I think it’s important to recognize that what we see the Dems do is in fact largely Dems acting on their principles. The actions are real. The lip service and excuses are the political game. It’s a center-right party that wants to appear center-left. They aren’t lying about their love of Reagan

Elevator music? Ya that shit elevates my mood brother

I think democrats are happy about the destruction of the VRA and the gerrymandering. They don’t want to do any real work and the polls were looking like they were gonna have to for a bit there.

I don't need you to innovate I just need you to tell me an answer once in awhile and show me my emails and rake in ad money from that. keep it simple!

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Nearly a year after switching to Kagi, zero regrets. Strictly superior search engine

"synthetic quotes" - nice new oxymoron you have there

You will have to kill me if you want me to stop doing my work in NeoVim.

Actual lol at the idea of thinking “I’m a disaffected but otherwise normal American” and then announcing that my name is Liam Nissan

"Missed the AI wave?" Nah, 3% conversion is the full size of the AI wave.

The world or bust

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web www.wired.com/story/thousa...

Ask not for whom the mog maxxes

Bluesky desktop seems to be down atm

I used to work at a company that made computer-assisted medical transcription software based on "traditional" speech recognition techniques, and I can confirm point B here. This was actually a scenario that already worked extremely well and did not need further "solving" with LLM bullshit!

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

If we do not clean house on both sides of the aisle, if we don't throw people from both sides of the aisle in prison, this dark ass America we're living in right now is gonna get much worse. And no amount of wishing it were different is gonna change any of that. We can fix it. But we have to fix it.

People want something done about this shit, eagerly, desperately. Whether the manner of the getting done is through “proper” channels and frameworks or otherwise is pretty much in the hands of the sole opposition party, up to whatever they’re willing to do themselves. Right now not looking like much

But at what cost asks an Australian multinational investment banking and financial services group how is this sustainable asks an American global commercial real estate and property management services firm, one of the largest in the world

Yeah he’s right that’s totally untenable. What is tenable otoh is you dying a preventable death deep in medical debt after a lifetime making a bunch of slobs insanely rich while they do nothing but be terrible at golf

Okay the Netflix Berserk actually kinda whips so far

My company just revoked access to Copilot for anyone not in a technical role. Our Product Managers were by far the biggest users (some were burning $1000+ in tokens per month!) and no one know really knows what they were even doing with it.

Kinda tired of the world being run by people with objectively idiotic beliefs

Hmm I bet I know what will turn this hostile crowd around, is if I tell them they don't have a choice in the matter

People used to cheer when the tech industry had something to show. Google used to be a company people genuinely loved, with products people were happy about using.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Much has been said about how social media has led to a more bitterly polarized society, but I think one confounding factor not accounted for enough is that most of us are typing on touchscreens that fuck up constantly, you can literally feel your blood pressure rise each time “fuck” comes out “duck”

yeah wanting an edit button is real dumb for obvious reason (for one thing I will immediately figure out how to use it for evil) but ALSO its gonna deprive us of "The Grink" style accidental comedy and that's fucking sad

The Vaultwarden community fork looks pretty strong, so hopefully they can just opt for a hard fork if upstream takes a shit. Moreover if private equity fucks have zero haters I will have died.

Hey! Guess what? Bitwarden is getting shitty, hope that’s not your password manager. www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bit...

Just packaged some random tmux plugin I wanted to use, with a readme that didn't give you any help on dependencies if you're not using Tmux Plugin Manager. No problem. Just a touch of `buildInputs` and a dash of `patchShebangs` and now it's part of my loadout, reproducibly, forever. God I love Nix

There’s a long list of reasons to boo this man.

The Money Is Speech For Me And Not For Thee Act

[looking back on half a century of uncontested American global dominance] time to reset the entire global power structure

If enough people are interested I might just open a special walled garden channel for this in my private Discord. Hit my DMs

At the real price I think people are gonna suddenly get real picky about how well this shit doesn’t work

Is there a Discord community for programmers who reject LLMs? I was in a tight little group in an off-topic thread in one community for almost a year before mods shut it down because LLM enjoyers were coming in creating friction. I just wanna talk shop and share projects with that kinda group again

Like the literal opposite is true: We need to stop thinking we need to take something seriously just cause a bunch of rich tech bros and their fans claim it to be the future.

So here is an actual genuine example of people using Zionism to mean Jews but because it’s the far right it will be tolerated and won’t become cause of multi day news coverage. Almost as though the British political and media establishment don’t actually care about Jewish safety.

Remember at the height of the vibes discourse when liberals like Krugman and Beutler were arguing that Republicans won't react to deteriorating economic conditions?

"No comment on this PR may mention the following topics: Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs The environmental impact of LLMs Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output Moral judgements about people who use LLMs We have asked the moderation team to help us enforce these rules."

`mix phx.new` feels great. But even better is `rm AGENTS.md` immediately after.

have heard a bit about mythos from a major finance company and their reaction has been that it A) did almost exactly the same thing as Claude Opus and B) that it finds thousands of "vulnerabilities" where less than 1.5% are actually exploitable and some that were entirely fictional.

every time this happens is a bid to make headlines and hope nobody digs much deeper. the value to anthropic is people believing claude is good and much less so in having bun actually be good software

Writing a PR description fixing a Turbo-related bug, and encountering a likely Turbo-related bug on GitHub at the same time. Cathedrals everywhere, etc

Finally putting this Rails app I’ve been on since last year on palliative care. The transition to Phoenix/LiveView begins next week!

Judge F Kay Behm explains the fallacy perfectly: > [T]he fact that Plaintiffs [...] did not “fabricate cases or cite nonexistent decisions” is of no help. > LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11 law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Never felt salty about a tax I paid that went on to improve the material conditions of needy people who are not me Plenty pissed about taxes that go to cops, to sports arenas, that are extracted from the underserved to provide green space to rich enclaves, that go to war, pay for data centers etc

The coolest thing about programming (not with LLMs, actually coding) is how close it is to spells. When you know how to code, the computer does what you tell it to. It's pleasing and beautiful. Chatbots take away that ability and skill, in totality forever, since they cannot follow instructions.

Using an LLM in any professional capacity is in a sense an attempt to give oneself license to make "mistakes" without personal culpability. We cannot allow "the LLM made a mistake" to be an excuse in any human endeavor we actually give a damn about