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· Dec 29
I’m not convinced “(Generative) AI is here to stay”.
It’s massively expensive to train models, and companies are burning billions and billions of VC dollars on it with no clear path to profitability.
The idea that we should all get familiar with LLMs because they’re “here to stay” rings hollow
It’s massively expensive to train models, and companies are burning billions and billions of VC dollars on it with no clear path to profitability.
The idea that we should all get familiar with LLMs because they’re “here to stay” rings hollow
gen AI is an attempt to industrialize knowledge work. Luddites keep coming up in this discussion, because it's incredibly relevant.
A short thread, I guess
A short thread, I guess
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someone wants you angry. ask yourself if that's in your best interest
The thing that's really hilarious about this is that Valens is apparently being harassed for being too pro-furry while Malloy was harassed for appearing anti-furry.
It lends credence to the "trans women can do no right" thesis.
But also, folks, we're doing this to ourselves.
It lends credence to the "trans women can do no right" thesis.
But also, folks, we're doing this to ourselves.
if this continues, you're going to wake up with no trans journalists because you've chased them all off.
January 7, 2026 at 6:07 AM
someone wants you angry. ask yourself if that's in your best interest
The Bad Batch. The rest of the show is all over the place, but the last 6 episodes are absolute, all time, prestige television
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 4:04 AM
The Bad Batch. The rest of the show is all over the place, but the last 6 episodes are absolute, all time, prestige television
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* CAVEATS: I remain unconvinced the juice is worth the squeeze.
Even where it *works* there's no decoupling it from the irresponsible stewardship of every major player in the space.
And I'm still not convinced there's a product in there if you remove unethically sourced training corpus.
Even where it *works* there's no decoupling it from the irresponsible stewardship of every major player in the space.
And I'm still not convinced there's a product in there if you remove unethically sourced training corpus.
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
* CAVEATS: I remain unconvinced the juice is worth the squeeze.
Even where it *works* there's no decoupling it from the irresponsible stewardship of every major player in the space.
And I'm still not convinced there's a product in there if you remove unethically sourced training corpus.
Even where it *works* there's no decoupling it from the irresponsible stewardship of every major player in the space.
And I'm still not convinced there's a product in there if you remove unethically sourced training corpus.
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🎇The First 2025 Headline of the Year Finalist🎇
Pretty Obvious
Pretty Obvious
December 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🎇The First 2025 Headline of the Year Finalist🎇
Pretty Obvious
Pretty Obvious
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Semifinal, Match 1 of 2
a. Pretty Obvious
a. Pretty Obvious
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Semifinal, Match 1 of 2
a. Pretty Obvious
a. Pretty Obvious
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: these positions are not the good sign you think they are.
These people are there to make sure the COMPANY is not harmed, not the community. If the person is well intentioned, they are forced to toe the company line or pushed out altogether.
These people are there to make sure the COMPANY is not harmed, not the community. If the person is well intentioned, they are forced to toe the company line or pushed out altogether.
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
December 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: these positions are not the good sign you think they are.
These people are there to make sure the COMPANY is not harmed, not the community. If the person is well intentioned, they are forced to toe the company line or pushed out altogether.
These people are there to make sure the COMPANY is not harmed, not the community. If the person is well intentioned, they are forced to toe the company line or pushed out altogether.
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Because I've been thinking with Jenny Odell's Saving Time for the past year, I believe that time poverty is a big reason why people don't want to do anything that looks remotely like revisiting something is supposed to be already done. Which includes maintenance and fixing bugs.
December 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Because I've been thinking with Jenny Odell's Saving Time for the past year, I believe that time poverty is a big reason why people don't want to do anything that looks remotely like revisiting something is supposed to be already done. Which includes maintenance and fixing bugs.
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Pleasepleasepleaseplease
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Pleasepleasepleaseplease
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You should watch my first #iHunt short film. It's already pulled a couple of awards, and with your vote, we're one step closer to a Short of the Year Audience Choice Award.
