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Justin du Coeur

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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 · 15h

Yeah, this: www.unchartedblue.com/those-democra… I’m very clear: when I get a political text (and I get a lot of them), I “stop” it (not “end”, that’s bullshit they use to confuse you about the fact that they are legally required to […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

(Editorial: 90% of security is knowing how not to be gratuitously insecure in the first place -- including choosing the right tools. My fondness for the #Scala #Typelevel stack isn't *just* because it's fun to use: it's generally well-designed as well, and that at least reduces the attack […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

I'm concerned, but not doomstering to the degree some are. I think some sites will get slammed to the ground, especially ones that are poorly maintained. But this week (especially PHP2Shell, I think) has been a useful wakeup call that companies can no longer treat security as an optional expense […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

There’s nothing quite like [seeing this month getting dubbed "Black October"](https://www.404media.co/php2shell-black-october-ai-is-changing-everything-about-hacking-no-one-knows-what-happens-next/). tl;dr — unsurprisingly, folks are freaking out, with some good reason, over the growing deluge […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Of course, the #AI Zillionaires make nice fluffy noises that "oh, money won't matter any more" and universal basic income and such. *Suuuuure* that'll work. All it takes is for the arch-capitalist class to surrender a very large fraction of their income, and we know how fond they are of doing […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

And yes, there's the usual argument that society always adjusts to tech disruptions: in the long run, it leads to new, better jobs. But even taking that at face value, it usually ignores the fact that those changes take years, sometimes generations, to work their way through -- there's often a […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

[Warning: Hot Take Ahead] I was just reading [Anthropic's post about the way being an #AI-maximalist company is affecting the workplace](https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic). Along with that, I was recently reading [The Economist talking about the way an AI boom might […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Just came across Kurzgesagt's take on the Hugging Face Incident: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD4SxPKOI *Very* doomerist in its editorial viewpoint -- they manage to make the whole thing look even more sinister than it really was, just in their choices of visuals, and they are very […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Interesting little article from #Anthropic, talking about how work works inside the company: www.anthropic.com/research/employme… I know that some folks will dismiss this as #AI marketing fluff; if so, move along. But I found it an interesting and decently honest read. It […]

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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

@alextecplayz Possible, although I don’t know how likely that is — the big enterprises are largely being careful about demanding BAAs and the like that require serious firewalls there. I’d be rather surprised if a big old company like Adobe hadn’t put such a thing in place before allowing […]

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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

@jwisser @harris In all seriousness: usually not. There are a few cases where that's plausible (eg, Musk, who undoubtedly deserves it), but usually the "owners" are basically the entire stock market. There are literally millions of owners of companies like NVidia and OpenAI, and most of them […]

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

@jwisser @harris Problem is, I disbelieve that that actually fixes anything. People have this image of CEOs as all-powerful, but that's usualy bullshit: they report to the Board, who will happily turf the CEO out if they aren't maximizing the almighty Profits. And the Board, in turn, are […]

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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

Mind, this is still #AI, and still running on #Anthropic's network -- even if you trust this specific tool, use some common sense about how much you trust the underlying stack. I'm always a bit cautious about how much information to entrust there. In the specific case of #Querki, the project […]

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

And frankly, it's an intriguing little tool in and of itself. Just glancing through the GitHub repo, it seems to be a nicely-designed example of how to create a focused #LLM suite for a specific purpose. There are a bunch of good-looking details there, including using Haiku for the "cheap" […]

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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

More speculatively: this *feels* to me like a critical step towards #AGI. Literally 30 years ago, I went down a rabbit hole of reverse-engineering cognition from general principles, thinking about what would be involved in doing the same with #AI. I didn't care enough to think through the […]

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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 · 29/08/2026

Worse, remember that at least in the US the #AI industry is *fairly* centralized. But that's not the case in Asia. China's leading #LLMs are open-weight models, which can be picked up, tweaked and run by anybody who wants to run an AI provider. That means that #AI in Asia is likely to become a […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

First -- "reduced" isn't the same as "can't happen", especially when the foxes seem to be increasingly in charge of the hen-houses. One of the most notable aspects of this story is the degree to which the #LLMs are apparently training each other. Much of building a frontier #AI is the […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Continuing this thread about the #HuggingFaceIncident... A friend inside the industry (whose opinion I respect quite a lot) pointed out that they have well-established techniques to avoid this nonsense -- stuff like #AIs policing the other AIs, keeping an eye on their thought processes, to […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

And just to make this crisply clear: the more I look at the #HuggingFaceIncident, the clearer it is that the actual hacking (which I think most folks are still focused on) is a minor detail in perspective. What's far more interesting is *how* and *why* this happened. We're looking at #LLMs […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

OMG, it just... keeps... coming. Anyone interested in #AI / #LLMs should probably take the 25 minutes to watch this horribly interesting video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL9_1GbmCic It summarizes a bunch of the findings from this in-depth METR report on the #HuggingFaceIncident […]

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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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