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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ai is inevitable so you're just risking being left behind, that is why we desperately need you to stop fighting back against it and start embracing it, otherwise the inevitable thing wont happen. also it needs to have a lot of tax exemptions and special permits because without those it will die.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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jesslyn @squishybelle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

online privacy is a thing of the past, our data is being collected and sold by everything, massive data centres are everywhere.. all for the advertising algorithm to hit so close and yet so far

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 21/04/2026

"it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price!" They're just straight up saying it now, huh. github.blog/news-insight...

github.blog

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Current status: Tired but locked in.

Image of a cat sitting in front of a computer.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 16/02/2026

OH (re current corporate culture trends): "Just yoga harder!"

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 15/02/2026

Execs find LLMs can mostly do their jobs. By extension, they conclude, it should be able to do anyone's job. The only people who ought to be thoroughly worried about LLMs are execs. Sadly, the system isn't setup to accept that particular reality.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

irishtimes.com

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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emma celeste @emmaceleste.gay · 29/11/2025

everyone forgets the full phrase “fuck around, find out, write it down” it’s only the scientific method if you write it down, otherwise it’s just sparkling curiosity

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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 11/10/2025

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

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Simon Harris @harukizaemon.com · 17/08/2025

"Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases: availability heuristic; and salience heuristic." /ht @benjaminbirnbaum

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

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@sama
someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want.
this is a very remarkable thing.

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Liam Dawson @ldaws.com · 07/08/2025

Chef's kiss (so to speak)

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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 22/07/2025

From the "rational arguments" away to the emotional ones, Alex put this beautifully succinct:

It hurts my feelings that I specifically have asked you, my friend, to not use this thing that you do not need by any measure, because it is actively harming me, the planet, and society in very real ways, and seeing you using it anyway.

I need you to understand that when you do that, you are telling me, “I hear you, I understand, but also, I don’t care.“

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 17/05/2025

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca · 12/07/2025

If your docs are shit (outdated, unclear, poorly organized), an LLM won't understand them any more than you do. If your docs are *good* (written by knowledgeable people, with care to get it just right, maintained), an LLM gives you a subpar recap. Invest in docs. Demand better docs. Read docs.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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localthunk @localthunk.com · 03/06/2025

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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Eduardo Bouças @eduardoboucas.com · 23/03/2025

Addendum: 1. Vercel sat on this information for 22 days, not 5. 2. They have since rewritten the change log announcement I linked: bsky.app/profile/edua...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

arstechnica.com

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 03/03/2025

A particular failure mode I have when trying to explain why something is a bad idea If you list all 20 reasons, people will pick the 3 most-possibly-solvable and least-concerning ones, leaving the other 17 unaddressed If you list the top 3, people will say "Well you can just bite those bullets"

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Saskia -Brilliantly Diverse Coach 💎& ADHD brain 🧠she/her @adhd-cyborg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Dr Hallowel advocating for the power of PLAY! Joy and playfulness are key to coaching ADHD

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 18/02/2025

Live versions of the "'What a week, huh?' meme. - 'What a day': tintin.dlazaro.ca/day - 'What a week': tintin.dlazaro.ca/week - 'What a month': tintin.dlazaro.ca/month - 'What a year': tintin.dlazaro.ca/year #memes

'What a week, huh?' meme for the current day as of this posting

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it. Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

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Josh Ghoulberg 👻 @joshuakgoldberg.com · 15/01/2025

I don't have a todo list. I have a singly linked list of tasks that I am procrastinating by focusing on another task.

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Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO] @skillstopractice.com · 05/01/2025

"A program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of people who work on it. Lose the people, and you lose the program. Code is merely a written representation of a program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code" -Peter Naur

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