They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

I think this hits the nail on the head. Traditional coding consists of a lot of copying and pasting, and a lot of repetition — this is the reason frameworks and libraries are so essential. AI assisted coding is a huge timesaver in this respect.

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I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.

Crazy how every single man on the US men’s hockey team is a pathetic, degenerate loser.

There is a great deal of schadenfreude in watching every AI company's carefully crafted alignment scheme to avoid existential risk do a faceplant on first contact with the most obvious features of the society it operates in.

"Het aandeel Nederlanders dat zegt vooroordelen te hebben over mensen met een ander standpunt steeg van 20 naar 26 procent." Ja want als je een hekel hebt aan Nazis dan is dat ook een vooroordeel. Pffft.

Moet je toch 's even de tijd nemen om goed te kijken. Verf hè, geschilderd. #kunst

It's way past time to kick Hungary out of the EU.

"Sorry for the misleading framing earlier!" (Claude Chrome extension after first telling me it could do all the things it actually cannot.)

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I think the most alarming development of 2025, personally, despite the myriad horrific things going on in the world, was realizing that people I like and whose ideas are interesting to me would find ways to justify continuing to use an app after it started *generating child pornography on demand*.

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This one hits hard.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

nobody ever asks if we already have enough software or if maybe we should take a break and fix what we have instead of vibe coding more shovelware

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

If the motherfucking KING OF ENGLAND is willing to have his own brother arrested because he's a pedo, whomever is running in the midterms and in 2028 needs to bring fire and brimstone for EVERYONE in the files. Charles himself realizes how important this is! This is not an extreme position!

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after billions upon billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, Silicon Valley's environmental standard bearer Tesla isn't even trying to make compelling EVs, or grow the market with lower cost EVs, and is instead joining the race to increase fossil fuel consumption as fast as possible to fuel AI

Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

Having an active Twitter or Substack account is an automatic mute. For starters.

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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

“Prediction markets” are no different than making drunken bar bets

Also, some of the discourse around technology products, and particularly the fervency by which people will defend their use at all costs as if part of an attack on their personal identity, is so resonant with things you see in anti-vaxx communities.

I will take any opportunity to post this again

Two of the world's most urgent problems are ubiquitous Nazis and ubiquitous gambling. Leave it to Substack to find a way to make a buck off of both. (If you use, or link to Substack you are part of the problem.)

Been saying that all along. The technology itself can be useful (in certain well-defined contexts) even though it has serious ethical drawbacks (piracy, theft, environment — which in theory could be overcome.) The big problem with AI is the people in charge.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

I’ll add that it seems perfectly possible to me that using Claude to do limited computer science work may be genuinely helpful while using Grok to create political content or using ChatGPT to mediate your understanding of the world is as detrimental as eating opium all day.

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Bingo

And get off Substack too while you're at it.

I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.

I think people usually call this going back to normal, you know, when they kill and kidnap nonwhite people and no one writes pop songs about it.

shades of the SS diverting war resources to the death camps even as the Red Army closed in

It’s easy to see why conservatives considered this man a threat.

One of my favorite modern joys is any post where someone says something like “I made this movie with AI. Time’s up Hollywood and all you fancy directors” and then the video sucks shit in ways you didn’t even know it was possible to suck shit.

I do like that the big bet on AI replacing the entire software industry requires everyone to take for granted that random people across every industry can imagine useful applications and then describe them in sufficient detail to make them real. I love this optimism for us

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

Oh gezellig. Met pensioen gaan in Nederland ziet er opeens een stuk minder aantrekkelijk uit.

It's been 8 years since my brother died. I miss him every day.

This is going to be a big part of the AI Apocalypse for Short Form Video

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

An LLM is software that has been programmed to regurgitate the last 30 years of Internet drivel. When you look at it that way, it boggles the mind that anybody would consider using it for anything of consequence.

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Silicon Valley is dedicated to atomizing us because individuals are much easier to manipulate, exploit, and control than communities.