I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

“The very introduction of AI into the workplace appears to be disastrous for employee relations, suggests another study, which found that AI resulted in employees passing off low quality “workslop” with the expectation that someone else down the line would polish the AI’s shoddy output.”

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Smarter than an LLM.

Life really is measured in cats. 😭

"It's the environment, stupid." Wow. Wondering if it's the case for my disease too. Too late for me, but hopeful for the millions of people who won't get diagnosed if we can work towards a cleaner environment.

Robo-Slave Tech™️ is both fantasy and scam. This is a make believe technology, it doesn't exist. But here, at the start of 2026, we're all being asked to pretend this nonexistent technology is real. But it's not.

Is it just the peace prize that is a worthless joke or are all of them trash?

Most of you need to read history books about Latin America from Latin American authors. Embarrassing.

Here's your new mayor, Seattle.

What a fucking crappy year. Thank you to these authors who gave me opportunities to come up for air.

For some people there is literally no social problem or controversy that couldn’t be fixed if only women would sacrifice their freedom, dreams, and independence.

Same for LLM.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Ok but I'm more interested in "people had smaller feet in those days". What?

Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way. And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.

Why is it always described as fear rather than addressing the very clear, spelled out criticisms of "AI"? And always followed by how chumpXYZ is soooo powerful without specifics. When they start talking specifics, they are actually describing expert systems and automation not LLMs.

Is it okay to highlight an entire book?! Finished “The AI Con” and it is so informative with research and articles to address and push back at tech companies and workspaces forcing “AI” into every field and aspect of our lives. Personally appreciated the sections on social work and healthcare.

OK, bonus, some art: an Olmec head destroying a Tesla by @chavismarmol.bsky.social — chavismarmol.com you have GOT to visit that website; it is amazing! 🤩 Read more: hyperallergic.com/878913/artis... 3/3

Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.

This article struck a nerve in me. Implication that it is a language that *makes* us human is invalid, ableist, wrong and dangerous and yet used here without a second thought. Take the language from the LLM, what will be left? Do it the same with human. We can think without the language.

I just went down a Franks rabbit hole not long ago. Would love this book!

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

PSA: Mexico is part of North America.

this is how you lose the dish war

And we expect overworked and underpaid staff to fact-check? LLMs are designed to set us up to fail.

Happy On the Calculation of Volume day to those who celebrate! Can't wait to get home and start book 3. #booksky

This is so sad. As a CS, I learned how to learn and how to creatively solve problems by doing the work myself. No other way around it. Analyzing our friends' and teachers' code and other references was helpful to an extent but only by doing and failing and fixing and doing again is how we learned./1

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Can’t stop thinking about Alice Wong today. I couldn’t do any of what I’ve done and hope to do with disability justice in libraries without the foundation she laid, and I suspect that’s true of a lot of people in a lot of different disciplines. I hope she knew what an impact she made.

So, another evergreen reminder: other things are possible! People are building alternatives now! FMI, check out their website: www.steamconnection.org/skobots

Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social I’m looking forward to working together in building a city that is affordable, safe, and thriving for working families!

Seattleeeeeee!!!!!

Eight months ago, Katie Wilson declared her intention to run and all the conventional powers-that-be said she didn't stand a chance of winning. Remember that we don't always know what is possible.

You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

This mf. Rosalind Franklin gone too soon, this asshole too late.

Grifters gonna grift.

Despicable. Everyone using this tool is enabling it.

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Watching from Seattle.

We created a machine that makes bullshit at scale and have effectively DDOS'd our information environment if not reality itself

Late to the game but just finished The invisible life of Addie LaRue and while I loved the premise of the book, I found it lacking and tedious and a little silly. Too long to say so little. And Henry is creepy. Very male loneliness epidemic coded 🤮. #booktok

💯 and if you’re not skilled yet, the only way to get there is to do the work yourself!

I hate it extra because I know they know how these things work and yet they still talk like they think llms are doing something intelligent!

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

SEATTLE: this is love. If you can, contribute. If you need, partake. 🏳️‍🌈 💜

“The advice is ingrained with the optimism that this technology will only get better. It’s the same story the AI companies are telling: with more computers and more data, all will be fine. That’s bullshit. This is and will always be a statistical, associative machine.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...