THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

I just read thecon.ai and it was fantastic. Highly recommend!

Why the Mars Probe went off course Far more was at fault with the Mars Climate Orbiter than a simple mixup in converting metric and British units

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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. — Karl Pilkington

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?

To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

Binary fuse filters 🤔

Thinking About Erlang Workshop 2025? Here’s Why You Should Join! YouTube video by Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

Thinking About @erlangworkshop.bsky.social 2025?
Here’s why you should join!

✅ Share real-world solutions
✅ Test your research with real use cases
✅ Get feedback, make connections, stay up to date with the BEAM ecosystem

www.youtube.com/shorts/hhIbm...

#Erlang #Elixirlang #Gleam

The EEF board 2025 Election Vote is over! 🗳

Cohort C contains the following new three members: @lawik.bsky.social, Lee Barney, @zachdaniel.dev 👏

We’re thankful for everyone who decided to get involved by running, and those who made their voices heard by voting.

erlef.org/blog/eef/ele...

Waterpark: Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors | NDC Oslo 2025 What happens when you design a system to process real-time healthcare data for millions of patients across 185 hospitals—without ever going offline? Enter Project Waterpark, an enterprise integration ...

Here’s the talk I’ll be presenting at #NDCOlso on Wednesday.

ndcoslo.com/agenda/water...

Interestingly, Waterpark would not exist if I had not heard someone briefly mention Erlang over dinner in Oslo in June 2007. Pure good fortune. Tusen takk!

@ndcconferences.com

🚨We’ve officially joined the CVE® Program as an authorized CVE Numbering Authority!

🔐 This means we can now assign CVE IDs to publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in our defined scope, helping improve security and transparency in the broader open-source community

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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Elon Musk’s AI company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of Memphis that already leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

xAI has become one of the county’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides.

South Memphis is choking while Elon Musk’s AI company cuts corners.

xAI’s massive supercomputer burns so much energy that local utilities can’t keep up so they installed 35 methane gas turbines right in the heart of a neighborhood already suffering from toxic air.

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Klarna made waves replacing staff with AI, but now it’s rehiring humans after quality dipped.

They are still “AI first” by not replacing employees who leave given AI. I like to think of this as “hiring freeze first” instead. It’s more honest.

#BoycottFoxAdvertisers — TrueUSA Join us in boycotting brands that support Fox News' disinformation and hate.

www.trueusa.org/boycott

It is mind-boggling that so many companies are still sponsoring Fox “News”. As our country falls to fascism and kleptocracy these companies are still actively fueling the destruction. Disgusting.

I had been a customer of some of these companies. Learned and done. Shame!

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “XAI is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that leads TN in emergency visits for asthma. 0 of the 35 methane gas turbines has pollution controls typically federally required. XAI has no Clean Air Act permits.” www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

“This strange plan is random at best” — BTS

Wanna put some pressure on Musk? Help MEMPHIS hold XAI accountable.

After people pressure, the health dept will hold hearings on air permits — as Trump guts TVA, likely to install a Musk-friendly board.

As @MemphisChamber said, POWER is everything. www.memphisflyer.com/health-depar...

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect theonion.com/musk-signals...

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thank you Wisconsin!!!!

All 👀 on Wisconsin 🤞

🎉 🤔A PARDON PARTY? — Wow, we’ve seen a lot in our 7 years, but this is a first.

MEMPHIS Republican ex-Senator Brian Kelsey was popped for campaign finance crimes, pleaded guilty, and did a whole 2 WEEKS in prison before Trump pardoned him… so next week he’s celebrating.

Perfect 🤣🎯

🔒Big news! The EEF Security WG has launched the Supply Chain Security & Compliance Initiative!

This initiative is focused on enhancing security and compliance across the BEAM ecosystem. All work is guided and reviewed by the WG and the EEF CISO

security.erlef.org/aegis/

#Erlang #Elixirlang #Gleam

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

I’m recruiting for a Mid-Senior Full Stack Engineer for a role at a Health tech start-up in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪

You don’t necessarily need production experience but you’ll at least need familiarity with Elixir through personal projects

www.beamrecjobs.co.uk/forum/sweden...

#Elixir #elixirlang

Thinking Elixir Podcast 245: Supply Chain Security and SBoMs YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes phoenix_sync for real-time Postgres sync, a new Text Parser library, plus our interview with the EEF's CISO about supply-chain security, SBoMs, and what this means for the Elixir community, and much more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYkV...

Erlang in 100 Seconds YouTube video by Fireship

This year, after much debate on the Erlang Forums and social media, we officially chose December 8th as #ErlangAnniversary! 🥳

Celebrate this first-ever anniversary with us by watching Erlang in 100 Seconds and sharing why you love #Erlang📽️ youtu.be/M7uo5jmFDUw

From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51725-8 A Standard of care scenario: Readers 1 and 2 see the same episode and opt to recall or not-recall, if they disagree Reader 3 arbitrates. B AI standalone scenario: all decisions are taken by the AI Reader without human intervention. C AI single-reader scenario: Reader 1 takes the final decision using AI Reader input. D AI reader-replacement: same as (A) but with AI Reader replacing Reader 2. E AI band-pass scenario: AI Reader screens out episodes before Readers 1 and 2. Episodes with high scores trigger the recall decision directly, and episodes with low scores trigger the no-recall decision directly. The other episodes continue to the usual reader system. F AI triage scenario: AI reader triages the episodes before Readers 1 and 2. Episodes with high scores continue to the usual system, and episodes with low scores go through the path with only 1 reader. Scenarios D and E show more robust improvements, and F is mostly useful for triaging when overloaded. Others have worse outcomes than Standard of care.

Angry goose meme. Panel 1 is the goose asking "what is the human in the loop expected to do, exactly?", second panel, the goose is chasing a person screaming "WHERE IN THE LOOP IS THE HUMAN, MOTHERF*CKER?"

Human-in-the-loop is a kind of "we're doing this responsibly" blanket for automation & AI.

Experiments show large outcome variations based on where in the loop the automation and the humans are, and what sort of control is given.

A question that should follow is WHERE in the loop is the human?

Binge watching every episode of John Oliver last week tonight… in reverse. Worth every minute. Reality based humor will see us through.