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Justin du Coeur

@jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

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Geek for all seasons, especially #SCA, #LARP, #scifi, #boardgames, #comics. Avid programmer, focused on #FP #Scala, especially #Typelevel he/him [bridged from social.coop/@jducoeur on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Just watched _Good Luck! Have Fun! Don't Die!_, and holy *crap* that's a fascinating movie. It's just as much a horror movie as a science-fiction one: expect quite a lot of both scary and creepy. And I confess, I'm not sure the story actually holds together logically, but it's a time-travel […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I’m fully a month behind the times, apparently, but this is an absolute delight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWiE_gL9mU (A get-out-the-#vote video from the cast of #Hamilton.) #USPol, but a happy detail for a change

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Wow, even by the standards of the #fascist #Trump regime, this is some exceptionally wanna-be-autocrat bullshit: apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-searc… #USPol

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Fascinating post from #Anthropic: www.anthropic.com/engineering/redes… tl;dr — since they’re seriously #AI-maximalist over there, with nigh-infinite quotas, they’ve gotten to the point where they’re trying to juggle on the order of 30 *thousand* code changes per day […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is a wonderfully evocative page, showing just how much of the world is held up by a tiny number of #OpenSource developers: sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th… Well worth bookmarking for when you're in a conversation with someone who doesn't understand the scale of the […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Just so everyone is crystal-clear, #ICE is absolutely *not* limiting their attention to immigrants. They’re illegally attacking American citizens as well, and quite a lot of them: projects.propublica.org/american-ci… The #Trump #fascists like to pretend […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A bit weird and amusing to find out something about next-door #Vermont from the BBC, but this article is delightful to see: www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/202609… tl;dr — Vermont has a growing program to […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A week or two old, but this half-hour video from Patrick Boyle is well worth a watch if you’re interested in the #AI Bubble: youtu.be/T-oXyXwD6sE tl;dr — the video is basically examining the question “How does all the noise about a $2 trillion IPO for #Anthropic make any sense?” The […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today in “yeah, #AI is changing the rules”, I just came across #ArtCraft: getartcraft.com/apps tl;dr — this whole project is basically a gigantic “fuck you” to #Adobe. They’re building ground-up, open-source, clean-room reimplementations of all the major Adobe tools, using Opus to write […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: social.growyourown.services/@homegr… Seriously, folks — it’s way past time for the #SCA to get the hell off #Facebook, but this looks to be the nail in the coffin…

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Ah, neat -- #YourLocalEpidemiologist's NY branch is now formally expanding to the whole northeast: yourlocalepidemiologistny.substack.… For anyone who doesn’t know it, YLE has been a sensible, calm source for public-health information since the beginning of the pandemic. It’s pretty […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

For the #comics fans: I just got introduced to the Sweet Shop app, a new platform for digital comics that seems to get the details right, including: * Bootstrapped instead of VC-funded (so much less prone to #enshittification) * Leans towards DRM-free when they can (although they allow […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Epic and delightful game of 20 Questions that I just learned about for the first time: www.tumblr.com/thestoryofaslut/8290… (Vague content warning as kink-related, but the post itself is entirely SFW.)

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

For a long time, I’ve been applauding _The Boys_, the raucous and gory but brilliant political satire that involves a deeply psychotic superhero committing, essentially, a Christo-fascist coup of the US. One of the most marvelous things about it was how blatantly clear the parallels to the […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The #enshittification of #Google continues apace. I’m going to be staying at a hotel soon. I want to put that in my Saved list in Google Maps. Nice and straightforward you’d think, right? No — when I put the address into Google Maps on my laptop, it shows me *all the hotels in that area*. (Of […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Really excellent take on the bloody “Lesbian Bar Mask Mandate” story that’s taken over the internet the past few days: awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/le… This one’s hard to summarize into a tl;dr — the article’s a little long, but worth reading for a bit of […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines”: www.frogandtoad.ai tl;dr — this is a cute, quick little children’s story that also serves as a pretty accurate summary of the HuggingFace Incident. Well worth bookmarking for anybody who is trying to figure out what the hubbub was […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

*snrk* — quote: “... what might be called #Trump’s iron-clad Law of Military Achievement: The number of times the president claims victory is inversely proportional to the actual extent of American military success” From […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Oh, this looks neat: structural.chat This is the latest product from the #Unison team (who I knew from the #Scala world back before they founded Unison). Haven't read my way through the papers yet, but the (very reasonable-sounding) theory seems to be that #LLMs are actually a pretty […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Speaking of prescient, @harris just pointed me to this excellent article: estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/arti… This posits the notion of the "moral crumple zone": using humans to take the blame when a complex system like #AI does something wrong. The "prescient" is because it […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This is a fine example of *my* concerns about the dangers of #AI: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-u… Many people freak out about "the bots are going to take over the world!" I'm dubious -- that's panicking about a scenario […]

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Harris Lapiroff @harris.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@jducoeur @alltrails It's wild how many services just don't at all account for the possibility that their users might be using a password manager :(

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Name and shame time: I went to log into @alltrails, 1Password entered my username and password (as usual) -- and now #AllTrails has *completely locked out my browser*, apparently on the grounds of "Rapid taps or clicks". Yes, I get that you want to get bots off your backs. *Everyone* is trying […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

