"but everyone's just laying off 'useless' roles like technical writing and marketing and support and product management!" Babes, when you eliminate those roles your "critical" technical staff like SREs get pulled into those conversations. The work streams don't *stop* your platform just goes down

This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable (I mean, more so than it has been historically) isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-micros...

Redpolls seem to be in good health despite the weather #birds #iceland

Also on Bandcamp if you want to direct a few dollars to Quebec: anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

This rebirth of the prologue discussion has gotten under my skin. Stay tuned for my full thoughts

you should read my article, in which I explain why westerners are obsessed with a completely fictional idea of 'honor culture,' where it came from, and then repeatedly dunked on pete hegseth

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

Frænka í útvarpinu https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-04-03-hafdi-bara-ahuga-a-namminu-og-pafagaukunum-thegar-hun-vann-i-blomavali-471567

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/01/c... - blog post

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/02/m... - blog post

So, AFICT the “reasonable” argument for LLM coding is if we persist through economic chaos and environmental crises while sacrificing the creative industries and education then models built using stolen data and license violations might safely revolutionise software dev productivity?

Ice cream, anyone? #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #abandoned #decay #grass #rust

a cognitive scientist here: there are no functions (brain or otherwise) dedicated to "performing" human feelings

Waiting for the AI bros to come in and well-ahktually this one. It's bad to burn lots of carbon for absolutely no benefit, period.

The best way to learn new vocab and memorise grammar is to use it in context. Ymestyn is designed to help intermediate Welsh learners with games, quizzes and themed practice sessions that are fun and interesting to do. ymestyn.cymru

A favorite that I haven’t seen in this (fantastic) thread yet…

So, turns out Angine de Poitrine (Pectoral Angine? Chesty Angine?) is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Journal: Mistrust How Apple’s penchant for breaking the web has given me more empathy towards developers who are suspicious of the web platform. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22507

There's a very simple fix for hallucinations. Just set temperature to zero. Sure, it'll start blatantly copy-pasting from training data, giving the whole game away, but covering it up is literally the only reason LLMs need to hallucinate, so they really should pick a lane there.

A note to amateur translators: Do not translate titles in the references. Or names of institutions. The point is for readers to be able to find the source I can’t believe I have to say this, but it’s happened with 2 different translators, so

Humans are a fundamentally social species. Generative “AI” is a fundamentally anti-social technology, as its whole purpose is to abstract social relations away. It is therefore an anti-human technology.

[P] I can never choose between these two

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

Spent too much time putting this together 7 years ago when Copurrnicus was just a tiny kitten. Nothing has changed.

Whatever AI offers you, it took from someone else. That alone is a disqualification. But if you go ahead and use it, you have no idea of the extent of the lift and if it's uncovered, you'll be liable

This one still fuckin kills me

"Facebook is the only social media platform we ask about in the survey which is more popular among social media users aged 75+ (81%) than with social media users aged 16-24 (55%)" but god forbid you even suggest regulating an OAP's usage like that of a 16 year old. www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

why the hell would we put windows 11 in space

“Mouthwords | everything changes” everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwo... > We need to see the advent of workslop in the context of the technological aims of the last several decades, one of which has been to obfuscate the human labor involved in everything from driving to cooking to gathering

This has been great fun. Really laughing. When I do the new PB edition of Be Funny Or Die, the biggest change is going to be removing references to how “we all tell jokes on social media”, because we don’t anymore. Not in the same way. That was a little human social blip. It seems so sweet now.

Anthropic has claimed 100% of its code is vibe-coded. People have been mocking this leak due to the fact that genAI-made output can't be copyrighted. But the real funny thing would be if Anthropic had to go into discovery, and it was proved that it was made by a global south coding sweatshop.

entire thread is incredible, but just absolutely screaming at claude code having \u2014 (unicode number for "em dash") baked into its source mastodon.social/@jonny@neuro...

There are so many. But the one I tend to think about is Miette, and the owner jailed for a thousand years.

Claude Code codebase leaked Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opky... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-cla... - podcast time: 8 min 19 sec

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with (Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

Reading about the shocking jankyness of the Claude source code leak and Anthropic must be like

It’s April

Yet another rusty object that has lost its way. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees#rust

I'm doing both a sale and an experiment.

I'm doing both a sale and an experiment.

“As more people experiment with generative AI as a search tool, mistakes like these can damage reader trust when they believe they are going with a publisher’s top pick—and then purchasing a TV that’s not even part of their recommendations.” www.wired.com/story/i-aske...

In general, I think this article is another example of what happens if you try to hold space for the idea that "AI" is sometimes helpful while also trying to explain the harms. Just explain the harms. >>

Also, the "superhuman" frame is TESCREAL bullshit. Five years ago, this might have been an innocent way to praise a student. >>

However: It is appalling to recognize the exploitation of data workers and then set it up as "reasonable people might disagree" ("However we feel about the politics..."). >>

separate from the meaningful critique Dr Bender outlines, I find the centaur metaphor irritating. but also this piece is a good example of what I mean by speaking politely [derogatory] about ai

I remember about a year ago, maybe 2, someone did a thing where they prompted several chatbots dozens of times with different variations of "tell me a story about a knight who falls in love" And damn near every single regurgitated output was identical. It was all homogeneous slop.

It’s fascinating to me how often the “follow the money” mantra falls apart these days. A lot of motherfuckers out here being evil even though it’s destroying their businesses. A lot of people love evil more than money. A lot more than we thought.

There was a stretch of time when tech types wanted to consult with me, and it ended when I told them I don't sign NDAs, either they trust me or they don't, and I would be fine either way. (I did sign an NDA when I visited Valve many years ago, 'cause I wanted to play Half-Life 3. Worth the NDA.)

exhibit a in why not to do april fools!! esp as a company getting people hyped just to rip the rug out from under them is brand damage