Why am I not surprised?
The FOCUS refers in an up-to-date publication (https://www.focus.de/finanzen/300-millionen-dollar-projekt-in-la-40-prozent-der-menschen-sind-wieder-obdachlos_fe4f1244-81ec-4fde-a2fa-574ef1106085.html) to a recent one of the @latimes.com (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-05/under-la-mayors-300-million-homeless-program-40-have-returned-to-street). Both of them are no surprise to me. Someone may argue that you can not compare the situation of other countries, citys. In example Los Angeles vs. Cologne. Of course you can. To my opinion. The reasons for people becoming homeless are everywhere the same. Same as for supporting services, and the fact that they municipal administrations and politicians are making decisions without letting the homeless participating. For me it´s obvious, this is a human rights violation too.
🚲Lieb's Ride Log🚲
Route: Around town Date: 2026-04-08 Distance: 16 miles Bike: Soma Saga
I have slopped to my heart's content
Last thing of the day was adding support for standard.site theming. I tweaked it a bit here -- let's see if it shows up on leaflet.pub!
¿Tenés un pucho?
Pedir prestado para el vicio se me hace cada vez más frecuente. Muchas veces, cuando no tenía para los puchos, me decía que iba a dejar de fumar pero la realidad me golpea fuerte después de la primer hora sin fumar. El vicio es el vicio y no se lo puede dejar así como así, a menos que te estés muriendo. El problema se me va a venir estos días cuando se me terminen las personas a las que pueda pedirles prestado para un atado. ¿Qué voy a hacer entonces? Digo eso y recuerdo que en el fondo están fl...
The Jack of All Trades and the CCNP
I remember when I was younger, I was really good at a few things that could become good career paths. A lady told me that being a jack of all trades is good but it doesn't lead to greatness. I used to think she was wrong. It's wild to me in hindsight how right she was. My journey in IT is proof. From tester to field engineer to more advanced titles and back to field engineer. I've been good. But I have not been great. I got into IT pretty early in my 20s, but I didn't really dig deep until much...
April 8 - There Will Be No Divorce
Well, the world continued. And so did we. And this is a simple song about small moments of love. If you've ever been awake late at night past the time when the person you love is awake, and you've looked over and listened to the sound of their breathing, and loved that sound, because it was from them and because it was keeping them alive, you will know the feeling of this song. Small moments of observing in the quiet lovely dark. Of thinking how lucky we are that we get this. All of this.
The Boy Who Cried AGI
Anthropic's new model is game-changing. At least, that's what they say in their advertisement designed to make money. Claude Mythos has apparently found hundreds of vulnerabilities in every major browser and operating system, including a remote code execution in FreeBSD and an out-of-bounds write in FFmpeg. They outline this in their now-public system card, which I’d be tempted to trust if AI companies hadn’t been saying this for years now. Remember when GPT-2 was “too dangerous to release”, but then turned out to be a worthless slop factory? Anthropic’s recent behaviour seems suspiciously similar, and I’m hesitant to believe in a product which literally has “myth” in the name.
Chreesey
Posts stopped going out to some Mastodon instances I was testing with, and search wouldn't work. But now they do. The clanker is bad at fixing bugs with ActivityPub, like humans are.
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We can forward as a secondary hypothesis that this seems reasonable to Yudkowsky because it is, broadly speaking, his fetish. I wish I could avoid discussing this entirely because it seems uncouth and ad hominem. Yudkowsky has co-authored, with lintamande, a 1.8 million word collaborative glowfic called Planecrash (also titled Project Lawful). He says that "[w]hether an intelligence being "submissive" suffices to make it easy-to-steer is a primary focus of my 1.8M-word BDSM decision theory D&D fic". I am not, in general, happy when people express serious things via 1.8 million word BDSM fanfics, because it makes it seem tawdry to say their ideas are either right or wrong.
Start Here
Hey, I’m Atila. I’m a writer and creator. I’m Black, femme, queer, from New York and now live in Philly. This blog is my studio log: what I’m making, what I’m learning about the process, and the systems that help me finish things. Most days, that looks like writing with too many tabs open, a Notion scratch page that will get the business, and a comfort show like Star Trek or The Twilight Zone on in the background. I’m trying to turn ideas into real, shareable projects and hold myself accountable...
De todo un poco.
Me duele la espalda y no sé a qué atribuirlo. Esta semana viene siendo muy de mierda y dudo que pueda empeorar. Yo estoy sin trabajo desde hace meses y mi hermana, que era tranquilamente el sostén en este tiempo, también se quedó sin laburo. Yo, me digo siempre, algo voy a conseguir, pero ese auto ánimo que me suelo dar para no caer en depresión ya ni me lo creo.
The Easter bunny does not exist
I’m Jewish in a Christian country, which means my understanding of Christian holidays has always been a patchwork of guesses and fragments. Christianity was never explained to me, it was something I absorbed through other people’s stories. So I carried these half-formed childlike ideas about the religion into adulthood, like what I thought Easter was.
New day, new slop
Last night I slopcoded on my phone, from the bar. I have no idea what the stupid robot wrote, but it's live now!
April 8, 1926 Weather from the Hill, Olaf Thorvaldsen | Cook County News Herald
Another week of winter’s hold lies before us. Daytime temperatures will climb above freezing, yet still sit below what April usually promises. On Tuesday, much like last week, expect another round of snow, about an inch and a half in town, with greater amounts inland. Even so, the brown seams of earth are beginning to show through the thinning snowpack. I am told that mud season is nearly upon us and that a northern Minnesota mud season is something a man ought to experience at least once before calling himself a man. My own forecast is that the ice will go out on Lake Superior by tomorrow.
I LOVE PCKT!
pckt is a great place to share your thoughts <3
Golden Gate Bridge, September 2024
A couple shots here from a short trip we took to San Francisco in September 2024 with a couple of teenage cousins. They'd never seen the Golden Gate Bridge before (or been to San Francisco), so it was one of our main stops while in the city. It's one of my favorite cities, and I lived there for a bit as a kid, but it's a little funny, because the Golden Gate Bridge isn't the bridge of my childhood. That's the Bay Bridge. Not as glamorous or memorable, to be sure, but it's bigger and more gray.
this is a test for the universal notification system
i've got lots of thoughts but have trouble putting them out into the world.