I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Can't help but notice stuff being very *slow* and clunky, since more companies have slop mandates 🤔

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

matthiasott.com/articles/des...

Can a plastic mail-order sex doll be a wiling adult participant in a relationship? Normal people say no but we spent 1600 words talking to Wayne, who lives in his mother’s shed outside of Indianapolis, to take the proposition very seriously, because we have grave perceptual and analytic deficits.

This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

AI Overview There are 5 e's in "nonsense economy" Here is the breakdown: • nensense (3) • economy (2) Total: 3 + 2 = 5.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger. — Anna E. Cook AI prototyping is fast—but that doesn’t mean it’s useful. As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose. The result is often polished UI wit...

As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose.

Prototyping should be about testing ideas and learning what actually works before building.

annaecook.com/writing/2026...

Links need more than just a color change to distinguish them.

If your solution is `font-weight: 500`, don’t be surprised when you get dinged for 1.4.1 Use of Color.

`500` often renders no differently than the default (`400`). It’s adversarial conformance.

Use an underline.

#accessibility #a11y

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Yes.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

This is the #overlay company that fabricated clients, testimonials, and ratings:
adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce...

Its failure to do alt text correctly for this Bluesky post should tell you all you need to know.

#a11y #accessibility #WCAG

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

People in the sixties: I better not say that or the government will wiretap my house People today: Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes

This

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*

Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.

GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH

github.com/settings/cop...

Cartoon from @twonks on instagram: shows George Jetson vacuuming while Rosie the robot maid paints a canvas

haha how silly… oh

(from @twonks.bsky.social)

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

oh hey guys – just tell your chatbot not to write bad code. Put that in a skill or whatever. Bing bang boom, good code incoming. Now you have the day off.

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

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Exclusive | OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions.

this is a massive win

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

The Onion is here to stay. It is going to disrupt everything. We are living in the The Onion era.

How are you using The Onion to turbocharge your productivity? Your answer will affect your annual performance evaluations.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Even if you're pro-AI, Anthropic themselves have said that using AI when learning means you don't develop skills

You need those skills later to debug the LLM's output or prompt it more effectively to fix something. These students are gonna struggle as soon as they have to do something harder.

Playing roulette with your data? 50% of AI tools fail security checks New analysis shows 50% of popular AI tools received top security ratings, while major providers like OpenAI scored poorly with multiple data breach incidents.

ChatGPT is not secure. It has one of the worst security ratings of any LLM provider. Surely a university which considers itself the "birthplace of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe" has the capacity to self host open weight models?
businessdigitalindex.com/research/ai-...

I always say that AI stuff like this is such a reflection of the managerial culture that exists in American labor (though presumably not only here). Managers think AI can replace the work of their subordinates bc they think it's all busywork while they do the real work

Perfect

"the technology is getting better every day"

vs

"this is the business model, and its regrettable side effects"

Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”