And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI. The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

Today in bad tech journalism: "AI agents" generating a C compiler. They didn't though. They created a piece of it that didn't work properly (because LLMs are trained on a lot of C compiler code). Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

It’s possible that oligopoly dominance, deregulation, and LLMs, mean genuinely working software will eventually be the exclusive domain of expensive specialised high-end industry-specific software and the occasional eccentric FOSS app maintained by a weirdo only known by a handle like ‘mojojojo55 ‘

The duality of every vibe-coded project you see and every LLM-generated pull request you review being dangerous insecure messes and then turning around and hearing every respected figure in the web dev community saying these tools are now better than human developers

“AI and that Guy at the bar — cobbles” https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar > To the LLM bros, It doesn't matter about the violation to friendships, to artists, to Free Software Projects or ultimately the living biosphere. It's about what's useful to them.

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

ads are so depressing now: its all just for medicine, gambling and AI

"This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" 🎯

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

The ravens are still in town. #photos #iceland #nature #birds #ravens

so called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input futurism.com/advanced-tra...

It's funny that LLM's sucked up so much SEO slop, so much utterly meaningless ad copy, that they enormously amplified certain words and phrases into almost semantic satiation. Like when you see the word "game-changing" you barely even process it as a word, it's just meaningless botsign.

These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle futurism.com/advanced-tra...

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It’s Saturday morning and you remember that pledge you were going to make to The Devil’s Sound? Now’s the time..

Relics of the past with a quiet suburb at a distance. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #bridge #river #sky

I believe there are plans to build new houses here. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #bridge #river #sky #sea

But now we are fortunate to have @fractalecho.bsky.social 's amazing book out in the world. Read it to be better prepared to recognize & combat ableism and eugenics in "AI" discourse. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Alas, this isn't new. As I wrote in 2022: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it: Short 🧵>>

I can't stop thinking about what Bezos has done to the Washington Post. But I also don't know why I & anyone else is shocked. I went undercover in an Amazon 'fulfilment centre' in 2013 and saw first-hand exactly who Bezos is. We have all been SO naive. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Sysadmin In The LLM Age - Nullrouted Space” https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/ > If this is the conclusion you come to then you need to stop writing, go stare at a wall and contemplate the choices that brought you to this completely unhinged, abhorrent conclusion.

“Former Windows chief shared internal secrets with Jeffrey Epstein” https://www.neowin.net/news/former-windows-chief-shared-internal-secrets-with-jeffrey-epstein-documents-reveal/ > Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's former Windows chief, was in extensive contact with the convicted sex offender

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing, but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.

This entire thread is worth your time.

ICYMI: It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Did... Did someone on LinkedIn make a good point? Have I misjudged the place? #stolenFromMastodon

Commercial AI is rarely built to be fit for purpose, and yet they're used regardless in safety critical applications they're not intended for, becoming a tool to avoid accountability while enabling indiscriminate harm. Something we've also seen in defense.

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

In case you were unaware that GenAI software developers are also exploiting and abusing workers in the global South to support their plausible word-mulch vending machines. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

> At present the realities are life and death, peace and war, fascism and democracy; we are in a world which may soon become unfit for human beings to live in. A writer must decide at what remove from this conflagration he can produce his best work and be careful to keep there Cyril Connolly, 1938.

Let’s say you don’t want to listen to me, the physicist with a specialty in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. Here, have someone who says the words you need to know know to build stuff.

Among my many beefs with LLM-based systems is I refuse to agree with the future of technology being limited to a poor copy of the most popular bad ideas of the past, but stolen.

Speaking of "alone in a cabin" horror, I know a translator who went to a cabin for a few days to work on a translation in the South of Iceland. She was completely alone and there were no houses close and then suddenly one day something RAMS into the front door with tremendous force. 🧵

maintenance mode

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/03/a... - blog post

If anybody is wondering why I have it enabled - research. You almost certainly shouldn't enable it in most real world situations.

It still feels weirdly unfinished as a product, e.g. you open it and the interface just doesn't work... you have to trigger an intro video manually to get the product to work, then go back into Timeline. It's a really weird product, I suspect MS will mothball it at some point.

I need about $600 to cover my insurance, so I'd be VERY grateful if a few people could tip $20 each

I heard y'all love horror stories on here

The Amazon guy shut down the book section of the WaPo

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

a thread on the efficiencies of 3d-printed whistles believe it or not, it’s really good. you’d think it would be not as good as mass production but it’s actually better.

An abandoned fish hatchery and an old well. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #river #grass #moss