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Help! I've made a horrible mistake! I focused my career on things that help humans, like UI/UX and accessibility. No one's hiring for that anymore.
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Alright, which tech companies are actively anti-AI now? Surely not everyone has brain rot, right? Right!?
1 day ago
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Why does Job hunting feel like, "the evil you know vs the evil you don't"?
2 days ago
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Congratulations to LLMs for destroying every single pillar of the "motivation MAP" Mastery - don't learn, just prompt Autonomy - there is no alternative, leadership demands AI use Purpose - ship. more. ai. Users be damned
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Features 📈 LOC 📈 Tickets closed 📈 Comprehension 📉 Job satisfaction 📉
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GenAI is useful* and surprisingly effective** in exactly 2 cases: 1. I don't know anything about what I asked it to do 2. I don't give a shit about what I asked it to do * 🤢 ** 🤮
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Capitalist hellscape employment precarity makes me go :vomit:
8 days ago
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Lady Talia
11 days ago
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
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Kat Abughazaleh
12 days ago
Anyway fuck AI and fuck data centers
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Mansour
12 days ago
Most farmers in the US are millionaires with a six figure income. Median household income: $116,493 Median household net worth: $1,244,229
www.ers.usda.gov/media/5698/u...
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I realize this is a niche complaint, but the new hearing aid battery packs are impossible to open. A new law requires that the packaging is child-proof but I'm sure they're everyone-proof now.
13 days ago
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁
12 months ago
Stop saying "AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used." I'm tired. I'm so tired of reading, hearing, and seeing this phrase/argument. It doesn't only matter how a tool is used, but how it is made, governed, and the impact it has on our world. We must shape tools before they shape us.
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
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Why does everything beep and blink!? I bought a "whisper quiet" treadmill to use after the kids go to sleep but the 45db beep for every button press kinda defeats the purpose
15 days ago
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To make things clearer, replace "AI" and "LLM" with "stolen labor" and replace "VC funds" with "stolen capital." "Investment banks prepare to give $400b of stolen capital to firms specializing in stolen labor." Much more accurate.
17 days ago
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Oh great, AI CEO said a thing. In 2 weeks my CEO will say the same thing somehow. Gotta tech harder to show how AI our company is.
add a skeleton here at some point
18 days ago
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Pavel
20 days ago
There is a notion that "productivity" is fungible — if AI makes people "more productive" then it will somehow result in more & better work. But individual productivity is only the limit on throughput of assembly lines. YOUR blocker is that your org uses the "garbage can model" to make decisions.
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Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem
Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/claude-design-is-a-clock-time-solution-for-a-calendar-time-problem
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After a 2 day AI hackathon (mandatory) I got to spend all day reviewing generated code. It was exhausting. Not because it was all bad but because you just couldn't know where it would veer into nonsense.
29 days ago
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Siobhan Beeman
about 1 month ago
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Just realized that by mandating AI use in daily coding work, our leadership is telling us, "don't care about the product so much!"
about 1 month ago
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Coining a new phrase: "data driven dumbassery." You know what it means.
about 1 month ago
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Enfinity Cast
about 1 month ago
The autism community has been quietly revolutionizing workplace communication for years — turns out clear expectations, sensory awareness, and direct feedback work magic for neurotypical brains too. Your son's teaching you management gold.
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Alex Russell
about 1 month ago
Worth your time:
leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
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I once heard that the original GitHub (pre-M$) had an engineering maxim "write JavaScript like it's 2015." This is clearly not the case anymore, as I suffer from their React-focused AI-slop interface. Not to mention whatever tomfoolery is happening on the backend causing such constant instability
about 1 month ago
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"speed ≠ quality output ≠ thinking fidelity ≠ usefulness" 👏👏👏
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about 1 month ago
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Are there any job boards that allow you to filter out AI companies? I'm getting real sick of having to research companies and job positions to see if they're gonna force me to use AI.
about 1 month ago
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Arpit Agrawal
about 2 months ago
I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations. It's built on work by
@bram.us
and
@miriam.codes
.
cascade.arpit.codes
I wrote about how it came together on my blog:
arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...
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CSS Cascade
A visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the 'winning value' from a list of competing declarations.
https://cascade.arpit.codes/
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about 2 months ago
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I don't have words for the disgust, anger, and shame I feel about this.
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about 2 months ago
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I'm stuck trying to make AI crap features work with AI slop code in React version-whatever-with-breaking-changes, and some people get to actually make the web better.
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about 2 months ago
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Instead of introspection, this fucker wakes up and thinks, "how can I maximize my sociopathy?"
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2 months ago
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"Autism will never fit in the disease model, because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition."
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2 months ago
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Thorsten Beeck
2 months ago
“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.” Good and important read by
@ethanmarcotte.com
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ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...
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Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com
We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/
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Ed Zitron
3 months ago
Bank of America’s big credit investors are now most worried about the threat of an AI bubble, specifically unsustainable investments and over-valuations.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Emily M. Bender
3 months ago
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc
has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
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Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
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Eric Bailey
3 months ago
"We need new models of professionalism that do not center novelty, but consequence."
blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...
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Design As Repair - Ron Bronson
https://blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-repair
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Pavel
3 months ago
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
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Netlify
8 months ago
Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple. ✅ Checklist ✅ Next.js tips ✅ Best practices Start here →
docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...
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Vercel to Netlify migration checklist
A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.
https://docs.netlify.com/resources/checklists/vercel-to-netlify-migration/
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divine beastmode
8 months ago
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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I fully believe companies should be punished with "death sentences," not just fines. Every executive fired with no severance, all stock set to $0 and its listing pulled from markets. Let's see these CEOs be unable to get a new job
8 months ago
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I'm so angry and so tired of being angry. Please, world, stop doing such bad things, I need a rest
8 months ago
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reposted by
Sarah Higley
8 months ago
For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs:
sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...
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forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley
A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.
https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/forced-color-adjust-none/
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Gregory Mansfield
8 months ago
“You don’t need your wheelchair. We have wheelchairs.” Note to airline carriers, terminals, transportation providers, hospitals, medical providers and all others who need to hear this: Wheelchairs are not interchangeable. Wheelchairs are not one size fits all.
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Nik Gadermann
12 months ago
Published a new interactive blog post on tab roving, a nice little technique for making grids and other element groups more accessible for keyboard navigation! Check it out: https://nik.digital/posts/tab-roving
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Anthony Moser
8 months ago
but all of this is about finding messages that reach people who don't have a lot of context *to help them understand why they shouldn't use it* harm reduction, in this context, is *use reduction*
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Ryan Estrada
8 months ago
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
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Prime video service has the worst UX I've ever fought. Searching for a title might return what you're looking for or it might not, regardless of whether that exact title is available on the service.
8 months ago
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Iron Circus Comics
9 months ago
Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (
@hbomberguy.bsky.social
) and illustrated by Skutch (
@skutchdraws.bsky.social
) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
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Andrew Lawrence
9 months ago
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Reynard Muldrake
9 months ago
Sometimes it's more comfortable to believe the people in charge are competent but evil than the reality that the American economy is in the hands of clowns that couldn't manage a convenience store.
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Alt18F
9 months ago
"'That’s the equivalent of basically taking out a credit card with a $20,000 credit limit, canceling it and then saying, 'I’ve just saved $20,000.' Anything that’s been said publicly about [DOGE’s] savings is meaningless.'”
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Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers? Now we have receipts.
A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178
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