The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

More than once I have heard techies in the EU lament that we are going to "lose the AI race". When I ask how that's measured, they say "Isn't it obvious?" No, it's not. Forcing the tech dev to slow down to consider the human and societal implications is a win. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I can only speak as a trans ally, but what Steyer has done will (hopefully) change the dialogue on trans people (especially athletes). He’s addressing them as human beings, not as a problem to be solved. That’s amazing, but it’s depressing that it has taken this long.

I think this is a key insight about the AI psychosis we are seeing exhibited by big tech CEOs. The further you are away from the work, the more you assume it’s trivial for Claude or ChatGPT to replace the worker.

I was one of the 1100 impacted by yesterday's layoff at Cloudflare. Thankful that I had the opportunity to work on @radar.cloudflare.com over the past 4+ years, evolving it into a trusted industry resource. Would love to continue working with #Internet data in my next role...

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Anybody else heading to Girona this week?

Announcing the private beta of Agent Memory, a managed service that extracts information from agent conversations and makes it available when it’s needed. Agent Memory allows agents to recall what matters, forget what doesn't, and get smarter over time. blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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Hey losers leave trans folks alone

Ouch. people-work.io/blog/junior-...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

For Gen X part of why watching the unapproved & unpermitted destruction of the #WhiteHouse is so hard is the symbolism. We watched the Berlin wall fall, & remember elation and excitement that democracy and freedom were winning. This demonstration symbolizes the fall of our democracy and freedoms.

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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

The appropriate historical analogy is radium, not the web. In this TED talk, I will

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Oh this is good

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out. it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.

Generate code equal to the existing amount of code, make it unreachable, merge. Metric hit.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

It is truly shocking to discover how many people just don’t want to use their brains and can’t understand why anyone else would want to use their brain either.

Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool. Makes you wonder…

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Interesting question raised in a q&a today: what do we do about the fact that engineers don't feel like they're learning anything on the job except how to use AI now because that's all anyone in leadership is focused on

Because LLMs haven't even pulled physics really into plain language (as the video explains), they've merely pulled *pretend* physics into plain language (just like non-expert plain language history is mostly pretend history). The 'tool' is a toy to play at physics like a child plays at house. /end

I like that Strava refers to you as an Athlete. I ate a sleeve of Oreos at 11 pm last night

Work on your critical thinking skills and learn as much as you can. Train your own model.

Re LLMs writing term papers: the other day I saw someone say that using LLMs to write is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It's not that the weights need to go up; it's that you need to do the lifting. The doing of the work is the result, not the paper being done or the weights having moved.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

In which @jacobsilverman.com develops the concept of ‘hostile architecture’ to encompass all that is going wrong with the internet including enshittification, slop, hyper-commercialisation and people screaming into your void on.ft.com/3S0YA8I

"The corollary to Conway's Law is, you can actually change the architecture of a company just by changing how people talk to each other." 🤔🤯🥂

I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes. www.science.org/content/arti...

Thoughts on Signal gate, as someone who spent 19 yrs at CIA. I'm thinking of all the times I accidentally brought my phone into the office and had to not only immediately walk it across the massive parking lot to my car, but report myself to security. Do that too many times=real repercussions

Too many people accept opinion as fact, or deem anyone capable of stringing together a complete sentence to be intelligent, which is why LLMs seem like a suitable replacement for the people around them.