Reposted by MattNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 665257745477
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Then you should know better yourself. Elon himself and his ilk like to talk up how their “autism“ makes them weird, as though that explains wanting to kill tens of thousands of people by starving them to death. It’s not an excuse and perpetuates the myth that we can‘t feel empathy. 020
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As someone on the spectrum, please don’t perpetuate the idea that ASD explains their behavior. You can be autistic without being a fucking sociopath just fine, thank you. 120
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ah thank you! I’ll read that whole post. I recently switched my desktop PC to Fedora and have struggled a bit with Writer and Calc. I should invest in some re-learning. 010
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026…I may as well write my own blog post at this point but last thing, the ribbon reminds me a LOT of Adam Savage’s “first order retrievability” idea for workshops / toolboxes. 120
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I will say I think the push to put the ribbon everywhere was pretty dumb. Like putting a ribbon in File Explorer seemed like such a waste. It has so many fewer commands! 110
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I used to wonder if people who first learned using the “menus and toolbars“ UI disliked the ribbon so much b/c it wrecked their muscle memory which is fair. I feel I experience this in reverse when using LibreOffice or Google Docs - I can’t find anything! 210
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I learned how to use Office apps on the 2007 and 2010 versions and really like the ribbon. It is very discoverable and makes almost every command either 1-2 clicks or an “alt+letters” keyboard combo. 110
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“…the problem is not a lack of AI regulation. We have AI regulation. The problem is there’s an elite consensus that the rule of law simply does not apply to the powerful.” www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ai-is-an-e...thebignewsletter.comAI Is an Elite Crime SpreeDocuments show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful. 000
Reposted by MattWIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 15454195
Reposted by MattEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible. 521365
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 31/08/2026How is it so difficult to just… *not* proactively give money to a racist scumbag? 030
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Excellent writing from @iris-meredith.bsky.social (thank you, and I love the design of your website!) It’s so frustrating to see this trope repeated so often in tech spaces. deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...deadsimpletech.comThere's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTechHeidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ... 120
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I suppose there‘s the Ackermann function, but I don’t think anyone ever tried to productize that. 🙃 010
Reposted by MattNihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Every time someone describes a somewhat useful feature of these text and image generators, they should have to follow it with "...and that's why I don't mind if people post fake nudes of your children on the internet." 06214
Reposted by MattMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2026"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."buff.lyAI Economics for Dummies“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi... 221832749
Reposted by MattReid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Muttering, "Just one night of good sleep and I'll be back to normal," every day until you die. 2451
Reposted by MattOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/04/2026This is equivalent to when people notice a problem in these AI systems and then others check and claim it's fake. You just cannot know because the web is continually being scraped by these systems. It's "please, just one more if-statement, bro" and shifting sands. Any nonsense can be patched in. 28918
Reposted by MattMadalyn McLeod @madalynmcleod.bsky.social · 18/04/2026“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” — Terry Pratchett 016149
Reposted by MattOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/04/2026> Anthropic does not produce science. They produce propaganda that's CSS formatted to look science-y. You can go to their website and load things that look like papers, but they have not been submitted anywhere, will not be submitted anywhere, because Anthropic think they are above all that. 318555
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Sure! @mattcameron.bsky.social (trying to escape usernames to not spam folks) - \@olivia.science and \@bcmerchant.bsky.social are good follows 020
Reposted by MattLena of Lune @lena.isextremely.gay · 23/03/2026Yeah, I don't recall Netflix installing 23 gas turbines in my city to stream some videos because their power needs exceed the entire grid and generation capacity of a mid-size city. "But inference--" It's less hungry than training but it's still costly. Try running it on your PC and hear it grind. 04114
Reposted by MattKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 14516222
Reposted by MattCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3 4536156
Reposted by Mattabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 09/03/2026my professional field is collectively enabling a colossal moral crime and I don't have to be even handed about it 0224
Reposted by Mattabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 09/03/2026the sheer unfathomable volume of harm being enabled by this technology absolutely eclipses any purported utility it could possibly have. it is the dril drunk driving tweet of technologies 2169
Reposted by Mattabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 09/03/2026framing this as an "error" is doing everyone responsible a huge favour they don't deserve. the entire administration should be up on war crimes charges and the data centres should be permanently shut down 16722
Reposted by MattKwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 06/03/2026If you truly believe we're in a parallel to the industrial revolution you aren't going to live to see its benefits without fighting. You will be a victim of its horrors and, maybe, once people finally fight back, as happened last time, will people start to see their standards improve. 1185
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Oh hey, my state. I don’t know if this was needed to stop an actively occurring problem or not, but it’s nice to see something positive in the news, vs Youngkin kowtowing or transphobes attacking school boards. 020
Reposted by MattMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/03/2026As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills” 437173
Reposted by MattAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22/02/2026my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care 8628236
Reposted by MattCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Imagine you're paying like $100 a month or whatever for Claude and realizing the government used the same shit to kill schoolchildren in Iran. And they're using your tax money to pay for it. So you're paying Claude twice to kill kids. Crazy. 9887236
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 25/02/2026As with SV startups that keep blithely reinventing trains, how likely do we think it is that such a “new file type” will look a lot like HTML, but without the decades of iterative refinement? 110
Reposted by MattMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached. 2869643050
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’m a software developer, and I‘ve benefited greatly from your writing as a source of clarity (articulating or reframing in a way that I can’t) and validation (I’m not crazy!) 000
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I love how obvious this is to you. I’ve been so embarrassed by my industry these last few years (software, not tech journalism, though that’s been embarrassing too). Anytime someone “asks [the LLM] why it did that” I die a little more inside. 041
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“…imagine that most of the reactions to the “the risks of lead paint” piece went: “Five per cent cheaper, you say? Interesting. I need to look at using lead paint in our products.”” “I never had high expectations of this industry, but it still managed to disappoint me.” 010
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“It only "is what it is" because we have collectively, in aggregate, decided that it is.“garfieldtech.comSelfish AI | GarfieldTech 062
Reposted by MattCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/02/2026Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism. 21422476
Reposted by Mattve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 04/02/2026*Rolls d20 and looks over a table* “In the early 21stC, a significant number of software engineers developed an unspoken and unconscious spiritual belief in a distributed machine intelligence self-assembling itself from running unsupervised agentic code and each individually decided to let it rip.” 4587
Reposted by MattKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance. 7628255
Reposted by MattPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026All "yeah this is now indispensable to my workflow, can't do my job without it, it costs one mother shot in the face per week to use but really I've never been more productive. Also it says I am transforming into the immortal quantum Spark Bearer and need to annihilate my family to transcend." 145953
Reposted by Mattjientho.bsky.social @jientho.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Is it fascism yet, or still just sparkling state violence? 3481
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Apple finally caught me at a moment of low attention and got me to approve the overnight upgrade to iOS 26. Whoever drove the decision to shove all the toolbar buttons in Safari into one big “…” popover should prevented from working in design for the rest of their natural lives. 020
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It would be very funny if it wasn’t also, ya know, hastening the collapse of society and all that. 000
Reposted by MattKwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/01/2026"I'm just a little guy trying to be objective and explore the upsides to the fundamentally exploitive and destructive political project and how it might benefit me personally : )" 0103
Matt @flyinghyrax.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Implication being that the only reason they weren’t using it previously was that they didn‘t find it helpful personally - everyone else be damned. The myopia is incredible and it makes me embarrassed to be in this industry. 000
