David Gregory
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Software burnout. Not really here, mostly on Fedi at https://gts.dgregory.dev/@david.
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He’s not trans or brown so he’s now getting the usual media treatment
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
He’s not trans or brown so he’s now getting the usual media treatment
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Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.
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Maybe the rich just miss owning other people and want to believe that their AI are people they own
What does this even mean
September 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Maybe the rich just miss owning other people and want to believe that their AI are people they own
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Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
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Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
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"The melancholy of history rhyming"
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...
They never tell you how sad it makes you to see history repeat itself.
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...
They never tell you how sad it makes you to see history repeat itself.
The melancholy of history rhyming
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"The melancholy of history rhyming"
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...
They never tell you how sad it makes you to see history repeat itself.
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...
They never tell you how sad it makes you to see history repeat itself.
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This is the natural result of a policy of alienating your own left-of-center base and everyone to their left while refusing to understand that you’ll never out-far right the far right as they will always seem more authentic to their own base
Profoundly idiotic, reckless.
Profoundly idiotic, reckless.
The government's net approval rating has fallen to -59, Labour's lowest score to date
Approve: 11% (-2 from 23-25 August)
Disapprove: 70% (+3)
Net: -59 (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 23-25 August)
Disapprove: 70% (+3)
Net: -59 (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
September 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is the natural result of a policy of alienating your own left-of-center base and everyone to their left while refusing to understand that you’ll never out-far right the far right as they will always seem more authentic to their own base
Profoundly idiotic, reckless.
Profoundly idiotic, reckless.
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went to school here. got his GCSEs. got a national insurance number. worked here. paid taxes here. has lived and loved here for 21 years.
nope. not good enough apparently. scooped up just for going to the shops on a motorbike.
"fuck off back to portugal." - the home office
#AbolishTheHomeOffice
nope. not good enough apparently. scooped up just for going to the shops on a motorbike.
"fuck off back to portugal." - the home office
#AbolishTheHomeOffice
Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants
Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
went to school here. got his GCSEs. got a national insurance number. worked here. paid taxes here. has lived and loved here for 21 years.
nope. not good enough apparently. scooped up just for going to the shops on a motorbike.
"fuck off back to portugal." - the home office
#AbolishTheHomeOffice
nope. not good enough apparently. scooped up just for going to the shops on a motorbike.
"fuck off back to portugal." - the home office
#AbolishTheHomeOffice
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well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him
September 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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starmer sitting there in his living room armchair just gazing lovingly at a union jack nailed to the wall where the flatscreen telly used to be, yes this is absolutely normal, this is what a normal person does
September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
starmer sitting there in his living room armchair just gazing lovingly at a union jack nailed to the wall where the flatscreen telly used to be, yes this is absolutely normal, this is what a normal person does
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Britain post-WW2: we need to set up institutions to stop fascism rising again
Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!
Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!
September 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Britain post-WW2: we need to set up institutions to stop fascism rising again
Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!
Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!
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The grim view is that AI companies will need to fund new art because they've run out of content to train on.
Especially considering that a lot of recent text is LLM generated, poisoning the data set
Especially considering that a lot of recent text is LLM generated, poisoning the data set
A lot of people are pointing out that copyright rules are breaking under the weight of generative AI, which exploits creative labour at scale. The solution is not to erect digital walls, but to treat collective knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The grim view is that AI companies will need to fund new art because they've run out of content to train on.
Especially considering that a lot of recent text is LLM generated, poisoning the data set
Especially considering that a lot of recent text is LLM generated, poisoning the data set
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This is excellent. 👌🏼
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need”
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need”
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...
opensourcesecurity.io
September 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is excellent. 👌🏼
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need”
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the amount of resources they need”
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
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I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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www.thecut.com/article/broo...
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Quickly checking some maths
So according to glasadoor, the average vfx artist job in Vancouver pays out ~$62,500 CAD (~$45,500 USD) annually.
James Cameron meanwhile made over $95m from Avatar 2.
So Cameron made over 2000x the average vfx artist's salary, but thinks the artists are the issue here
So according to glasadoor, the average vfx artist job in Vancouver pays out ~$62,500 CAD (~$45,500 USD) annually.
James Cameron meanwhile made over $95m from Avatar 2.
So Cameron made over 2000x the average vfx artist's salary, but thinks the artists are the issue here
“I’d like to see the cost of VFX artists come down.” — ‘Avatar’ director and Stability AI board member James Cameron claims effects workers are too expensive, putting blockbusters and the VFX industry at risk.
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...
James Cameron Says VFX Costs Threaten Future Of Blockbusters
In a recent interview, Stability AI board member James Cameron warned high budgets threaten theaters, urging cheaper VFX and new tech to cut costs.
www.cartoonbrew.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Quickly checking some maths
So according to glasadoor, the average vfx artist job in Vancouver pays out ~$62,500 CAD (~$45,500 USD) annually.
James Cameron meanwhile made over $95m from Avatar 2.
So Cameron made over 2000x the average vfx artist's salary, but thinks the artists are the issue here
So according to glasadoor, the average vfx artist job in Vancouver pays out ~$62,500 CAD (~$45,500 USD) annually.
James Cameron meanwhile made over $95m from Avatar 2.
So Cameron made over 2000x the average vfx artist's salary, but thinks the artists are the issue here
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TIL a GoFundMe widget adds an *entire NextJS app* to the page.
About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link.
(Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)
About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link.
(Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)
August 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
TIL a GoFundMe widget adds an *entire NextJS app* to the page.
About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link.
(Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)
About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link.
(Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)
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💡 I did the research so you don’t have to! This is every element in current Baseline browsers that would need a margin or padding removing in a reset stylesheet:
gist.github.com/csswizardry/...
gist.github.com/csswizardry/...
Reset Research
Reset Research. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
💡 I did the research so you don’t have to! This is every element in current Baseline browsers that would need a margin or padding removing in a reset stylesheet:
gist.github.com/csswizardry/...
gist.github.com/csswizardry/...
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.
I'd like to give a big, sincere and wholehearted thank you to the reader who's just reported Copper Script to Amazon for errors including "reader doesn't know British English exists", "reader doesn't know the word 'insuperable'", and of course this. For a British book about two British people.
August 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.
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If you want a great example of a security vendor chasing trends while their product burns down due to customers fleeing over vulnerabilities
left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years
right: Netscaler blog
left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years
right: Netscaler blog
August 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you want a great example of a security vendor chasing trends while their product burns down due to customers fleeing over vulnerabilities
left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years
right: Netscaler blog
left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years
right: Netscaler blog
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“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.”
Gosh, this is good. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Gosh, this is good. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.”
Gosh, this is good. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Gosh, this is good. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...