codebase that I’m 100% sure I’ve created a good change for, be grateful, peasants.”

also, him, explicitly not a developer, spake thusly:

This sentiment exposes the raw nerve of the open-source world: developer burnout.

vibe codes once I am become jeff, coder at google

Finally, this massive turd:

The Mesa project's updated contributor guidelines, which now demand that any submitter of AI-assisted code must understand it as if they wrote it themselves, has been lauded by some as a pragmatic solution. I contend it is a policy of convenience, a blunt instrument designed not to solve a complex problem, but to legislate it out of existence. It is a fortress wall built to protect the status quo, and while it may offer the illusion of security, it does so at the cost of innovation and by silencing a new and potentially valuable class of contributors. The discussion should not end here, with a policy that prioritizes procedural purity over measurable progress. The true challenge has been misdiagnosed; the pathology is not the "user with an AI," but a rigid, legacy process that lacks the antibodies to handle a new form of discovery.

Honestly this guy should just start his own fucking codebase where him and his promptfondling circlejerk buddies can vibecode bricks together.

So I got jumpscared recently by that couple. I was listening to one of my many favourite podcasts, Threedom, when on the most recent episode, "I Definitely Tuned Out and I Agree With You", this exchange happened, starting around 44 minutes, give or take 10 for ads.

::: spoiler spoiler tagged exchange, in case you are a pisspig* and don't want spoilers. Context: the hosts are talking about how they value fostering their children's expressive abilities, even if that means their children do things like scream in inappropriate situations.

Scott: I guess what I'm trying to say is that some parents would look at us, and say, like, "oh, you're not teaching them how to act in social situations or whatever,"

Paul: Yes, you should slap them across the face, in the store.

Scott: Who was that... that... that, like, person who... there's some parent out there that thinks that you need to like have a million kids or whatever and uh, and a paper writer followed them around and he just smacked his kid right in front of the paper writ-, er... the journalist? Uh, anyway...

Lauren: Paper writer?

Scott: Yeah, sorry, sorry, Journalist.

Paul: Couldn't sound more specific, and yet I don't know.

Tried too hard transcribing this and still feel like I did a bad job.

Anyway, gosh, congrats to them on their extreme success in being platformed. Couldn't have been a more deserving couple. /s

*pisspig is the name given to a fan of the podcast Threedom. The fans picked the name, the hosts aren't really sure why.

Bad news, she collapsed onstage recently performing this song :(

up uP UP!!!

Now I have two Kpop songs to describe the stages of a bubble industry:

1. Golden, mostly just for the chorus
2. Bubble pop

This list would be a lot better if I actually listened to Kpop, but I don’t, so it’s not.

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Headline per Thegamer: Krafton CEO Admits He Used ChatGPT For "Faster Answers" To Avoid Paying Subnautica 2 Co-Founders