Help us out? Watching takes ten minutes. Voting takes a minute. The impact is forever.
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Help us out? Watching takes ten minutes. Voting takes a minute. The impact is forever.
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
You should watch my first #iHunt short film. It's already pulled a couple of awards, and with your vote, we're one step closer to a Short of the Year Audience Choice Award.
Help us out? Watching takes ten minutes. Voting takes a minute. The impact is forever.
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Help us out? Watching takes ten minutes. Voting takes a minute. The impact is forever.
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
That Facebook line, tho 🤌
Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
That Facebook line, tho 🤌
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Everyone on this list voted to the right of Ted Cruz.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Everyone on this list voted to the right of Ted Cruz.
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If youve never heard of the ProtoMen, I cant really describe it. All you need to know is their most incredible work is about MegaMan. It fuckin rules.
Act One began almost a decade ago!
youtu.be/zwP3RnIAJpo?...
Act One began almost a decade ago!
youtu.be/zwP3RnIAJpo?...
Intermission
YouTube video by The Protomen - Topic
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If youve never heard of the ProtoMen, I cant really describe it. All you need to know is their most incredible work is about MegaMan. It fuckin rules.
Act One began almost a decade ago!
youtu.be/zwP3RnIAJpo?...
Act One began almost a decade ago!
youtu.be/zwP3RnIAJpo?...
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Lmao launching one (1) GPU into space is not a proof of concept of building a data center in space. This is vanity littering as market propaganda.
"Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space."
Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space
With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Lmao launching one (1) GPU into space is not a proof of concept of building a data center in space. This is vanity littering as market propaganda.
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To every person who doesn’t see the big picture regarding AI, this is something you need to see and consider.
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To every person who doesn’t see the big picture regarding AI, this is something you need to see and consider.
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
All out of ideas? Buy Time Warner. Buying Time Warner never fails. You definitely won't regret spending 30 or 40 billion on Time Warner
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
All out of ideas? Buy Time Warner. Buying Time Warner never fails. You definitely won't regret spending 30 or 40 billion on Time Warner
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In case you missed it, Politico's unionized journalists won a key arbitration ruling against management efforts to rush undercooked, error-prone AI systems into journalism without being transparent or competent about it:
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This decision marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalists' work.
wbng.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In case you missed it, Politico's unionized journalists won a key arbitration ruling against management efforts to rush undercooked, error-prone AI systems into journalism without being transparent or competent about it:
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Even with hard mode, 6 is such a low number. Do people just not rewatch movies? Idgi)
(Even with hard mode, 6 is such a low number. Do people just not rewatch movies? Idgi)
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(Even with hard mode, 6 is such a low number. Do people just not rewatch movies? Idgi)
(Even with hard mode, 6 is such a low number. Do people just not rewatch movies? Idgi)
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ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
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damn really makes you reflect on the numerous other times the US government and its proxies have said "terrorists" were using "human shields"
It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
damn really makes you reflect on the numerous other times the US government and its proxies have said "terrorists" were using "human shields"
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I've been telling people this for a couple of years at this point. It's literally how LLMs work, they are literally mean-reversion machines. Anyone who's told you they were using an LLM to get original ideas did not understand how they work.
A new paper at the top AI conference shows that all the big AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, the whole gang — collapse our ideas into the same narrow middle lane. Different models. Same answers. That’s not “assistive.” That’s a hive mind. No, really: The paper is entitled “Artificial Hive Mind:
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I've been telling people this for a couple of years at this point. It's literally how LLMs work, they are literally mean-reversion machines. Anyone who's told you they were using an LLM to get original ideas did not understand how they work.
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I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Request to be an advance reader of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks
Thank you for your interest in being an advance reader for The Psychology of Software Teams (working title) by Cat Hicks. I am selecting some interested readers to receive a free advance copy of this ...
docs.google.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.