Ah man we’re screwed

Welcome to Paris! #TaxTheRich

As accurate a description of modern vibe-coding as it gets. #AI

Today finds me frantically trying to shoehorn much longer French text into the space assigned to the more concise English text. 🥐 🥖 🇫🇷

Here’s your latest example of AI being used as an accountability sink.

I think that one of the under-discussed side effects of this is that it’s going to be much, much harder to hide incompetence in knowledge work because the parts of your workflow that operate correctly will require higher-resolution inputs and will choke loudly if you are the one not providing them

Captain Slow had the right attitude to #bikes and #cars: if you love cars, you don’t *want* to drive them everywhere! A bicycle is far more convenient for getting around town.

Once again, I am begging you not to rawdog random #AI chatbot suggestions in any context where there can be real-world consequences. 🤦‍♂️

Is anyone else suddenly having terrible #Bluetooth problems with #iOS26? It look like sometimes the Bluetooth stack gets terminally wedged, and sometimes that just means no Bluetooth, but other times it takes out other services — like CarPlay, including over a wire, or even all of Springboard.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

This is a separate critique from the one about how much subscribing to individual writers’ newsletters costs, and the need for someone to bundle up their output into a format published on a regular cadence for a more affordable total price. Yes, a magazine!

Dear writers, I need you to understand that I will never give money to Substack, so if you make it so the only way you receive money is via Substack, then you’re not getting anything from me.

(guy with a website everyone used 10 years ago but now you mostly hear about how it was like, molesting children for a few years till someone made a stink so they just turned that off? it had a button?) in ten years we'll all be wearing shoes with cameras in the toe (tech reporters) WHATTA SCOOP!!

So *that* is what happened to #Netscape!

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

We might feel like we are doing pretty well On Here compared to other social networks, but is that just a function of scale? Is this more like an overgrown group chat than a real replacement for Old Twitter? And is it okay if it remains just a club for people who still like text-first media?

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

(in the nursing home) me: when I was a boy I played a game with a snake on my phone staff: that most have been scary, pops me: and when you wanted to type a letter you typed a number over and over staff: sure sure, let’s take a walk now me: I had a Mac clone staff: where’s his family

The irony, it cuts like a knife!

“New Sickos Yes…hahaha…yes” just dropped

Being an adult means having twenty apps with names like “Together” or “Omni”, and one of them controls your heating and one is your bank and none of them work

Academics should push back harder on AI in education. Paraphrasing: "Children do not learn how to spell while using spellcheck software. Children do not learn basic arithmetic operations with a calculator in hand. Likewise, we should not teach students how to write academic papers with AI."

Doing that thing where I try to trace an interesting stat back to its actual source, from hop to hop. Tearing my hair out at basic errors like assigning CapEx avoidance to OpEx reductions.

Americans want the perks of living in a city, with the perks of living in a small town, so they move to car-centric suburbs, which have neither.

One of the reasons why I run #Safari as my main web browser, not #Chrome, is that it still behaves like a web browser, rather than trying to be a (terrible) runtime for apps. Now Google Docs has strayed so far from the light that normal web browsers can no longer even recognize text as text.

I know that ad hominem is technically a logical fallacy, but it’s also an excellent shorthand for filtering out the worst people and saving yourself time and energy. If the worst person you know has an excellent point to make, it’s probably also been made by someone kinder and more intelligent.

"I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either." I think that's the most succinct I've seen anyone put it so far.

Counterpoint: the system they have come up with instead is a complete mess.

This story is utterly horrifying. The link to the full article does include instructions for opening various models of Tesla if the doors are inoperable, but I won’t feel at all safe in the ubiquitous Ubers. Starting to think the app needs a filter to weed them out?

ME (minding my own business, paste some text into Word with Command-Shift-V to paste only the unformatted text) WORD (bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid jug): DID YOU KNOW you can paste unformatted text by using Command-Shift-V? Yes, Word, yes I did. Because I just did it.

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing. Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Art class From the latest Private Eye, out now.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Roland Barthes says it’s the weekend and you can nap if you want to:

My resume is my mistakes they can trust me never to do again

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Agh jfc, new school year and the locals are lamenting the influx of immigrants with non-local names > me and the other two immigrants with non-local names giving extreme side-eye at the table Which century^W millenium is this again?

Sat down to watch the new live-action Lilo & Stitch with my kids; lasted about a minute before I noped out. Literally how do you miss the entire point of a film this badly?

ok, the only time this is allowed

a Zoom plugin that plays a continuous airhorn when a meeting goes over time until everyone logs off

I had to have a “single agent vs multi agent” conversation with a customer today, basically using the same logic and arguments of monolith vs micro service and god we really never learn anything.