The AI issue isn’t just that it produces increasingly sophisticated slop meant to fool us & devalue labor, it’s that on the human end we’ve cultivated a population of people who see no inherent value in the authenticity of what they consume as they are culturally illiterate. So they’re Slop Hungry.

if we don't act now, the other team will have the only orphan crushing machine in the industry; this is quite simply unacceptable

a “Space Force”, if you will

Won't someone please think of the poor surveillance cameras?

Requested my Amazon data just for shits and giggles, just to see what they keep. A lot of it is jumbled marketing identifiers, but they do have the actual audio recordings of when I tested an Alexa device for work 10 years ago. Just a reminder if you're on the fence about using those things.

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Ah, I see AI is going well and definitely not setting up the next round of things that will permanently break the brains of users.

@whysophiewhy.bsky.social I think we might need a “I’m channeling darkness into my soul and lovin’ it!” shirt.

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

a screenshot of the Posting Through It Index (^PTI) Price at 69.00 with +4.20 (+6.09%)

whew

So, how long should I wait to see Wicked so that I miss the initial round of audience members singing along, but not wait so long that everyone knows the songs and is singing along?

the horrors are, unfortunately, structural

Huh, so that’s what DSA stands for.

I haven't had to touch any dev-ops-y stuff in a while, but we've got a project that could benefit from containerization. What are the cool kids using nowadays? Last time I had to be in that part of the stack it was Docker and Ansible.

I miss the sites that I interact with everyday having any sort of visual personalization. Myspace was the first time I ever edited CSS, and even picking a Tumblr theme scratched that itch a little bit. Now everything just looks like the same endless scroll.

I dunno, man - those "I" names have been pretty active.

Y'all. @archive.org has an emulated version of KidPix, the drawing software from the 90s. I'm team implementing the dynamite eraser tool for any and all programs from here on out. archive.org/details/kid-...

Software work would be so much better if we could build a keyboard that delivers a shock to a dev when they try to write clever shit rather than just using code that exists and works in prod.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

*target* demographic, lol

Got all excited to use the new flyover that finally opened at MSY, then remembered that I’m parking in the plebe garage. Now I’m just sitting on a bus with someone taking an extremely out of season king cake to someone.

I can't remember who was posting about using `cd -` to get to a previous directory yesterday, but I just learned that also works for checking out git branches (`git checkout -`). Super useful for switching between branches if you're issue hopping.

New dev rule: if you use the phrase "syntactic sugar" in any communication, you get punched.

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

Just saw someone describe themselves as a "creative capitalist." I'll give you three tries to guess what tech-related industry they're in.

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AI will not destroy jobs, it will actually create jobs. For every AI you have to assign 2 guys to monitor it because it's stupid and sucks ass