jneen

hi yall. i'm looking for work. writing things like this has been a severely career-limiting move, but i am as sharp as ever, and very good at what i do. i know the industry cannot stay this way, but if you want to toss my CV over to HR, it would help a lot in the meanwhile. jneen.ca/pages/cv

CHOW

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

hitting me tonight that it's been almost 8 months since my last music release. i promise i have a big cool project in the works but for various reasons it is taking quite a while. i will be proud to show it all when it's done but until then here's a little preview of something as a treat

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

also

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

For the second time I think I have accidentally convinced a project to just … stop doing security updates on a critical dependency forever, because they'd assumed the LLM usage problem wasn't as bad as it is. Both of these so far are offline things that are not at al security-sensitive, but I […]

We pioneered what we're calling 'Distributed Development', a bold new corporate strategy where we pay workers less money

This unit is ~2x larger than our current space, and features two breakout rooms. Check out this 3D render we made. Our next open house will be Saturday November 14th. Hope to see you there!

Exciting news everyone! We're officially announcing that QCC is moving to a new unit in the same building and floor! Starting November 1st, we will be operating out of unit 411, which is just down the hall.

milwaukee... thank you...

This can't have been an easy decision for House House to make, well done to them. By chance, I read this news just as I was watching an interview with Humza Yousaf in which he speaks about the need for those with public profile, platform & security to use them for Palestine.

"...And yet you participate in it. I am very smart" "Actually, I don't participate in it". "Ah... Well, then, you don't participate in it, therefore how can you know it's bad! (I am very smart)".

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?

The "controversial" comic with over 43 false reports to silence the creator and the real feel of the people. Enjoy, like and reshare "The Day All Billionaires Died..." By #noneofthisisok

325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.

This from @ethanmarcotte.com is very good, and hammers on an important point I've been making for years: "personalization" is just something desperate execs push because they have no other ideas, so they translate advertising logic into product features. "Here's more of the same" is a shit pitch.

"I'm too smart to have my brain pickled by the X algorithm" is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to getting your brain pickled by the X algorithm

any advice | patreon.com/lubchansky

I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

I’m imagining a version of my life where a significant problem I need to solve is “I need to make so many restaurant reservations that I can’t do them all myself.” A problem burdening my life to such an extent that I’ll burn the world down to build a robot that can almost do it for me.

Promise made, promise kept. I added disclaimers about past GenAI use to #chipnomad GitHub repo and website. I also made a video explaining details. youtu.be/DD-kIPBSJOM

I'm going to stop painting chickens and start etching "We were very stupid" in 100 languages on tablets that I sink in various lakes.

same as it ever was