The most disturbing & catastrophic thing abt all of this is that SOFTWARE ENGINEERS think that when you type a question into an LLM prompt box asking how or why it did smthg, it could possibly emit a stream of text that is anything but the usual probabilistic gibberish.

What’s not well known is that before 1970 treatment for ADHD was starting to get quite decent. And the press suddenly had a moral panic about Ritalin and it pretty much ended. The mostly women of Gen X and early millennials who got missed are called the lost generation for ADHD diagnosis.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

If you wonder why the "Quiet Posters" feed doesn't work for you anymore, it is because the @why.bsky.team subscribed to an anti-anti-ai block list, rendering it useless for over 300 000 users. Good job bsky team!!

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING WERE BOTH RIGHT

as well as the transphobic shite, and the inescapable comparison to "separate but equal" racial segregation unless the ward doesn't allow male staff (which they ALL DO), it *is not* a "single sex space" under any definition. this is true for mental health wards too, as well as prisons.

You know if you learn to write you don't need either www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-ditched...

Look if we all get together and work hard, I think we can overthrow the morning people

nothing to do but watch the game

the long term effects of medications that have been used for 50 years huh no clue where you'd find that data, no clue at all /s

how should I feel II 4"x6" oil on canvas panel

Gvt & press: OMG stop 'self identifying' as stuff without a clinical diagnosis! It's woke. Us: Can we get diagnoses then? Gvt & press: No Us: Can we at least get a GP appointment to talk about it? GP: uhhh, does it look like exactly 8am to you? Are you currently on hold & lucky today? Then fuck off.

Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

If you’re a writer, and your world building omits politics and social commentary, you’re a cowardly shit.

I had one on my badge all week.

My dear friend @jamesl.bsky.social really knows how to pull a crowd to the @isovalent.bsky.social booth! 💙 Loved seeing so many people excited for his new book!

It’s done. #KubeCon

Oh, you can't learn anything valuable on LinkedIn? Then what's this, huh??

Oh, you get that too? 🫠

Found @strongjz.bsky.social looking at ingress-nginx. #KubeCon

Where near the RAI can I get a Red Bull or something 🫠 #KubeCon

We must believe in a world to create that world

Every time I do #KubeCon I’m wiped by the time the actual conference starts, and this year I’m not even at Rejekts. 🫠 I love it of course, but I’m glad I thought to book Friday off on holiday.

Perfect

"GenAI is so useful! You just have to outsource your thinking exactly the right amount to increase productivity while not doing it so much you stop being able to think for yourself. Or go crazy. And you need to know enough about every topic to catch all the lies. Also, it's spying on you."

New horrors on the way for trans adults in the UK... (When they did a similar review for trans teens, they threw out 97% of all studies and then basically went "wow, there's not any research to demonstrate this if effective; guess we gotta ban it.") Now it looks like they're doing same for adults.

It's 2026. Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician. Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist. Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

It's not that AI is useless. It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

As @davidgerard.co.uk has posted elsewhere, the maintainer of the library HarfBuzz has gone all-in on vibe-coding. typo.social/@behdad/1161... and xcancel.com/behdadesfahb... (apologies for linking to the Twitter proxy service) A note on why this is a worry in the thread ->

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

OH in the airport: *answering phone* “Hello. Oh, okay. Yep… Yep… Listen, mate, I’m out of the country so it’s not gonna happen. Yeah I’m out for a while… Okay… Bye.” I’ve gotta respect that level of “nah I’m on holiday”.

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally 2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective 3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

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The UK, where they’ll take away the meds you need to be functional, deny the care you need to feel like life is worth living, remove whatever you need to bring your disabilities from insurmountable to manageable… … and then portray you as lazy if you don’t have a job.

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

How can people be so stupid to believe *anything* an LLM spits out without manually double checking everything? This isn't a bug, there's no way to "fix" this. This is all that LLMs are - next word predictors, and they don't care about facts vs fiction, just probability.

and this is the slot machine logic at work

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

This is completely consistent with everything I know and believe about Keir Starmer, the Labour Party he runs, and the British political establishment in which it is founded

Digital asbestos.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm giving away TEN Collector Booster Boxes of Lorwyn Eclipsed! I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Collector Boosters from Lorwyn as a thank you for donating to Trans Lifeline! Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to @translifeline.org until Feb 7 at 10am PST! Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention. kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...

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