Woke 2 has overtaken the castle, the tides of battle are on our side. Onwards to victory!

Spoiler alert: they won’t

I forgot that outside of Seattle, people see my bright blue hair and gawk. Meanwhile I’m my usual excessively polite self and people usually brighten up quickly when they see that. Baddies can be goodies

Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations

Horrors aside for a moment I am practically speaking so fucking sick of Donald Trump. So sick of that mouth of his and his white nationals gang. A moment where he isn’t opening his mouth or posting would grant me enough peace to last days. Gods make that man stfu

This whole @tressiemcphd.bsky.social column is fire. "The age of the girl boss cannot survive the reality of our tech-controlled oligarchy, in which the Nerd Reich has captured every sector of life and is actively seeking to remake it in his image." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

time to pivot my career

I like traveling to other countries Its a chance for me to wander around airports and train stations confused and stressed out

“Newsome might give us a chance to stop MAGA” Girl this man has similar agendas dressed up in a nicer outfit. I’m tired of accepting the worst evil imaginable or evil classic

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Sometimes I feel like I’m not contributing enough in this time of nightmares. But accessibility is being quietly defunded and reduced across the U.S. So every time you, tech builder, makes sure make your work more accessible, you’re helping someone keep their job, pay their bills, eat.

“Can you make a list of accessibility checks that are just easy and basic?” I’m sorry but this shit is complex okay?? I can’t reduce it to a sentence without removing meaning. Like it’s taken me years to learn and I’m still wrong all of the time 😭

Baby’s first ADHD medication

Tbh I need a will that clearly states who ever takes care of my cats with all the love they deserve can have all of my worldly possessions

It’s going to take years of tasty treats for all of us to heal from this systemic trauma

I don’t want you design the “happy path” Give me the “angry path” give me the “got 3 hours of sleep path” don’t put that toxic positivity on me

I have had many men respond poorly to me being as financially independent as I am. I’ve been referred to as “intimidating” by some of them because of that. But there are many people who cherish that too, so never dim your spark for someone else’s ego!

My personal experience is that at minimum AI usage leads to skills regression, and for lack of better word, codependency. The thing to be terrified about with AI is not supposed super intelligence, it’s your labor being sold back to you. www.404media.co/software-dev...

I wish I could boycott Starbucks but I can’t because their coffee sucks and so I already don’t drink it.

Multiple organizations are petitioning Microsoft to keep its climate commitments in this letter microsoftlies.com

Eric writes about something I fear is coming for things we currently take for granted: the freedom to create, to take things apart, to modify, and to repair. What if the black box of modern algorithms kept expanding outward, consuming everything it touches in inscrutability?

I’m no expert but it appears cruises are a threat to humanity and must be stopped

As always, @ericwbailey.website is writing bangers ericwbailey.website/published/ev...

Hey folks, I'd like to hear from folks who have deployed their own LLM on their own machines, instead of using Open AI or Claude. What tutorials did you use? What is working well? How did you train it? How did you keep it secure? Ethical? Would love your thoughts!

Guy at pharmacy “Oh wow bright hair. Are your parents okay with that” Sir, I am 34.

At this point, we should be designing/engineering with the lowest amount of tech or code possible to meet a goal. Instead, it feels like we are forcing the highest tech solutions into problems that do not require them. It's frankly embarrassing. Sometimes the right solution is the low tech one.

People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables

Every time someone says accessible design isn’t as “pretty” as “normal” design I take psychic damage

“(Thing) is dead” content farming from people in tech at this point deserves to be mocked.

The existence of sub agents implies the existence of dom agents I said what I said

Not to be a total bummer but most everyone I know is struggling in America right now. Financially, physically, emotionally. I good deal of my energy is being output to keep myself and the people I care about above water. Again, not trying to be a bummer, but I feel its necessary to recognize it.

it’s cool how your dude coworker on the NOC shift who has his own theory about the pyramids is now evidently a newsworthy segment of the American public

I recently learned some male cats can get…very excited with certain err toys. Felix has recently found one such cat toy that triggers this behavior. As a cat mom, I am agast. However, unfortunately, I must occasionally bring out “Roxanne” the mouse if I need to cajole him from under the bed.

My therapist low key keeps nudging me to start a software company that replaces big tech And like, man, I wish.

AI propaganda is so awful, idc who’s posting it. Like damn, at least give me some good art if you’re gonna bombard me with this crap

Someone asked me recently how to “turn off AI” Which goes to show how much companies refuse to gain consent when adding AI to everything. First thing, move to Linux. Second thing, use a browser with no AI or an “off” option. Third, find products to replace AI forcing ones.

Twenty people

These are my children I did make them actually

mark my words, we’re in for a tech incident summer babyyyy

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

Request prescription from doctor, Doctor sends prescription days later Pharmacy doesn’t fill it does not call to tell you insurance is blocking it Call insurance, they say they won’t cover it until date even though you run out before then Call pharmacy and just pay for it out of pocket

It never ceases to confound me that we as Americans would rather destroy ourselves than give rights to anyone who isn’t a cishet white abled man with a lot of money. Our ignorance and hate is so disturbing that I question humanity as a whole.

I’m dead set on introducing myself in French when I speak in Paris in two weeks. I’ve been practicing my introduction non stop. I suppose I partially want to use my French for once I also want to show that not all Americans suck, and that cultural exchange is a lovely thing.

The heroes journey but instead of the taking journey the hero asks AI to do it AI messes at least half of it up

How dare you insult MEGA SEARCH, the bloated corpse of search zombified by AI

I really hate using this platform you all make funny jokes before I think of them! It’s not fair

Modern technology could learn from older stuff that does what it's supposed to and doesn't bother you. My toilet just works and never sends me emails like "Good news! Flush® is now Floosh®"

Damn I really do get more done with the ADHD medication. I’ve just been white knuckling this neurotypical world for 30+ years 🥲

I dont think accelerating our collective heat death is worth faster code and writing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...