they have been secretly programming me, in plain sight, to feel indescribably violent whenever i am shown a concave diamond shape

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

people who drive ford explorers love hitting the curb just a little bit

becoming the john henry of the ai hype era (writing so many verbose & subtly wrong emails that i literally die)

thinking about robert longo’s “men in the cities”

i don’t think i want “equity in the form of vesting options and a clear path to promotion”, i want a well-organized kitchen with open cabinets, so when the sunlight pours in through the large bifold window over the sink, it shatters into millions of prismatic shards on every glass

the “i’d like to make a nice playlist for a beautiful woman” to “i am soldering vintage cassette deck parts” pipeline

the slutty little loose pretzels looking up at me from my desk after i put the snacks away so i wouldn’t be crunching on camera during an important meeting

i will say this result is amazing news for me and the entire White Dudes That Can't Stop Saying Inshallah community

MASHALLAH dick cheney dead the day Zohran is about to get elected INSHALLAH

i love new york city and i hope it elects zohran :)

by the way i donated to food bank of the rockies and the denver community fridges because they're both killer local hunger relief projects. it was super easy and it's an effective way to look after my neighborhood and my neighbors. the government will never look after them for us.

just found out building websites with cutting edge front-end frameworks & technologies will NOT get me into the halls of heroes?? why were we doing this year after year if not for a glimpse of valhalla

@strange.website Your profile says you are currently following 404 people. Must be some kind of error.

barred? yea i'm barred...barred from practicing law within the continental united states and canada

rediscovering an ever-present sense of awe & wonder in my life as there is no longer a way to get useful information from the Internet anymore. i keep finding questions woefully unanswered

damn i miss nyc. i wish it didnt cost a bazillion dollars to live or visit there

Every day I have to hear about some asshole

yea i'm really only maintaining relationships that serve me lately, i say, unhinging my jaw & beginning to swallow a star. need things to spark joy & feel energetically reciprocal FIRST otherwise what's the point? the star vanishes down my throat. the world is plunged into an indescribable darkness

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

CEOs: Oops we got 👀 tricked into laying off half our workforce 👀 accidentally creating an industry-wide employment crisis 👀 for tech that does not and cannot even work right 👀 so we have no choice 👀 but to rehire human workers 👀 at much less pay 👀 this was unintended 👀 as we said 👀 we were tricked

Just updated my dev rig. Pretty sweet! #WebDev #CSS #Development

i hope you guys think of me not as just a bluesky account, but as the Many-Fingered Fiend of the Western Woods, standing just beyond your periphery, unseen & shimmering, and tormenting thee nightly with that sensation of falling that strikes right as you're almost asleep

I hope this email kill u, Thanks, 

nobody knows what ‘kubernetes’ is here, chap. there is no ‘container runtime’ …but ‘resource isolation’ is real. you see, i have taken a lover, and we lie entwined, waiting for winter to pass, in a dusty apartment where cinnamon and brandy hang in the air, knowing we’ll be strangers again by spring

i write to you with solemn news. i am in paris, writing my life’s only masterwork. i spend my days drinking good espresso and smoking inexpensive cigarettes, writing clear and hard about what hurts. as such, i cannot ‘Log On’ - and friend - i will not attend your ‘laser-focused mesh network webinar’

leaving one-line, nitpicky blocking reviews on over 300 active pull requests across the organization and then leaving for a two-week vacation

code review. brother these functions are mad insalubrious, i must say. brother you’ve written some frankly unsalutary code here. frankly mephitical stuff. mephitical stuff indeed

i still check the Faculty style guide like twice a week for help in my writing or code. such a tidy and straight-to-the-point resource :) faculty.com/standards/st...

me, looking around at the utter state of everything in this industry: yea i. i actually can’t help but feel like tailwind is to blame for this

📝 this thread, now a bit more permanently, on the blog: henry.codes/writing/ai-a...

for your consideration. a gourd-only interpretation of francisco goya’s “saturn devouring his son”

corporate AI hype rally got me standing around my apartment power disassociating. i’m listening to Enya and staring out my windows like this

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

please!

AI/LLMs are by design anti-labor technology. the aggressive pushing of LLM adoption by all levels of management is exemplary of this: you are not asked to use this tech because it will enable better work and ideas, but because it is cheaper to your boss than your coworker's salary

well then? talk thy shit, as it were — speak in thy hushed & serpentine whispers, the heavy sibilance pouring from forked tongues in shadowed corners of umbrageous rooms. see if it brings thee comfort. see if it brings thee peace.

more so than the em dash, i find my self deeply wary of unordered lists with **bolded first sentences**, especially with nested ordered lists. simply reeks of roboslopping and it's totally ubiquitous in their discharge

People believe the platonic apple is a single, ideal apple. Wrong. Array of every possible apple, spatially compressed, only angels can behold it and stay sane

We must spiritually cryopreserve all souls pledged to hell, until technologies are developed to cure them of their vanities and redirect their falls

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

thanking the pilot when disembarking the plane by explaining that I could not have done it better myself

all my apes returned

you are so far from what it means to be human, you have forgot the wild hunt for knowledge & stories, the electricity of creative synthesis, the slow, backwards, fatal fall into love. take fruit directly from the tree and devour it as though you know nothing but desire

ate here for dinner tn and they kept asking where you guys were

close friend threatening me with a bowie knife because I keep pronouncing such things as rimbaud and denouement as "rim bod" and "de NOO ment"

well well well well well well well

Pretty sure the internet is bad