Paolo Cancedda

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

friendly reminder that you're closer to becoming an unhoused climate refugee than you are to becoming a billionaire space tourist

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[Stuart @Stuart_Paley]

Every time this pops up I have to watch it. Incredible

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Like anyone else, I also wonder what the hell we're all going to do as programmers in the age of AI.

It's not that I worry about my value today. Even with today's best AI, it's somewhat cute and helpless without me, to be honest.

It still needs a playground monitor, let alone a supervisor and mentor.

That's because when something happens, odds are, I've seen it before and fixed it once. I've been at this for 45 years, so if your Commodore 64 flashes yellow when the smooth scroll register is set to 7, I can tell you what pin on your VIC-II chip is stuck high.

And if VSCode won't let you set the fuse bit on your production embedded project because you have both 'pionarduno' and 'platformio' installed, and one requires a Python version lower than 3.14, but you need 3.14, I know the answer. Because I've already fixed stuff like that a hundred times.

So when some variant of it happened again this morning, suffice to say that AI couldn't fix it. Oh, it had a ton of ways I could edit my own VSCode settings files to hack it in, but this is a team project and needs to self-bootstrap. It only flailed.

That's when I helpfully pointed out the version schema issue between PlatformIO and PIOArduino, and THEN it understood, and THEN it fixed it.

It saved me from doing a bunch of apt-get and pip installs, overrides, and deployment scripts—the grunt work.

So as it stands today, I'm officially the power of ten men because with Claude's brains and my combination of looks and experience, we're unstoppable. For today.

But am I still learning? Or since I let AI do the dirty work now, is my skillset fixed at the slice of pie I had before AI crashed the party?

THAT is what actually scares me.

And I think the reassuring reality is that my skillset is growing much faster than it is being made obsolete by AI. It's just growing in other dimensions.

Those skills are growing in new ways. I built a working attention model AI for my PDP-11 to learn the real basics of what AI even means.

I trained an AI Reinforcement Learning system, built from scratch, to beat my own world-record high score in the video game Tempest.

I've written the core of a completely new Task Manager, as I imagine it should be today (https://t.co/OZcq1axGTb), and let Fable code it.

I've learned a ton about process, git, prompting, revising, testing, CI, code reviews of black boxes, looping, and so on.

And the kinda sad reality is that my kernel debugging skills, while adequate, will not be better five years from now. Same as my assembly language coding, likely.

But those are, fortunately, the very things that AI can do exceptionally well, so that I don't have to. There's no place for nostalgia in computing :-)

But together, I think we'll be ok.

[ I'd generate a little picture of me sitting on a hill looking at a sunset with AI's arm reassuringly wrapped around my back, but that'd be lame clickbait. ]

But what of my son, the entry-level software engineer?

Here's where a Boomer would bemoan the decades of dues-paying and the time and experience required. But I'm not a Boomer, so I never cared about those things.

I'm GenX. Which means I think some things SHOULD be hard. Really, really hard. Like walking to Radio Shack in 40-below wind to poke values into memory using BASIC on a TRS-80 just to see what would happen. Or spending weeks with an in-circuit-emulator trying to sniff some elusive crash you can't figure out.

A boomer would want you to do it for the suffering as some kind of rite of passage. That's bullshit. That's about "it was hard for me so it should be hard for you". We already have Reddit for those kinds of losers.

You do it because you LEARN by doing the really, really hard things and eventually solving them.

Not to make life unfair, but because that's simply how you learn best. And you can't fake that till you make it. If you want your brain to store it in detail, it's got to be an emotional victory.

And it's only an emotional victory if you were seriously invested in the pain.

Being autistic, I file things visually, from code to moments in time. And I still remember what the room looked like when I solved a particularly hard 6502 bug decades ago, at 18. I know where the furniture was. But more importantly, I learned a ton about proper design (or lack thereof) in my own code.

But if the answer is always one prompt away, how hard is it?

My advice? Make sure you're pushing the envelope, not just riding Claude's coattails. Try to keep your hobby projects JUST BEYOND what AI can do for you on its own.

Write your interface layers and APIs by hand, and then let AI write the code, that sort of thing.

It's like working out, I guess. It's a muscle of sorts, and it has to hurt a little to grow, and you can't rush the process.

[European Space Agency @esa]

Our astronaut Luca Parmitano is assigned as pilot of NASA’s #ArtemisIII mission.

With Europe powering Orion with the European Service Module, this mission will test the critical operations preparing for humankind's return to the Moon.

A strong step forward for ESA–NASA partnership.

🔗https://t.co/MJpn0ftcpr

📸 NASA

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Vaccine Anti vaccine
research research

[Letizia Davoli 🚀 @letiziadavoli]

ma quanto è figo vedere il logo della nostra Agenzia Spaziale @esa insieme a quello della NASA, verso la Luna? 🥹👏👏🛰️🌚

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Mike Constantine @Moonpans]

Apollo HD - Upscaled 16mm Apollo footage to music
(Extended March 2026 Version)

This short film is a compilation of stunning Apollo film footage upscaled using modern techniques set to a beautiful music score. And is an updated version of an earlier edit to include 2 minutes of extra footage

The film is a compilation of several missions from the unmanned Apollo 4 test flight thru to the incredibly sucessful Apollo 17 which saw the last men on the moon

The film was made by Mike Constantine of Moonpans by upscaling footage from the NASA Johnson Space Center and The Apollo Flight Journal.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

We aren't learning.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The source of many anti vaccine posts

Bot farms

[Pif @pif_iltestimone]

Ho avuto un'idea incredibile per sconfiggere la mafia: bombardiamo la Sicilia!

[Alice Rotelli @Rotelli_MD]

Studiate, informatevi, siate curiosi.

[arbma🌻 @arbmacip]

La favola di Marcello

Atto I

[Paolo Cancedda @pac72]

@FratellidItalia Indegni

[Sandra Misale @Sandra_Misale]

Thank you @CD_AACR and @AACR for this incredible honor! I'm grateful to everyone at @HopkinsMedicine, @hopkinskimmel, and my amazing colleagues for their support. Congratulations to all fellow awardees of AACR journals - together, we advance #CancerResearch. 🎉 #AACR25

[Roberto Burioni @RobertoBurioni]

Vaccino personalizzato contro il tumore al rene: zero metastasi, malattia non riapparsa a 4 anni in TUTTI i pazienti (uno è morto per altri motivi). Vi rendete conto che grazie a questo vaccino potremmo vedere ORA la fine della malattia metastatica per questo tumore?