Nathan

Sourcerer Priest 🖥️🌩️🗺️

Seized the means of production of the means of production.

He/Him

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

Unreal Engine: several GB; FPS Multiplayer Starter Kit: £81.81; Watching someone search for Enum to Int in a blueprint YouTube tutorial: priceless

[Esteban Rafael • Tech IA @IAbyEsteban]

⚠️ La parte más honesta de toda la industria de la IA probablemente se filtró por accidente.

Mientras algunos CEOs admiten que harán falta entre 6 y 8 billones de dólares en infraestructura para justificar una demanda que todavía no existe, ahora aparece un documento interno de Microsoft donde la primera fase de su nuevo asistente Scout sería: “hacer a la gente adicta”.

Muchos se enfocarán en la palabra. Yo me enfoco en el modelo.

Porque cuando una tecnología necesita cantidades históricas de capital, centros de datos gigantescos, consumo energético masivo y márgenes que aún no aparecen, el activo más valioso deja de ser la innovación y pasa a ser la dependencia.

Las redes sociales ya demostraron que la atención humana puede monetizarse mejor que cualquier producto físico. Ahora la siguiente fase parece ser convertir la IA en una extensión permanente de la mente, del trabajo y de la vida diaria.

- No quieren que uses la IA.

- Quieren que no puedas funcionar sin ella.

Y cuando una empresa diseña una tecnología para generar dependencia antes que valor, deja de construir herramientas y empieza a construir hábitos.

Las redes sociales nos vendieron conexión y terminaron multiplicando problemas de ansiedad, aislamiento y adicción digital. La pregunta es si estamos viendo el mismo experimento, pero esta vez a una escala mucho mayor.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Everyone tends to think of swapfiles being disk based.

In reality, swapping to RAM is exponentially more popular.

If you have a traditional model of memory in your head, this makes NO SENSE. Swap is that thing we use when the system runs out of real ram right?

You know, RAM fills up, swap out to SSD to give the OS some breathing room. Why (and how?) would you swap to memory…very thing that’s full?

Well, Modern CPUs are ridiculously fast at compression, especially with something light like lz4. Zswap intercepts old pages, quickly compresses them, and then crams them back into system RAM. If you’re lucky, you might be able to fit ~3-4 compressed pages into the space of 1 traditional page.

Of course, this also has the benefit of not prematurely wearing out your SSD.

Mobile has done this for *years*, I know Android specifically has used this for a decade+. Regular Linux is catching up, Fedora uses zram by default now. The NT kernel (windows) also has their own implementation of in-memory compression, you can see it in task manager quite easily!

Anyway, it’s a fun trick used everywhere that few realize. Towards the future, I wouldn’t be surprised if inline, accelerated LZ4 starts showing up in the majority of CXL controllers.

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

@dioscuri "stumbled upon this: [link]" is something I say like, twice a week at least still

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

The British establishment pulled out all the stops to prevent Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM, simply because he criticised Israel and wanted fairer wealth distribution.

Yet Nigel Farage instigates riots and they still court him as a potential PM.

Make it make sense.

[Peter Dedene @dedene]

POV: you're still using GitHub Copilot after June 1st, 2026

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a next-generation AI agent that turns Copilot into a persistent assistant for Windows 11.

Unlike traditional AI assistants that only respond when asked, Scout runs continuously in the background and maintains context across multiple apps.

Currently, Scout is available only for internal Microsoft use and a limited group of organizations through the Frontier private preview program. It is powered by OpenClaw technology.

I’m just looking for how to remove this completely. Will share details soon.

[mRr3b00t @UK_Daniel_Card]

confirmed blocking...

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

/compact resets your github MCP oauth on mobile

Yw

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[Leman Walters @LemanWalters]

What a superb ad, wow

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

@AndyBurnhamGM @peterjukes @Nigel_Farage Fuck that Andy, lets tax his crypto millions

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“Ex-Microsoft exec says the company blew it with Al, as it did with mobile”

"Not even 3% of paying Copilot users use it even when it's pre-deployed right in their faces”

The Microsoft 3% problem. See Word and Excel features.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week: @thenerve_news.

This week: the FT View.

We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.

Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Lisa Nandy has accepted funding from the Israel lobby, refused to condemn Israel's violations of international law, and proudly calls herself a Zionist.

What on earth was she doing as chair of Labour Friends of Palestine?
https://t.co/PS6WllYbwn

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This story gets so much worse. Apparently this all started because police were called out for a disturbance after her husband broke their tv out of anger after finding out his brother was killed by Israel in Gaza. The husband is Palestinian. When the police were taking him into custody his wife stopped them because she wanted to accompany him and that is when the officer threw her on the ground for “interference.” The couple was cooperative with the police the entire time and yet this is how they were treated.

She delivered the baby prematurely because of the physical trauma on her body but thankfully both she and the baby survived and are in good health. She easily could have miscarried.

This entire police department should be investigated and that officer should be arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

I taught it to teach itself to teach me to do this. Or something.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

BREAKING:

MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES YOU CAN SOON MOVE THE TASK BAR TO ANY SIDE OF THE SCREEN

THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE

EVERYONE FREAK THE FUCK OUT

[Nathan @coolhandle01]

Maynnn. Skills are just ADRs. If you have a codebase littered with ADRs you are having a *whale* of a time right about now

I'm so late to this party lol