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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 17h

Bubble Nebula - NGC 7635 Date: 10/3/2026 Telescope: StellarVue SVX102T Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro Filter(s): L-Quad Enhance Exposures: 120 second exposures, 117 frames Darkness Rating: Bortle 7 Processed: PixInsight #astronomy #astrophotography #nonotthatbubbleyet

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 23h

Saw a video in which a mustache guy said enterprises doing "serious" work have enterprise AI plans and pay per token. Then he said in the future subscriptions won't exist; "intelligence" will become too cheap to "meter". Access to real tools is paywalled and future electricity costs will be zero. 🧐

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As someone interviewing an economist said, "That dystopian ship has sailed". In reference to people not having access to LLM tools given that almost all of them, cost real money to use. With no income and no measurable return on investment, there is no way I'm going to pay to play.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pooled together the best available research and added it to a new section "Code Maintainability & LLM Performance" Don't listen to the folks telling you it doesn't matter if AI-generated code is maintainable by humans. The data says it really does. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a...

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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?

I’m currently pulling together a bunch of sources – that are mostly recent – on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed studies. Some are i…

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Put in another solid day and set of features in my app side project. Thought through some needed feature ideas and came up with a slick implementation. No agents but me in my code (FWIW). I know what my thought process was and how I got in done. Multiple long term maintenance costs also considered.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fun to see a nominal first stage rocket landing by SpaceX. Amazing to see it land. Don't enjoy them being in the stock market, NASA's only launch platform, launch too many satellites into LEO that impact ground astronomy, burn absurd amounts of fuel and leave waste in our atmosphere.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Found a respectable company with a well written job description that indicated a moderated and thoughtful use of gen-AI tools in the process of writing code. They do exist. Most of the other roles that indicate gen-AI as a requirement look toxic or otherwise unhealthy as an employer.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Challenging to find anything in here that says experienced software developers are benefitting from gen-AI tools or "leadership" that does not know how software historically has been done or how any of the SDLC works. www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My internet provider is "upgrading" the lines all day. Even though narry a bucket truck is around. No matter, I have cell service and I can still work on my software side project since it doesn't require online services for source control, builds, etc. My home lab works fine without internet. 🤗

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Replaced AutoMapper in a medium sized project today. Used multiple static mapping methods for my entities instead. Writing it was tedious and it is boilerplate. Still worth it. Now I know exactly what is going on. AutoMapper served its purpose in prototyping and saved time for that phase. #dotnet

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow! spaceweather.com/archive.php?...

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Microsoft keeps pushing me away from their software. Wiping out a product key for my older installation of Office, that I paid for, is a new one. Immediately switched to LibreOffice to be able to open my files until I dig up my product key. Stuff from DevDiv is about all that I still think is good.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.” (via Jefferies)

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

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Frans Bouma @fransbouma.com · 22/09/2026

One look at the Experienced Devs Venting / Burnout thread on reddit will tell you just how bad the software industry is at the moment. :( www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the second company in a week to be wrongfooted by concerns about a slowdown in the AI sector.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4a80...

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job search calendar for the rest of the year. Hiring season is nearly over before people hiring, look for the vacay door. Mid-terms and Halloween in October, Thanksgiving in November, X-Mas in December, New Years in January, sobering up in February, then hiring starts up again. Maybe.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trapped. Cash only transactions, or people getting underwater loans who default in a couple years because salaries and jobs are in the tank too.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good news, I do have two legs and a bicycle with enough gear to take small trips around town. Not so good news, I have intermediate to long distance travel requirements that require a car. We are going backwards so fast I wonder if a horse is warranted. I do also have a back yard. So...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New article! I am back with a piece on AI and the nightmare for writers -- or anyone who values life, love, and independent thought. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just put security credentials in source control, type in full implementation details and sample data in the prompts, and nobody will be able to see it or store it later for analysis...right?!

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The stars aligned and the skies were clear for a late Summer astrophotography session this week. Here is my blog post about this Andromeda Galaxy, a 2 panel mosaic. gazingabout.com/Blogs/Astron...

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Gazing About

Gazing About version 10.0.0. A blog among other things. Compiled on Saturday, August 1st 2026, 10:36 am.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Did a 2 panel mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy. Hope to try this again some time in darker skies. Andromeda Galaxy - M31, NGC 224 Date: 9/9/2026 Telescope: StellarVue SVX102T Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro Filter(s): L-Quad Enhance Exposures: 180 second exposures, 113 frames #astronomy #astrophotography

Andromeda Galaxy - M31, NGC 224

Date: 9/9/2026
Telescope: StellarVue SVX102T
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Filter(s): L-Quad Enhance
Exposures: 180 second exposures, 113 frames
Mosaic: 2 panels
Darkness Rating: Bortle 7
Processed: PixInsight

#astronomy #astrophotography

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The sky opened up tonight for an #astrophotography session. Tonight I'm getting 2 panels (sections) of the Andromeda Galaxy. M31, the closest galaxy to ours. A galaxy not so far away...as all the others.

Screen capture of NINA astronomy software doing a live capture of one section of the Andromeda Galaxy. Image in center, tracking at bottom, sequence instructions at right, miscellaneous info at left.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Gamers Nexus has the scoop on LG's mass invasion of privacy. This is so bad that it honestly makes me wonder if there is any concern to be had for my new LG washer/dryer. We are in the find out part of gutting consumer protection. youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA

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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's all fun and games until someone gets plagiarized, and people see it was plagiarism all along.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

skullduggery and high mathematics.... the original statement by the mathematician who seems like a nice and honourable man - worth reading! cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm very not happy with the direction my previous employer chose to take. Not my circus or monkeys, as they say. But still, wow, some not good choices, one after another.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend. Nothing we have was not earned by the blood and sweat of those who have gone before. Enjoy a 40 hour work week? Thank a union. Enjoy PTO? Thank a union. Enjoy safety standards? Thank a union. Enjoy weekends off? Thank a union. Organizing wins. Period.

Picture of a cocktail and a book, “the Battle of Blair Mountain”

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Allen Newton @allennewton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wait what?! 3rd party platforms can have outages and moving the entire software lifecycle away from people thinking about and writing code is a single point of failure?! Who could have guessed it?!!! Shocking. I'm shocked. *sarcasm*

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is gold 🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣 💪🏻🍁 clapping back at the US administration for their childish comments

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mayor Mamdani: AI is present in nearly every aspect of our lives. I am proud to announce New York City's first ever AI policy for our public schools. Children need teachers and human connection to learn and grow. This school year, we will implement a 1 year moratorium on AI from 2k through 8th grade

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