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  1. Hiltzik: Why humanoid robots are a pipe dream

    With AI beginning to look as if it has reached a deployment plateau — if not a lessening…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #arm #ElonMusk #human #human-likerobot #humanoidrobot #leg #mostpeople #Musk #robotic #rodneybrooks #task #teslaevent #thing #video #way #world
    europesays.com/2470337/

  2. Robert Whittaker faces harsh reality: UFC title ‘kind of a pipe dream’

    Robert Whittaker has put his UFC title aspirations on hold after his first losing skid at middleweight. Whittaker…
    #NewsBeep #News #MMA #CA #Canada #DeRidder #Fighting #KhamzatChimaev #ReinierdeRidder #RobertWhittaker #Sports #UFC #WhittakertoldSubmissionRadio
    newsbeep.com/ca/114484/

  3. it took me 35 years to realize that Pipe Dream for the microsoft entertainment pack - something I played *a lot* as a kid - is Lucasfilm Games' Pipe Dream.

    (fwiw, the entire screenshot is a palette of 10 colours. incredible expressiveness with the 3-colour handpainted logo)

    #retroGaming #win31 #lucasArts

  4. The well-off and financially secure easily get into this pipe-dream that if we just decentralise and free everything, democracy just happens like magic.

    But democracy doesn’t actually happen, oligarchy happens. Freedom from central control means those resources are fought over by the most powerful, not shared like in a democracy.

    Competition is healthy, as long as there is competition. But what we increasingly have also in the #west is #monopolistic #oligarchy.

    techwontsave.us/episode/202_wh

  5. Ah yes, the pipe dream of interchangeable keyvalue stores, because developer should not care if it's Redis or Postgres. The two databases so similar you could almost confuse them. #eyeroll #kubecon

  6. the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.

    i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.

    when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade

    her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.

    but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.

    ffwd to the 2000s:
    i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.

    they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)

    so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon

    #UofA #retroComputing #vintageApple #yeg

  7. the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.

    i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.

    when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade

    her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.

    but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.

    ffwd to the 2000s:
    i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.

    they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)

    so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon

    #UofA #retroComputing #vintageApple #yeg

  8. the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.

    i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.

    when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade

    her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.

    but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.

    ffwd to the 2000s:
    i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.

    they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)

    so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon

    #UofA #retroComputing #vintageApple #yeg

  9. the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.

    i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.

    when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade

    her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.

    but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.

    ffwd to the 2000s:
    i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.

    they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)

    so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon

    #UofA #retroComputing #vintageApple #yeg

  10. the whole reason i rescued these NeXT machines from a garage an hour away was because of the asset tags still glued to them.

    i know exactly where and when the machines came from: the university of alberta's General Services Building (GSB), 8th floor, computer lab, in 1995.

    when i was a teenager, my mom would take me to the university and let me wander around campus with a pocket full of quarters for the arcade

    her grad student office was on the 8th floor. across from it was the department computer lab, which consisted of three rows of boring beige 386 SX-20's and a massive line printer. i used to goof around playing Jezzball and Pipe Dream on those machines.

    but tucked off in the corner were four jet black machines. they all had huge monochrome monitors, and a gorgeous GUI with Wile E. Coyote on the login prompt. there was a big sign that read "you must have permission from CNS to use these computers". i'd sneak over and try every login/pass i could dream of, and never figured out how to login.

    ffwd to the 2000s:
    i've hunted every week for the past 25 years to find those machines. i suspected they might turn up on some local ad eventually, and today they did.

    they were bought by a gentleman (now in his 80s) from a provincial government surplus equipment auction sale 20+ years ago. they were decommissioned by the department, boxed up and auctioned as e-waste. he thought they'd be valuable, so he bought them all for a pittance. they sat in his garage for 25 years collecting dust, until his wife asked him to start clearing out his computing junk. (i'll post a pic of his garage soon)

    so here they are - the department's most expensive asset at $10-20K CAD (after upgrades and accessories), ready to be put back to work again soon

    #UofA #retroComputing #vintageApple #yeg

  11. Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:

    Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?

    I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.

    Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.

    I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.

    Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
    Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?

  12. Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:

    Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?

    I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.

    Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.

    I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.

    Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
    Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?

  13. Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:

    Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?

    I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.

    Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.

    I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.

    Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
    Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?

  14. Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:

    Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?

    I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.

    Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.

    I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.

    Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
    Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?

  15. This #SpaceX Situation: Not Good!

    by Jason Koebler, Feb 5, 2026

    Excerpt: "There are many reasons that 'AI data centers in space' may be a pipe dream and may not happen, but what he is proposing is a magnitude of #SpaceJunk that no other company could plausibly promise to launch. Data centers or not, SpaceX is now dominating #LowEarthOrbit in a way no other company or country has. While Musk has been gutting the federal government, interfering in #elections, allowing people to generate #CSAM, engaging in white supremacy, planning trips to #EpsteinsIsland, implanting #chips into people’s brains, siphoning off taxpayer money to build ridiculous tunnels, giving his sperm to whoever will take it, turning his cars into experimental robot taxis, and pretending to build #HumanoidRobots, #SpaceX has somewhat (?) quietly #colonized and dominated low earth orbit.

    "Musk has taken this space for his own use, concerns about #LightPollution, satellite collisions, and telecom #monopolies be damned. This has always been concerning, but explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his #AIBullshitMachines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic. What happens next, I have no idea."

    Read more:
    404media.co/this-spacex-situat

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/vUubi

    #TechBros #Technopoly #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #AISucks #DataCenters #SkyNet #KesslerEffect #KesslerSyndrome #USPol #WorldPol #SpaceNews #EpsteinFiles