someone should build a website to receive alerts when github is up

"How AI Impacts Skill Formation" from Anthropic researchers: > We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. (Continued) arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

this is an unserious take. we can build systems one mind cannot understand only because we subdivide it into units individuals can operate on and take ownership of. the handwringing is about abdicating that mastery at the atomic level, not the systemic one; nobody is arguing otherwise

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

deciding stuff is way harder than writing code. because i keep thinking on the deciding part until the code becomes easier than the decision-making

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Olivia > Academics, check if your book is on the list of the Anthropic AI $1.5 billion settlement. Each author will get at least $3,000 per book. Claims must be made by March 30th. Repost to help authors whose works were illegally appropriated. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup?cultu...

This bit is him reflexively imitating other right-wing imitations of women. It is an abstraction of an abstraction. Ceci n'est pas, comme, une femme

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

Seems like one of those issues that should greatly concern everyone regardless of their politics.

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com

this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard

YESSSS

Hey Minnesotans. Have your bosses sent you a mealy-mouthed email about how to remain productive during these troubled times or some other example of non-committal, faux-concerned corporate-speak? We want to publish a bunch of these. Send examples to keith at racketmn.com. You will NOT be identified.

James Harton releaset Reactor 1.0. It's a saga orchestration library for Elixir that handles complex, multi-step workflows with automatic dependency resolution, concurrent execution, and compensation when things fail. elixirforum.com/t/reactor-1-...

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Strictly monotonic timestamps in Erlang/Elixir: gist.github.com/Nezteb/aff61... #ElixirLang

Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property

The VS Code extension for expert, the new official Elixir language server, is finally published 🥳 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... open-vsx.org/extension/Ex... Expert is still early in development (pre-0.1) but working quite well already. #elixirlang

I was thinking since Goatmire Elixir turned out pretty good I should maybe do another one. 30th of Sep - 2nd of Oct this year. We have a list to notify you about the progress and when tickets drop, getting on that list also helps indicate interest. www.goatmire.com #elixirlang #goatmire

elixirforum.com/t/localize-n... This is wonderful news, better, faster, stronger. TLDR ex_cldr will become localize and avoid long compilation #ElixirLang

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To every language designer whom it may concern: `a | null` is not a suitable substitute for `Maybe a` because there's no way to distinguish between Just Nothing :: Maybe (Maybe a) …and: Nothing :: Maybe (Maybe a) This is not me being pedantic; this is a real issue in practice

Wanna go to sunny Málaga this April and speak about Hologram? 🌞 ElixirConf specifically mentions Hologram as a SOUGHT-AFTER TOPIC = higher acceptance chance! Just submitted mine. Deadline: Jan 6, 23:59 CET Submit: elixirconf.eu More info: elixirforum.com/t/wanna-spea...

Hosting the hacked profiles at "Okstupid.lol" is, I have to say, pretty funny

oh I can't believe I forgot to post this here it is, my favorite bumper sticker I saw in 2025

my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

my cat training me to finally give the ultimate skritches

The Linux Kernel is just a program: serversfor.dev/linux-inside...

johnelmlabs.com/posts/magic-... This is some great stuff from @johnelmlabs.bsky.social, who continues to turn out just really excellent work in the #elixir space.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

it's so goofy to believe making software that mimics human thought is related in any meaningful way to making software that thinks. building the most amazing lifelike animatronic horse the world ever saw does not represent progress if your goal is to create a real horse. huge waste of time actually

the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely

working on a Rails app but eyeing the Go gopher sticker on my desk and itching to leave OOP behind and this popped into my head

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

Getting ready to beta release "Practical Flutter & Phoenix" in a couple of hours. Thanks to all early purchasers 🙏 😀. This early version has elixir and phoenix crash course. I tried to stay focussed and only keep relevant topics. excited, but a bit nervous 😅

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is a very good and interesting rhetorical analysis of AI's very particular and strange quirks

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you are in a twisty little maze of markdown implementations, all alike

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

that "Their brains worked less, but they 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.” jumped out at me. and just feels like such a capturing of current times. reminds me of watching a movie or TV show while second-screening — you 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 just as engaged, but are probably missing a similar 47%