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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 08/10/2026

yes. but distributed / federated systems are a longstanding interest of mine. and it was a while before I could clearly articulate the architectural differences compared to say ActivityPub

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 27/09/2026

I think it looks rad, like it could be either a media player icon or a cuneiform logogram

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 16/09/2026

the people crave bluesky social credit scores

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A big goal of mine is to have aggregate scores for account toxicity. Some folks drag down the quality of the conversation and drive users off this site. We'll get there by calculating how often someone is toxic, and eventually move to restricting their visibility to broader accounts.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The stability of many things, I believe, rest on the limited capabilities of idiots. But what if we made idiots much more capable.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 12/09/2026

were you delayed at self-checkout because you didn't put things into your reusable bag in the correct way while being surveilled? because that happened to me this morning

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 11/09/2026

P(annoying) through the roof

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 08/09/2026

>100 replies yesterday. throughout linear time, there has never been a group of people that should do fewer posts

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 07/09/2026

if he works hard and learns to love himself, one day he can be on the same side as librarians (the correct side)

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 07/09/2026

brb need to split my "slop" moderation list into "slop a" through "slop d" for the sake of precision

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 03/09/2026

attempting to be the gmail of atproto, the twitter of atproto, and the cloudflare of atproto all at once was a bad plan for a distributed/federated ecosystem, and it continues to be a bad idea operationally!

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/09/2026

I have heard many times now that the genie is out of the bottle on this stuff appearing anywhere and everywhere. seems to me a consequence of that is necessarily that lots of people will now have an opinion to express, and whether or not that opinion is warranted or well-informed is incidental

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 01/09/2026

it has come to mind again in the last couple weeks, that's for sure

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 28/08/2026

in contrast to a menu that had illustrations, or just words and no photos, the opaque quality of slop in general means it becomes more difficult to evaluate whether it's "that way" because of a lack of resources or a lack of effort

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 21/08/2026

I seem to recall this person instructed a bot to write a sad blog post about how bluesky users were mean to it

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/08/2026

stop showing me the horrid burrito, you demons

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

there's a whole lot going on in "AI discourse" but a lot of it arises from people who work in tech still not getting it that the baseline perception of their work has been shifting hard for at least a decade, from "one of the more positive aspects of society" toward a much more ambivalent view

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Productivity," like "the economy," are totally disconnected from the lived reality of billions of people, and this is precisely the frame AI adopts to force itself into improving-society arguments: nobody liked losing their job to globalization, losing them to lobotomization is no more appealing.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 18/08/2026

had to just thousand-yard stare for a few minutes after reading that

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 18/08/2026

Gruber: > I don’t even use AI to write text messages or emails for me, let alone a single sentence of my work... > I read the output of LLMs every day. I use AI to generate text because I ask it questions (in text). I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse...

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 05/08/2026

the specific combination of labels even hints at what specific subtype

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 05/08/2026

"this account run by a poaster" labels are undefeated, could not imagine looking at this site without them

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 03/08/2026

to me sometimes it comes across as an untethered utopianism, more than avarice. but I think that just comes down to asking whether someone is a mark for confidence men or for cult leaders

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 03/08/2026

I keep running into posts on this site that say things like "we won't need a VCS in the future, just regenerate the code from spec and deploy it!" and "this is awesome, I can code a dogshit webapp every weekend!" and my entire brain lights up with "ONLY YOU WANT THIS". How does it become invisible??

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/08/2026

people are sick and tired of it, can't really blame them. and a lot of the anti-anti-AI stuff I bump into has fatal irony poisoning, to boot.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 01/08/2026

literally go around every single day feeling how little trust I have left in any of it. in anyone.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 31/07/2026

to me "people don't actually care about their data" is definitely on the "took the black pill" list. to the extent it's true, it's relevant to marketing, not principles

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 31/07/2026

that's why Archive Team exists, why people scrambled to save their precious data from being DOGE'd, why I spent time recently trying to help a friend get her digital music collection back. the caring happened at the wrong time.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 31/07/2026

exactly this; people don't care about their data in the same way that companies I have worked for don't care about (verified/well-tested/off-site) backups. when it's suddenly gone and they have no recourse, they care a whole lot. not so much when it's all going great. recency bias.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 31/07/2026

what is up with all the cursed vibes developer posting lately. I guess I just have to block a bunch of people and go outside

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 30/07/2026

well I've been informed that this is only due to copyright law weirdness and it definitely has nothing to do with a depraved indifference to the fate of the commons

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 29/07/2026

I think this is the same reason "cyber warfare" looks like gov't websites being DDoS'd and raspberry pi guidance systems strapped to cheap bombs, rather than Terminators striding over corpses and power plants exploding

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 29/07/2026

processing data at scale can solve an optimization problem or munge one kind of information into another, but it can't do any work on its own. no motors have ever been turned by ones and zeros. best it can give you is to shorten a loop or show where effort can be spared.

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JS @cranksatori.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

woims

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 26/07/2026

may it get ever more decentralized around these parts. let a jillion PDSes bloom

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 25/07/2026

seems like a degree is going to feel like a mute point after being pelted with eggcorns

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 08/07/2026

I do, quite often. but I have accepted that I am weird. the median publication date for fiction I read is probably 60-70 years ago

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 07/07/2026

I mean I get this one some level, but these same people presumably did not see the results of "let two companies have an unchecked advertising monopoly" or "no more physical media, just streaming services and download-to-rent" on a technical/societal level, and look where we are these days.

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 03/07/2026

I love it on its own, but also, every day for the last week I have been cackling to myself at intervals about the question this comic implies: "mustache over or under the covers?"

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/07/2026

so if you notice anything let me know. my therapist would probably also appreciate it

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/07/2026

would love to even ask "What in the commons can be saved for us?" and get an actual answer that has considered their value

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picklefactory @picklefactory.org · 02/07/2026

what I have mostly seen so far involves mockery, delusions of state willingness or regulatory capacity, and handwaving around specifics. but truly, I would love to see anything substantial at this point. anything.

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