it’s hella dope that the most optimistic takes on the future of Working With Machine is that we are now expected to do all the bullshit of training 100 junior engineers without any of the dopamine of seeing them grow it owns it rules

truly one of the geniuses of posting

I agreeb with Alexis. We shouldn't tax unrealized gains. That's why the new rule will be that gains are realized when assets are collateralized. This solves the billionaire problem and keeps Alexis happy.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

AI is accelerating the velocity of stupid promises by 5x

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland

We should regard the mirror to be as sentient as the dog because the dog won't stop barking at it.

A new talk is out 🙌 Trafficking Free Tomorrow is a nonprofit that supports law enforcement with digital forensics tools to counter human trafficking. @Goingforbrooke.bsky.social walks us through how one person can create impact, all using Rust! 🦀 Check out the full talk 👉 youtu.be/CbpXKqay_oY

The attached screen grab should make everybody who programs AI systems pay attention. As programmers, we should never forget that so-called AI is just numbers and probabilities. 1/10

What a great headline

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

By coincidence, I took a screen shot of this tweet by the Lord chancellor and justice secretary David Lammy, in 2020 when he was in opposition.

If my mobile data was still charged at the 10p SMS rate, my phone bill for the time period between me moving into this house, and Virgin Media actually installing the fibre (84 days), would have been EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR MILLION POUNDS STERLING.

Our Black Friday deals are now live! Save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time. piccalilli.link/black-friday...

Everything I write myself and everything I love to read or listen to or watch has one bedrock component to it...Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

If you're a Rust programmer, your take away from the incident should not be that you should not unwrap, but it should be that you need to have a strategy for handling panicking, and you need to consider that strategy every time you unwrap, and ensure that recovery is properly implemented and tested

This means that NVIDIA has agreed to invest "up to" $10bn in Anthropic, but has not agreed to invest a single dollar in OpenAI. Good thing everybody wrote that NVIDIA had "invested $100bn" as if it happened

there are no llms online today, everything is faceplanted through cloudflare, which makes it a perfect day to slip out the worst possible updates, rug-pulls, and files am i right? qualcomm arduino just pushed a privacy policy and terms qualcomm-rewrite TODAY...

My god

Last night I gave a talk to a local AI group about how AI is ruining knitting, the thesis of which was "I want my creative endeavors to have soul in them." One of the follow up questions was, "if AI didn't suck at generating patterns, would there be an appetite for them?" My face:

fill it out, nerds

Absolutely fucking appalling.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

I see that it’s a resounding “no” from marketing copywriters across the land.

posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant

<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on 1/3

Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Banger alert.

The consequences of the recent GEMA vs. OpenAI decision will be very interesting for "coding agents" and the sources they vomit out. Cause a lot of the code their developers accumulated is GPL-licensed.

The people who will most profit from this quality and connection-sapping technology being assumed to be inevitable, want you to give up on pushing against it today, by believing that fight is already over. Don’t give in. Don’t be fooled. Don’t accept the thing already making our medium worse.

What a great post about community, the people, the narcissists, governance, funding, overtakes, political backwaters, change, loss, and feeling lost. okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it. It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.

Oof. blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

OK. Let's fucking go. Kat next.

They literally ruin everything they touch

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

The proliferation of poorly-coded, inefficient software is an environmental catastrophe

British.

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it. Join.greenparty.org.uk

This is one of my favorite takes. I’m sure people would love a 30-day delay on having their images posted so they can be reviewed by hand and also it’s Good Actually to make humans look at some of the most heinous images in existence all day

I think the question of AI personhood is pertinent and a discussion that will need to be had in several hundred years when we're close to creating actual sentient AI. Not so sure why we're having it now when we can't even get others to agree that certain people are people.

rauchg stands for genocide

Overnight, the Online Safety Act has claimed its first victim. Imgur.com is no longer serving for UK based users. This means millions of embedded images on community forums and social networks like Reddit don't resolve for UK users anymore. A VPN is required to use these bits of the internet now.

I can't stress enough how important it is to make an example here. Take all the money from these companies. Find alternatives. Vote with your pockets because fundamentally money and power is everything to these insufferable pricks.

Cosying up to a genocidal war criminal, man. It’s the Vercel employees I feel most sorry for here. Working there is nothing but shame and a lot will be trapped there. Do everything to help them move on if you can.

the youths will never know the KERTHUNK of degaussing and that's sad