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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 19/09/2026

Most personality frameworks attempt to describe relatively stable tendencies. But what you actually care about at work is more like: “What will this person do in this specific kind of situation, with these incentives, norms, power dynamics, and constraints?” cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-440-th...

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TBM 440: The Problem With Putting People in Boxes

Personality and “strength” tests at work have never sat right with me.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.

Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines.

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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bleeptrack @bleeptrack.de · 27/08/2026

I'm happy to consult you on ✨project maxxing✨ I'm a certified expert in - researching for a new project - shopping parts for a new project - romanticizing the work that needs to be done - never doing the work for the project - never finishing a project - stumbling over more great ideas

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 26/08/2026

Just saw the news about it now. God damn, what an actor he was. I found his performance in Muppets Treasure Island extremely inspiring.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 26/08/2026

😮 Tim Curry has died????

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 12/08/2026

I live in Stockholm, Sweden. The SL (Stockholms Lokaltrafik) uses a font and colour scheme that is very consistent and quite distinct across the city. No idea how appreciated it is by others, but I really like it.

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Hannah @justhannahreally.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PLEASE commission me draw your blorbos (yapping to me about their backstories, sharing playlists and artworks is HIGHLY encouraged)!!! vgen.co/justhannahreally Price guide and FAQs can be found in the replies! (Any shares would be eternally appreciated💕) #vgen @vgen.co #commissionsopen #dnd

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Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

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"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" A simpleton looking peasant yells as they smash the wooden machine.

The standard narrative goes that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. (But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.)

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 15/07/2026

Sorry folks, I jinxed it. Started playing "Three Lions" when it got to 80 minutes 😬

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/07/2026

who could've possible seen this coming

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This report on AI in tech sounds pretty interesting and confirms a lot of my experience/suspicions. TL;DR Developer productivity is marginally up, however, incidents and bugs and way up. Source: www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

AI ENGINEERING REPORT 2026 | KEY FINDINGS
The Acceleration Whiplash
Telemetry data from 22,000 developers on the real-world impact of Al adoption.
OUTPUT IS UP...
Impacts of high Al adoption on engineering throughput
Epic
A sizable teature or capability, hundreds of tasks
+66.2%
Epics completed per developer
Task
Individual work item, may span multiple PRs
+33.7%
Task throughput per developer
Within this, tasks with an associated PR grew +210% per team. Code-specific work accelerated far faster than overall task volume.
Pull Request (PR)
Atomic unit of code change
+16.2%
PR merge rate per developer
Code Churn
Lines deleted to lines added per quarter, for merged code
+861%
Code deletion ratio
.•. WHILE PRODUCTION QUALITY IS DECLINING
Impacts of high Al adoption on production stability and quality
Incidents
A potential outage, security event, or customer-facing failure
+242.7%
Incidents per PR
+57.9%
Monthly incidents
• Bugs
A defect that causes software to fail or produce incorrect results
+54%
Bugs per developer
vs. +9% in the 2025 report
I +28.7%
Bugs per PR
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 11/06/2026

We have ways of "checking whether something fits" that have worked for decades -concept art, placeholders, grayboxing, etc.- and those ways employ creative people instead of burn down forests while enriching a fascist Epstein class. This is not "for the fans" and no spin will make anyone believe it.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/06/2026

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

r/GithubCopilot • 11m ago
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Just one prompt and I got 50% of my whole month credits using Claude Sonnet 4.6.
General
This is hilarious. For context I used the Copilot Orchestrator that has Condutor, Planning, Implementator and Code review agents. But with the new "usage based pricing", seems like this is not an ideal setup anymore?
Anyone has the same experience here? I am on Copilot Prot. This is so expensive.

r/GithubCopilot • 6h ago
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Love the new Copilot token system
General
Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.

