the product i work for recently put out some AI features on beta, and the demand has been insane. i cannot tell you the amount of messages we got asking for it. in the meantime, bsky thinks that responding "no i don't like pictures of shrimp jesus" to a survey conveys actual consumer sentiment

My job just tried to organize a 200 people conference 6 months in advance, and the only still available venues with that capacity were hotels in deep suburbia

look, you can object to ICM, PyCon etc being held in the US, and you can push for canceling these events, but you can't push for relocating them. There is simply no way to "just find a new venue" for thousands of people. It's not even a money problem. Venues of this size are booked years in advance.

increasingly sympathetic

Working for a SaaS company and then logging into bsky is a surreal experience because bsky is all "no one wants AI, ever" and in the meantime like 90% of real customer feedback I read at my real job is like "where the heck is your AI? I'll cancel if you don't add it by next week"

i don't think i could teach in 2026 because the cornerstone of my teaching philosophy was "there is no such thing as a stupid person", and, well,

The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it.

People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all.

Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this

the zeitgeist really clicked for me when a friend of mine, who just got into coding thanks to claude code, said that "seeing green checkmarks on github actions feels like cocaine"

are yall telling me you wouldn't go to law school for fun if you had the money

truly there are all kinds of people in the world

see I always thought that SEO bait articles are immediately recognized and dismissed by everyone with 2 brain cells, but i guess i overestimated the amount of brain cells at NYT

This is formerly the paper of record reporting on a blog post about a "study" done by CoworkingCafe, a "listing service for flex workspace solutions".

They literally wrote a whole piece about SEO bait article.

what if we banned native english speakers from having opinions on machine translation

i feel like this would improve the discourse immeasurably

about to indulge in the greatest privilege bestowed upon only the american cultural and sociopolitical elite: walking to the grocery store

Cute coffeeshop chalkboard sign saying "get caffeinated at poetica before the world ends!"

chat is is good when cute coffeeshop chalkboard signs are posting like this

do you ever get struck by how much beauty there is in the world

(posted from the snack aisle of a japanese grocery store)

working adjacent to marketing is wild nowadays because marketing teams seem to be fully embracing zizek ai grading tweet: all our markeing copy is ai-generated, and we're responding to other companies' ai-generated posts with our ai-generated comments. Not a single thought wasted.

why does everything need to be a walk-and-talk front-facing camera video now. write a paragraph. I will read your paragraph. babies with jangling keys all of you

there are dozens of us!

Being on the hiring side of tech really jokerified me re: endless complaints about job search

"Just get more people to review applications" that's what recruiters are for, and y'all complain about recruiters even louder

"Well yes it'll take a while. That's your problem as a manager" Okay so you're good with not hearing anything about your application for 3 months then?..

Before you yell at me: I review every application I get with my own human eyeballs So far I reviewed about 700. I have 200+ more to go. Job has been posted a month ago. It's a senior, specialized position. Now imagine, like, a junior SWE opening

everyone complains about hiring teams using AI to analyze job applications but no one wants to tell me what are hiring managers supposed to do when a job ad is receiving 200+ applications per week

es lunes

im not particularly concerned with whether the computer is sentient. im more concerned with whether the drivers i see everyday on the road as a cyclist in america are sentient (theyre not)

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

my hot take (with the caveat that i used to teach college) is that i do not care. You are an adult, if you make a choice to waste $100k on college and come out learning nothing - that's your choice. I'm not a cop and I'm not a nanny. I'll be over there teaching people who are interested in learning.

Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

Sometimes it do be like that

Silver car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

black car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

Any car that hasn't moved in the period between the last storm ending and the next storm beginning should immediately be towed, stripped of hazardous materials, and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs like they do with old subway cars.