First Cloudflare and now Github. What is going on today?

The thing I find most interesting about Armin's new sloppy-xml-py open source package, written almost entirely using Claude and Claude Code, is that the code is good simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/...

From the iamNotARobot community on Reddit: What’s stopping you from building the next billion-dollar company? Explore this post and more from the iamNotARobot community

This is, to my mind, why companies should keep their staff close and avoid layoffs.

If highly talented staff are unemployed and can’t find replacement work they’re likely to start building companies. Likely what they know.

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#llm #genai #futureofwork

Google calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America even if only in brackets.

It's not the Gulf of America. Google being Google apparently. They've long since lost my respect but they insist on furthering that distaste.

I need immediate extraction - they've got me surrounded with interpretive dance!

The impact of Musk’s takeover of twitter has hit home when trying to organize people for #datarescue. Too many places to go to get comm rolling. Trying to stay upbeat but woof. If you can help us amplify please do. We are working on a more unified landing spot. More to come.

The double sales speak from Sam Altman this week. How they were on the wrong side of history not releasing weights.

We can scrape the whole internet but we'll ban you if you try to use our output, and on and on.

It's been obnoxious for a while and I'm glad the chickens are coming home to roost.

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

I've started playing a new game where any mobile app that sends me a marketing notification gets uninstalled and only reinstalled if I happen to need it again. It's a very good way to clean up your phone.

From the singularity community on Reddit: New bill will make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the U.S., punishable with up to 20 years in prison. Explore this post and more from the singularity community

www.reddit.com/r/singularit... those weights are dangerous 🤷‍♂️

If the last time round is anything to go by, less than a year before he can't handle other people in the limelight.

Downloading a ~700GB LLM off hugging face and it's going to take about 2-3 hours on this connection. It's a long way from my first 33.6kbps modem.

Technology has replaced millions of jobs -- often new jobs have risen up to replace them. AI will do for intelligence what the Industrial Revolution did for manual labour. Yes we'll be replaced, at all levels of the business. I don't think it'll happen immediately though.

Sam Altman railing in a tweet about it being "easy to copy"

So absolutely hypocritical, right after he got finished building on top of transformers (that Google freely released) and scraping the entire internet and copying all the artists and other content creators.

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#openai #closedai #techbros #ai

Belated Merry Xmas to you all

Fast and loose with AI accessing external systems. Just how I like it.

Unfortunately, buying an "Apple Book" version is tying myself to the broader device ecosystem forever since it's then not possible to listen to it on Android. At least Audible has cross platform support (though I try for DRM free any time it's possible).

Right, I'm not likely to try printing one. Not least because it's highly illegal to even have the files here.

I have no interest in guns in general (not in the US), but I was surprised as well. The last time I came across 3D printed guns was the liberator(?) which was a clunky single shot kind of thing.

Kind of remarkable and scary how far it's come since. Rebels in Myanmar etc (fell down it now)

While I dislike Musk/X and left for Mastodon a while back, I suspect Twitter was ruined before Musk arrive and he just accelerated the problem (yes I am reading old posts sorry)

Musk didn’t just ruined a social network. The whole IT field lost a fundamental virtual place of information sharing and discussion, and I am sure this will slow down the field for some time.

Zed has by far the best open/local LLM support of any of the editors so far. It still struggles to compare to cursor, but then it’s not an apples to apples comparison so 🤷

It's unbelievably cynical to use a photo of the Russian attack on the Sumy region, which killed 12 people last night, to illustrate an article about the alleged ATACMS attack on Bryansk. @asssociatedpress.bsky.social

It’s definitely one of my favourite startups of the last few years. UX is amazing as well.

It is more complicated brought mostly by the federation, and potentially shortcomings in ActivityPub. Still worlds better over the bird site.

Okay I’m mostly on Mastodon, but I’m happy to be part of any federated open platform so I guess this will also do. Don’t rug pull me though.

Happy to use my first bluesky post to say I passed my qualifying exam today and am now a PhD candidate :)