Tequila Sunset
@barbelith.bsky.social
Some guy on the internet.
Books, Comics, Board Games, some screaming into the void, a little climate and political doom here and there.
Skeets in English, Deutsch, or Denglisch.
Austria
he/him
Books, Comics, Board Games, some screaming into the void, a little climate and political doom here and there.
Skeets in English, Deutsch, or Denglisch.
Austria
he/him
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Widerspruch @elnagashi.at:
Wer Menschenrechte gegeneinander ausspielt, verlässt ihren Kern: Den Schutz vor Diskriminierung.
Ich habe 0 Verständnis für die Inszenierung von Feminismus als Kulturkampf!
Mit Kampfrhetorik lässt sich ausserdem auch keine eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung führen
Wer Menschenrechte gegeneinander ausspielt, verlässt ihren Kern: Den Schutz vor Diskriminierung.
Ich habe 0 Verständnis für die Inszenierung von Feminismus als Kulturkampf!
Mit Kampfrhetorik lässt sich ausserdem auch keine eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung führen
Ex-Grüne El-Nagashi will mit Thinktank gegen EU-"Gender-Lobby" kämpfen
Die einstige Abgeordnete beklagt, dass eine angebliche Translobby "an der Demokratie vorbei" die Politik beeinflusse. Sie will Homosexuellenrechte und Transrechte voneinander abkoppeln
www.derstandard.at
December 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Widerspruch @elnagashi.at:
Wer Menschenrechte gegeneinander ausspielt, verlässt ihren Kern: Den Schutz vor Diskriminierung.
Ich habe 0 Verständnis für die Inszenierung von Feminismus als Kulturkampf!
Mit Kampfrhetorik lässt sich ausserdem auch keine eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung führen
Wer Menschenrechte gegeneinander ausspielt, verlässt ihren Kern: Den Schutz vor Diskriminierung.
Ich habe 0 Verständnis für die Inszenierung von Feminismus als Kulturkampf!
Mit Kampfrhetorik lässt sich ausserdem auch keine eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung führen
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still going…
December 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
still going…
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Algorithmic feeds will probably be seen the same way the cigarette is now in 50 years tbh. Nothing goods come out of them, all they do is polarize society and reinforce inequalities
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Algorithmic feeds will probably be seen the same way the cigarette is now in 50 years tbh. Nothing goods come out of them, all they do is polarize society and reinforce inequalities
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Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
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Think about how you are in the shrinking bubble of people who know how to read and process the meanings of written words, and how a handful of billionaires are doing their damnedest to shrink it further.
You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.
You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Think about how you are in the shrinking bubble of people who know how to read and process the meanings of written words, and how a handful of billionaires are doing their damnedest to shrink it further.
You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.
You're in a literacy bubble, and a handful of the wealthiest freaks in history are killing it.
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This exchange on r/boardgames, in reference to the review I wrote yesterday, raises a whooooooole lot of emotions for me. Bear with me as I work through them.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This exchange on r/boardgames, in reference to the review I wrote yesterday, raises a whooooooole lot of emotions for me. Bear with me as I work through them.
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Can you just like, express some joy for the fucking craft? Can you stop focusing on 4% productivity gains achieved through burning energy and mass plagiarism and just write some fucking code?
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can you just like, express some joy for the fucking craft? Can you stop focusing on 4% productivity gains achieved through burning energy and mass plagiarism and just write some fucking code?
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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I used to draw stupid shit and one day I will get back to drawing stupid shit. Unless I die suddenly, which would be funny but I wouldn't be around to laugh. Being suddenly dead and all.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I used to draw stupid shit and one day I will get back to drawing stupid shit. Unless I die suddenly, which would be funny but I wouldn't be around to laugh. Being suddenly dead and all.
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I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise.
anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.
anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise.
anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.
anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.
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So people demand "AI" sycophancy, refuse to interact w/ *less* sycophantic "AI", & then get increasingly ill-disposed toward interacting w/ other human beings, preferring, again, an "AI" system that is actively locking them into a loop of skills dependency, bias confirmation, & hostility.
SEEMS BAD
SEEMS BAD
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So people demand "AI" sycophancy, refuse to interact w/ *less* sycophantic "AI", & then get increasingly ill-disposed toward interacting w/ other human beings, preferring, again, an "AI" system that is actively locking them into a loop of skills dependency, bias confirmation, & hostility.
