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  A: Are you saying radium *doesn't* glow? Just look at this watch! B: No, I understand that it glows, I get that the glowing is nice. What I'm saying is that it *also* has harms that we should understand before… A: Look at it! What a beautiful tranquil blue-green radiance. And no batteries! How can you say it's useless? B: Yes. Very pretty. I'm not saying it doesn't *do* anything, I'm saying that maybe it's doing *multiple* things, and some of them are… B: Well *I*...

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@kevbob/117488137553072332 remember this when people tell you that AI is “good for accessibility”

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  okay I've got The New Mastodon and … I guess overall I actually like it? I still kinda hate the way that we collectively roll out UI and app updates where it's Just Different Now, but this is actually addressing some of my complaints and the big squishy rounded corners everywhere don't bother me all that much

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  okay so since people keep saying that AI training is fair use and that you need to be able to spot plagiarism based on the contents of a repository: no. please read https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

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  OKAY WE ARE LIVE NOW FINALLY: If you are able to donate to elections in the USA, please give up to the legal maximum to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/

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  I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's just a weird coincidence that a Zacharia is slightly *less* than half of a Scaramucci

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  Apologies; I boosted an article earlier from morewrong dot lol, which appeared to be a savage parody of lesswrong. Which, I guess, it is. The header image looked a *little* slop-y but the writing seemed like a dead-on parodic voice. I guess this is just because it was slop and the lesswrongers have trained themselves to write like slop? In isolation I don't know that I could have clocked it; having perused the site a bit more I see that it's obviously a bot repeating the same joke over...

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  It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to process. It creates a situation where the AI user gets to set the terms of some ecosystem with synthetic productivity but then everyone else needs an AI to figure out what's going on in that ne...

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  I'm exhausted, most of all, by talking to programmers who have an absolutely unshakeable ideological commitment to the idea that none of our tools could possibly hurt us, that programming is an easy job with no dangers, simply because it involves a lot of sitting down and thinking quietly, that any ill effects must be merely shaken off as a mindset problem. even people who can look at a tool and intellectually discuss its possible dangers will never take that information and simply stop usin...

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  RE: https://furry.engineer/@Plan_A_to_Y/117414450272523760 this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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  New Blog: Programming Isn't Special Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists? https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html

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  done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117386899276807175 boosters one month ago: the vulnerabilities are REAL. they're REAL and they're SCARY. it can INDEPENDENTLY hack stuff. you CANNOT DISMISS that it can ONE-SHOT vulnerabilities PERFECTLY EVERY TIME. prepare for DOMINATION by the CYBER-OVERMIND boosters today:

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  Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026: https://futurism.com/future-society/alternative-health-influencer-drinking-radioactive-jug-revigator

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  new vuln class just dropped https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21081

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  Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. https://www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-taylor-lorenz-savodnik (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is already suspicious. Talking to them about how you "wouldn’t say [you're] particularly woke" is a dog whistle so loud my ears are bleeding.)

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  I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed from LinkedIn and only you can access it." Big tech is more and more mask-off every day.

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  The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to disclaim liability for defective products in ways that every other industry just absolutely cannot.

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  New Blog: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed? https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117338022446987611 the way I am coping with my own version of this, of creeping corruption all the way up and down the stack, rather than starting at the bottom of the stack with like-minded folks and building all of modern computing up from first principles, is to build whatever little islands of resilience that I can within the ocean of slop. I don't know if this is for any principled reason though, it is probably just that I can't withstand the total...

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  chat is it good for your stock valuation if every user of your product insists, intensely, that they're not hallucinating and that your company actually exists

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  New Blog: Who is open source about? https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/who-is-open-source-about.html

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  I realize I'm in a strong minority here but I just _cannot_ perceive submitting LLM-generated work to a volunteer project as anything but an extremely rude and thoughtless thing to do. I _know_ that the consensus social etiquette is that I'm supposed to have a prominently-posted policy statement that this now-generally-accepted-as-normal thing is actually considered bad in this specific place, but it remains jarring for me every single time.

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@phildini/117310939687993407 Folks let's get some more boosts on this and connect to a Grafana expert, we can't have this AI harm mitigation strategy absolutely face-plant on the _first try_. (I am Very Bad At Grafana™ so this one's beyond my ability to just jump into the breach on, which is probably a good thing)

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  not going to tell you to quit your job or even change your beliefs just to accommodate my feelings but it makes it really hard to be around you

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  RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447934257751 unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them, too. do not opt out of friendships because you’re too embarrassed that you used a chatbot for a while

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  mastodon really needs to make "whose replies are you in right now" more visible in the UI. I suspect that the lack of a sense of *place* in social media is a big reason why people unintentionally participate in dog-piling and harassment; posting a reply, which should be viewed as being a guest in someone's mentions, is presented almost exactly the same as top-level posting, which should be viewed as standing on your own private stage

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  I am usually a day-1 upgrader for Apple OSes. My reasoning being that I'm not really in a consensual relationship with this company where I get to have real choices; upgrading sooner means I can get the benefits of the new release faster and adapt to the new indignities sooner. I gotta say though the Apple Intelligence stuff is just … disgusting. I know it can be disabled through screen-time hacks, but it feels invasive. Like an Illithid tendril scooting just a bit further up my nose.

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  Sigh. I don't like that I'm getting so much practice at this, but I am converging on a strategy for this generation of clanker: ask a question that implies but doesn't actually request a code change, see if they immediately reply by pushing another commit within minutes that just obeys your orders rather than answering your question. https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12837

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  the cw is about all I have energy for; you can infer how well things are going from that