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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

aka `npm install more code than I've ever written and reviewed in my entire career`

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

Create React App and Axios... rather telling

https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/libraries/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Another quote from the above blog post is heartbreakingly accurate:

> For the first time in my life, I’m suddenly wary of meeting other "computer programmers" in the wild. I feel like there’s a decent chance we won’t actually have much in common, let alone values or morality.

Not helped by the fact that every dev I met in the wild last year was a hop away from being a goose-stepping Nazi, spouting phrases like “some kinds of people should die because they are a burden to society”

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I've cleared out around 90% of the feeds in my feed reader and have been reviewing my social media in stages. I still follow people whose ideas I enjoy but the plan is to unfollow the rest.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

> One by one, I’ve stopped visiting the usual websites and forums. I kept reading them longer than I should have. I was in denial. I thought it would blow over like NFTs or "Web3". I still thought I was among my people and my culture.

This is what I went through last year. I've thought of myself as a software developer who wrote as a part of his craft, but in December a bit flipped in my head and I started to see myself as a writer and photographer who happens to do dev work to pay the bills.

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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I make friends, then suddenly I can't bear to be with any of them.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116073760646396103

> Tech people, by contrast, are observably swayed extremely easily by almost any messaging that's presented to them.

This is a near-universal truth of the tech industry. Most tech people are worryingly malleable by authority in my experience and the theory in the quoted post would explain a lot

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

jwz wrote:

Now you might be thinking, maybe nobody will notice that it's the same 90 seconds on a loop for 7 hours. And that's fair.

It is, after all, a Riddim night.

jwz wrote:

They brought in $50k of LED wall, spent 4 hours installing it, and now are using it to show half a dozen 20 second loops of "free" AI slop on repeat.... for 7 hours.

If someone hands you a microphone, have something to say.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

Open an SVG — is your default app a text/code editor, or a graphic editor?

(Or something else?) #svggate

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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Maryland health officials warn...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

> Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn.

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, it’d be nice for him to confirm he wasn’t paid.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115661497597857345

So, it turns out, Anthropic *is* paying YouTube influencers to shill for them. Funny, I don't remember ever seeing a disclosed Anthropic ad from any content creators.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

"Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn."

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/15/google-microsoft-pay-creators-and.html

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rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

@fromjason "Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, man, I really like AlbertaTech's content but this just straight up reads like an ad for Anthropic.

Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?

https://youtu.be/11sxky4vTcs

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Ohhh right right right, Clawdbot, the free, open source, local AI went viral. So we're pressing the gas on fear mongering.

Because the AI business model doesn't work if it can't be tethered to the cloud using expensive GPUs.

So we need laws against open source models so that Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft etc can control the technology.

https://mashable.com/article/what-is-clawdbot-how-to-try

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Mustachioed man in suit reads from card: All the AI guys now have AI psychosis and military contracts
Crowd in unison: IS. THAT. GOOOOD??

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Little known feature on Mastodon. Did you know you can change the audience of boosts so they don't appear on the federated timeline, or if you want, don't appear on your public profile to non-followers?

Turn on "Show confirmation dialogue before boosting" in Preferences > Appearance, then just click the little globe or padlock icon next to Boost to change the audience.

Edit: This is on the web interface, apps will obvs differ.

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mramsdellpics ("Michael Ramsdell") wrote:

Rally at Tesla - Cincinnati Ohio
Saturday Feb 14th 2026 ❤️

One year anniversary
Larger and larger turn out - Louder horns.
Less middle fingers and hate 😡

#cincy #resist #freedom #nohate #democracy #protest #cincinnati #freespeech #cvg #indivisible #teslatakedown #nokings #ice #noice #mramsdellpics ❤️

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Happy Valentines Day, Threads nerds

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with ‘world in peril’ warning:

"“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote."

The last person to pull this “the world is in peril, I’m leaving” resignation stunt was Geoffrey Hinton from Google. He now works for an AI academic non-profit funded by Google. Sort of ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/14/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-quits.html

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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundles deal (US only) that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Yall ever search for cliche blog post titles and just read them all lol

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I've been trying to teach my cat, Kolka, high five and shake. It's been going alright, but she can get a little too excited when the treats come out. But it doesn't matter, as I'm mostly doing this as an excuse to give her treats.#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #blackcat #rescuecat #video

Attachments:

• video: A cat being forced to do tricks in exchange for treats.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@darkrat @nicuveo
There's a book about that!

"Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@nicuveo This reminded me of many years ago taking a "Philosophy of Logic" course, in which we used software to edit Sentential/Propositional logic equations. Felt a bit like manipulating magic spells. 😊

For example syntax, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%5Flogic#List%5Fof%5Fclassically%5Fvalid%5Fargument%5Fforms

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

I think my favorite piece of media criticism was by James Gandolfini who, asked about the possibility of doing a Sopranos prequel, said, “What, are we gonna wear wigs and girdles? It’ll be like Star Trek.”