I think it’s worth noting that these devs say they use AI for productivity but then don’t give any details. Productivity AI has a very poor record — often reducing it. All of the concrete examples they end up sharing are of replacing creative labor, which they immediately decry and backpedal 🤔

RELEASE THE RICKMAN CUT YOU COWARDS

UX is like a jester. The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid. But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They ignored the warnings, bolted AI onto everything for no reason, and are now shocked by the backlash.

I am tired of this world, these people

If AI were real, it would be using all the data companies already have on me as its primary input, and do stuff almost entirely on the backend. But the tech mostly relies on the ELIZA effect to appear impressive, and companies want the perceived markerability of visible "AI" in the product.

Why is everyone in Hyperion scared of the Shrike, when it looks like this?

That’s not really new data, back around 2018 the hiring algorithms Amazon used were found to have an implicit bias against women. That was because the data it was trained on (Amazon’s own personnel records) also showed an implicit bias against women.

Once again my timeline is cast into the cauldron of shit because of a weird beef between mutuals. I'm not going to stand for it anymore. I don't need to see this.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.

In 2026, I would prefer not to.

NEO: I know kung fu. MORPHEUS: Show me. NEO:

I love control panels. I love it when systems come online.

Rapture 🤝 LLMs

Disappointed that a bunch of people gave the wrong answer but not a one said "Hearts of Iron 4"

Getting a job as an expert on a field of study without being an expert on that field of study would certainly be a neat trick

I don't actually know what the difference between Undertale and Homestuck is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

Forget the unreliable narrator. Give me an unreliable tutorial. Guy who straight up gaslight you about what the buttons do.

The world has finally created potions, from acclaimed novel The Witcher

Put another way, *two-thirds* of people over 45 hate GenAI in games already, and we're really only two years in

Real 10x devs measure their velocity in linear feet.

AI is old news. Innovators must ask themselves: in 2026, how can I supercharge my productivity by incorporating labubus into my process?

This is why my ping is bad

What we need on the roads are vehicles that will be completely immobilized in case of technical glitches; famously no one ever needs to travel anywhere quickly during times of widespread power outage.

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

Everything about AI is the worst thing about AI, but the worst thing for me is its tone of chipper flattery ("You're right!"), a tone that people apparently love to hear directed at them. I feel like a mutant because every time people talk like that to me I start looking for the hidden knife.

Once, a respected person in my field shared a link to one of my articles, alongside enthusiastic agreement with a "quote" from me that does not appear anywhere within the article, or elsewhere in my corpus. Frequently, others yell at me for "saying" things that likewise do not appear in the text.

Semi-related: I was trying to track down the source of a popular Nelson Mandela quote & I was unable to find an actual source EXCEPT for a video on YouTube where he does NOT say the words in the quote, BUT they’re in the video description? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrF... Actual Mandela effect??

Once, a respected person in my field shared a link to one of my articles, alongside enthusiastic agreement with a "quote" from me that does not appear anywhere within the article, or elsewhere in my corpus. Frequently, others yell at me for "saying" things that likewise do not appear in the text.

"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy

Was going through my documents and realized that I got my adult re-up of a couple of vaccines back in 2018, but didn't write it down and got them re-re-upped in 2024 So what I'm saying is, I'm probably immortal

Reading is thinking, and afterwards, writing is thinking. Doing an "AI" summary eliminates thinking in both steps. A doc told me some of her colleagues are using "AI" to write their case notes. Her take: oh hell no, because writing the case notes is when you think about the case.

Hello, 911? Someone stole my prompt ... It's what you type into a chat thing to make a picture ... It was an oil painting of Santa with giant breasts ... No, not Mrs Claus, Santa ... Technically, the prompt is priceless, but I'll be selling the NFT for $900 ... No, they need to come sooner than that

Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster. Nothing has gotten easier since then.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Nitro Malort is the name of the extremely problematic protagonist of a cyberpunk antigrav racing league.

I've heard about spider season, but wet rat winter is something else entirely

In every century, cats is the same (written by Japanese Emperor Uda on 11th March 809; picture unrelated)

You know how you can tell these people aren't actually serious about data? Because they never spend enough time focusing on the data itself - its weak points, blind spots, frames of reference, and general quality. Data isn't neutral, and every data scientist can tell when the data is sick.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

I used to agree with "mobile first" as a design philosophy, but Apple TV has expanded my horizons for how mobile-first an experience can truly be Using this with a mouse & keyboard is pure pain

UX is like a jester. The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid. But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They ignored the warnings, bolted AI onto everything for no reason, and are now shocked by the backlash.

As soon as my hearty bean stew finishes simmering, it's all over for you fools

ffs can't a man bring a travel snack

To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.* Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.

Kids back then had it easy. To hack a pay phone, you just had to whistle into the receiver. Do you know how much harder it is to whistle an RFID signature???

Why do we need a garage to "get smarter" exactly?