M. Dracula J. Picklestein

if a few more don't make it onto the mute list every time, can I even say I actually looked at this site?

Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

the people crave bluesky social credit scores

alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"

The stability of many things, I believe, rest on the limited capabilities of idiots. But what if we made idiots much more capable.

P(annoying) through the roof

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

stop showing me the horrid burrito, you demons

there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

"Productivity," like "the economy," are totally disconnected from the lived reality of billions of people, and this is precisely the frame AI adopts to force itself into improving-society arguments: nobody liked losing their job to globalization, losing them to lobotomization is no more appealing.

Chats aren't encrypted, Bluesky will turn them over if subpoenaed. Use @signal.org or @germnetwork.com instead

Nancy 6/4/26

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

Here’s to 2026

This is better than the thread, but the thread will still get posts first, I suspect.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

lisa kudrow from friends. ("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")

this site decided to tackle moderation second and we are really gonna find out what that is like quite soon it seems

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

happy curséd knowledge day to everyone who involuntarily participates

Milk Tea #ドット絵 #pixelart

Practice naming and shaming collaborators with the presumption of shared contempt. Be matter of fact. Do not anticipate or allow room for objection. Extend the courtesy and charity that your hearers are decent people and, therefore, agree that collaborators are understood to be beneath contempt.