More than anything the theme of the current era of rising hate for me is "but... why?" Evil for evil's sake seems reductive, and yet we see time and again large organisations doing stupid and cruel things that don't make them any money.

This is how I see code written by AI coding agents as well. It's seems fast and efficient to the people using them. But it's going to take so much time to review the code and debug if something goes wrong.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Thinking you’re apolitical is like thinking you “don’t have an accent”—it just means you haven’t thought about it very much.

“To state the problem simply, the incentives to produce high-quality information for public consumption are awful. And they’re getting worse with the explosion of AI.”

you laugh but i found the 5,000 piece "long-term nuclear waste warning messages" set really fun to build, even the repetitive parts where you build the black obsidian spikes over and over

I know that Americans have the collective memory of goldfish but I the second I saw Minnesotans in Family Guy pajama pants telling federal agents to eat shit to their faces I knew something had shifted

I discard many, maybe even most of my posts before sending them. Often I even delete posts that I read back and think are fine but aren’t really contributing much. And I try not to reply to the same person too frequently. Etc.

a change I've been trying to make lately is to stop talking about statistical models built on large data sets like they are living beings. ChatGPT says -> the output was AI tools -> statistical models

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

I don’t care for this argument, though the heart’s in the right place. Stories aren’t fungible. We don’t need to downplay the truth that this one holds a lot of meaning to a lot of people. We should be making the case that supporting trans people is worth paying a high price.

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

I would ride for Ms. Rachel in a way comparable only for my regard for LeVar Burton and Mr. Rogers. People who truly love and respect children are the best of humanity and it makes me so angry when people attack them. Getting there with Mychal Threets, too.

i would like to make something clear, even tho i try to do sober analysis of world events and even tho i oppose the empire in which i live - i do not want the global order to crumble in such a way that millions of people have to die

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

I think if it turned out to be true of women that in fact we *could* learn Talmud without our brains exploding, and we *could* manage our own money and we *could* understand politics well enough to cast meaningful votes... then probably men can also not do DV and assault and cheating.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

if you don’t know what `.clearfix` is, don’t tell me how much better the web used to be

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Perfect, going to add a bash alias named `yolo`

‘Newer and larger models are smarter and more reliable. But they fail unexpectedly. There is no relationship between size and how failures change over time. AI-generated code creates 70% more issues than human code.‘ tomtunguz.com/you-are-resp...

I've been at my agency since 2014. Not once, ever, has a senior vice president had an opinion on what IDE I use. They barely cared whether I was Mac or PC. Now they have very strong opinions about very specific software and whether I'm using it “enough.”

This is an absolutely beautiful, glorious description of the products in our lives. The things that once were simple tools that met needs, now demand relationships, have opinions, and occupy cycles of our lives. Do yourself a favor, scroll down and read this page www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

oh look it’s “public services aren’t supposed to make money” o’clock again

I think I can offer a partial explanation, as yer resident anti-AI understander. Programming is wizardry: you go to school, you read the books, you learn the arcane languages. Using AI is like being a warlock, making a deal with a demon to do the things you can’t do. And who knows the cost?

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

In a weird way I’m relieved that the Firefly revival campaign reveal appears to be a complete non-starter. It was special and then It died. Just let it be special and dead. Do something else now. Humans didn’t stop having ideas in 2010, the business just treats them that way.

If people believe a thing, no matter how untrue, that thing must be treated as if it is a possible truth, with the evidence that it is false presented gingerly, without drawing the clear conclusion. False and true both must enjoy equal shares of the sun.

Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game

And the award for Best Snacktor in a Leading Role goes to … 🏆

I remain very annoyed at the "actually everything is a war crime and every US government official is a war criminal" crowd because now that we have the actual pro-war crimes administration it's very hard to get people to understand that this is actually quite a bit different

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Rattling around in there. #webcomic #comicsky #potato

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone" they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

From the makers of “Inside Out.”

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

I raise

holy fuckin shit lmao a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE eh. coding agents? what could go wrong

One of my pet theories here is that a bunch of bullshit job candidates are jobs that don’t need to be done 99% of the time, but you don’t know which 1% of the time they *do* need to be done, so you do them 100% of the time.

Anyways.

Feeling this way about an increasingly complete set of everything I’ve been a fan of in my life: - I loved it. - It was really special and I was sad when it went away. - No, I do not want more.

That’s the cost of about 640,000 ambulance rides. Per day.

Godzilla never stood a chance.