"the annual round-up of the books that I read this year" and that stuff was intensely weird open.substack.com/pub/gautambh...

*Can I blame AI for this somehow? Chart is looking kinda sloppy

*Dutch NAIMBY www.techzine.eu/news/infrast...

The Three Horsemen of AI Code Rot: "Phantom Dependencies," "Over-Abstraction Syndrome" and the "Confident Wrong Answer" *I rather imagine there's a fourth horseman who hasn't been recognized as yet medium.com/@kp9810113/t...

Are they sneaking a hidden data-center into your area to secretly suck the electricity out of your back yard? #NAIMBY www.404media.co/researchers-...

*I plan to show up. #WELLSoTW2026 >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal

*What's 10X more amped-up than "drinking your own bathwater?" Literally *dissolving* into your own bathwater, maybe? You and your entire profession just melted away like an LSD sugarcube? #programmers

*Perusing AI-booster content today to bone up on my new year resolution to "blame AI for everything" *Even the Ai guys I thought were sane are losing it, and not because of the money-bubble *They're fretting that all-of-software-ever-written is turning into a fine, sparkly token-powder

*I'm skeptical about the terminology here, but this analysis of Delvish is lots better than "it always chooses the most probable next word" medium.com/@albertoromg...

--> "I blame AI instead of science fiction dystopias" <-- *Glad for this opportunity to change my long-established pace, I'm keen to get into the new-year groove here

*Maybe if you took the aesthetic trouble to DESIGN your Bluesky skeets as fridge magnets *Some Dave Hickey Vegas flair, you know, fake an effort

*How "good" is that stuff? It's not thinking, but it's language. #delvish *Also, sloppers are conversing with their pet LLMs in that lingo and going straight round-the-bend

*Was Dave Hickey "decent"? He spent a lot of time in Austin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Hi...

"The result is a look back at the relatively recent past of hi-tech art which now looks quaint and archaic, but with an extra layer of organic decomposition"

*I wonder what happens when you live in a Roger Dean world and there's some kind of labor dispute or a quarrel about zoning

"The past is a future that already happened" The numerous killer robots littering battlefields right now are tomorrow's "vintage ones"

*Whatever happens to Chinese musicians will happen to everybody who is Chinese

"I feel much prettier and more productive and efficient now, but I have no healthcare and I can't afford my rent" "Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"

*She really needs a "Leatherman Survival Tool," but it she was allowed to buy one of those gadgets on the open market, then she would instantly become a Westernized pin-up-girl instead of a proletarian heroine of socialist-labor

*That's nice. What do they plausibly plan to do about those "demographic headwinds" when there's nobody left #OldPeople #BigCities #AfraidofSky

*---> HEY LOOK!!<--- A Bluesky skeet with hours and hours of user-retention and engagement-time. Heck yeah. It's the way forward *Enjoy......................................... ... and don't forget to hit like-and-subscribe to get my baseline numbers soaring for 2026

*Look," the AI remarked perceptively, "this fact may make you want to kill yourself, but when you live in a Big Tech oligarchy, your individual life has no inherent value" "Oh. and by the way: don't have kids. We've got robots"

*The higher your exports, the faster your population is crashing

*This is true of my Bluesky tweets, too, so expect to spend 2026 staring for half-at-hour at some squib that me and my pet-AI composed in 15 seconds

*If you look at the history of the "Leatherman Survival Tool," it's all about some engineer from Portland attempting to assert his ideals of personal agency in run-down, decaying Communist regimes

*I'm quite the multitool evangelist myself -- but perhaps the theatrical security-experts at airports worldwide are quite right, and the general populace should never be allowed pliers and scissors

*Of course you lie to us about what you like, but what we need to know to "maximize engagement" is what you REALLY like vibe.forem.com/eira-wexford...

*Swell concept. How would you enforce that law without converting some language to numbers

*Well, it was great to have that labyrinthine journey through AI narrated by yet another AI. #journey #narrated #trusty #recommendations

*Cocksure LLM critic thinks that they just repeat obvious patterns of statistics

*This is also an interesting trend, so next year I'll have Google Nano Banana visualize this for me as well *Go ahead, ditch your touchscreen iPhone, and replace it with a boutique, tactile, grippy Leatherman Arc

*Great opportunity next year to send Chinese humanoid robots into the construction trades *If they're tele-operated over the border by Mexican "Sleep Dealer" guys, so much the better www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

"Zeosunlight" has been doing rather a lot of these experiments as China works its way up to a Robot Boxer Rebellion

*Keen to see how that goes, so I'll have it periodically visualised by Nano Banana

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

*Oh come on who even notices those "systems." I mean what actual, tangible artifacts, designed stuff, with circuits and gears inside

*It's surprising how many killer-robots rob banks as their business-model *You never see that proposed by a modern AI-robot entrepreneur, maybe because there's no cash left in there youtu.be/5HbKAT9UEvQ?...

*What happens AFTER hordes of humanoid robots are somehow walking and grabbing stuff, what else will technicians be eager to inflict on themselves and the public "Flying cars," yeah sure, but what other century-old technometaphorical cliches

*Well, yeah, maybe... but don't pick a sci-fi author who was writing sci-fi full of 1990s pomo "critical discourse" 26 years ago

*The state of critical discourse makes it mighty hard to insert a possibly-useful neologism such as "interpolatable archives" and have anybody actually use that term. *Even it's clearer and better than the verbal sludge in wide use "Interpolatable archives took my job", that's not gonna fly

*For 2026, I'm getting interested in humans adapting AI-delvish as a human-to-human dialect. You read that AI-newspeak so much and so often that you casually and sincerely think that way and talk that way *The way that a politics-fan sops-up and internalizes The Party's talking-points

*I quite like these existent, actual-technical-problems, as opposed to vague, handwavey, Torment-Nexus issues like "why would any sane person ever want to do 'Novel View Synthesis' in the first place"

*When you're prompting-up some AI "Novel View Synthesis," so as to AI-alterstand what reality supposedly looks like, it's perfectly okay if you just generate some hallucinatory stuff to fill in the visual cracks like spackling and putty *It's pretty much all the same math on. the same chips

*Well, with Five Great Extinctions and a Sixth one well under way, maybe you should reconsider that

*Those Ediacaran creatures must have been the "Artificial Intelligence" of the 1950s and 60s, the primeval, primitive kind that played checkers and made sense

*What if they just use lidar, though *I don't get it, why you can't just build some box covered with sensors, and put a buck-naked LLM in there, and have it figure out what the world is Maybe it's "wrong," but so what #umwelt

*Me too, I almost never use AR/VR tech, but "radiance field," how could you not enjoy a technology called "radiance field" *Also, "Novel View Sythesis," so good *"Gaussing splatting," though, I can pass on that one

*I blame AIs for causing the First World War (when I might have blamed paranoid "scientific romances" of the 1890s) *I really like prompting "Microsoft Bing" because Bing is super-expensive and nobody uses it