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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 8h

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft... “Software developers are not okay” by @baldurbjarnason.com

It's also the nature of the agent automation to feel more like delegation to a clueless junior developer than automation, and that changes your relationship to the work.
In woodworking, the power tools didn't reduce the woodworker's emotional investment in what they made. The worker still felt like they'd made that thing out of wood themselves.
Some woodworkers might still use hand tools for a variety of reasons - some of them romantic, some of them, you know, just because it's more fun.
But having a table saw doesn't make you feel like you've asked somebody else to make the shelf, or table, or chair.

The nature of automation with Large Language Model tools feels substantially different from prior attempts at automation in coding. It's an abstraction that feels like a delegation, not an automation, and separates you from the output.
That has an effect of making you feel less invested in the output and that takes away much the joy of coding. The flow state is also gone, the sort of focused state of mind that you get into when you're really deep into solving a problem.
On top of the changes to the job itself, the industry itself has changed as well.
There is more uncertainty. People know there are layoffs every quarter. They know they're probably next on the block. Or, if they aren't, they'll be on the block next quarter instead. They know the reasons for dismissal are going to be arbitrary. They know they generally aren't going to be able to do anything to improve their odds.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Marcus Aurelius says u don’t have to have a take on fucking everything 🙌

A photo of a book page with the quote: You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all.
Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.

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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 05/10/2026

DR. NO was released 64 years ago today. The first Hollywood entry in the iconic James Bond series, and still among the most popular 007 films, the story of how it was made will leave you shaken and stirred…. 1/52

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Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The street you live with is not the street you have to keep. livestreetsmart.com

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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When discussing economic policy it's good to know there are two types of people, so you know which you are talking to. Type 1: I'd love a Porsche, so I want an economy where anyone can have a Porsche. Type 2: I'd love a Porsche, so I want an economy where most people are blocked from getting one.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is this grave danger that communities in the US seems to be watching out for that other countries don’t experience? Seems like it is competing with China in cameras per sq ft.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Strong disagree. The likely destabilization of the economy and the potential job losses caused by AI in my opinion are most likely to result in a further rise of the far right, lack of focus on climate change, and a general crash in core public services for the working classes.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The accord on AI was not AI generated? How sad? /s

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We wanted robots that would relieve us of menial tasks and free us up to be creative. Instead, we’ve ceded our creative selves to robots and ended up with all the washing and cleaning.

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Reader, Birder, Herper, Guy @motherflicker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I figured out that a) I am often not the smartest guy in the room about the particular thing everyone in the room cares about right now; b) no one in the room will care about <some technical problem> 10 years from now, and for sure I will not; and c) people less smart have solved < problem> before.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 24/09/2026

When is OpenAI going to face criminal prosecution for all the cybercrimes they've admitted to?

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a social inept but kind hearted uncle who keeps using phrases like "water get place" and "liquid-sourcing shaft". He means well.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s wonderful how different brains work. For me it is completely opposite. I cannot work with any audio (that has words) in the background. But I can work without disruption staring at some video (muted) playing along.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to reintroduce the distinction between software company and tech company. a software company makes and sells software and may enjoy some economies of scale a tech company creates a software front-end to labor exploitation, is extraordinarily costly to run and requires regulatory capture

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity

Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It happens everywhere, but Hollywood is my beat. And that is an industry that *loves* to present the active choices that individuals made over time as inevitabilities that nobody could have possibly prevented. It’s rank, ridiculous nonsense as a PR strategy & we don’t have to buy it, ever!

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Susan La Flesche Picotte: the first #NativeAmerican woman to earn a medical degree in the US. Living in an era when Native Americans were denied citizenship & women couldn't vote, she became an indispensable physician & fierce defender of her people's sovereignty. Died #OTD in 1915. #WomenInSTEM 🧵

A black-and-white studio portrait of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), the historic reformer celebrated as the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. In a bust-up composition against a dark, textured backdrop, she is positioned slightly turned to the side while facing the camera directly. She looks forward with an intelligent, steady, and composed expression, her dark hair neatly swept up away from her face into a soft bun. She wears a Victorian-era garment featuring a high-necked collar made of a contrasting, intricately patterned light fabric with fine floral or geometric motifs. This collared section is framed by a square, dark lace trim on her darker, structured bodice, which has modest pleating and slight puffing at the shoulders. The soft studio lighting emphasizes her prominent cheekbones and the calm, dignified mood of the portrait, embodying her historic legacy as an enduring pioneer of Indigenous health and civil rights.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, put a bunch of AI agents run by themselves. They’re more likely to become beggars than take over the world? OK

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They likely have hit technical limitations. Perhaps this has prompted opening up guardrails - hence all the agents hacking news. The most existential threat is for the billionaires not making enough money anymore.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reason that AI companies are saying "it's too dangerous! we have to slow down!" is that they are no longer making progress and need that fact to appear deliberate.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026

voluntary corporate codes of conduct are not meaningful things this is not a substitute for well-funded and staffed public interest regulators, and journalists should probably mention that

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Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns

Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Squirrel to other squirrel (human body behind them) : “I’ll help too bury your acorns, then you help me with my thing.”

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Other TV manufacturers taking notes… 📝 #sigh

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Give humanity a choice and they will choose to build a machine that will wipe them all out - just for the heck of it. Systematically, the power to make such large scale decisions has moved to a bunch of narcissists who are completely out-of-touch with reality.

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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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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Make this make sense: The new iPhone 18 Pro costs $1199 and trade-in gives $1200 off? Apple pays you $1 to but their phone? 😂

Screen grab from Apple event showing the trade-in offer up to $1200 off

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People can’t be bothered to care about the earth that they live on. The moon is literally and figuratively far away from their concerns. #sigh

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Invisible Women by Caroline Perez must be required reading for everyone working in research. Especially medical.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Things that count as reading: * Short books * Smut * Graphic novels * Audiobooks * Fanfic * Too many other things to list Things that don't count as reading: * Having ChatGPT fart out a "summary" for you.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The only to understand about "MAHA" or Trumpism is that these people all believe the fundamental flaw with our society is that we devised too many ways to intervene against the laws of nature to allow The Weak to survive. They're solving the problem that some kids should be dying but aren't.

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

Data centers

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” — Thomas Paine

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 04/08/2026

By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.

this.weekinsecurity.com

Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

xkcd.com/1732/ All (pseudo-) scientific climate change deniers, please read this.

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Earth Temperature Timeline

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Can someone tell @mozilla.org that they can work on AI all they want - just keep it out of Firefox. Please! 🙏

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/07/2026

This whole ethos that if digital technology empowers you to do something you are ipso facto justified in having done it, consequences or harms to other people be damned, is so deeply tied to the rise of the culture of fascism

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the age of AI, knowledge is now considered a burden. We’re closing in on the Matrix future.

Screenshot of text that reads: The field of formal verification and deterministic system testing is about to cross a chasm. There are not enough skilled practitioners in the field.
Bug-catching tools, when used in conjunction with adversarial code reviews by an LLM and with language analyzers driven by pre-commit hooks, will be a key component in software factories. They will enable people/agents to deliver reliable software without the burden of having to learn this specialized knowledge.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Since the Pokémon games are human-made, it should be expected that they follow patterns of the natural world? If anything, this is a sign that the games are well-made. What am I missing here?

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

American politics has gone the way of much of its comedy - towards stupidity, crassness and pratfalls. British politics similarly has pushed towards its comedic strengths - embarrassment, humiliation and total surrealism.

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Bumping into people @bumpingintopeople.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The USofA got so many warnings against this evil excuse of a human.

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