He’s not trans or brown so he’s now getting the usual media treatment

Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.

Maybe the rich just miss owning other people and want to believe that their AI are people they own

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

The melancholy of history rhyming Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

"The melancholy of history rhyming"

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...

They never tell you how sad it makes you to see history repeat itself.

This is the natural result of a policy of alienating your own left-of-center base and everyone to their left while refusing to understand that you’ll never out-far right the far right as they will always seem more authentic to their own base

Profoundly idiotic, reckless.

Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers

went to school here. got his GCSEs. got a national insurance number. worked here. paid taxes here. has lived and loved here for 21 years.

nope. not good enough apparently. scooped up just for going to the shops on a motorbike.

"fuck off back to portugal." - the home office

#AbolishTheHomeOffice

well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

starmer sitting there in his living room armchair just gazing lovingly at a union jack nailed to the wall where the flatscreen telly used to be, yes this is absolutely normal, this is what a normal person does

Britain post-WW2: we need to set up institutions to stop fascism rising again

Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!

The grim view is that AI companies will need to fund new art because they've run out of content to train on.
Especially considering that a lot of recent text is LLM generated, poisoning the data set

Open Source is one person The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...

This is excellent. 👌🏼

“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need”

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

Screencap from linked article, reading: “These tools are designed to look like objective, all-knowing systems, and I think it’s important to get kids used to asking, ‘Who are the people who built this? Who said and wrote the original things that became the training data? Whose artwork was stolen by these companies to produce the training sets?’” said Bender. For kids too young to connect with those questions, Bender suggests parents focus on the environmental impact. “Every time you use a chatbot, you’re helping to build the case for the company to develop the next model and build the next data center. Data centers have to be cooled with massive amounts of clean water, and clean water usually means drinking water.” Whose drinking water will be diverted? That said, I wanted to provide a couple of corrections. When I problematize the term "AI", the goal is to get people to stop using it. "Many tools that use AI" doesn't mean anything. "Many tools that are sold as 'AI'" is okay. But more importantly: those study-aid podcasts systems are TRASH and nothing like automatic transcription tools.

I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.

www.thecut.com/article/broo...

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Quickly checking some maths

So according to glasadoor, the average vfx artist job in Vancouver pays out ~$62,500 CAD (~$45,500 USD) annually.

James Cameron meanwhile made over $95m from Avatar 2.

So Cameron made over 2000x the average vfx artist's salary, but thinks the artists are the issue here

Comparison of a page loading before and after adding one GoFundMe widget to the page. The number of requests goes from 12 to 64; transferred data goes from around 0.5 MB to 2.1MB; resources goes from 642kb to 5.8MB; and the finish time goes from 0.18 seconds to 1.14 seconds.

TIL a GoFundMe widget adds an *entire NextJS app* to the page.

About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link.

(Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)

Reset Research Reset Research. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

💡 I did the research so you don’t have to! This is every element in current Baseline browsers that would need a margin or padding removing in a reset stylesheet:

gist.github.com/csswizardry/...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.

If you want a great example of a security vendor chasing trends while their product burns down due to customers fleeing over vulnerabilities

left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years
right: Netscaler blog

“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.”

Gosh, this is good. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I Am No Longer Accepting Half-Baked Arguments If you are an AI booster, please come up with better arguments. And if you truly believe in this stuff, you should have a firmer grasp on why you do so. It's been three years, and the best some of you have is "it's real popular!" or "Uber burned a lot of money!" Your arguments are based on what you wish were true rather than what's actually true, and it's deeply embarrassing. Then again, there are many well-intentioned people who aren't necessarily AI boosters who repeat these arguments, regardless of how thinly-framed they are, in part because we live in a high-information, low-processing society where people tend to put great faith in people who are confident in what they say and sound smart. I also think the media is failing on a very basic level to realize that their fear of missing out or seeming stupid is being used against them. If you don't understand something, it's likely because the person you're reading or hearing it from doesn't either. If a company makes a promise and you don't understand how they'd deliver on it, it's their job to explain how, and your job to suggest it isn't plausible in clear and defined language. This has gone beyond simple "objectivity" into the realm of an outright failure of journalism. I have never seen more misinformation about the capabilities of a product in my entire career, and it's largely peddled by reporters who either don't know or have no interest in knowing what's actually possible, in part because all of their peers are saying the same nonsense. As things begin to collapse — and they sure look like they're collapsing, but I am not making any wild claims about "the bubble bursting" quite yet — it will look increasingly more deranged to bluntly publish everything that these companies say. Never have I seen an act of outright contempt more egregious than Sam Altman saying that GPT-5 was actually bad, and that GPT-6 will be even better.

