So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.

A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.

I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:

- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).

- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.

- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.

- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.

- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.

- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.

Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

404media.co/power-companies-ar…

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

All I want from #Mozilla is for them to improve* the damn bookmarks organizer dialog (the one that shows up with Ctrl+Shift+O) & bookmark popover in #Firefox, but instead I get an opt-in hallucination engine that I'm never going to use : blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

These, instead, are the kind of improvements I want:
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#privacy #UX

Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.

^{Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)}

If you can't wait for Christmas music, there's an internet stream for that

somafm.com/deptstore/

Department Store Christmas (Special) from SomaFM

Holiday Elevator Music from a more innocent time.

^somafm.com

🎉 Dnes slavíme 77. narozeniny Jeho Veličenstva – King Charles III! 👑🎂

Král Charles se narodil 14. listopadu 1948 a dnes patří mezi nejdéle sloužící členy britské královské rodiny.

📌 Zajímavosti o králi:
• Je nejstarším panovníkem, který kdy nastoupil na britský trůn.
• Dlouhodobě podporuje ekologické iniciativy, zemědělství a ochranu životního prostředí.
• Navzdory zdravotním výzvám v posledních měsících si udržuje odhodlání a aktivně pokračuje ve svých královských povinnostech.

✨ Happy Birthday, Your Majesty! #godsavetheking

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

me] hey can you make some coffee

[coffeemaker] sure

[me] hey can you wash the dishes

[dishwasher] sure

[me] hey can you print this page

[printer] lmao who do you think you are

"The cloud is down, all of it"
"But the AI that was supposed to keep it running ?"
"Had a debug log file that expanded to use all the storage and took the cloud down"
"Get the robots to reboot it ?"
"They are controlled from the cloud"
"and the access doors ?"
"Cloud"
"If the robots are down can we just force our way inside ?"
"No.. the automatic defence system runs on its own servers at your insistence so it's still working"

#fiction

AI skeptics claim the rate of advancement is slowing, and yet we now have a chatbot that doesn't always use em dashes. Checkmate, haters.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/for…

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

Giant: Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead. I'll grind his bones to make my bread.

England: *taking notes* and can this method be used on French bones?

Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi).

We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.

"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."

JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST

404media.co/power-companies-ar…

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.

"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech

404media.co/power-companies-ar…

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

^{Matthew Gault (404 Media)}

In the "filesystems and I/O" portion of my Operating Systems course in college today. Brought some floppy disks in to help understanding storage system history and the archaic methods for data organization: tracks, sectors, partitions, etc.

I was surprised at how much the disks were investigated and examined by the students and how much curiosity was expressed. We almost had to suppress questions to get to the course material.

I think this is instructive. I'll try and incorporate some kind of tactile thing this spring when I'm teaching.

#retrocomputing #teaching

#Facebook v posledních dnech zaplavila masivní vlna hejtů na vedení pražské radnice a hlavně na náměstka Hřiba. Že prý zavinil dopravní zácpy v Praze. Nevím, jestli je to organizovaná kampaň, nebo jestli jen někdo začal a ostatní se jako stádo přidali. Každopádně fakt dává logiku hejtit (a posílat do Slavičína) někoho, kdo ve funkci za pár týdnů končí 😁

#hate #hejt #Praha #doprava