its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

*Cory Doctorow intensifies* www.yahoo.com/news/article...

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Loving this thread.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

all the gatekeepers be like “agents are poison because you’ll never learn anything” and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”

Oh, and I wrote about some considerations for all those now tasked with MEASURING the impact of AI on their organizations. Because social media debates don't really help those of us actually struggling with this real work right now. www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...

Alternate title: When the junior chickens come home to roost. steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x revenue - while software CEOs get a 2026 "grow up" playbook. Meanwhile, enterprise AI reality stays slow and messy, and burnout + Ballard remind us what the work rhythm used to look like. // Friday afternoon links: cote.io/2026/02/13/r...

Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time. I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.

Hear me out: Curling, but with ducks

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"

when we have discussions of how come we never ran into aliens if advanced intelligent life exists I think of this photo. That yellow dot marked there is not Earth, it is the extent that all human radio signals ever sent have traveled. Question kinda answers itself, really

🐙 I built OctoStore: leader election and locking as a service. No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP. Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version. No business model. Just a thing that should exist. octostore.io github.com/octostore/octostore.io

many beautiful women named zendesk are trying to get my attention

I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story. I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.

This firmware mod for espresso machines is the coolest thing I’ve seen since Magic Lantern gaggiuino.github.io#/?id=home

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

i love her. virginia, you're so lucky! (context provided in reply: President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. She's been leading the redistricting efforts)

Thanks to @spavel.bsky.social , at productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incred... , I saw an intriguing claim: "the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become" I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys

High test coverage ≠ meaningful coverage. Hundreds of assertions passed. Feature failed in production. Tests checked what code DID, not what it SHOULD DO. itrev.io/3O3hXiO

Another banger from @macroengineered.bsky.social and @esharp.net with @azimman.bsky.social . Topics: - informal leadership - bringing true user experience into the SDLC - the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline - juggling saw blades Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

This is going be a feature that users will demand for all products

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 1 You know we always kick off with the Statue of Liberty. This is especially relevant this year, when we're pretending that fascism against immigrants is a new low for the US, by ignoring fascism against Black people. Read the whole linked thread.

If my country needs me, I shall answer the call

E13n is ‘more’ viable now thanks to generative code assistants. That said, you still have to be intentional about the variations you try and the process you implement. Scientific method still beats monkeys on typewriters.

Dampening the Jerk: Why AI-Powered e13n is good for UX We’ve all felt it. You wake up, open an app you use every day, and suddenly the "Buy" button is gone, replaced by a "Shopping Bag" icon buried in a sub-menu. Or perhaps the checkout flow you could navigate in your sleep now requires three…

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

If you missed out on the first round, possum pins are back. Only one each available whatahellofawaytodad.com/products/pos...

Woke may come in and out of fashion. But I've been Black this whole time.🤷🏿‍♂️ I don't get to call time out. Similarly, trans kids don't get to call timeout. Gay folk don't hop back in the closet for a few years during a US fashy crash out. So my recommendation: stay true to your allyship values.👍🏿

Wife: Red light therapy is all the rage for reducing inflammation. Wondering if I should get something— Me: ROOOOXANNE! You don’t have to put on the red light. Wife: Thank you. That should always be your response.

I think about this a lot "things are tough in tech right now, I don't know what to do about job security" "have you tried developing your skill with the highest leverage new tech" "no because I have rebuilt my entire personality around believing it is uniquely evil compared to previous computing"

Couldn't ask for a better illustration of my point. Also the links to donate to everyone are in the thread.

If you are over 40, applied for a job using the Workday app in the last couple years, and believe their AI filtering might have illegally discriminated against you... You might want to join this potentially groundbreaking class action! workdaycase.com

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I saw another kidnapping today, on 24th and Chicago. I think I saw @jchavezmpls.bsky.social and his team there, instantly, making sure the car didn't get towed and trying to figure out who was taken. None of us are ok.

some great and important progress - absolutely huge milestone here, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU in 2025. Now let's accelerate the transition!

Another great post from @charity.wtf charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/bring-back... When I ran the first customer 0 cloud at VMware, my Head of Ops would say, “ you can automate all you want, but at the end of the day, someone has to care about the infrastructure.”

Bring Back Ops Pride #devopsish charitydotwtf.substa...

Tell your pet’s name in a gif

I wish there was a good way to write about the difference between "protestors", as in people who mean to be where they are, making a political statement, and "protestors", as in people reacting with reasonable horror and compassion as they witness state violence.

lol: that is, or in principle could be, amusing actual lol: I have produced a sound, contrary to social convention lmao: I appreciate the humor of the situation actual lmao: nearby strangers are becoming concerned rotfl: that is genuinely funny actual rotfl: emergency services are already en route

Without fully automated tests that run locally in seconds, there's no way to know if a change has unintended consequences. When generating one or two orders of magnitude more code in the same time, the inability to detect side effects becomes a critical risk. itrev.io/4qN8Cdk