Thomas Jachmann

Die neoliberale Politik der letzten 30 Jahre hat die öffentliche Infrastruktur kaputt gemacht, die Reichen immer reicher gemacht, die Mittelschicht armutsgefährdet, Branchen kaputtsubventioniert und ihre Vertreter:innen erzählen uns jetzt, dass mehr vom Gleichen die Lösung sei. Nein.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

I never thought that I'd side with Adobe's interests in a case.

I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

Stellt Euch vor, es würde in Reaktion auf die Berlin-Wahl in den nächsten Wochen bundesweit intensiv über die Frage gestritten werden, was man gegen horrende Mietpreise in Großstädten tun kann. Thema in allen Talkshows, Task-Force auf Bundes- & Landesebene. Volles Programm. Das wär doch mal was.

Wir haben keinen Bedarf an noch mehr unsicheren Produkten am Markt. Und wenn man die LLMs eben nicht sicher anbieten kann, dann geht das halt nicht. Ist ja bei allem so. Wenn ich nicht garantieren kann, dass meine Nahrungsmittel ungiftig sind, kann ich eben keine verkaufen.

Alle Regulierung für "KI", die wir brauchen, ist einfach nur die Durchsetzung normaler Produkthaftung. Du bist für die Halluzinationen deiner Modelle haftbar, wenn du über 1% (das ist großzügig, solche Fehlerraten lassen wir sonst _nie zu) Fehlinformationen produzierst, kommen Strafen.

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

AI will kill us all (IF we let it). Not talking here about rogue AI agents, I'm talking about rogue tech oligarchs helping to torch the planet with major new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.

"As soon as you stop believing that you need to take Anthropic rationalists or weird freaks working at Meta seriously you have to challenge the dominant narrative of tech being the well of progress and future." Rediscovering The Spark

AnthrOpenAI Employee: "No really, AI will probably kill us soon. It's so powerful." Me: "And what are you doing for work?" AntrOpenAI Employee: "Build bigger and bigger AI." Me: "Did a horse kick you in the head or something?"

I think this is more fundamentally a kitty issue - this is interesting reading: github.com/kovidgoyal/k... (omarchy does apparently default kitty remote control to on, which is not great I guess)

The Kids are alright! Ich sag’s ja immer wieder. Junge Menschen wählen unterdurchschnittlich AfD und tatsächlich mehrheitlich links. Die Erstwähler*innen bei der letzten Bundestagswahl hätten Heidi Reichinek zur Kanzlerin gewählt. Und das hat auch was mit der deutlichen Positionierung 1/6

"AI" is inevitable, it's just here now is what we get told. We also get told that "AI" mustn't be properly regulated or everything goes to shit. These two statements are not consistent.

"Internal posts also reportedly pointed to AI agents making “large-scale, disruptive actions that humans are unlikely to execute” and leading to a 40 percent increase in major technical and security incidents com...AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

You have the luxury of setting that goal for yourself. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that's not gonna work on larger teams since management/C level will always prefer just faster. In the end, that's why they pay a lot of money to LLM providers instead of their employees.

every new revelation of an "expert" using chatbots to generate slop instead of using their own expertise to produce their own work further convinces me that impostor syndrome afflicts all the wrong people