Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.

Thinking about this graph a lot, showing how LLMs have essentially killed Stack Overflow traffic and, I'd extrapolate, most other coding forums like it. So what will happen in the future? When new libraries, languages and frameworks are released but without these sites for the LLMs to train on?

The Internet is like a dying mall.

I immensely dislike LLMs as a replacement for human creativity and expression but applications like this make sense to me!

My brilliant friend Ån wrote a searing-yet-hopeful newsletter about the promises of computers, creativity, and connection in the current moment, where it all seems like a blasted landscape of ashes. [Also there is a mixtape for you to listen to.] feralresearch.org/newsletter/d...

I'm tired of instagram playing games with me so I'm making the plainest of plain web pages with a list of my instagram follows so I can click on people's handles and look at what they posted.

Not reassuring! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We need a term that means "dead internet theory" but for real life as all mainstream self-expression becomes subsumed by empty simulacra

More and more convinced this GenAI shit absolutely sucks ass and the worst human beings on earth will spend billions to make sure it taints every aspect of the human experience as possible. Software, literature, art, film, dating, government, education, journalism, the environment, MUSIC

Angular.js learned from the mistakes of jQuery, React learned from the mistakes of Angular.js and Vue learned from the mistakes of React. I’m digging into React right now and it just feels less intuitive and more fiddly than Vue, like I’m using a tool that should have been depreciated by now.

Trump has set a precedent for abruptly dismantling federal agencies. For Democrats running in upcoming elections, a clear call to abolish ICE should be the bare minimum voters demand. Not more funding for training; not vague “reforms.” It has to go, period. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-onl...

I wonder how many younger people don’t realize LLMs are getting better than web search not because LLMs are better suited for the task but because Google sucks now

YouTube thrives on plagiarism; here’s a great essay about it, somehow worth the four hour length: youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ

"...a certain intellectual laziness settles at either extreme of the [AI] hype/skepticism spectrum. By failing to acknowledge both the utility and the dangers, we allow some to run untethered into mayhem while others wear blinders, convincing themselves it isn't happening" sarah.dev/blog/reflect...

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

If you want help from a not-insane person about switching from Windows to Linux, hit me up. If you want the most absolutely fool-proof option, buy a System76 computer with Ubuntu on it. Otherwise, look up a tutorial on how to dual-boot Ubuntu on your current computer. Expect hardware issues.

love this for us!

Say what you will about Bluesky's Discover feed but at least it isn't explicitly programmed to boost the owner's posts. Meanwhile, Twitter users are going from "haha the default Bluesky feed is so bad that they have to use a third-party option" to "wait, they can do that?"

Every vibecoding software engineer talks about how efficient GenAI makes them *feel*, but I'm still waiting on evidence. There's a new empirical study and it's not good. Waiting for evidence that GenAI doesn't make things worse in the long-run before I get hyped. www.coderabbit.ai/whitepapers/...

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...