Reposted by Andreas FlierlPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free 1121165
Reposted by Andreas FlierlHillel @hillelwayne.com · 9hI have a new blog post! This is a response to the current formal methods hype and explains what TLA+ is good for and what it's not designed to check. buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...buttondown.comWhat TLA+ can and can't checkLet's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative 0252
Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 9hBTW in case you hadn't noticed: search engines do not find things anymore unless they are on major commercial platforms (including "social" networks). 000
Reposted by Andreas FlierlCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18hNobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time 713715
Reposted by Andreas Flierl🌱Apothecarius🌿 @ladyphthalo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let me out of this dystopian fever-dream. 0671
Reposted by Andreas FlierlTitania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All set for cozy season 🎨 Jamie Lauby 313638
Reposted by Andreas FlierlHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots. 3588124
Reposted by Andreas FlierlQuote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 29/09/2026Art is born of constraint, lives by struggle, and dies of freedom Who composed this maxim: André Gide? Albert Camus? Leonardo da Vinci What does it mean? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/09/29/a... 0102
Reposted by Andreas FlierlMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you’re a dude thinking “i’ve never done anything disgusting” (citations needed) then you’ve more than likely sat there quietly while your friend did something disgusting or bragged about doing something disgusting. you cannot absolve yourself. 211595163
Reposted by Andreas FlierlDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now 34726
Reposted by Andreas FlierlElement @element.io · 29/09/2026A wonderfully detailed write-up of French local authorities' push to replace WhatsApp with Matrix from @billgoodwin.bsky.social at @computerweekly.bsky.social, who spoke with @adullact.bsky.social's Matthieu Faure about the project and what the future holds. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666512...computerweekly.comFrench local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging | Computer WeeklyFrench local authorities to deploy a ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech. 0158
Reposted by Andreas Flierldorian @doriantaylor.com · 29/09/2026base rate fallacy strikes again (lol, the timestamp in the url www.schneier.com/blog/archive...)schneier.comTerrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy - Schneier on SecurityI have already explained why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists. Here’s a more formal explanation: Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian univers... 043
Reposted by Andreas FlierlKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/forbrukerradet.noBreaking FreeIn the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. 07828
Reposted by Andreas Flierlgabby @fullmoon.id · 28/09/2026I know I keep saying this, but people who claim that "specs are the new code" haven't actually sat down and read these fucking specs Every time I scratch the surface of these claims the underlying specs are garbage. The absolute sloppiest of slop 3311
Reposted by Andreas FlierlHaskell programming language @haskell.org · 28/09/2026In case you missed it: "CloudMicroHaskell: Direct-Style Distributed Haskell with MicroHs" www.krook.dev/posts/cmh/po...krook.devCloudMicroHaskell: Direct-Style Distributed Haskell with MicroHsLearn how CloudMicroHaskell brings Cloud Haskell-style distributed programming to MicroHs through runtime graph serialization, remote spawning, servers, and supervisors. 032
Reposted by Andreas Flierlae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets 319744
Reposted by Andreas FlierlJ. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴 @enceladosaurus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This! I've struggled to our my finger on why some "X in STEM" features/events bother me. Beyond "women in STEM" stuff still including me despite me being non-binary (and no, non-binary is not woman-lite), Dr. Guest describes it perfectly. It's feeling like the object of study instead of an equal. 1113
Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 28/09/2026It tells you something about the state of music notation software that the de facto exchange format is XML. 000
Reposted by Andreas FlierlClumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026TL:DR "The Anthropic scientists... said that their A.I. had taken 'the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.' Dr. Mestre disputed that claim. 'They are the same systems we have been studying for years' and are the same enzymes that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I." 0472
Reposted by Andreas FlierlMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should let people dream of something besides labor 9612130
Reposted by Andreas FlierlDouglas Wilson @doougle.net · 28/09/2026Really disappointing to see so many games colleagues repeating rhetoric that "AI" is "inevitable" Strongly recommend people engage with the history of "inevitability" politics: bsky.app/profile/leen... 1374
Reposted by Andreas FlierlOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026"Which social groups are harmed? What natural resources are consumed? Who makes profit?" If you're not asking this in discussions about technology then the answer to what will happen is predictable (see above): unhinged misogyny, eugenics — supposedly all the things you were trying to depart from. 13712
Reposted by Andreas FlierlPhineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We didn’t uninvent filling buildings with asbestos or putting lead in all the gasoline and paint. You’re allowed to stop doing harmful things and it’s possible to do so. 04618
Reposted by Andreas FlierlCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is, unironically, probably the biggest difference between fascists and liberals. fascists are delighted with all the harm they cause, while liberals continuously look at the trolley problem with sorrow and let the trolley kill 15 poor people because stopping it might be bad for shareholders 1186
Reposted by Andreas FlierlOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026It's also so ahistorical. People just used to walk away and never call or write all the time. 11005
Reposted by Andreas FlierlGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time. 752925750
Reposted by Andreas FlierlOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026> In most fields where the consequences for error are serious, human performance is not 99% accuracy or 99.9% accuracy; it's 99.99% accuracy or better. 07320
Reposted by Andreas FlierlSarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026The moral panic around estrangement is backlash against the small amount of cultural progress we have made for familial abuse survivors. Against the idea that parents don't get to hurt their kids, against the absolute tyranny of the heteropatriarchal family. 1514111
Reposted by Andreas FlierlAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes 2934356
Reposted by Andreas Flierlabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 27/09/2026sorry, some big AI vendors went on record *in court* recently saying their products are a world-historic act of theft and we're still supposed to treat this as a legitimate technology? 05616
Reposted by Andreas FlierlSimon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵 66113173267
Reposted by Andreas FlierlOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026Once you realise patriarchy is ancient greek or older, many things click into place. 087
Reposted by Andreas FlierlRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming 17683228
Reposted by Andreas Flierlshanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry: 2286107
Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 26/09/2026Why I find Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson (to name just two of my favorite musicians) so inspiring: there is no shortcut to achieving this level of mastery. You have to put in the long, lonely hours and pour your heart into it consistently over decades to get that good. 000
Reposted by Andreas FlierlJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20847461179
Reposted by Andreas FlierlRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6574016011782
Reposted by Andreas Flierlalexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you 17874109
Reposted by Andreas Flierlgabby @fullmoon.id · 25/09/2026all of us people sick of fixing others' LLM slop need to form a union or something 1637
Reposted by Andreas FlierlAxels15 @axels15.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I can't believe our world is being destroyed by assholes who can't remember their own fucking address or phone number. 010514
Reposted by Andreas FlierlAdolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/09/2026This is the status of software engineering in 2026 mouse.dev/blog/muse-ru...mouse.devI asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | MouseI asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did. 25812
Reposted by Andreas FlierlMarina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ich weigere mich, dass Juden instrumentalisiert werden, um progressive Politik und gerechte Mieten zu verhindern. Es ist so offensichtlich vorgeschoben, dass es beleidigend ist. 12962382116
Reposted by Andreas FlierlThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23/09/2026Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glassesthebeaverton.comMeta unsure why women not buying pervert glassesMENLO PARK, CA — As Meta’s totally cool, definitely-not-creepy smart glasses become more popular with tech bros and straight-up pervs, the tech company is reportedly baffled as to why their glasses wh... 1581990591