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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Learning #Odin feels weird for me. C was my first "high level" language around maybe 1986. 40 years later I have come back to a manually memory managed, closure-less, non-immutable, C-like language and it feels kind of fun 😜

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And, as I said at the start, none of this addresses the very real harms that LLMs have already wrought, and will continue to do so. We cannot let vague concerns about AI safety escape from what this industry has done and will continue to do. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

There are, however, things we can do, per former FTC Chair Lina Khan, if we actually had any interest in doing so:

There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.
If LLMs were a toy, they’d be taken off the shelves. If LLMs were a drug, they would be banned.

I agree that we need to take “AI safely” seriously, but that starts with treating LLMs as normal software run in a reckless and dangerous manner by malevolent entities with little regard for society.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like people who consider themselves hardcore tech types and/or hard-nosed skeptics immune to cons like mysticism are much, much more vulnerable to being bowled over by the feeling of being spoken to by an entity outside themselves that somehow knows their thoughts.

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Baby steps but I now have an Odin+Raylib+Clay app creating a window and putting a button on it. On its own a small step but it means all the components are in place and working.

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And good riddance to the investors that will take a bath if they do.

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These so-called "Frontier" AI companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok (or SpaceX or whatever Elon calls his AI company these days) are all so sickening. They are an example of what desperate hype capitalism creates and they should all fail as an example to the future.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having settled on Odin+Raylib+Clay my goal is to get a simple 1st bit of UI painted with them. This is going to have challenges as I have only a light dusting of the first two and one video watched about the third. Mind you, I like challenging. This feels like learning Elixir & OTP again.

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Until forced to stop, Israel will continue to expand and destroy

Israeli army expands incursion in southern Syria

The Israeli army has expanded its incursion in the southern Syrian governorates of Rural Damascus, Quneitra and Deraa.

An Israeli forces patrol of four vehicles pushed into the al-Amal Farms in the northern Quneitra countryside, setting fires there before withdrawing from the area, our colleagues on the ground reported.

Israeli forces also fired seven artillery rounds at the edges of Beit Jin in the western Damascus countryside, before pushing into the town’s southern entrance.

The army set up a checkpoint nearby and searched several farmers.

Israel has escalated raids and artillery shelling across southern Syria despite US-brokered security talks between Damascus and Israel

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is the bank of A/I condemning the use of counterterrorism laws to silence dissent. They said they were forced to shut A/I’s account down for fear of consequences. This is an Italian bank afraid of the US gov

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Is "adjusted operating income" the new "community-adjusted EBITDA"?

Very happy to discover that the Clay UI library (nicbarker.com/clay) has #Odin bindings out of the box. That was the missing piece of the puzzle. Thank you Nic Barker.

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Clay - UI Layout Library

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Odin + Raylib tutorials - YouTube

#Raylib has been a great discovery. Been following @zylinski.se video series www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and they're very good.

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Playlist on how to make games using Odin + Raylib

Not sure why I wasn't a good fit for the Jai beta but I'm not going to get my nose bent out of shape about it. It drove me to check out Odin after all 😀

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I haven't written much #odin code yet but I have been devouring @zylinski.se book and find much I like. Whatever my next project that isn't a good fit for the BEAM is, I think I will be using Odin. I was hoping to get into the Jai beta but Odin+Raylib(+Clay I hope) feels like a powerful combination.

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Fascists are being told that they can get away with a lot in the UK as long as they target non-whites

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you've never tried working while listening to Bach's Brandenburg concerto's I highly recommend it. Even in a relatively noisy environment they create a bubble in which I can think more easily and get into flow. It's a trick I've used for years and kind of assumed everyone knew about.

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Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why on earth is this buried in Hampshire local news? Can I have legitimate concerns about the rise of fascists in the UK? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The vast majority of people who ‘debate’ immigration have no understanding of the phenomenon they’re ‘debating’. Just look at the people who voted for leaving the EU thinking it’ll mean better control over the UK’s borders and therefore fewer brown migrants and asylum seekers. They had no idea.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI want to IPO with their disastrous financials and facing difficult headwinds. OpenAI also claim AGI is here. I wonder if these two facts could somehow be related?

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Private Eye has been writing about this for 10+ years

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My first impression is that #odin is the C that if it had been around in the mid-'90s you wouldn't have been impressed with C++ and it's "classes". I'm still not sure about the 'batteries included' vs a package manager but I'm enjoying the ride so far.

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI will <outlandish claim here>, says <man with extraordinary financial interest in making such a claim> is not a headline you want to be writing uncritically

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 07/09/2026

With universal basic income, there would be no kids with student lunch debt, there would be far fewer people in prison, and if people in prison continued getting UBI, they'd also have more ability to donate money to help others.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I presume that ChatGPT is written with Astra and Claude Code is written with Mythos. Does that explain why the ergonics of both are so utterly shit? I use Claude Code but grit my teeth because it's an abomination. Mediocrity winning again.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/09/2026

Making sure that unpaid care work is supported is great, but limiting it to only married couples and reducing the support for single and unmarried working parents just isn't the right way to go about it. The right way to do it is universal basic income.

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What one has to remember, when reading an AI puff piece that has plausible-looking notes of caution in it, is that The Guardian is in partnership with OpenAI. I found myself looking for the "sponsored advertorial" badge that never came.

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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI

A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Far right elected in Germany and appeasement of the wrong'uns here. Life is going to get harder and this kind of nonsense will increase if we don't set out our expected standards and show how we will enforce them.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The next task is to remove all the grotty string interpolated hackery in Aura's lowering process with structured IR builders.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After a quick rename from ExLLVM to Wyvern, my #Elixir based #LLVM IR builder API is now released: hex.pm/packages/wyv... I suspect there are not many people writing Elixir and wanting to emit LLVM IR, but if you do there is a library for it now.

Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm not American but I am wondering why America seems so sanguine about Elon Musk (to pick a rich person at random) being able to dump unlimited amounts of money into getting the candidate they want elected.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Turns out there are a huge number of fiddly bits in the LLVM spec around calling conventions, function params, and so on. It's not hard, just fiddly and means a bit more work and some refactorings. I still hope to have a usable ExLLVM v1 this week.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the benefits of #emacs is that you can usually just drill right into the source code of an editor function. It helps to know Lisp (I know Clojure which is close enough for me to get a high-level read of the code) but often it's well enough commented to get useful understanding anyway.

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Matt Mower @sandbags.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Okay #emacs powerup eglot+expert lsp+completion-preview+yasnippet and I have working, unobtrusive, completion of Elixir code.