From the internet, "[GenAI is] Wealth's attempt to gain access to Skill while preventing Skill access to Wealth"

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

Cloudflare 500 Server Error: go to bed

I didn't really know who Paul Graham was. Philosophy degree from Cornell, studied painting at RISD, wrote a book about LISP. Sounds like my kind of guy. Went to his Twitter/X account, see hes one of those smart guys that worships money and falls for the rhetorical traps of smooth-talking Neo-Nazis 😮‍💨

I also love when you're about a third of the way through and realize the whole thing is an advertisement for some proprietary middleware

I love tutorials that are like... Step 1: clone this repo of a complete web application Step 2: (with no context) add this line here and this line here Step 3: ???? Step 4: profit!!!

weren't we supposed to have mass unemployment from all those autonomous self-driving freight trucks? whatever happened to that?

Just took the annual State of JS 2025 survey! Looking forward to finding out how out-of-touch I am with the majority, which is gonna be men that use AI to generate React code in TypeScript survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

ME, rn:

reading an obituary with great pleasure today!

Insane to me that I will see someone respond to a question on the internet with “ChatGPT says…” because LLMs are fundamentally not a reliable source on any subject. All they have been programmed to do is construct random sentences that seem plausible. They are literally just making things up.

It’s shameful to see US government agencies act as puppets for the right-wing fascists. Hopefully there will be consequences for violating the Hatch Act, but until then click “subscribe” to block these accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Does The Simpsons still start every episode with a perfunctory chalkboard punishment gag? Even though that hasn't been a thing in like 20 years? Are chalkboards even a thing any more?

If you want to guess Bari Weiss's take on any political issue, just assume whoever has more power in the situation is right and then write a condescending rationalization of why they are the real victim.

watch me almost die from a soda can at Roxyunk Porchfest (next show: partiful.com/e/ShQ4CkTBKt...)

It's good to know that, even if Trump were to start assassinating journalists and implemented migrant slavery, there's a large subset of popular comedians and musicians that would perform censored acts at his propaganda circus show if they were given enough oil money.

this is like if the highest court in Ireland was nine people dressed as leprechauns

All the cryptocurrency influencers can't shut up about decentralization, so how come they're all on Twitter (centralized) and not on Bluesky or Mastadon (decentralized)? We know why.

I don't think LLMs have 0% utility but with AI infrastructure being twice that of consumer spending, maybe the bubble pops and takes the US economy down with it. That doesn't seem worth it to me. Wouldn't it be cool if we spent $150,000,000,000 on trains instead? Think of the ROI!

Trump will endorse Cuomo but Jeffries and Schumer can't endorse the Democratic nominee? Perfect encapsulation of why Democrats keep losing.

Columbus wasn’t Italian, didn’t discover the Americas and never touched any land that would become the USA

Nationalize Starlink

incredible use of free will www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT83...

i've been trying in vain to pinpoint what it is about ai that makes me feel so awful, and i think 'ai's most dominant feature is that it's nonconsensual' is it. wielded largely by people for whom consent is but an annoying obstacle

we’re sad to see you go :( - large company after you “unsubscribe” from their spam emails that doesn’t give a shit whether you live or die

If you want AOC to run for president of Bluesky, that's fine, but if you want the left to command real power, she's gonna have to say some stuff you disagree with.

Debating whether I want to look at ugly GenAI art for the rest of my life or if I want to just stop using the internet altogether

Gentrification can refer to either the economic improvement of an area or its cultural displacement. Most of the time, the former leads to the latter. But necessarily so? At some point the conversations break down because someone argues making a neighborhood better makes the neighborhood worse

We already celebrated American freedom on Juneteenth

When my friend, Jay, mentioned wanting to start a Substack, I offered to set them up with an independent, self-hosted solution instead. And here it is! blog.jayleiby.com Thanks to @molly.wiki, whose "Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost" article set the roadmap 😇

don’t mind me, just peering into the void washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

To anyone wanting for a means to understand: you either belong to the Nazi/MAGA party, or you are an enemy. NSF isn’t MAGA so it’s the enemy and being treated as such. All the benefits NSF provides to humanity are irrelevant.

This is what the internet is meant for: owlsintowels.org

The current approach to a lot of AI criticism suffers from the same flaws that our criticisms of social media did a generation ago, and will be exploited by the big companies similarly if we don’t learn and adapt. We did not stop Facebook and Twitter by saying “they’re bad, don’t use them”.

The problem with the Democrats is that the people we elected were selected specifically to appeal to voters, fundraise, negotiate legislation, and hold together coalitions. Now we need them to do something completely different.

Checked an old email address to find my inbox absolutely flooded with emails from a shaving company I apparently subscribed to after buying a razor. I really can’t believe how much work has been done to turn the internet into a miserable shithole of noise and addiction.

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

My formerly-favorite DNS provider, iwantmyname, got bought by some stupid "multinational internet services holding company" who felt compelled to make everything worse. Get your parasitic capitalist hands off my tech!

Podcasters do the bare minimum to edit, compress, EQ and mix your interviews rather than just dumping raw audio challenge (impossible)

King

I really hope, for the future of humanity’s sake, that people can see what is happening and refuse to use a service like Grok. LLMs will induce genocide if the billionaires can profit, just like Zuckerberg is doing with Facebook.

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

If you write code, consider taking the "State of Devs 2025" survey! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

We need to make and enforce a YouTube policy that says you can’t publish a video essay without first establishing you understand Hume’s is/ought problem

Republicans are Neo-Nazi moral cowards driven by fear. All they want is to submit to someone they perceive as a strong leader who will take away their freedom in exchange for the promise to hurt and ultimately kill anyone that doesn’t belong in or assimilate to their social group.

Nothing says "Overton window shift" quite like Redditors saying "you gotta hand it to Justice Amy Coney Barrett" because she recused herself from a conflict of interest. Oh good, so she's not corrupt in *that* way. Too bad she's still destroying the country with insane rulings.

If anyone asks “if you’re so anti-capitalist why do you use an iPhone?” please retort with “if you’re so capitalist why do you use the world wide web?”

To the question, "is Trump's 2nd term worse than you expected?" lots of people say this is just what they expected. I'm not surprised he's violating court orders, tanking the stock market, defying the constitution, etc but I am shocked at how much other people in power are letting him get away with

wahh wahh poor small towns just want to be bigoted morons that vote for a facist Christian ethnostate, won’t you feel bad for them? truly past giving a shit

I had jury duty this week. Sitting in a big room with 100+ randomly-chosen Philadephians, I was reminded how diverse this city is. The people I regularly interact with tend to be younger, more white and way more queer. I need to keep in mind how un-representative we are!