Members of the media: Sam Altman does not respect you. He is not your friend. He is not secretly confiding in you. He thinks you are stupid and easily-manipulated, and will print anything he says, largely in part because many members of the media will print exactly what he says whenever he says it. To be clear, if you wrote about it and actively mocked it, that's fine. But let's close by discussing the very nature of AI skepticism, and the so-called "void" between those who "hate" AI and those who "love" AI, from the perspective of one of the more prominent people in the "skeptic" side. Critics and skeptics are not given the benefit of grace, patience, or, in many cases, hospitality when it comes to their position. While they may receive interviews and opportunities to "give their side," it is always framed as the work of a firebrand, an outlier, somebody with dangerous ideas that they must eternally justify. They are demonized, their points under constant scrutiny, their allegiances and intentions constantly interrogated for some sort of moral or intellectual weakness. "Skeptic" and "critic" are words said with a sneer or trepidation — that the listener should be suspicious that this person isn't agreeing that AI is the most powerful, special thing ever. To not immediately fall in love with something that everybody is talking about is to be framed as a "hater," to have oneself introduced with the words "not everybody agrees..." on 40% of appearances. By comparison, AI boosters are the first to get TV appearances and offers to be on panels, their coverage featured prominently on Techmeme, selling slop-like books called shit like The Future Of Intelligence: Masters Of The Brain featuring 18 interviews with different CEOs that all say the same thing. They do not have to justify their love — they simply have to remember all the right terms, chirping out "test-time compute" and "the cost of inference is going down" enough times to summon Wario Amodei to give them a…

I have consistent, deeply-sourced arguments that I've built on over the course of years. I didn't "become a hater" because I'm a "contrarian," I became a hater because the shit that these fucking oafs have done to the computer pisses me off. I wrote The Man Who Killed Google Search because I wanted to know why Google Search sucked. I wrote Sam Altman, Freed because at the time I didn't understand why everybody was so fucking enamoured with this damp sociopath. Everything I do comes from genuine curiosity and an overwhelming frustration with the state of technology. I started writing this newsletter with 300 subscribers and 60 views, and have written it as an exploration of subjects that grows as I write. I do not have it in me to pretend to be anything other than what I am, and if that is strange to you, well, I'm a strange man, but at least I'm an honest one. I do have a chip on my shoulder, in that I really do not like it when people try to make other people feel stupid, especially when they do so as a means of making money for themselves or somebody else. I write this stuff out because I have an intellectual interest, I like writing, and by writing, I am able to learn about and process my complex feelings about technology. I happen to do so in a manner that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy every month, and if you think that I've grown this by "being a hater," you are doing yourself the disservice of underestimating me, which I will use to my advantage by writing deeper, more meaningful, more insightful things than you. I have watched these pigs ruin the computer again and again, and make billions doing so, all while the media celebrates the destruction of things like Google, Facebook, and the fucking environment in pursuit of eternal growth. I cannot manufacture my disgust, nor can I manufacture whatever it is inside me that makes it impossible to keep quiet about the things I see. I don't know if I take this too seriously or not seriously enough, but I …

I am no longer accepting half-baked arguments. AI boosters are *losing* - they have weak arguments, weak beliefs, and weaker spirits, eagerly marketing ideas for the powerful.

Critics work harder, prove themselves in detail, and fight for the good of the user.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Someone on LinkedIn just told me wanting a blogging platform without Substack’s “social” elements is like wanting air without the earth and mate // dude // my bro it truly fucking is not

Your DMs are very important to us, so we encrypted them (at rest) but first we peered through them very carefully for any evidence of wrongthink

I appears I am already blocked from DMs for calling age verification "police state shit" 😂