msladecek
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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BAMBI'S MOM WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
January 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
BAMBI'S MOM WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
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This email sent to LEA’s by the Flock CEO is disturbing and not normal behavior.
H/t @bennjordan.bsky.social
H/t @bennjordan.bsky.social
"Hello police? I'd like to report a journalism."
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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January 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This email sent to LEA’s by the Flock CEO is disturbing and not normal behavior.
H/t @bennjordan.bsky.social
H/t @bennjordan.bsky.social
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my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
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"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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Devs (2020) nails the cult of tech pretty good. except their cult is quantum computers and eternal life, instead of the averaging machine that lies
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Devs (2020) nails the cult of tech pretty good. except their cult is quantum computers and eternal life, instead of the averaging machine that lies
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i keep seeing people say coding agents are good at boilerplate. and i keep wondering why all that boilerplate is needed in the first place. maybe we could spend a few billions about that instead
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i keep seeing people say coding agents are good at boilerplate. and i keep wondering why all that boilerplate is needed in the first place. maybe we could spend a few billions about that instead
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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it's not FOR us
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
it's not FOR us
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amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
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tribble with a butthole
I'll see your creepy robot-hugging pillow and raise you a surveillance tribble.
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
tribble with a butthole
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But big tech isn't acting like AI is a bet. They're acting like it's a sure thing, and betting everything on it as a result. The only way to justify that is to completely ignore the evidence, and force everyone else to ignore it too. Close ranks around the narrative of inevitable success.
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
But big tech isn't acting like AI is a bet. They're acting like it's a sure thing, and betting everything on it as a result. The only way to justify that is to completely ignore the evidence, and force everyone else to ignore it too. Close ranks around the narrative of inevitable success.
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When making a bet, by definition, success is uncertain. You invest the minimum time and money to get an idea of whether it makes sense to invest more.
The signal we have - from CEOs not seeing value, to workers hating the tools, to studies showing drops in productivity - all indicate failure.
The signal we have - from CEOs not seeing value, to workers hating the tools, to studies showing drops in productivity - all indicate failure.
October 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When making a bet, by definition, success is uncertain. You invest the minimum time and money to get an idea of whether it makes sense to invest more.
The signal we have - from CEOs not seeing value, to workers hating the tools, to studies showing drops in productivity - all indicate failure.
The signal we have - from CEOs not seeing value, to workers hating the tools, to studies showing drops in productivity - all indicate failure.
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The Cartoon Art Museum could survive indefinitely on a single $3 million endowment.
ZUCKERBERG: “If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously. .. But what I’d say is I actually think the risk is higher on the other side.”
$META
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$META
youtu.be/23FyskyFoP8?...
September 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The Cartoon Art Museum could survive indefinitely on a single $3 million endowment.
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cosigned; it's not coding, it's deciding what to code
I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.
September 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
cosigned; it's not coding, it's deciding what to code
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This is pretty much a précis of my lecture to software engineering students.
If you understand what software engineering as a career actually entails (lots of people and organizational problems, understanding legacy code and tradeoffs) you are at a career advantage over those who understand the job as just producing code.
Those jobs could be replaced. But that ain’t the job
Those jobs could be replaced. But that ain’t the job
August 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is pretty much a précis of my lecture to software engineering students.