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BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG
Happy New Year United Kingdom, my country of origin. I am having a cup of tea to celebrate in your honor and not just because I always have a cup to tea at this time of day anyway.
Our charity store will be closing at 23:00 (11 PM) ET tonight December 31 for our annual inventory count. Make sure to place your orders before then! ⏰
We expect to reopen by Tuesday January 6, 2026. 📅
Happy New Year! ✨
The New Year's Eve edition of "Off the Hook" will be live in 30 minutes! 99.5 FM #WBAI radio in New York City, https://wbai.org everywhere, your preferred podcast taker and https://2600.com/offthehook/ afterward.
"Overtime" will return sometime next month.
We rang in the new year by finishing season 1 of Star Trek: TNG.
My partner was into Star Trek as a kid but I never saw it. Very much enjoying most of these. It ages well! (Unlike the original series, which I bounced off of pretty much immediately.) It’s got all the characters I have admired clips off for ages, too. I can see why this is the popular one.
Now, to find an alternative source for it, as it’s gonna disappear from Netflix soon…
How AI labs are solving the power problem
Link: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444020
篝火花 / Cyclamen persicum #はなの花写真
Over a year ago, I posited that AI coding stuff isn't about coding or productivity. It's about some % of people who feel a stimulus-reward thing from using it, similar to how some people feel when gambling. It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong.
It seems more & more people are also finding this idea lately.
But I've also realized that it seems to apply to any of the prompt-style AI things, not just coding. There is some kind of slot machine playing mania (sorta, not exactly) thing it triggers in some % of people. I'm certain of it now.
If anything, it makes me feel a bit less angry and more sad towards the people with this AI prompt-query compulsion. It feels closer to when you see someone with a gambling addiction stuck at a gambling machine.
@cancel this reflects my experience pretty strongly.
I've been pretty staunchly opposed to this wave of gen-AI since chatGPT launched in 2022, and never intentionally touched it until three months ago, when I finally felt like I needed to spend at least a little bit of time with it to understand/prove what I was opposed to. it almost *immediately* triggered an addiction response (of the gambling category, as you pointed out), to the point where within a week I could barely sleep, and all I could think about was prompting, explicitly like I needed to be using it 24/7 and trying to figure out the right way to extract quality output from it, under this sudden manufactured feeling of urgency.
luckily, i got burnt out on it pretty "quickly" (roughly a month) which forced me to step back, and had lived long enough to be able to identify what this cycle was. It was also tremendously helpful to both have had a long critical perspective built against the tech that I had now tested against, and a really high bar of personal work quality that I was able to use to categorize that output of these tools as "complete shit".
it's wild to me that as someone who was pretty publicly and vocally against the principle of the tech, this addiction loop still hit me at full force, on the very first prompt I ever fed it. for people without the life experience, critical lens, and body of high quality personal work to measure against, I can't imagine how many could possibly escape from the slot machine cycle. "if I can just figure out exactly how to word this prompt, it'll solve all my problems...". I wonder how those who do escape don't talk about it publicly out of shame (me, until this post).
the silver lining for me personally is that it did end up having some kind of positive effect on how I approach my work. reading through so much slop for a month re-lit a fire within me to be even more intentional and human in my work, whether through writing or code.
まだオフトゥンのなかにいるので後で陽を浴びにいって初日の出するか
みちくさおいしい
🎇 And with that, another busy year comes to an end. We're filled with immense #gratitude for everyone who has supported us in #2025! Thank you for being part of our journey. ♥️
🍀 Here's to creating more change together and a more privacy-friendly #2026! 🥂
Misskey中に初詣をするな
HNY from Germany o/
Happy New Year UTC - the only timezone which matters 🥳
初詣も初日の出もこなしたワイに隙はない
Buon anno 2026 😊
#HappyNewYear
As we close out 2025, let us celebrate because
We rang in the new year by finishing season 1 of Star Trek: TNG.
My partner was into Star Trek as a kid but I never saw it. Very much enjoying most of these. It ages well! (Unlike the original series, which I bounced off of pretty much immediately.) It’s got all the characters I have admired clips off for ages, too. I can see why this is the popular one.
Now, to find an alternative source for it, as it’s gonna disappear from Netflix soon…
絵師の皆様は年賀絵描いててすごい。
Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
¡Que este nuevo año 2026 os sea propicio fedigente!
Our charity store will be closing at 23:00 (11 PM) ET tonight December 31 for our annual inventory count. Make sure to place your orders before then! ⏰
We expect to reopen by Tuesday January 6, 2026. 📅
Happy New Year! ✨
TLに流れてくる年賀イラストがステキ
Happy New Year United Kingdom, my country of origin. I am having a cup of tea to celebrate in your honor and not just because I always have a cup to tea at this time of day anyway.
ポッドキャストがビデオ化する中、広告のパフォーマンスは音声のみのポッドキャストの方が高いとOxford RoadとPodscribeの調査によって発覚した。
全体的にYouTube動画の方が音声ダウンロードよりもパフォーマンスが2割ぐらい下回った。
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/12/30/oxford-road-podcast-ad-study-audio-video/
うおー、念願の専用練習施設が！
B.LEAGUE PREMIER元年となる2026年10月、専用練習施設「スサマジ・ビレッジ」建設のお知らせ | 島根スサノオマジック
https://www.susanoo-m.com/news/detail/id=18068
Seaweed dryad
あけおめ〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜☝️
今年もどうぞよろしくお願いします！
年賀状ネップリはこちら
Hey so, if you were seriously going to do this, don’t. You should only bump copyright years in headers when you actually change the content.
Now go use all that time you just saved to take a free course on software licensing! https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/open-source-licensing-basics-for-software-developers/
https://chaos.social/@fossdd/115816762330722228
우리 인스턴스 노트는 어디까지 닿나요
happy new year to taco bell labs and to the entire fediverse
藤井竜王名人が目指すおもしろい将棋とは
우리 인스턴스 노트는 어디까지 닿나요
Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/tick-tock-train-station-clock/
年越しする
少し手直しして年明けverにした。
改めて
자기 성장을 위한 작은 다짐들
1. 작은 성공도 인정하고 축하한다
2. 실수를 두려워하지 않는다
3. 매일 조금씩 배운다
4. 긍정적인 마인드를 유지한다
5. 내 잠재력을 믿는다
年越しする
エコカーに乗っています
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よもぎは好みがとてもわかりやすい
カナリーシード全部食べて赤粟全部食べて他ちょっとつまんだら飽きて去っていった笑 #文鳥
RE: https://misskey.io/notes/agy7njul2mlp08b3
Dr. Anna Latour
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Glyph
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