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

AlbertaTech is another suspect influencer who suddenly has a lot of pro-Anthropic takes.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116072957268878414

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

I've stopped listening to Hank Green because of his Anthropic shilling. I wrote about it here:

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

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

The "quitgpt" website sounds like a leftist movement but is almost certainly a faux-grassroots effort by friends of Anthropic.

I've lost count of how many times Anthropic and the tech community has tricked liberals simply because people aren't taking the time to do research.

The irony. Liberals are falling for this shit because of a lack of media literacy and an inability to consume media through a critical lens.

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/#inflicting-unreviewed-code-on-collaborators

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Through the Emacs keybinding journey:

- left option = meta, right option = option
- both option keys = option, command = meta
- both option keys = meta, command keys = command

I have to use Emacs’s native compose for “special” characters, but this still works best for a Mac-native touch typist.

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.

And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.

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

My posts on Bluesky seem to have caught the attention of the vibe coder crowd.

Current highlights:

- You aren’t allowed to worry about HarfBuzz unless you’ve written something like it that’s as popular
- linking to a mastodon thread is abusive (fair, I’ll give them that one
- You should be grateful
- You don’t know what you’re talking about

Mostly, they seem to be an assortment of comments in the ‘all criticism is abusive’ vein. 🤷🏻‍♂️

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I think if you're going to make a habit of posting your slop machine "prompt" followed by the resulting output you should mark your account as a "bot".

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SergKoren@writing.exchange ("Archimage") wrote:

“He was a contract killer. His job was to go in to.a corporation and kill any contracts the company suggested that weren’t beneficial to its workers.”

#writing #throwawayline

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Oh. There are raving racist/eugenicist kooks in the United States government? Is anyone surprised?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/the-rot-is-everywhere/

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

It is Spade release day once again, and 0.17.0 is packed with new features 🎉

It was pretty hard to pick which features to show in this "teaser image", so you should head to the blog to see what other exciting stuff got added :blobcat: https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-17-0/

Full changelog: https://gitlab.com/spade-lang/spade/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref%5Ftype=heads

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

The way Anthropic is leveraging the media to its benefit reminds me of that book "Trust Me, I'm Lying" which goes into detail about how easy it is to get stories planted and to get news blogs to spread your lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%5FMe,%5FI%27m%5FLying

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327

Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:

> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.

I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.

Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a maximalist dystopia.

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simeon@indiehackers.social ("Simeon Nedkov") wrote:

@fromjason https://timschwab.substack.com/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires was an eye opener Re: getting paid.

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

Have y’all seen Very Important People? It’s a “talk show” on Dropout.tv where improvisers get dressed up in movie-quality costumes and they perform an entirely improvised interview.

I’ve only ever watched the clips they post to Youtube, but It’s phenomenal. https://youtube.com/shorts/91xgOX4NCTg

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Dammit, fixing the typo cleared all the existing votes X_X

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aethernaut@mastodon.art ("Neal") wrote:

The best lesson of parenting is, anytime a living thing is acting wacko, check if they need food, water, or sleep

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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116171617825488794

AI is going to ruin the greatest project ever undertaken on the internet.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I find myself somewhat convinced of what most would probably call a conspiracy theory.

It's not the outlandish "therefore {aliens, mind control}" variety. It's much more boring and in line with Big Business MO.

It involves the top-down AI hype, TSMC, the US government, the bubble-shaped economics of LLMs and Nvidia, the recent Anthropic / OpenAI spectacle, and some history lessons about trains and government bailouts.

This is a significant departure from what I normally like to write about.

Should I blog about it?

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ebassi ("Emmanuele Bassi") wrote:

This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/kalibration.website/post/3mgayshkmmc2a

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

The photos I've posted lately are all from Vífilsstaðir, which opened in 1910 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and is now a nursing home. While the main building is in decent condition, the surrounding structures are not.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete

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maciek@hachyderm.io ("Maciek") wrote:

"Human control feels great because everyone reading it thinks it means them."

I love @tante 's posts for gems like this.

https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/

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eatyourgreens ("Evil Jim O’Donnell") wrote:

Propellant, by @beep

“As it turns out, that “growth at any cost” mindset does have an incredibly high cost. Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that — in addition to all their other many failings — these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

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gryphonmyers ("Gryphon Myers") wrote:

@thesamesam @linear @dysfun I've been doing my best to track stuff like this here https://aidirtylist.info/. It has been suggested to me before that it may be useful to integrate this human-curated list into programmatic tools (browser extensions, repository filters, etc). I would fully support such efforts and I welcome more contributors to the list itself

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

Also, this is what brings Mark Pilgrim back to the internet after all these years?

Cursed timeline.