Matt
@mtblah.bsky.social
Refugee from that other site. Guilt-free Seattle liberal in search of content about outdoor sport, nerdy science, but especially sarcasm.
Software engineers really telling on themselves with their embrace of AI. It’s now clear to me 1) just how much they hate their jobs and 2) how easy said jobs are. If an LLM really produces a high enough quality product to replace this much of your work, you really weren’t doing much of value.
I don't need LLMs to be original, I need them to be able to do boring predictable coding tasks faster than if I were to do them by hand
I'm so glad I didn't have to write this whole change myself the other day! github.com/simonw/sqlit...
I'm so glad I didn't have to write this whole change myself the other day! github.com/simonw/sqlit...
Use double quotes not braces for tables and columns (#678) · simonw/sqlite-utils@fb93452
Closes #677
github.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Software engineers really telling on themselves with their embrace of AI. It’s now clear to me 1) just how much they hate their jobs and 2) how easy said jobs are. If an LLM really produces a high enough quality product to replace this much of your work, you really weren’t doing much of value.
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Venezuela has become the Trump regime’s comfort atrocity. Any time Donald doesn’t like what’s on the TV, he blows up another boat filled with civilians. And it’s only a matter of time before it gets even worse. Possibly far worse. Possibly very fast.
Trump's illegal war on Venezuela is a sneak attack on our freedom
We must force to Congress debate and vote on it.
www.thefarce.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Venezuela has become the Trump regime’s comfort atrocity. Any time Donald doesn’t like what’s on the TV, he blows up another boat filled with civilians. And it’s only a matter of time before it gets even worse. Possibly far worse. Possibly very fast.
One of the simple pleasures in life is BSing with friends and giving them shit. Why would I outsource that to AI? But, then, I guess if you are painfully awkward, don’t know how to be funny, and have few real friends, maybe this approximation of human interactions feels like…I don’t know, belonging?
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One of the simple pleasures in life is BSing with friends and giving them shit. Why would I outsource that to AI? But, then, I guess if you are painfully awkward, don’t know how to be funny, and have few real friends, maybe this approximation of human interactions feels like…I don’t know, belonging?
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Due to a developed chicken allergy in the family my house has been eating a LOT of ground turkey this year and frankly the whole anti-turkey discourse on here suggests y’all don’t know how to cook worth a damn.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Due to a developed chicken allergy in the family my house has been eating a LOT of ground turkey this year and frankly the whole anti-turkey discourse on here suggests y’all don’t know how to cook worth a damn.
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Lemme tell you something I feel absolutely zero animus for Green Bay right now. They’re just being a normal team while my team plays offense like a civil war amputee
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Lemme tell you something I feel absolutely zero animus for Green Bay right now. They’re just being a normal team while my team plays offense like a civil war amputee
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The Packers are going to win this game because JJ McCarthy can't throw and LaFleur will act like what he's doing is good enough.
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Packers are going to win this game because JJ McCarthy can't throw and LaFleur will act like what he's doing is good enough.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Every day someone calls me and tells me that they don't understand how [thing] is happening to them because it's illegal.
Every day I explain that the law doesn't prevent actions, it only prohibits them.
Every day I explain that the law doesn't prevent actions, it only prohibits them.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Every day someone calls me and tells me that they don't understand how [thing] is happening to them because it's illegal.
Every day I explain that the law doesn't prevent actions, it only prohibits them.
Every day I explain that the law doesn't prevent actions, it only prohibits them.
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European and Ukrainian officials pushed back against a new plan being proposed by the U.S. administration to end the war in Ukraine, saying that any deal should respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and not involve the country’s “capitulation.”
Ukraine and Europeans rebuke U.S. plan as ‘capitulation’ to Russia
Kyiv’s European partners said they should be involved in proposals for the security of Ukraine and Europe, indicating they hadn’t even been briefed on the plan.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
European and Ukrainian officials pushed back against a new plan being proposed by the U.S. administration to end the war in Ukraine, saying that any deal should respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and not involve the country’s “capitulation.”
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
There is A LOT going on in this article, which you should all read, share, and discuss because it’s phenomenal. But I’m struck by Gaines’ friend saying she didn’t like Trump. What a shitty way to live, surrounded by shallow, soulless people and not even they like you. No wonder he’s such a POS.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There is A LOT going on in this article, which you should all read, share, and discuss because it’s phenomenal. But I’m struck by Gaines’ friend saying she didn’t like Trump. What a shitty way to live, surrounded by shallow, soulless people and not even they like you. No wonder he’s such a POS.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation to put guardrails around private donations to fund construction on White House grounds and the vice president's residence.
Bill targeting White House ballroom donations introduced by Democrats
The bill aims to impose restrictions on ballroom donors seeking to influence the administration.
cbsn.ws
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation to put guardrails around private donations to fund construction on White House grounds and the vice president's residence.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
At some point we’re gonna have to discuss the damage unleashed by making the tools of statistics so simple you can do them without thinking about/knowing what you’re modeling. Damage to politics, to business, to sports. Statistical testing with uninformed analysis is destroying the world.
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
At some point we’re gonna have to discuss the damage unleashed by making the tools of statistics so simple you can do them without thinking about/knowing what you’re modeling. Damage to politics, to business, to sports. Statistical testing with uninformed analysis is destroying the world.
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Trump wants you to negotiate as an individual with huge multi billion dollar companies
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Trump wants you to negotiate as an individual with huge multi billion dollar companies
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Reminder: President Trump could order the DOJ to release the Epstein files TODAY, no vote by Congress required. He hasn't had a change of heart, he's just saying whatever it takes to cover his own ass.
Trump says he would sign bill to release Epstein files if it reaches his desk
Trump said he would sign the bill to compel the Justice Department to release all files relating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein if it comes to his desk.
abcnews.go.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reminder: President Trump could order the DOJ to release the Epstein files TODAY, no vote by Congress required. He hasn't had a change of heart, he's just saying whatever it takes to cover his own ass.
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This team has been trying to tell us for weeks that they're not good. It's time to listen.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This team has been trying to tell us for weeks that they're not good. It's time to listen.
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Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible