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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“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
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I love Robert and his pod but he based virtually all his research on my biography of Vince McMahon, RINGMASTER, so please consider buying the book as well as listening to the pod series:
ringmasterthebook.com
ringmasterthebook.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I love Robert and his pod but he based virtually all his research on my biography of Vince McMahon, RINGMASTER, so please consider buying the book as well as listening to the pod series:
ringmasterthebook.com
ringmasterthebook.com
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The South Park guys are big ol' transphobes who were just a few seasons ago whining about 'diversity' and spent several seasons bitching and moaning about 'Political Correctness' like it was the friggin' 90s.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The South Park guys are big ol' transphobes who were just a few seasons ago whining about 'diversity' and spent several seasons bitching and moaning about 'Political Correctness' like it was the friggin' 90s.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
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They were also early proponents of the "caring about anything at all is cringe, actually" plague on human interaction.
The South Park guys are big ol' transphobes who were just a few seasons ago whining about 'diversity' and spent several seasons bitching and moaning about 'Political Correctness' like it was the friggin' 90s.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.
July 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
They were also early proponents of the "caring about anything at all is cringe, actually" plague on human interaction.
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The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth
July 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth
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Für geschlechtsangleichende OPs braucht man eine aufwändige Diagnose mit mind. 2 psychologischen Gutachten. Wer schon mal versucht hat, auch nur einen Therapeuten auf Kasse zu sehen, kann sich ausrechnen, wie lange das dauert. Und für die Durchführung braucht man spezialisierte Fachärzt*innen,
1/4
1/4
Familienministerin Claudia Plakolm spricht sich für ein Verbot der Geschlechtsumwandlung in Österreich unter 25 Jahren aus. Auch kann sie sich im Zusammenhang mit der Migration eine Änderung der Flüchtlingskonvention vorstellen. www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/inne...
Familienministerin : Plakolm will Geschlechtsumwandlung unter 25 Jahren verbieten
Claudia Plakolm fordert ein Verbot der Geschlechtsumwandlung unter 25 Jahren. Ein wichtiger Schritt für den Schutz von Jugendlichen und Familien.
www.kleinezeitung.at
July 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Für geschlechtsangleichende OPs braucht man eine aufwändige Diagnose mit mind. 2 psychologischen Gutachten. Wer schon mal versucht hat, auch nur einen Therapeuten auf Kasse zu sehen, kann sich ausrechnen, wie lange das dauert. Und für die Durchführung braucht man spezialisierte Fachärzt*innen,
1/4
1/4
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Humanity has had folktales about the enchanting others for as long as we’ve existed, across cultures and times. We do understand that we have dangerously vulnerable “Persuade” & “Compel” buttons that don’t have much armor or protection. Chatbots are this generation’s iteration of charming treachery.
July 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Humanity has had folktales about the enchanting others for as long as we’ve existed, across cultures and times. We do understand that we have dangerously vulnerable “Persuade” & “Compel” buttons that don’t have much armor or protection. Chatbots are this generation’s iteration of charming treachery.
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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
June 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
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Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
Sehr schöne und informative Folge zum besten Film des Jahres (ich lehn mich da mal aus dem Fenster). Film anschauen und dann Folge anhören!
Guten Morgen! Es wird heiß an Wochenende und wo kann man sich besser aufhalten als in einem klimatisierten Kinosaal? Warum ihr das bei "Blood and Sinners" tun solltet, hört ihr in der neuen Folge mit der wunderbaren Gästin @timedrop91.bsky.social
tropenhauspod.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/f...
tropenhauspod.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/f...
Folge 69: Die silberne vampirtötende Bluesgitarre (Sinners)
Drop ist bei Angela zu Gast und gemeinsam sprechen sie darüber, warum sie finden dass Sinners einer der besten Filme der letzten Jahre ist. Erfahrt die historischen Hintergründe, warum man Buddy Gu…
tropenhauspod.wordpress.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Sehr schöne und informative Folge zum besten Film des Jahres (ich lehn mich da mal aus dem Fenster). Film anschauen und dann Folge anhören!
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time for my new favorite tumblr post
June 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
time for my new favorite tumblr post
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Oh FFS that latest Omelas fanfic won the Nebula. Is the lit-SF community *really* so illiterate that it doesn't see that all these lead-footed expansions of the story are just the literary equivalent of that bloke in your replies who thinks he's making an original joke but is just repeating yours?
June 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Oh FFS that latest Omelas fanfic won the Nebula. Is the lit-SF community *really* so illiterate that it doesn't see that all these lead-footed expansions of the story are just the literary equivalent of that bloke in your replies who thinks he's making an original joke but is just repeating yours?
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I’m sure you’ve read this already, but this is great on why GenAI is specifically bad at helping coders (as well as pointing out a few areas where it’s marginally helpful) deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...
deplet.ing
June 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I’m sure you’ve read this already, but this is great on why GenAI is specifically bad at helping coders (as well as pointing out a few areas where it’s marginally helpful) deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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"Well, you see, Ed, they're hiring less coders" sorry get me one company that has systematically replaced a human and explain to me how they've done so. This should not be hard. Go right ahead. This is meant to be the next manhattan project.
June 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
"Well, you see, Ed, they're hiring less coders" sorry get me one company that has systematically replaced a human and explain to me how they've done so. This should not be hard. Go right ahead. This is meant to be the next manhattan project.