Reposted by AnkaraEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/10/2026Been a great day for me @westinlee.itch.io and the three other people who care about the misuse of annualized run rates 1457937
Reposted by AnkaraEd @notdred.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I have been around a long-ass time and have never seen any politician absolutely torching his debate opponent the way Ossoff is doing to Collins right now. This is “Fuck Republicans as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew” territory 826143
Reposted by AnkaraRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 08/10/2026Has it been 3 years now that basically all of the VC money has been dumped into AI? And that wasn’t too long after a ton was dumped into blockchain. 4431
Reposted by AnkaraStav Zeitouni @stzeitouni.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Israelis for Peace NYC - who are near and dear to my heart - held a vigil in which they read testimonies and eulogies of both Israelis & Palestinians on this incredibly difficult night. It's not for everyone, but to have it disrupted in this way is absolutely shameful. 228838
Reposted by AnkaraMarcel Caumixe @marcelcaumixe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To be fair this is exactly where Basil Fawlty would be at today. 31271
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What I find surprising about the cornell lawsuit is that the "free pussy" post happened in 2024. Straight women have been told for the last decade that men are afraid to approach or court women anymore because of MeToo. Yet they're unafraid of gang bangs and running a train? 000
Reposted by Ankara𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Do we want US installed regime change or not 1625427
Reposted by Ankaraellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 06/10/2026It’s great how the thing that allows you to be most morally superior is to engage in costly signaling that drives Jewish people who don’t self-humiliate and make themselves vulnerable out of your social circles, but costs you as a gentile zilch (unless of course you have scared Jewish loved ones) 17811
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One reason I was glad to leave tech twitter. Everyone was required to take a very specific "stand". 010
Reposted by AnkaraBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop. 421033160
Reposted by AnkaraVitest @vitest.dev · 05/10/2026We are updating our AI Policy to reduce maintenance stress. All pull requests are now automatically closed, unless they are created by maintainers or users from an approved list of contributors. The PR is not lost. If the team decides the change is worth pursuing, we will reopen it. 410010
Reposted by AnkaraStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them. 14795180
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have an interview in an hour and I don't really give a fuck anymore. I just want to stay in bed 000
Reposted by AnkaraBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's just flagrantly dishonest. on one hand, she claims she's "done research" that has empirical value. then when her position is *clearly* empirically false, she retreats to the claim that she is not advancing an "hypothesis." bsky.app/profile/emil... 092
Reposted by AnkaraKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 04/10/2026I see a commonly repeated sentiment on Bluesky, the website for 38 year olds, that says everyone was excited by the advent of the Internet in a way that far exceeds any excitement for gen AI/LLMs. The thing is, that's not strictly true. 1722028
Reposted by AnkaraArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The SEIU is probably the most firmly progressive major union out there, but it's also absolutely loathed by a significant chunk of class first socialists because it doesn't tickle their fetish for an imaginary 1950s all white union of men punching in nine to five at the sprocket factory. 25018
Reposted by AnkaraPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps. 3532270
Reposted by AnkaraColin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026This was never intended to be some awe-inspiring demonstration of the magnificent power of LLMs. If anything it's almost the opposite. A computer that is bad at math is, as many have observed, laughable. But SSPH implies that it should be *even worse* at math than it observably is. That's the point. 21656
Reposted by AnkaraKate Sills @katelynsills.com · 02/10/2026One thing I've come across is that the Emily Bender devotees generally cannot, as a group, do enough basic math to understand what brute force and memorization would require, if that were actually what is happening. 31064
Reposted by AnkaraColin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct. 1628234
Reposted by AnkaraThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 03/10/2026When you encounter these sorts of people and try (no matter how politely) to explain some of the things about LLMs that they do not understand, they frequently become hostile and abusive. No matter how you may feel about LLMs, the fact that you USED them means that you must be punished. 1151
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You don't have to use LLMs or harnesses or agents. In fact, if you can avoid it I envy you. But many software developers have been forced or cajoled into AI coding over the last year. Claude is MORE effective than many of us would have liked yet less effective than Dario & boosters hope. 010
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This debate about whether "AI works" reminds me of how people who don't use Facebook are convinced that no one needs FB. Vibe is: I and my friends don't find value in it, also you're an idiot for using it. If you often insult the users of a product they're unlikely to talk about it around you. 000
Reposted by Ankaraillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 15565321142
Reposted by AnkaraMattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It is always wild to watch how cynicism makes people dumber 39515
Reposted by Ankarahikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this is more important than niche internet arguments make it seem: if LLMs don't work, who cares that Palantir is rolling it out for surveillance? Hell, maybe it's even good, if the state's machines start hallucinating the addresses of random Trump supporters when dispatching ICE. But they do work. 2127846
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You're going to be told those aren't *real software engineers* . Sigh. 140
Reposted by AnkaraWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self-correct, search the web and extract relevant information, etc. etc. 362554
Reposted by AnkaraWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than just parroting. 383077
Reposted by AnkaraThe Mewling Skull @themewl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can you imagine working in the Vatican for the Pope and this guy is begging you to believe that a machine has consciousness? 001
Reposted by AnkaraOne Does Not Simply Re-Skeet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“We are *desperate* to lay the groundwork for chattel slavery of new consciousness controlled by us and would like the Holy Father’s blessing.” 171
Reposted by AnkaraZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's a good example of the famed lack of taste that is typical of these systems right now. Having a killer closing line can obviously work. Having thirty, not so much. It's like writing a story and having a climax every fifth scene. 51624
Reposted by AnkaraUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes” 1576492
Reposted by AnkaraMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 01/10/2026Right, but see, it’s time we start to identify how “you must be paid to say XYZ/believe XYZ” dovetails with key antisemitic conspiracy theories. It’s one of the main ways people get funneled into antisemitic pipelines! 0154
Reposted by AnkaraEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252124938
Reposted by AnkaraKim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Every now and then I think it's important to remind folks about what happened in Michigan in 2024. 2321186
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yesterday at my Timeleft dinner we ordered drinks and someone proposed a toast. As the six of us attempted to clink each others why did my brain start calculating 6 factorial? 😶🌫️ I actually blurted it out "combinatorics!" What is wrong with me. 000
Reposted by AnkaraColin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026LLMs won’t wipe out humanity because they just don’t have that dog in them. 825328
Reposted by AnkaraL. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The LLM majors in America are often bad faith actors. The social consequences of mass compute, prediction, and function in many professional knowledge processing is serious. And some of the most prominent critics of this technology do not have the basic technical and academic familiarity with them. 183
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This sent me down a rabbit hole. Thanks for sharing. It's definitely important to keep an open mind 110
Reposted by AnkaraColin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026Not everywhere and not perfectly, but I find that it's very hard to explain a result like this without granting that the LLM has learned, basically, to add. That is really the Occam's Razor explanation for this. 1171
Reposted by Ankaratweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 30/09/2026I am sort of constantly baffled by critics (which I am, more than not!) who don't feel like they have to stay apprised of what these things can actually do. not least you're going to come off like a fool, but also it's not at all like knowing what they can do obviates the criticisms of them? 725218
Reposted by AnkaraColin @colin-fraser.net · 30/09/2026I really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible. 4962832
Reposted by AnkaraThe Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026First Prince Harry and now this! White people are healing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNo 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EUSenior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit 0163
Ankara @ankaracode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Setting aside how I feel about AI-driven code, I'm ok with software dev becoming just another relatively high paying white collar job. If it means 1) no more hazing with leetcode, making ppl prove they have a photographic memory, and 2) more emphasis on design and good communication. 000
Reposted by AnkaraEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op... 21636137