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I keep seeing AI enthusiasts say stuff like “it deleted my production database and set fire to my servers but this is truly the future of software engineering” and given the other place where this phenomenon has popped up, I would like to henceforth refer to it as Tesla Ownership Syndrome

be the manic pixie dream girl you want to see in the world, but be prepared for people to treat you with the same level of interiority and personhood as that trope enjoys in fiction

Is there a good acronym database out there that is collaboratively edited and freely licensed? Something like Wiktionary but specifically for acronyms?

I’ve found a few that accept contributions but are All Rights Reserved

Also the offhand mention of Apple spending enormous amounts on Claude Code is an interesting data point given that the decline in Apple’s software quality seems to have really accelerated with the most recent releases.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116410579093786243

Siri already isn’t amazing but I can’t imagine that pressuring their engs to vibe code it is going to make it _better_.

Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don't do the antisemites' work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Yeah this is the other element of the ban that highlights why religious institutions shouldn't be running hospitals which is that I don't have a fucking vote for the Conference of Bishops and yet they can decide my fucking healthcare

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I left that out because that’s also true of Brisbane (where Roma Street is the equivalent to Melbourne’s SCS).

Melbourne: the central station of our train network is called Flinders Street Station. Unless you’re catching one of three lines in which case you actually want Town Hall Station. There is also a station called Melbourne Central Station which is not meaningfully central to the network in any way.

someone should make shredded cheese but it’s just one really really long piece

“Why has PyCharm crashed?” and other such questions where the answer is contained within the question

There needs to be a separate set of Unicode code points and font glyphs for “””sarcasm quotes”””. (I’ll take just the glyphs as OpenType alternates in the interim though.)

I spend most of my life in what you might call an “””echo chamber””” of people that believe that I, a trans person, deserve basic dignity and respect, and I’m totally okay with not being exposed to the opinions and behaviour of people outside that bubble on a daily basis tbh.

RE: https://aus.social/@Dangerous_beans/116360827270709336

This.

A plaque about Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, next to a mounted display of his uniform. A paragraph hastily added to the end mentions the war crime allegations. The highlighted section reads “Roberts-Smith has not been charged with any offence under criminal law.”

Time for the National War Memorial to update this bit I guess

The Boox Palma 2 Pro looks appealing (and is only one major Android version behind, unlike most of its competitors) but doesn’t support voice calls despite having a SIM slot and a speaker and mic in the right places for it?

(Maybe it’s a certification thing?)

I really like the idea of an E Ink smartphone, and if someone ever releases one that has an Android version that’s not already 2+ years out of date on the day the handset is released I might buy one

if I were an employment discrimination attorney, I'd be feeling pretty good about a case with that kind of prima facie evidence of discriminatory intent

that's why that paragraph read as a gut punch to me, because it means if he wrote performance reviews for any gender minority colleagues with a language model trained on "women are whores" and "trans people are delusional" (roughly paraphrasing), then the outputs cannot be trusted to not be biased.

So, let’s zoom out. Your client is coming apart at the seams. The ChatGPT logs you produced to us paint a clear picture of a man who is plagued by uncertainty, consumed by anxiety, and is increasingly offloading every part of his life to an LLM chatbot. He uses ChatGPT for everything: • for his day job (despite repeated attempts, he does not seem to have figured out how to avoid using his personal ChatGPT license, with its core instructions updated to include information like “DEI is always bad” and “Trans is a mental illness,” for his professional writing, including peer performance reviews and documentation of unreleased product features); • for his influencer gig (more often than not, your client’s “articles” and “scripts” are generated entirely by your client pasting an entire Reddit or Twitter thread into ChatGPT’s context window and saying “Rewrite this as an article, and make it sound original and like I wrote it”); • for his domestic responsibilities (he has ChatGPT write bedtime stories to read to his kids, love notes for his wife, even his daughter’s Girl Scout activity days);

shadow IT LLM usage is never a good idea, if you allow it, it means that confidential information from your company is going into the *personal* accounts of your employees, and is subject to discovery if and when litigation eventuates.

don't mix the context windows. just don't.

Decades of software engineering practices out the window.

These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance review for "not using AI."

These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

Anthropic is having a month | TechCrunch A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

The "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health to god knows what.
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my god it sounds like the answer is in the year 2026 that yes, POTUS would indeed order firebombing Tehran anyways, precision munitions being available or not. it's always been about cruelty, this guy's bogus arguments about precision meaning fewer civilian casualties are crap

perfectionism is so often seen as a permissive ability to create or drive something towards perfection, but in reality, it's a crippling inability to let go of anything imperfect

it's an obsession, it stagnates you, and gets you stuck on things you shouldn't be

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My favorite type of April 1 bit is when people just imagine creating a better country, you know like as a joke

2020: COVID reaches Australian shores
2026: whatever the fuck that was