Dr. Dabbles

the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I chatted with Deepthi Sigireddi from @supabase.com on her 25 years of experience as a developer, her time as the project lead of Vitess, her work on Multigres, and databases at Supabase in general. No paywall, give it a read. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/08...

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")

finally got long videos to work, so here's my masterpiece

Maybe I'm naive but I kinda don't think the product can survive being widely known as pervert glasses

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

AI slop loving dipshits calling people "boomer", and then going on 10 post tirades is always a sure sign that someone's not suffering from being online too much.

workshopping a new sticker

See what being soft on crime gets you? When you fail to prosecute the criminal element in the US, it spreads. And becomes responsible for countless deaths by shutting down USAID.

Because a product that actually improved safety would need to do so in secret, obviously. It's a scam. Always was.

Me: surely the designers of this keyboard put the battery in a safe place. Designers: the battery helps dampen the keys!

These people are perverts and freaks, and we should all just say so.

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

This is framed as a feel-good story, but it should scare the wits out of anybody on the road. Tesla's deceptive marketing is convincing seniors that the cars drive themselves. In reality, a human must always be ready to intervene. If someone lacks the ability to do that, they shouldn't be driving!

Are Waymo execs trying to cash out once they get to an IPO, leaving investors to clean up the mess? nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I started to write a joke about Oedipus and Midas. It was motherfucking gold.

This week in "They Actually Play For The Same Side", people that should know better carrying lots of water for the shittiest, most hateful, two-faced politicians. It's good when they put themselves, but not nearly enough people are grossed out by it.

I went to bed after hearing the news, because nothing was going to top that for the rest of the day. And people like to say nothing good happens late at night?

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

If the next #nothing flagship has UWB and a decent camera setup, I'll probably never buy another #pixel phone again. Everyone talked shit about Phone 3, and that thing is still better than my Pixel 10 in the ways I care about.

I learned something long ago after implementing a corporate internet monitoring tool. Humans forget they're being watched, and we behave our worst when watching. These tools are abused 100% of the time they're deployed, and only creeps want them.

I'm sick to death of people in the tech industry that don't want to know how anything works, don't want an understanding of the tools, environments, and technology they interact with. Fuck off with this "ask AI how to..." bullshit.

We wanted to understand why so many young New York City Democrats turned out in last night’s primaries. So we talked to three retired Republicans at a Capital Grill in White Plains

The most incredible thing to me is that the number of news outlets or journalists I want to follow has decreased dramatically in the past 10 years. Obviously I'm not alone on this.

for every skeet i post here showing ai systems catastrophically failing to do what they are supposed to do, i have dudes replying with “but humans are also bad at x" just don't. it's ignorant and unhelpful

Bavarian judges ruled: That they’re using a crappy LLM model to generate a text doesn’t matter – Google is creating the text and is liable hackaday.com/2026/06/14/b...

"But sending sexually explicit pictures to and from children – that’s not free speech, that’s basic protection." Says the man who has taken zero action on a social media platform producing a distributing child sex images for a year. Tough on teens, laisser faire on white supremacist billionaires.

Germany leading the way, showing how it's done.

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If this isn't the perfect image, it's got to be close.

Ah, I forgot I hadn't blocked nytimes here. Fixed that.

these are getting weird

Japan. My answer is Japan. A bit of protein, a bit of soup. You feel so good all day from it. Second answer is whoever came up with steak and eggs and bottomless coffee.

Peter Thiel is heading to his spiritual homeland of Argentina, following in the historical footsteps of thousands of other deeply problematic men with the exact same haircut.

It almost seems like an economy that focuses exclusively on corporations and endlessly increasing consumption rather than the well-being of people leaves everyone feeling like they're on the edge. I'm one cancer diagnosis away from lifelong poverty.

This is why I keep scoffing at the "Starlink seems like a healthy business" claims. Only if it has no costs, no failed deployments, no early failures of satellites, and they don't de-orbit early.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

"And FWIW I don't like people telling me my mediocre takes are shitty. So it's you all that are the problem!" When will these waves realize we don't give a fuck? Shut the hell up and go back to the hell site if that's what you're so desperate for.

The thing about this, as someone who’s very versed in LLMs and related technologies, is that the mainstream, mass-marketed versions of “AI” are *worthy* of contempt! Even if you like this tech, why would you advocate for such shitty versions of it? The Internet didn’t *start out* being shitty!

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The kids are alright.

The number of times I hear, "I'm not a programmer but I vibe coded this..." is directly proportional to how much my eyes will roll.

Ordering food at a restaurant has made me a chef.