Well don't I feel stupid

Beside the obvious fact that visting 10 countries in Europe is like 10 States in the US or within India, this is more a list of countries where the socio-economic conditions ALLOWS you to travel as you have the time and money to do so.

So. Much. This. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

I'd rather have Clippy

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

realistic Star Trek

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read in my entire life about any topic ever anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

Prompt engineering is knowing the correct answer and trying to get the chatbot to produce it.

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

who fucking cares

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

Unfortunately they may not see this as a problem at all. Their vision is to have AI so pervasive in everything that 'learning to drive the forklift' is the only thing you need to learn. You do not need to learn any math, or geography, or anything else, just how to prompt.

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

I have worked with so many devs who justified their decisions with "because that's how $FAANG does it”. My responsees move between: 1. Turns out, that's not how $FAANG does it 2. You are not $FAANG scale 3. You are not $FAANG maturity 4. That stack is way more complex than what we need

People with visual impairments. tink.uk/using-ray-ba...

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

despite popular beliefs, incorporating "AI" in workflows does NOT reduce time. "when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower" metr.org/blog/2025-07... the stark difference between forecasts and actual results in the plot is damming

In any language, truncation is not a content strategy /cc @karenmcgrane.bsky.social

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I found a fun new way to expose AI bots.

UX’s lack of influence in the workplace is heavily connected to our inability to control the narrative industry-wide, because of assholes who create shit like this. Our job is still seen as easy and cosmetic at all levels. Despite DECADES of challenging that. That’s also why “UX/UI” is a thing.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

This site www.rssrssrssrss.com is new to me ~ a site to combine feeds into a new unique #feed. It was shared by Zachary Kai zacharykai.net in the #IndieWeb Chat

These days as a user I kinda care if there's AI. As in I hate it.

If only Congress was on the Signal chat they would know

I wonder how he knows something that is missing from the entire of human knowledge.

“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Trap streets in the Machine War

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

If only it mattered. Stakeholders are not happy. And they don't care.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

In 1931, a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract and declared baseball "too strenuous" for women.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

if what's happening in los angeles was happening anywhere in africa or the middle east, the west would have sent military intervention by now to "protect democracy"

the key to success in tech is moving fast enough to outpace the law or simply break the law in a smart way. all successful start-ups and tech companies are built on fraud and monopoly

When you have a tech that its own inventors are claiming will cause 20% unemployment and will destroy publishing, cinema, and the arts, the most rational thing you can do under those circumstances is to demand that the entire thing be nuked from orbit

The secret to professional success is to time your arrival and departure in a way that aligns with the confounding variables to make it seem like seasonal variation etc is your achievement

Exactly how many talks, policy papers, interviews, and reports do you think are out there warning about precisely this likelihood? Because I know it's a lot more than a few. "‘We Acted Too Quickly’: Over Half of Companies Regret AI-Driven Layoffs, Report Finds" www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

The best path forward is to empower developers to write HTML and CSS in the editor of their choosing. Any abstraction that hampers that (whether it’s a web site builder or ✨Tailwind✨) has (in my experience) inhibited productivity and increased long-term maintenance costs.

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