SEEMS BAD
SEEMS BAD
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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“The slop layer - by Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-slop-layer
> One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-slop-layer
> One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“The slop layer - by Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-slop-layer
> One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-slop-layer
> One of the more perplexing things about the AI bubble is how relatively little we have to show for it
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Recommended reading.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Das Studien-Design ist ziemlich OK und die Ergebnisse recht eindeutig. Und unsere politischen Hebelzieherinnen lächzen danach, das großflächig in Schulen einzusetzen.
Wir tun den jüngeren Generationen nichts Gutes damit.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Das Studien-Design ist ziemlich OK und die Ergebnisse recht eindeutig. Und unsere politischen Hebelzieherinnen lächzen danach, das großflächig in Schulen einzusetzen.
Wir tun den jüngeren Generationen nichts Gutes damit.
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Recommended reading.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Das Studien-Design ist ziemlich OK und die Ergebnisse recht eindeutig. Und unsere politischen Hebelzieherinnen lächzen danach, das großflächig in Schulen einzusetzen.
Wir tun den jüngeren Generationen nichts Gutes damit.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Das Studien-Design ist ziemlich OK und die Ergebnisse recht eindeutig. Und unsere politischen Hebelzieherinnen lächzen danach, das großflächig in Schulen einzusetzen.
Wir tun den jüngeren Generationen nichts Gutes damit.
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
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Whenever I read it and think of her saying it I feel it in my chest and throat. And I somehow only just found out there's video of the whole speech
Ursula Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on Novembe...
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Whenever I read it and think of her saying it I feel it in my chest and throat. And I somehow only just found out there's video of the whole speech
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Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x
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The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
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RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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This is because they know „AI“ (I.e.: LLMs) is
a) an impressive technology, but still basically autocomplete
b) ineffective software that mostly works by throwing inane amounts of energy and data at the wall
c) driven entirely by capital’s need to extract value and drive down the price of labour
a) an impressive technology, but still basically autocomplete
b) ineffective software that mostly works by throwing inane amounts of energy and data at the wall
c) driven entirely by capital’s need to extract value and drive down the price of labour
August 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is because they know „AI“ (I.e.: LLMs) is
a) an impressive technology, but still basically autocomplete
b) ineffective software that mostly works by throwing inane amounts of energy and data at the wall
c) driven entirely by capital’s need to extract value and drive down the price of labour
a) an impressive technology, but still basically autocomplete
b) ineffective software that mostly works by throwing inane amounts of energy and data at the wall
c) driven entirely by capital’s need to extract value and drive down the price of labour
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I have produced a new article! I was planning to write something nice and palatable about teaching software engineering that people would share: this is not that.
... I hope you all like Thomas Pynchon.
... I hope you all like Thomas Pynchon.
Altman's Schwarzgerät | deadSimpleTech
The rockets, the bigotry, the LLMs, the AI cults, all of this... in the end, it all comes down to death. The billionaires want death, all while outwardly expressing an extreme fear of it. What they fe...
deadsimpletech.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I have produced a new article! I was planning to write something nice and palatable about teaching software engineering that people would share: this is not that.
... I hope you all like Thomas Pynchon.
... I hope you all like Thomas Pynchon.
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LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. I want to physically hammer this into people’s heads. Like I want to write it on a piece of paper and literally nail it into their thick fucking skulls
July 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. LLMs do not think. I want to physically hammer this into people’s heads. Like I want to write it on a piece of paper and literally nail it into their thick fucking skulls
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My current opinion on LLMs in software dev is that 99% of their impact on productivity comes from:
1. Helping devs manage shit they should absolutely not have been doing
2. Regurgitating code whose quality doesn’t matter because their entire organisation is divorced from the end-user value
1. Helping devs manage shit they should absolutely not have been doing
2. Regurgitating code whose quality doesn’t matter because their entire organisation is divorced from the end-user value
July 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My current opinion on LLMs in software dev is that 99% of their impact on productivity comes from:
1. Helping devs manage shit they should absolutely not have been doing
2. Regurgitating code whose quality doesn’t matter because their entire organisation is divorced from the end-user value
1. Helping devs manage shit they should absolutely not have been doing
2. Regurgitating code whose quality doesn’t matter because their entire organisation is divorced from the end-user value