LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

This is blackout poetry to me

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

If you’re still on ADPList as a mentor, I urge you to stop. They are using you for their own profit. /end

Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.

really wanna get off this planet

Oh honey, is this your first unprovoked war over oil, supported by a fraudulently developed justification for attack?

As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work. For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Substack;DR

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

I believe this is true for so many 'automation' or advanced algorithms. They were there before, but now with AI (LLMs) they are worse.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

is anyone doing ttrpg stuff on atproto? i don’t really play but a friend asked me about it

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.

This from Apple, plus Windows 11 being full of AI slop in its core features, combined with Steam Machine can only mean that 2026 is finally gonna be the year of linux on desktop.

"The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1503-1506" Or maybe it's all about having basing income cover so you can focus on it more. Give any half-decent artist enough time and no pressure to buy food and pay rent, and see what happens.

I don’t think night people get enough credit for adapting to a world run by day people

lmao

breaking up big tech, enforcing regulation, and building alternative open-source infrastructure has never been more urgent

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Not saying this proves consciousness, but that's definitely human behaviour.

every time

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

Oh bravo 👌

Burning fossil fuels causes the climate to change and many extreme weather events to become more severe. #fact

Happy Trans Day of Remembrance. I'm glad you're here.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

websites in 2025

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

1) every time LLMs have been tested for coding it has been found it makes development slower, although it feels faster 2) they are useless for "general enquiries" because they have no mechanism to detect truth, they just spit out likely text in a way that emulates human produced output

The CIA recently declassified this map of Europe

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

A religious upbringing in childhood is linked to poorer mental and cognitive health in later life

I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work. Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design. This needs to be said louder.

Anyone who started their web development career in the last ten years has come up in an era where you frequently learn React as your first exposure to building websites Try surveying people on how they would implement a search feature using an HTML <form> with no JavaScript

I knew my grandma number as a geometry shape. Not too dissimilar from current days PIN numbers for banks, reason why I forget them if I don't use them often.

They weren't just numbers, they were physical patterns.

AI was the New Coke all along

Amazing

We know our customers

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already. What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.