Reposted by @siliconheaven.netButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 6hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 3429081081
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 9hHow come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat... 19323
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netAsh in China @ashinchina.bsky.social · 21hi do enjoy the loony tunes aspect of China's offroad community 1022557
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 568211974115
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netDavid Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com · 06/10/2026blogged: A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over dbushell.com/2026/10/07/s...dbushell.comA sustainable web career, for when all this blows overThe one where I provide employment advice. 3346
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10993722942
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/20261200 sexual assault reports in 6 years. That’s 1 every 2 days. Only 7 resulted in an expulsion or dismissal. Only 14 resulted in a suspension. Cornell is a rapist factory. Drive it out of business. Also, only 5-13% of college women who are assaulted report it. That’s 5-6 assaults a day.m.economictimes.comCornell University gang rape case reveals 1200 sexual assaults reported between 2018-24, only 7 expulsion even as over 51 people were found responsible; trend follows in NYU, Coloumbia and major NewYo...Between 2018 and 2024, Cornell University documented 1,200 instances of sexual misconduct, yet only a handful of disciplinary measures were taken. Merely seven students faced expulsion, and 14 others ... 11497184
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netAngela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"it can make mistakes" then don't use it. how is this the world we live in. 1438023
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netMichelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · 30/09/2026150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.lonestarleft.comHow Texas Turned Voter Registration Into A Political Weapon150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday. 07329
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself. 371601325
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas 231319187
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netberserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I will engage with what you wrote. While I appreciate that you're speaking as an economist to other economists, it's this exact lens that has blinkered you far more than any ideological commitments. 2163
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think…. 19141541285
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netDamon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means. AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws. 117145
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 15565291140
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netDr. Hal O. Ween @basculelock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think lib folks understand that the fascists are planning to find a bunch of "voter fraud" to call the election into question, etc, and this 'voting-is-magic' approach is going to feed right into that. I, for example, should not be voting for my own safety and in order to prevent our 221
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 20735722297
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 351630478
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 44867341842
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026idk if it would alleviate my long term fears BUT i will say, if there's a pricing squeeze coming as the top AI companies scramble for profit, it's gonna be *very* funny to observe from the sidelines as my life is strictly improved and my work is completely unaffected 525813
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netInDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Having to build agents at work, the problem is they in theory could be best at tasks that are slightly too unstructured to be easily done with a python script, but you still have to be like 85% of the way there, and the trade off is less deterministic. I never can get my bosses to understand this 1556
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6153052130
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netThe Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️⚧️🌲🇵🇸 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Toyota Hilux really is the grave of empires 1140249
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US. 18836500
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netberserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Anyone who disagrees with you online is probably a bot created by a foreign agent" is far more insidious than actual foreign interference 361
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netScience Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The risks in using AI without paying attention to what's going on under the hood are plainly foreseeable. But it feels like one of those dangers where every single person is going to have to learn it for themselves by getting burned. 06617
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield. 9981269
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netPublius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A good 75% of my issues with cops would go away if they didn't have guns. And the other 25% would go away if the DA's office didn't work for them. 1303
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not. 631165173
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netkaranormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025tech bro is short for technically broken 3259581468
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026p̞̈͑̚͞ā̤̓̍͘ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑ t̲̂̓ͩ̑ḣ̖̻͛̓ẹ̿͋̒̕ p̞̈͑̚͞ư̡͕̭̇ḿ̬̏ͤͅp̞̈͑̚͞ 532672547
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me 9534105
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5256181273
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there are posts claiming KFC or McDonalds is people meat, that's because Americans are so uneducated they are reverting to a pre-literate peasant mindset. If they did not personally see it, it is not real they cannot believe words about battery farms because they didn't see it with their eyes 926623
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day 382372383
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEybuff.lyMy Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ... 1389129
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Poor people are actually so fucking resourceful more of us should get to own the home we live inside of!!!! 2394
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netWolfy D. Lucca 🌘🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 21/09/2026more people own homes under communism 510713
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We're all having such a bad time 719454
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Oh, you want to abolish ICE? Well, if they're gone, who's going to be terrorizing our cities and killing people in the streets? Huh? Did you think about that?" 331507189
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netAndrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump’s goons shoot someone, now it’s the usual playbook: 1) DHS says obvious lie about what happened 2) lie is proven to be a lie, DHS doubles down anyway 3) reassign the agent, no consequences 4) DOJ investigation of the victim and protestors demanding justice 547498
Reposted by @siliconheaven.net🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886302303
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136502899
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI. 2241441196
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netzeu @zeu.dev · 19/09/2026a reminder that i got called slurs for saying that linux is what they call “woke” and that DHH isn’t a good guy. do NOT normalize bigots in our tech communities. it isn’t political, it’s just human decency. retract all omarchy funding. be good. 323136
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026No object can be smart. Thinking that is the real failure of imagination. If the PEOPLE who own and control a technology that can kill us, then they should tell us exactly how. 528141
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netoctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026absolutely fucking outrageous more background below. you can take action by telling CBS and the government of Honduras and others what you think about this and just being LOUD about it 4212133
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 18/09/2026Claude is making all of your otherwise nice web projects look like a fugly brown pair of cole haan oxfords 713713
Reposted by @siliconheaven.netassbutt @nasboat.org · 17/09/2026I am so goddamn tired of this shit. support transgender people or fuck off forever 301438238
