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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14/08/2026

mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/11709465...

Mastodon post from Jake Wharton:

As of today, the Lysine projects (OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and the SQL Delight family) have a contribution policy that forbids LLM usage for creating code and for PR/issue descriptions and comments.
There is an exception for translation assistance provided you disclose its use.
If you choose to use LLMs locally for research, analysis, and/or experimentation we can't stop you. But for contributing we require you to write the code, and for our interactions to be with you.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 13/08/2026

``` Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. ``` This rings very true brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026

Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.

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Alex @webwarlock.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It started with Sony killing Bluepoint for me. First I let PS+ expire and decided to stop buying first-party games on release, but the physical media announcement killed any appetite for giving my money to Sony. Only secondhand discs from now on. And of course, I won't buy a PS6.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 30/06/2026

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

godotengine.org

Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I hope someone, somewhere cracks down on this shit. It’s basically akin to breaking into someone’s shop and stealing all their wares to sell elsewhere. Another example of why GenAI sucks and should be taken down.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

androidessence.com

Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 12/05/2026

The White House says they will “identify and neutralise” political groups that are anti-American, “radically pro-transgender” and anarchist. (www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 27/04/2026

just a reminder that AI graphics in your tech blog posts still look lame ☺️ ❤️

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Will Judd 威廉 @wsjudd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm running my first 10K next week in aid of Cat's Protection. It's been a bit of a crazy year and cats have made it much more pleasant, so it seemed only right to raise some money for them. More details: justgiving.com/page/wsjuddcat

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First 10K! In aid of Cats Protection

Help Will Spike Judd raise money to support Cats Protection

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New Blood Interactive @newblood.games · 25/03/2026

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s...

I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

An interesting case study in how gullible the internet is. I haven’t posted anything on twitter in over a year and never will again (tweet is fake obviously). I also regularly sexualize Malevola myself and have openly said I’m completely okay with others doing so. www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...

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From the KotakuInAction community on Reddit: Discussion: Voice actress of Malevoa, Alanah Pearce, tweeted complaints about her and the character being sexualized, but she swifted deleted it. Thoughts?

Explore this post and more from the KotakuInAction community

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026

There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.

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404 Media @404media.co · 23/02/2026

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Recent Sony game studio acquisitions - 2021: Nixxes - 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024) - 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026) - 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment - 2022: Haven Studios - 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon) - 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024) - 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is a travesty and frankly bullshit. These guys are so talented but people like Jim Ryan, presumably, or foolish investors perhaps just had to chase that awful GAAS trend.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 08/02/2026

When I realized that I need to take 3 different kinds of medicine, several times a day each, for about a week, it was immediately clear which AI tool I'll use to vibe code a tracker app... None of them. This just needs a pen and paper. Get your minds out of the gutter, people.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 28/01/2026

Try a couple decades of shitty emails ranging from simple insults all the way up to death threats from idiot fanboys who can't handle you giving a game "only" 8/10 and see which one puts more calluses on your soul, dummy. You'd fold in six months or less.

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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

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Alex Battaglia @dachsjaeger.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Instead of making robots that reduce our society's need to have back breaking labour and exploit the weakest, these big LLMs keep trying to take away the few moments we have at communal expression: Our writing, our art. That is the opposite direction that it should be going in.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"It's really good at summarising code I don't understand". But, weirdly, it's pretty bad at summarising code I *do* understand.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

me when the AI bubble bursts

3 panel comic

Panel 1: A desperate, panicking Blue Guy screams into his phone: Come Quickly! The AI companies are in trouble!

Panel 2: A Pink Guy, also on the phone, replies: Oh Shit! I’m on my way!

Panel 3: Pink Guy is relaxing in his living room, having a lovely cup of tea. He has no intention of going to help save the AI sinking slop ship.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 01/10/2025

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

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A new layer of security for certified Android devices

Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The funniest thing about how absolute dogshit journalists are at their job, is that when you see a chatbot regurgitate strange sounding phrases the *only way it could do so* is by having stolen them from somewhere. Searching for those weird phrases, yields the source the chatbot stole.

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