Congratulations Brasil! And thank you! Muito brigad! (If memory serves...)
Lula wins fourth term as Brazil’s president over Flávio Bolsonaro | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/lula-wins-brazil-election
@anne Every now and then I manage to get into a state where I can whistle through my nose -- and, like... wtf.
It is imperative that engineers understand the ethical and social implications of their technologies, argue three engineering professors. But 3 in 10 engineers never received training on their public welfare responsibilities at any point in their careers. Solutions include integrating ethics into foundational engineering courses and designing a specific course focused on public responsibilities in engineering. https://spectrum.ieee.org/integrating-engineering-ethics-education?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
I feel like this gives "conservatives" a little too much credit towards having a consistent worldview -- e.g. why is "bad guy can still get gun" an argument against regulation, but "good person can still get gun" not an argument for it?
That said, this does match up a lot with observed behavior patterns (and I'm only halfway through watching it). The B&W thinking is one I've particularly noticed, as well as the tendency to care more about group solidarity than factual accuracy.
(...oops, did I leave my brain in lecture-mode again? Sorry about that...)
@thatdawnperson I've been low-key campaigning for Anything But FPTP for over a decade now...
IOW: Yeah, that.
@somecat "When you're standing in a sandwich, the world looks full of bread." -- me, very early unfinished song lyric
@somecat "The more you know, the more you realize you don't." ...or something like that. :oslt:
@foone They probably fired the one employee(s) who pointed out the problem for being too (in)efficient and (ir)relevant.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I wish the article had included the prompt(s) used; their absence is a bit sus. The LLMs could easily be just turning in a homework-assignment (more or less what you're suggesting).
@juliepagano It was a little bit weird in that I really had to force it hard to get it to align with the hole, and it's so tight that I wasn't able to get the screw (which I think had to be the right one, but maybe not?) to go all the way in -- but it's definitely in there, since it has held up for a few months now.
@clarfonthey Yeah.
And... this isn't new, but we really need better community consensus-building tools, but that's a whole other discussion.
May ye rest well and recover.
@juliepagano I don't know if it's the same problem, but some months ago our fridge was doing this thing where if you didn't close it exactly right, the door alarm would go off -- and it kept getting worse, and the vacuum-seal didn't seem to be happening the way it used to...
...and it turned out that a screw had fallen out of one of the hinges that attach the door to the main fridge-frame, so it wasn't fitting squarely against the frame. Once I replaced that, everything started working properly again.
@clarfonthey I am honestly open to revisiting both of these decisions at any time; they were made largely by informal consensus several years ago now, and circumstances are changing faster than that.
