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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Learning how to pay attention to small details, how to deliberately strain yourself to notice tiny details that are off, is a skill programmers learn the painful way.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
And, using a chatbot deskills you in this very extremely important skill of being able to pay attention to small details.
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It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
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..But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff."
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
..But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff."
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"As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications...
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications...
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Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
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December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
insider-gaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
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I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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it does not require a super genius to predict that people will start hating you if you spend a lot of time telling them that you’re coming for their jobs and careers
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
it does not require a super genius to predict that people will start hating you if you spend a lot of time telling them that you’re coming for their jobs and careers
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I loooooove how in the 2010s software was all about 'craftsmanship', new forms of testing, powerful type systems/languages, documentation, 'code is written once but read a thousand times', and then the 2020s roll around and we're back to 'how fast can you cram garbage into your codebase'.
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I loooooove how in the 2010s software was all about 'craftsmanship', new forms of testing, powerful type systems/languages, documentation, 'code is written once but read a thousand times', and then the 2020s roll around and we're back to 'how fast can you cram garbage into your codebase'.
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Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
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Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
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If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Still not sure who did this, but it’s really good advice for cities.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Still not sure who did this, but it’s really good advice for cities.
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Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, it's worth remembering that fascism relies on us being afraid of the people who seek to impose it.
When we have the safety to speak out, making fascists look like fools is a marvelous use of our time.
When we have the safety to speak out, making fascists look like fools is a marvelous use of our time.
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, it's worth remembering that fascism relies on us being afraid of the people who seek to impose it.
When we have the safety to speak out, making fascists look like fools is a marvelous use of our time.
When we have the safety to speak out, making fascists look like fools is a marvelous use of our time.
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Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI-first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. While ML tools like local translation offer real utility, LLMs are opaque black boxes. Waterfox won't ...
www.waterfox.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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If a journalist contacts you, an academic, for comment on a spurious AI product you don’t have to say yes. You can decline & you can resist the temptation to see your name on CNN’s site. Your voice will only be used to legitimize something that has no legitimacy, even if your quote casts doubt on it
December 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If a journalist contacts you, an academic, for comment on a spurious AI product you don’t have to say yes. You can decline & you can resist the temptation to see your name on CNN’s site. Your voice will only be used to legitimize something that has no legitimacy, even if your quote casts doubt on it
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Fantastic video by Pam Walls on the increasing use of AI in board games, and the need (more than ever) to support artists, illustrators and graphic designers in the industry.
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
We need to talk about AI slop in board games
YouTube video by Pam Walls Game Design
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fantastic video by Pam Walls on the increasing use of AI in board games, and the need (more than ever) to support artists, illustrators and graphic designers in the industry.
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...
youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...