David Adams
@daveadams.bsky.social
infrastructure engineer; deuteranomalous; primarily inattentive; 4ᵉ cor en Fa; stand or fall; he/him; school lunches should be free
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David Adams
@daveadams.bsky.social
· Jun 10
The important thing is that I got my username.
Again, this sort of gun can serve absolutely no practical purpose in the mission these agents are undertaking. It’s all cosplay but with delusional, racist wannabe soldiers and live ammo.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Again, this sort of gun can serve absolutely no practical purpose in the mission these agents are undertaking. It’s all cosplay but with delusional, racist wannabe soldiers and live ammo.
No, “scientists” who understand LLMs do not say any such thing. Just because you found two PhDs to say something stupid doesn’t mean you can or should assert in your subhead that “scientists” say that stupid thing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
No, “scientists” who understand LLMs do not say any such thing. Just because you found two PhDs to say something stupid doesn’t mean you can or should assert in your subhead that “scientists” say that stupid thing.
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
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If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
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Asking a chatbot isn't better than nothing -- it's worse than nothing. Unless the goal isn't learning but rather "turning in assignments".
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Asking a chatbot isn't better than nothing -- it's worse than nothing. Unless the goal isn't learning but rather "turning in assignments".
Silly me, I thought this had been well-known for nearly a decade. Of course the extent of it on Twitter has gotten wildly more out of control in the past three years.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Silly me, I thought this had been well-known for nearly a decade. Of course the extent of it on Twitter has gotten wildly more out of control in the past three years.
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I know I can just answer the damn question and I'm not sure why it peeves me off so much, but I think it's just the principle of it.
I said NO. You don't need to know WHY. Just let me check my emails, you soul sucking tech bro cretins.
I said NO. You don't need to know WHY. Just let me check my emails, you soul sucking tech bro cretins.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I know I can just answer the damn question and I'm not sure why it peeves me off so much, but I think it's just the principle of it.
I said NO. You don't need to know WHY. Just let me check my emails, you soul sucking tech bro cretins.
I said NO. You don't need to know WHY. Just let me check my emails, you soul sucking tech bro cretins.
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The extent to which companies like Amazon are not willing to invest in people hurts my heart.
WARN filings expose 4.7k of Amazon's 14k cuts last month. 500 PMs were laid off while engineers (1,800 laid off) were hit hardest, mostly SDE IIs which refutes the "management bloat" narrative.
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The extent to which companies like Amazon are not willing to invest in people hurts my heart.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
This is true in a sense, but there’s a huge difference between parsing an email for routing or spam detection and using the content as a business asset with blurry privacy lines.
It is important for you to realize that you have probably never once in your life sent a private email. That’s just not how email works. Sure, turn off whatever Gmail features you want, but you’re just playing whack-a-mole with the technical realities of email as a concept.
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is true in a sense, but there’s a huge difference between parsing an email for routing or spam detection and using the content as a business asset with blurry privacy lines.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
If this is your plan, then it’s time to make a new plan.
Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If this is your plan, then it’s time to make a new plan.
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New meme format just dropped:
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New meme format just dropped:
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
Why are credit default swaps still legal?
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Why are credit default swaps still legal?
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"Our operating system is malware 😀"
Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Our operating system is malware 😀"
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Release the Bunheads season 2!
people just dumping everything before the epstein files get released
The infamous flop has released its long-unseen final eight episodes for free, allowing U.S. Friends diehards to watch the spinoff's full run for the first time.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Release the Bunheads season 2!
I choose to assume the brothers mentioned here are the Winklevoss twins because that makes it even funnier.
i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I choose to assume the brothers mentioned here are the Winklevoss twins because that makes it even funnier.
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Speaking as a noted expert on the topic we don’t actually have to stand for this
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Speaking as a noted expert on the topic we don’t actually have to stand for this
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Private equity is a parasite that kill its hosts and makes us all poorer because of it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Private equity is a parasite that kill its hosts and makes us all poorer because of it.
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I suspect it could get substantially worse than this--you're starting to see it with the "spirals" thing--because LLMs sort of definitionally encode spurious correlations in them and so will likely be a fertile source for brand new conspiracy theories
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I suspect it could get substantially worse than this--you're starting to see it with the "spirals" thing--because LLMs sort of definitionally encode spurious correlations in them and so will likely be a fertile source for brand new conspiracy theories
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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I've seen this problem *much* more in Python, TypeScript, Java, and C++ programs than Rust programs.
But as long as there are culturally acceptable shortcuts for error handling in these languages, we'll continue to see programs that blow up unnecessarily and errors logged without useful context.
But as long as there are culturally acceptable shortcuts for error handling in these languages, we'll continue to see programs that blow up unnecessarily and errors logged without useful context.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I've seen this problem *much* more in Python, TypeScript, Java, and C++ programs than Rust programs.
But as long as there are culturally acceptable shortcuts for error handling in these languages, we'll continue to see programs that blow up unnecessarily and errors logged without useful context.
But as long as there are culturally acceptable shortcuts for error handling in these languages, we'll continue to see programs that blow up unnecessarily and errors logged without useful context.