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Perl's decline was cultural

beatworm.co.uk · Nov 20

There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. My take: it was mostly baked into ...

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Sergi (@sergi) · Dec 06
🔁 @kkremitzki:

"#Perl's decline was cultural": this blog describes how the evolution of a technical community can go wrong, and should be taken to heart by anyone who cares about the direction of large projects, like #FreeCAD for me, for example beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/

Alex Schroeder (@alex) · Dec 06
🔁 @andnull:

An unfortunate feedback loop in this kind of "perilous" environment is that it easily turns prideful. It's difficult to thrive here, if you survive and do well you are skilled; you've performed feats; you should mark your rites of passage. This can become a dangerous culture trap. If you're not careful about it, you may start to think of the hazards and difficulties, the "foot guns", as necessary features - they teach you those essential survival skills that mark you out. More unkindly, they keep the stupid folk out, and help preserve the high status of those who survived long enough to be assimilated. Uh-oh, now you've invented class politics.

The never ending cycle of computer touching in a nutshell.

beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/

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The Harvest Will Come

joanwestenberg.com · Dec 06

I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

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AstraLuma (@astraluma) · Dec 07
🔁 @cdarwin:

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.

We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,

but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.

If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.

The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute for most people.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

LJ (@LJ) · Dec 07
🔁 @Daojoan:

Every winter, when your sense of purpose goes quiet, you'll be tempted to believe that you've done something wrong.

You haven't.

You're just in a season.

And seasons pass.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

Andres (@Andres4NY) · Dec 07
🔁 @cdarwin:

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.

We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,

but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.

If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.

The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute for most people.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

Mallory's Musings & Mischief (@malcircuit) · Dec 07
🔁 @Daojoan:

Every winter, when your sense of purpose goes quiet, you'll be tempted to believe that you've done something wrong.

You haven't.

You're just in a season.

And seasons pass.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

Tony Novak (@Onlineadviser) · Dec 07
🔁 @Daojoan:

Every winter, when your sense of purpose goes quiet, you'll be tempted to believe that you've done something wrong.

You haven't.

You're just in a season.

And seasons pass.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

U.S. Elaine (@USelaine) · Dec 07
🔁 @Daojoan:

Every winter, when your sense of purpose goes quiet, you'll be tempted to believe that you've done something wrong.

You haven't.

You're just in a season.

And seasons pass.

joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest

Erik Ableson (@erik) · Dec 07

@georgetakei I will point to this brilliant essay: joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest Humans are not machines, we are part of a world with seasons that ebb and flow and us along with it

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Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal

mooreslawisdead.com · Dec 06

Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR...

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Xyrill (@xyrill) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

YOULE :FlakeSpinCyan: (@MOULE) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦 (@emd) · Dec 06
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

Nina Kalinina (@nina_kali_nina) · Dec 06
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴ (@p4bl0) · Dec 07
🔁 @faket:

[Veille 📣] Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

Imagine, t’as les moyens d’acheter 40% du stock mondial de mémoire DRAM, qu’est-ce qui pourrait mal se passer ?

> On October 1st OpenAI signed two simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of the worlds DRAM supply.

Imagine, les autres personnes avec des moyens similaires découvrent ça en se réveillant le 1er octobre, et du coup, terrifiées, elles décident d’acheter tout ce qui reste.

Nous voici avec un objet de base de tous nos systèmes informatiques à des prix exorbitants, merci Sam.

Mais imagine que OpenAI pourrait ne pas avoir vraiment besoin de cette RAM maintenant, que Sam a tout acheté en prévision, pour éviter de perdre la course à l’IA, ou pour s’assurer de l’échec des entreprises concurrentes.

> When you consider how secretive OpenAI was about their deals with Samsung and SK Hynix, but additionally how unready they were to immediately utilize their warehouses of DRAM wafers – it sure seems like a primary goal of these deals was to deprive the market, and not just an attempt to protect OpenAI's own supply…

#IA #openAI #SamAltman #marché #capitalisme #links #shaarli

Recovered Expert (@RecoveredExpert) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

ubahnverleih (@ubahnverleih) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

arclight (@arclight) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

a blosting mouse usually referred to as "algernon" (@algernon) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) · Dec 07
🔁 @starsider:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

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December 5, 2025

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com · Dec 06

Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.

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The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Dec 07
🔁 @joeinwynnewood:

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

BobDevney (@BobDevney) · Dec 06
🔁 @joeinwynnewood:

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Marv Clowder (@MarvClowder) · Dec 06
🔁 @oldguy52:

Dr. Richardson’s Letter today was stunning, painful …

————

I agree fully with the statement:

“Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan.”

