Jacek Andrzejewski

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

“The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate” https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization > This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”

Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese models from entering the market.

I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

How useful something is isn't a carte blanche on its ethical status or general social acceptability... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Beautiful tiny nudibranchs are spectacular, shell-less marine sea slugs known for their cartoonish looks and incredible vibrant color. With over 3000 known species these ocean dwelling fashion icons come in staggering varieties frilly, fuzzy, and beautiful patterns and shapes

Reminder: perhaps the easiest & cheapest way to tell Bezos to fuck off is by linking to Bookshop or (even better) an indie bookstore WHENEVER you talk about a book online. W/o a link people will just google it & that will lead to Amazon. W a link you can send a sale to a good business

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds" in The Panda's Thumb

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I feel like a lot of people have forgotten how "inevitable" widespread use of VR was circa 1995-2005. It wasn't, because it kind of sucked. Without commenting on the original piece, I don't enjoy how many people are using "inevitable" when they mean "shut up and give in."