Chris Keele 🥁🥁🎉 and 6 others

thinking about stealing fire from the gods. a hot take

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”

Ok y'all. Start making plans.

Another very based tweet by the Japanese PM. Cuts through the bureaucracy sysadmins have to deal with by telling them, "Client not answering the phone? Middle-management still dithering? Fuck 'em, just shut the website down, if they complain you can tell them I told you to do it"

The first version of verified_pubsub is now available on Hex. It's live in production at work, so I feel a bit more comfortable recommending it others. I'll be talking about this a lot more at ExMex in a few weeks. hex.pm/packages/ver... #ElixirLang

An #ElixirLang package to check your `@spec` annotations against the types the compiler infers. Definitely the sort of thing with a limited shelf life (assuming we eventually get the ability to write our own compiler-checked types), but in the meantime, seems super valuable. hex.pm/packages/spe...

My hypothesis is that people are generally more predictable than they themselves would like to be, but less predictable than businesses would like them to be, and a lot of modern business is about building guiderails to increase that predictability ("personalisation" a big part of this)

Hacking a voting machine (as suggested in the teaser) isn't the problem. That's how you find and fix weaknesses. The problem is that they were told not to tell the vendor (or anyone else) what they found, so the result could be kept on the shelf and used to cast doubt on election outcomes. Yikes.

TIL about Enum.count_until/2: # Bad, potentially traverses millions of elements if length(my_list) > 1, do: ... if Enum.count(my_list) > 1, do: ... # Good: traverses at most 2 elements if Enum.count_until(my_list, 2) > 1, do: ... #ElixirLang

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

I'm releasing a new Elixir library that lets you format your colocated hooks with Eslint/Biome/Prettier! GitHub: github.com/srcrip/js_fo... Hex: hex.pm/packages/js_...

AI content in a technology blog post breaks a very core contract of what's going on when you seek out a blog or article on some question you have. the problem is: I already have access to an LLM. If I wanted to know what an LLM thought about a question, I would just ask it.

Signing all of my future letters with "I have to go now because I don't want to keep writing even though I am not busy. Enough, Andy"

You can do things. You actually can. And you don't have to do it alone - there are almost certainly folks near you who are doing things about the problems that trouble you. Find 'em! Do something!

"At present, it appears that highly-automated, LLM-based remediation pipelines are more likely to change application behavior, introduce new vulnerabilities, or mask existing ones, than fix known vulnerabilities." 1password.com/files/resour...

ultimately if your reaction to someone saying "I think this is bad, I am ethically unhappy about it, I don't want to touch it" is to go "well it's useful so. it's everywhere. nothing to be done" I just kind of think you're an asshole

The v0.12 write-up: hologram.page/blog/hologra... How struct code loads now: hologram.page/docs/bundling More on Hologram: hologram.page Newsletter, a monthly roundup of what shipped and what's coming: hologram.page/newsletter Discord, come ask anything or just follow along: discord.gg/huJWNuqt8J

But that's the thing: I don't believe that these people actually care about the ethics of AI personhood. It is because they know the robots aren't people that they feel safe wringing their hands over their personhood. Real people? Eh. They require stuff from you

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

i'm looking for some Windows users to test a new tutorial about Git for beginners! If you sign up here I'll send you an email next week or so with a link: forms.gle/69NgKWuqtEHU... (non-Windows users welcome too but I have a lot of linux & mac users already :))

This (thread) was an instructive example as to who is served by minimizing the errors of AI transcription, where the specific bias is to conceal slavery.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

What I suppose I find interesting about AI conciousness is that the idea's boosters are never, so far as I can tell, asked the question "why are you trying to make a slave"

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

This is a good example of the substitution myth in automation, applied to software workflows. Coactive work and the integration of various functions is different from the individual functions being doable in isolation.

I would love an ibreakit dot com that showed you how to physically clip the cameras, mics and outbound telematics out of all sorts of things like TV’s and cars

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

Question! Does anyone know where I can find interviews or primary source documents with coal miners or oil patch workers (workers, specifically, not owners!) talking about how they think about climate change, and how it relates to their jobs? Denialism is fine: I'm trying to look at the rhetoric.

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LFG github.com/elixir-lang/...

Big thanks to everybody who came out to #ElixirConf lightning talks tonight. My repo for verified pub/sub is available at github.com/CuriousCurmu.... Feedback welcome before I publish the first version of the Hex package. #ElixirLang

Had never seen the term “botlickers” and I’m adopting it immediately. 13/12, no notes

The pineal gland or parietal eye that regulates time related processes used to be on the outside of our head, sensing light, before evolving to sink back into our skulls where it's surrounded by darkness. It can still sense light, though. It just never gets the chance

Do you know of any large open-source elixir codebase? I'm talking in the ballpark of 200k, 300k LOC or more. I often need to test the performance of a change but I don't have a large enough codebase for the measurements to be representative of our user base.

wake up babe new plaintext x86. bovikesque martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html

Has anyone seen my wardog? Responds to "Havoc"? I swear I left him tied up here only a few minutes ago. Mark hasn't been messing with him, has he? He seemed pretty faded at the kegerator

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