No wonder the admin(?) waited until Friday night to release the NSS without fanfare. It’s a final abdication. 320 days! 320 days is all it took to destroy our nation from within.

————

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

#HeatherCoxRichardson

tend2wobble (@tend2wobble) · Dec 07
🔁 @wdlindsy:

"Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America. It did so quietly, although as foreign affairs journalist at Politico Nahal Toosi noted, the release of the NSS is usually accompanied by fanfare, as it shows an administration’s foreign policy priorities and the way it envisions the position of the U.S. in the world."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #NATO #NationalSecurity #Europe
/1

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

ItsDoctorNotMrs (@northernlights) · Dec 07
🔁 @joeinwynnewood:

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

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What Google Glass got right — and really, really wrong

theverge.com · Dec 07

On Version History: the rise of the Glasshole.

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David Pierce :bot: @theverge.space (@david_pierce) · Dec 07

What Google Glass got right — and really, really wrong

On Version History: the smart glasses that got the world dreaming, and the mess they caused in the process.

Victoria Song (@vicmsong) · Dec 07
🔁 @imdavidpierce:

Version History is back! This time it's the full, bizarre story of Google Glass, with @davidimel and @vicmsong — and one of us looks much cooler wearing these silly things than the rest. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839712/google-glass-smart-glasses-version-history

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The right’s mental-health overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris

theguardian.com · Dec 07

Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict) · Dec 07
🔁 @the_roamer:

"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?"

The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nasty "overdiagnosis" trope, currently promoted by Wes Streeting and our nightmare Labour government. His style is calm and balanced, but I can feel the underlying rage.

John Harris is a good man.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#autism #ADHD #overdiagnosis #WesStreeting #UKpol #Labour #JohnHarris

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (@vfrmedia) · Dec 07
🔁 @the_roamer:

"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?"

The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nasty "overdiagnosis" trope, currently promoted by Wes Streeting and our nightmare Labour government. His style is calm and balanced, but I can feel the underlying rage.

John Harris is a good man.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#autism #ADHD #overdiagnosis #WesStreeting #UKpol #Labour #JohnHarris

Robbie 👾 ⏳📖🖊️📴 (@robbienorlyn) · Dec 07
🔁 @the_roamer:

"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?"

The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nasty "overdiagnosis" trope, currently promoted by Wes Streeting and our nightmare Labour government. His style is calm and balanced, but I can feel the underlying rage.

John Harris is a good man.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#autism #ADHD #overdiagnosis #WesStreeting #UKpol #Labour #JohnHarris

Disabled Voices Channel (@disabledvoices) · Dec 07
🔁 @rmblaber1956:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/. John Harris is absolutely right. The result of Wes Streeting's so-called "review" is a foregone conclusion, & WILL find that #mentalhealth conditions, #ADHD & #autism are over-diagnosed - because that is what the "review" is supposed to find, to "justify" the #Labour Government's #disability #benefit #cuts. The personnel selected to run it already believe that - as does Wes Streeting himself.

Kevin Davy (@pathfinder) · Dec 07
🔁 @the_roamer:

"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?"

The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nasty "overdiagnosis" trope, currently promoted by Wes Streeting and our nightmare Labour government. His style is calm and balanced, but I can feel the underlying rage.

John Harris is a good man.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#autism #ADHD #overdiagnosis #WesStreeting #UKpol #Labour #JohnHarris

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Dec 07
🔁 @the_roamer:

"Why is our health secretary picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?"

The ever-excellent John Harris dissects the nasty "overdiagnosis" trope, currently promoted by Wes Streeting and our nightmare Labour government. His style is calm and balanced, but I can feel the underlying rage.

John Harris is a good man.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#autism #ADHD #overdiagnosis #WesStreeting #UKpol #Labour #JohnHarris

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Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care

projects.propublica.org · Dec 07

Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.

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Bongolian (@Bongolian) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

icy (@otterly_icy) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Ian Campbell 🏴 (@neurovagrant) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Avi Rappoport (avirr) (@avirr) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Bich Nguyen :verified: (@bicmay) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

Corb_The_Lesser (@Corb_The_Lesser) · Dec 07
🔁 @ProPublica:

NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:

Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Start with Part 1 here: projects.propublica.org/albany

#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID

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Red Dead Redemption is so back

theverge.com · Dec 07

In this week’s Installer: kanban boards, Metroid, and adorable robots.

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David Pierce :bot: @theverge.space (@david_pierce) · Dec 07

An all-time great game makes a comeback

Plus, in this week’s Installer: A new app for getting stuff done, Metroid is back, a nice habit tracker, and much more.

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Oh No, a Tech Company is Buying a Movie Studio

spyglass.org · Dec 06

This is the end of Hollywood? Come on.

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