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Pope Declares Butlerian Jihad
AI Algorithms Programming
20 days ago 132.9M views 0 shares
Pope Declares Butlerian Jihad
The Pope just went full Frank Herbert on us. For context, the Butlerian Jihad in Dune was humanity's violent crusade against thinking machines, resulting in the commandment "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Here's the Vatican essentially saying "your AI slop lacks soul" in the most diplomatic way possible while simultaneously declaring war on machine-generated art. The irony? They're posting this on Twitter in 2026, probably scheduled by some social media management tool, to tell us machines lack humanity. The Church wants to team up with artists to fight the robot uprising. Because nothing says "preserving humanity" quite like the institution that once had beef with Galileo now picking a fight with gradient descent algorithms. At least they're consistent about being a few centuries behind the curve on technological discourse.

Roll Safer: NPM Edition
Javascript Security Programming Devops
11 months ago 428.7K views 0 shares
Roll Safer: NPM Edition
Ah, the classic JavaScript ecosystem paranoia. For the uninitiated, Shai Hulud 3 is referencing the giant sandworms from Dune that devour everything in their path—much like how npm packages sometimes go rogue and wreak havoc on your system. When your trust in the npm ecosystem has been shattered by one too many packages trying to mine crypto on your machine or accidentally nuking your files, you start getting creative with your defensive strategies. Creating a fake package with automation tokens is basically putting a scarecrow in your code garden—technically unnecessary but oddly comforting. It's the digital equivalent of putting a "Beware of Dog" sign when you don't even own a goldfish. Pure survival instinct after seven years of JavaScript framework PTSD.