Aral Balkan

There, fixed it for you.

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #starvation #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #netanyahu #wanted #warCriminal #ICC

Medien: 1

And the Go Fuck Yourself Award of the Day goes to…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

Simple is hard. Like really, really hard. (But well worth the effort.)

#design

Oh, this? It’s just the federated Bluesky PBC, funded by federated venture capital, federatedly censoring people on behalf of the federated dictator of federated Turkey, Federated Erdoğan. https://mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471

“‘The president made it very clear: When the United States is punched, he will punch back harder,’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters”

(Irish Independent, today)

#trump #USA #fascism #tariffs #tradeWar

Medien: 1

Trump read Charles Dickens and thought: “that’s the world I want to create.”

Just kidding. He’s barely literate. https://sciencemastodon.com/@brianvastag/114309567845669801

Oh no, not capitalism! https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/114301437239869326

So I mentioned the fediverse to Jolita and Martin when I was there getting my watch strap resized and now they’re on it :)

They’re a tiny two-person jewelry/watch shop in Bray, Ireland.

Show them some love:

@silverphoenixjewellers

💕

#Ireland #Bray #Wicklow #shopLocal #watches #jewelry #EU #introduction https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114241155978949816

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI #VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity

Canada in the EU makes perfect sense.