I think we talk too much about imposter syndrome and not enough about genuine imposters, bullshitters and dilettantes.

Wild to see AI-generated posters for International Workers' Day.

This is Bungalo. She uses that face to get what she wants. It works unbelievably well. 12/10 would never say no to

Imagine getting that kind of roasting by, God forbid, a Tampax.

Tbh I would aim for basic systems literacy before AI literacy.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that this bubble won't burst before making significant damage across all industries and sectors.

Blog post on OKRs: einarwh.no/blog/2026/04...

“To kill a god or an ideal, go for the joints.” — Lewis Hyde (Trickster Makes This World)

Blog post: What to say. einarwh.no/blog/2026/04...

jfc it's now a joy to simply read _any_ blog post that's not AI-generated. if you actually have a good thing to write about, for the love of your readers and the good of the internet, please just write about it. claude might shit out a completed article but it'll stink. (1/4)

Free talk idea: “The Sociotechnical Impact of Amplified Idiots”.

Prospective speaker submitting to a conference with 5% acceptance rate: “Write me a whimsical abstract about state management in React in the tone of a Wookie.”

“Which is the better fate, to be eaten by ideology or vomited into exile?” — Lewis Hyde (Trickster makes this world)

Going the last mile is much harder when you don’t know where you are.

You'd think there were some kind of satisfaction in predicting that the zone is going to be flooded with slop, and then observing that the zone has indeed been flooded with slop, and I suppose there is, at some level. But you're still knee-deep, then waist-deep, then neck-deep in slop.

It's a sad fact that in programming, so-called "utilities" are rarely useful, and "helpers" rarely do.

Person (producing slop): YES... HA HA HA... YES! Same person (consuming slop): NO... OH PLEASE... NO!

Serverloggen til jordskjelv.no.

OMG. Sørlandsbanen får deg til å tenke.

Cat/wizard.

My swaths? Vast.

You wouldn't steal a cdr.

Software updates: “You have a colonoscopy available. You can have the colonoscopy now or schedule the colonoscopy for later.”

oil is a sliding thing

For no reason thinking of the Zemblan proverb "the lost glove is happy".

For something to be a lost art, it first needs to have been an art, and then lost.

Google having a celebration of Earth day whilst building massive data centers for AI and wasting stupid amounts of eneergy and water is sick. And not in the good way.

Is it a common thing among Moby Dick alumni to get the impulse to shout "HAST SEEN THE WHITE WHALE?" at random intervals?

“Are you a member?” “No” “Do you want to become a member?” “No”

Ok cool so I tried Inoreader a while back to escape from enshittification and ensloppification and go back to reading a handful of blogs the old way.

“From Bad to Worse: Evaluating Conference Abstracts in the Age of Bullshit”

Here's a pro-tip if you're submitting talks to conferences. You don't have to state how long the talk is in the abstract. It's redundant. But if you do, get it right. Otherwise. You know. It might look bad.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

If the industry didn't want us to grow into full-time trolls it should have been a better industry.

“Don’t be evil.” Google motto, 2000-2018

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Some days the task of preparing a face to meet the faces that you meet seems unreasonable, insurmountable, almost inhuman.

"The whole he can endure; at the parts he baulks." (Moby Dick)

The non-reader has a special hatred for the reader in their heart.

Docs: we recommend using pbj with sandwich in crust mode.

"In the rest of the developed world, the contest between brain and bowel was long ago resolved in favour of brain. In America the dispute still splits the nation." -- Martin Amis

Blog post: einarwh.no/blog/2026/04...

AI slopheads seem to think that it's some sort of gotcha that people may not be able to distinguish perfectly between human-written and AI-generated text. It's not.

This thing where I'm writing something that's obviously text and I'm ten paragraphs in but then VS Code suddenly goes OH IS THIS PERL?

Got an email from "Google Fitbit" and the sense of ick, disgust and nausea was overwhelming. They want that data too? Of course they do. There's no limit to the privacy intrusion. They want to tap into your heartbeat, your breath, your retina, your eardrum, your bloodstream.

One of the weirdest things coming out of the AI hype wave is a string of recent declarations from people that waterfall is dead and we will have to work iteratively now.

"I never had sexual relations with that man, Mr Epstein"

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHLOOOOLOLSOB... sob