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"Why won't you use AI?" I have stopped a nearly fully Copilot-generated PR with a custom JSON parser (in JavaScript) and a fully Copilot-generated PR with a custom parser for a very small subset of BASH (in BASH). Today. Both of those came across my screen *today*

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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital...

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Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 19/08/2026

Found myself wishing I could manage certain non-JS tools I depend on in my javascript projects via @yarnpkg.dev so I wrote a (very experimental) plugin to install binaries from GitHub release assets. github.com/bgotink/yarn...

Terminal showing github repositories rust-lang/mdBook, koalaman/shellcheck, and rhysd/actionlint installed by a yarn command:

yarn add --dev @rust-lang/mdbook@github-release:0.5.4 @koalaman/shellcheck@github-release:0.11.0::strip_components=1 @rhysd/actionlint@github-release:^1.7

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

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Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 13/06/2026

Got badly sunburnt while hiking despite clouds and mist all day. Make it make sense! *touches earpiece* Ah, I have just been told I'm a programmer and quote that's what you get for going outside unquote.

A seagull on a boulder, in the background the Cornish coast disappears into the mist

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

NO ONE WANTS SLOP, NO MATTER HOW FAST ITS MADE

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026

Unless there's some way to estimate how much money we have to give to AI companies before they cure cancer, we should at least consider the possibility that the true sum is "more money than exists now and that will ever exist." 26/

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/06/2026

If you don’t know how they work, just know 3 things about LLMs: 1. They don’t learn 2. They don’t think 3. They don’t understand Here’s a good article that describes in detail what they do: www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-act...

0xkato.xyz

How LLMs Actually Work

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 05/06/2026

Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot

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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

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Bram Gotink @bram.gotink.be · 26/05/2026

Een geldige identiteitskaart, hoe belangrijk is dat eigenlijk?

Screenshot of itsme, the Belgian mobile ID app, notifying me my ID has expired

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 24/05/2026

isaiprofitable.com

All "AI" companies are losing money. A lot of money.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/05/2026

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 19/05/2026

My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/05/2026

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Comic: Implications of the age of the posts you see when you Google an error message. [Grayed out error code with unreadable post. Post date of 3 years ago is enlarged with a text bubble. Table with three columns for age of post, what it means, and probability of a fix. 2 hours ago: There’s an infrastructure outage; very high–just wait. 5 days ago: A recent update broke something big; high, but you might have to wait for a patch. 3 months ago: A new product isn’t working for some users; decent chance of a solution in the replies. 2 years ago: You’ve run into an edge case; low, but maybe the replies can help with troubleshooting. 13 years ago: You’re the only person with this problem; very low–post is likely not relevant. 24 years ago: Oh god how is the internet this old; maybe whoever posted this message has kids who can help you.

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Jacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Interesting isn't it, that homosexuality (for men at least) is seen as unacceptable by the Evangelicals because it's forbidden in Leviticus. But then so are cheeseburgers.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411...

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...

youtube.com

Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode

YouTube video by Taskmaster

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alyssa || lovelandisle @lovelandisle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/04/2026

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/

The EU flag. The field has been turned from blue to orange. In the center of the circle of stars is Trump's open, hooting gob. Behind the orange field we see the faded traces of a printed circuit board.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

taggart-tech.com

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/04/2026

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

eurosky.tech

Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Pensioenspook @pensioenspook666.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Het is gewoon surrealistisch dat we dit gewoon allemaal laten passeren. Het is nog surrealistischer dat sommigen hier dat land nog altijd steunen. #NYTimes

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today it was reintroduced, exclusively for Palestinians. Fuck the statements of concern from the international community, where are the sanctions?

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 13/03/2026

Repeating for those in the back: "The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less."

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/03/2026

I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning “I’m not gonna use this shit unless I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/03/2026

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/03/2026

in-ter-o-per-a-bi-li-ty It may be an unseemly long word, but it's beautiful to watch at work.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/03/2026

anthropic: I have made AI tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. lyra.horse/x86css/

lyra.horse

x86CSS

x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/02/2026

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Retrophrenology:
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/02/2026

Given all the discourse today about Bluesky vs. X... seems like good timing for @lastweektonight.com's latest video on just how bad X has become... www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

youtube.com

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/02/2026

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Jennifer
@JenYetAgain@beige.party
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM
Boosted by 968:
Favourited by 1324:

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/02/2026

If you report on tech or are a tech-related decision-maker, please, for the love of Eris, understand that Silicon Valley runs on a hype cycle. Assume *everything* is bullshit until proven otherwise.

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