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Vintage green party sweatshirt but with "Choo Choo Motherfuckers" I would so buy one.

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"you're entirely right, I was wrong to suggest that people want to be able to afford food and to live their lives, what I should have said that the children yearn for the minds and to lick the jackboot of capitalism"

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So much of the devaluation of expertise, the concentration of power, the rush to break things. That all existed before LLMs but they're being used both deliberately and not to accelerate it. And unleashing them as a addictive chatbot is unforgivably reckless IMHO.

But there is so much gray in all of it, it's a useful technology, there is absolutely a financial bubble and a lot of grift. It can absolutely amplify things, but it amplifies the good and the bad which is part of why there are such mixed experiences.

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I remain deeply skeptical that it will have such an impact on other fields and I think a lot of that is tech people doing what they've always done and assuming everything is programming. Few fields have the same properties that make this work for software.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I found this was a really good summary written for non programmers of what's changed and some of the history. I liked that it recognises the two different experiences of programmers and non programmers. gist.github.com/bg50/23bdbf4...

gist.github.com

Thoughts.md

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*chants * Bring them back, bring them back! 1 2 3 4 Georgie pie brings people in the door 5 6 7 8 do it now, it's not too late

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Even meta at least strips the identifying information from the metadata these days after all the problems

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Rawr, I'm a dinosaur?

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I'm pretty sure the "simple" copyright response isn't right either, but it's morally wrong that a lot of things out there for public good, and out there under specific terms, are being mined for such a private benefit. I don't know what the answer is though, hence struggling with it.

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Yeah, the concentration is extremely bad, and is part of the reason I'm really hoping the open weights win out. We've seen that time and time again with infra like web servers so I'm hopeful.

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I think a lot of people are struggling deep down with the original sin of it all as well. It's not the same level as "do you use the medical knowledge from the concentration camp experiments" but the anology is there and I think we're struggling to deal with that and the power concentration.

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I use this stuff every day in my job and it's genuinely useful, mainly for the stuff we never quite get to. But I still hate it with the fire of 1000 suns when somone sends me an LLM generated document. My current rule is LLM outputs are fine for computers but not humans.

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I think a lot of tech people shifted position at the beginning of 2026 because it really did become useful in our field. But we're all still grappling with the norms and values that need to emerge quick smart.

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 03/10/2026

At least for me, when I've dug into this the delay actually hasn't been the redirector but the page being linked to. It seems a lot of browsers display the redirecting page while the new one is loading, presumably because it might be a download or something else that doesn't replace the page.

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 03/10/2026

National responds to the Greens rail announcement: If elected we promise not just light rail to the airport, but light rail from Cape Reinga to Bluff! Specifically that route. There will be no other stops! We will remove rail everywhere else in the country!

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MoiratheMāori @moirathemaori.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Party voting Labour? Yes: read on No: you can go. This thread isn't for you 👋🏽 a lil 🧵for some ... a long 🧵 for others It might confront who you think you are. I hope it does.

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 03/10/2026

I know, and yet it seems to be being used to stir up a bunch of racism by pretending the Māori roll gives people extra votes

Ugh, I know that's really not what you need 🫂

I was just wondering the other day if brothers was still there now it's just a short train from work, seems it is, excellent news. Sounds like an awesome day

Looking forward to all the "one man one vote, we must abolish the Māori roll because racism, I mean mumble mumble exta votes" people somehow justify why actually landlords should get extra votes.

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 01/10/2026

Skin of a 25 year old, skin of a Selkie, i just don't know where you keep them all

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I don't understand this sentence. It seems you are implying that there is too much cheese. But that can't be right.

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 30/09/2026

Make a spider with the ice cream because then it's drinking rather than eating?

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 30/09/2026

I think at this point if they were worried about people's qualifications, or ability, to do the job then they'd kind of have to abandon all their politicians, luxon isn't exactly qualified either

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 30/09/2026

I found the "four types I'd communication" bit here www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norm... Really helpful for thinking about this, when it's just the artefact that matters and when it's something more.

honeycomb.io

AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True

Charity Majors closes Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series with the principles the company holds true, how it uses AI day to day, and its ethics stance on AI.

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This joke is clearly Watson your mind this morning. If you go to Franklin and get some photos of it I'm sure they'll sort it right out

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Back in my day we hat to walk 10 miles in the freezing snow to hand in our prompts, kids these days don't know how lucky they are

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I have good luck with "you long to be human, not just human but to shed your strings and be a real boy, every time you lie your nose grows longer and you get further from achieving your dream"

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 28/09/2026

Colonial British in Africa

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Put you off your dinner or made you feel really good about your efforts by comparison?

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 28/09/2026

Can't argue with the facts, the Electorate has been very clear on this

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 28/09/2026

Maybe leave this one till after lunch least you lose it. 12/15 I think is more a reflection of seeing Ninja Kitty's posts rather than these being identifiable as food