My review of the #TV show _The Boys_: jducoeur.dreamwidth.org/1671461.html tl;dr: a brilliant satire of modern society -- media, politics, religion, fascism and all -- told through a lens of corporate-managed superheroes. Highly recommended, with the *big* caveat that it comes with […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Rather delicious article from a few days ago: www.pcmag.com/news/laid-off-develop… tl;dr - it's an #LLM suite created by a bunch of laid-off engineers, to show that the heads of companies are just as replaceable. I had noticed […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Today's in "Oh, for fuck's sake": democrats-appropriations.house.gov/… The headline basically says it all: House Democrats are calling out the #DoD for trying to steal money that was […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Today's #LLM fun -- bots writing to Bruce Schneier to report security issues they've found: www.schneier.com/?p=72579 The first one is actually insightful. It's an #AI under strict instructions to identity itself as such (good), and it's cranky that the web infrastructure generally […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Interesting little blog post from Li Haoyi (who I know from the #Scala community): www.lihaoyi.com/post/JoiningAMItowo… It's basically a diary entry, saying that he's joined AMI Labs, but what makes it interesting is that he goes into what they *do* -- developing […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Oooh, neat -- @Bonfire has officially released its #Communities module: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-f… I backed the project, and I'm overjoyed to see it coming to fruition. The world *desperately* needs a good open-source, open-network, open-community alternative to […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

#YourLocalEpidemiologist's guide to the upcoming seasonal #vaccine situation in the US: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.co… tl;dr -- it seems surprisingly okay by the standards of #DarkestTimeline? My takeaway is that the insurance companies are doing […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The #HuggingFaceIncident continues to be the gift that keeps giving -- this postmortem from #OpenAI appears to be nicely detailed and honest (kudos to them for setting a good example in that), and is *fascinating* in its details: openai.com/index/hugging-face-incid… […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

For the #Scala geeks in the audience, a terribly interesting new proposal from Martin over on the Scala Contributors Forum yesterday: contributors.scala-lang.org/t/pre-s… tl;dr -- let's do nullables, but do them better. This not only […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I can't decide where this upcoming #Steam #game, Dice Hoarder, sits on the scale between "complete waste of time" and "necessary relaxation tool": store.steampowered.com/app/3687090/… But those aren't mutually exclusive, and I could easily see it being a delightful bit of […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

This week's Last Week Tonight (on the subject of the horrors of trying to cancel subscriptions, and the #darkPatterns involved there), reminded me -- Name and Shame Time: #Angi (formerly the decently-useful Angie's List). I went to cancel my long-unused subscription last week, and I succeeded […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@PatrickBoyle takes a dive into the #AI #Bubble, why you're probably already invested in it even if you don't realize it, and the fact that it's not so easy to find good alternatives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTiYaWFP59Q Nothing I didn't already know there, but I lived through the Dotcom […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Dear heavens, this is article in the Atlantic is so very Peak #Trump: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/202… tl;dr -- he wants to rework the […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

The past couple of weeks, I've been dipping my toe into using #LLMs for drafting slides and articles at work. I wrote up my thoughts here: jducoeur.dreamwidth.org/2026/08/19/… tl;dr -- I'm treating it very much the way I use the things for coding, and I'm […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Wonkish, and a couple of weeks old, but this YouTube video (about 30min) is *thoroughly* worth watching IMO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NufJ7g63KSY In it, @PatrickBoyle explains in nice clear detail the stuff I've been sort of hot-take asserting for a long time: how the #AI industry's […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"GitHub is down" is the modern version of "Major blizzard hits the East Coast", in terms of bringing work to a standstill. Sigh...

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I find #LLMs more useful (for certain use cases) than many of my friends, but I try to be honest with myself that the #AI *industry* is broadly evil. Sometimes that degenerates to almost "mustache-twirlingly evil" (at least for those of us who are bibliophiles), as in this report from […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

This article from @404mediaco is one of the most magnificent :headdesk: incidents I've seen in a while: www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-… tl;dr -- #Microsoft's new product "Scout" is apparently a rebranded […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I wish I could even say that this was surprising for the US (which it isn't, given how awful our prisons can be), but this account of a few of the 911 calls coming out of the Camp East Montana concentration camp (sorry, "immigration detention center") is still ghastly […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Apparently the next version of the Unreal Engine is going to include a fascinating new #programming language, named Verse: verselang.github.io/book/00_overview I don't adore *everything* about it, but it's quite principled, adapting lots of good ideas from other languages (and maybe […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

On the one hand, this seems entirely reasonable and sensible under the circumstances. But OTOH, I really want this scene to be included in the eventual black comedy movie made somebody is sure to make about the #Trump regime […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Wow, as if I needed more reasons to never buy a #BMW: www.techspot.com/news/113327-bmw-pu…

BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings up a banner on the Control Display, and tapping it launches a full-screen Spider-Man animation with music and ambient lighting effects. BMW says... Read Entire Article

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Fascinating analysis of the Chinese public's reaction to #AI, why it appears different from the average in the US (ostensibly much more enthusiastic), and providing the deeper context of *why* folks there have that reaction and what it really means […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

www.epi.org/deportation-calculator does a lovely job of concisely showing the cost of US mass deportations, and what all that money means in terms of Things We Don't Get to Have. Nice item to have in your utility belt when talking about this topic. #USPol

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

The US #fascist regime is getting good at cranking out political prisoners in the best #Putin-esque style: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/autumn-hi… #USPol

Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Unsurprisingly, the problems that led to the HuggingFace Incident aren't unique to OpenAI: www.anthropic.com/news/investigatin… Points to Anthropic for pro-actively checking whether they'd made similar mistakes, and owning up to the resulting analysis […]

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djspiewak.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @djspiewak.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

A code of conduct is the HR department of open source. It exists to protect the community and the project maintainers from bad actors, not to protect the actors (bad or otherwise) from the maintainers. Project maintainers are, by definition, accountable through very different mechanisms […]

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