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Time to ditch Github Copilot
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First day of the new pricing model, I tried one prompt to just refine one of my existing change proposal, basically a conductor with few sub agents to update the existing change spec, architecture, test plan, prototype, tech spec and implementation plan.
About 20-30 mins task, ends up burning 16% of my monthly credits in one shot.
Bye.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 31/05/2026

What this ended up being was a nice reminder that I could probably just buy a physical book containing the sheet music. If I find a second-hand version, I could probably get sheet music for multiple tracks/songs that were in the film for a similar price to that one song's digital version.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 31/05/2026

What a scummy, dark pattern-y implementation of a payment window from @musescore.bsky.social. I only spotted this because I thought: - Why am I was getting a discount? - Why is a toggle next to the price? (Just to be clear, I didn't ask for the subscription to be included, it was opt-out)

A screenshot of a payment window from Musescore.com. It shows checkboxes checked for "No commitments", "Secured personal and payment data", "Up to 60% discount on scores, books, and courses" then showing a price of "SEK 23.00 for this score", with a toggle next to it, toggled on.
Underneath the price, in smaller text reads "Get up to 60% discount with PRO+ membership. Charge Today: kr 0. 7-day free then 3 months at kr 639".
Meaning the payment wouldn't just be for the sheet music, but also for signing up for the membership subscription.

A screenshot of a payment window from Musescore.com. It shows checkboxes checked for "No commitments", "Secured personal and payment data", but then a red cross on "Up to 60% discount on scores, books, and courses" then showing a price of "SEK 104.00 for this score", with a toggle next to it, toggled off.
Underneath the price, in smaller text reads "No discount. Turn on to switch to apply your 78% discount".

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 31/05/2026

Discovered that Google Workspace now has more Admin settings to be able to turn off Gemini / Generative AI shite. So... FYI, if you're using Google Workspace. This add-on is also useful for some stuff that lingers (or if you're not using Workspace): addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

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Hide Gemini and Google AI – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Hide Gemini and Google AI for Firefox. Hides AI-generated elements from Google properties, like search results, Google Drive, and more.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 30/05/2026

1. Requirement to download an app or have an account for access to services or being able to pay for something. 2. Anything Generative AI. 3. Lack of offline-friendly apps/services. 4. Buying licenses rather than actually owning things.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

Scientist type:
Modern professional scientist
vs
Enlightenment gentleman scientist

Funding:
research grants and private investment
vs
enormous inheritance

Assistance:
team of ambitious young scientists
vs
maid, nephew, gardener

Method:
cautious experimenting in a controlled environment
vs
test on self at home

Safety:
detailed risk assessments and standard operating procedures
vs
heavy tweeds

Reporting:
paper published in peer-review journal
vs
tell the chaps at the club

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 26/05/2026

I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵

Lingthusiasm podcast in a podcast app
Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
Play, mark played, playlist buttons
A prominently displayed "view transcript" banner with the "AI sparkles"
Description:
Sometimes, you're talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can't seem to get comfortable: they're standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn't quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how can they be so different from each other?

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Whatever you think of Jess Phillips that fourth paragraph is just unanswerable.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 09/05/2026

One of the (many, many) things I resent about "AI" is the implication that videogames are wanting for some kind of technological revolution Artistically, videogames are doing so well imo. What game devs actually need is: affordable rent, stable employment, free education, etc.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/05/2026

the future is worker-owned

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Peter Aidan Byrne @peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

For all the anecdotes I’m always hearing about how this or that social nicety has fallen by the wayside since covid, BY FAR the bigger and more quantifiable societal shift these last few years has been the corporate class dropping all pretence of having any social contract at all with the rest of us

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/04/2026

Yuck. Ew, no. How the hell? 😦

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 21/04/2026

Gosh, the memories... Also, good tune 👌👌👌

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/04/2026

who could have guessed

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

So much about living life is getting harder because we now have to jump through hoops in systems that were designed by technologists without a very good grasp of the humanities. People tuned into that aren't going to be very excited about stuff which makes coding easier! The coding's not the issue!

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 26/03/2026

Almost every day, he's there... whispering away... ... But Jellyfin, not Plex.

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Matt Smith @harmelodic.com · 23/03/2026

If you're comfortable with it, do it. If not, then don't. I don't think trying different methods to assist yourself in getting out of debt is a bad or stupid idea though ☺️ Personally, I find that the limbo / uncertainty of indecision usually sucks more than trying and it not working.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This! 👇🏻

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Greg: And the task was...? Alex: Conquer the city. Greg: And you? Odysseus: Built a giant wooden horse. Greg: And it's impressive. Completely fails the task. Odysseus (suddenly looking very like Jason Mantzoukas): But does it, Greg? Does it? Alex: There was a camera inside the horse.

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