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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are lots of apps and libraries and tools that I already liked, that are getting infested with AI and either staying the same or getting worse. I would be lying if I said that everything was decaying into obvious slop, some quite high-quality projects are staying high-quality as far as I can tell. But there's no big leaps in functionality, no cool new features or better docs. Best case scenario is things kinda keep bumping along, with the maintainers *claiming* some efficiency I can't see.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If the technology is, in fact, so self-evidently great, then you could go off and build cool shit with it, prove us all wrong, and demonstrate the net utility argument you're trying to make all in one. Log the fuck off! Stop diddling with your giant pile of markdown files that beg the robot to please stop making mistakes and BUILD SOMETHING GOOD!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am arguing against AI because I think it's actively bad if you use it. It's making my life worse. It's probably making _your_ life worse. I have specific, concrete, enumerated harms which I which to reduce in the world. But I cannot understand the desire to argue _back_ against this so forcefully and so sneeringly.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay I have successfully avoided responding to any of these directly but after having seen like the TENTH post today saying something like "we don't need to convince you to like AI, the revolution is coming whether you like it or not" I just have to reply, generally, to this whole sentiment: OKAY THEN. IF WE ARE GETTING LEFT BEHIND THEN LEAVE US BEHIND, ALREADY

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Glyph") wrote:

truly, spoken like a man who doesn't know what trains or bicycles are

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3muu7gtsryc2a

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maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

William Faulkner: The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

William Gibson: The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Me: Jesus Christ. No wonder I don't know what day it is.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's actually shocking to me how few western politicians understand the pro-Russian through-line between all of these far-right parties. When Trump, Farge, the AFD, etc. all fail the "what would they do differently if they were Kremlin plants?" test, you have to wonder.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe wrote:

@jonny it's real :O

teaser trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI

news post https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/telluride-2026-secret-screening-nathan-fielder-documentary-1235215219/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

reporting and blocking people after a spree of several different dimensions of The Discourse and it’s always so disappointing when they’re a follower. never gonna make it to 10k if I keep having to block everybody that thinks I should be deported to el salvador because of miscegenation or whatever

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eevee wrote:

it's very weird having a new kind of software described to me the same way a pandemic was. "repeated exposure may give you brain damage and it even kills a few people, but it's here to stay so you'll just have to get used to it"

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org ("GoToSocial") wrote:

hello nerds, can you help #GoToSocial out with a monthly donation to our OpenCollective?

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

we're trying to get together an income of a few thousand euros a month to supplement @dumpsterqueer and @kim's work on GoToSocial; currently we're on 1200ish per month, which is amazing, but we'd like to end up around 2400 / month, or ideally more! that will give us a lot more freedom to continue to work on the project full time without having to look in consternation at our bank accounts, and worry about grant money running dry

if we get enough, we can even eventually look at welcoming another developer to the gotosocial treehouse to assist us in pulling bugs off the sloth, combing its hair etc

if you work at a company that would be interested in sponsoring us by sending donations to our OpenCollective, in exchange for a mention / logo on our docs and website, we're very open to that, assuming the company aligns with our ethics (see our code of conduct to get an idea)

to discuss that, you can send an email to admin@gotosocial.org and we'll talk!

please boost and share, thank you so much for your help!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the story of the mental health impact of agentic engineering is increasingly serious and science is not remotely keeping pace with the actual experience in the field. we have had a big problem in the software engineering community for decades with treating our teams and our *selves* as replaceable cogs who just output code and need to be able to white-knuckle our way through emotional impacts of the work and on the work, but LLMs are accelerating this tendency towards a true crisis

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

bonus round:

- baroque explanations of how the project needed to be restarted multiple times, and how this is really a learning experience about how LLMs work and a trail of false starts are evidence that things are actually improving so fast

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

if you are trying to evaluate the efficacy of LLMs and you are reading the personal story of someone building an impressive demo, do not read the post looking for technical details. instead, see if you can spot:

- sleep disruptions
- grandiose generalized language about upcoming social and technological change
- increasing mania as the project progressed
- social isolation
- jokes about addiction that read as insecure deflection
- getting stuck at 90%

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

The only people who can afford to turn a blind eye to the cruel realities of our current era are people who have the same skin color as Marco, who live in the same affluent places as Marco, and who have the same kind of stable income as Marco.

For the entire other half of our country, it's a different story. And *that* half is depending on the privileged white half to please fucking *do* something besides pumping out stupid blog posts calling for the polite acceptance of hateful people.

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

I think a lot of people might be playing PvP FOSS instead of Co-Op.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

It's one thing to yearn for the simpler times of our own youth, but it's something else to advocate for ignorance as an ethical living strategy at this point in our history.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

The problem with Marco Arment's "we're better off when we don't know our neighbors' political opinions" thing is that in any given neighborhood, there are neighbors who literally believe that some of their other neighbors should not exist. Do you really think you're better off not knowing about that? Are your marginalized neighbors better off as a result of your ignorance?

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bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

lol ok Marco Arment, I guess we know where you stand on justice related issues now

(idk why I still have his RSS in my feed, tbh, I don't use any of his apps, he was just a good Apple blogger way BITD or something?)

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

John Gruber and Marco Arment want you to know that they don’t deserve to be shamed for their terrible mediocre white man opinions.

What a bunch of fucking privileged hemorrhoids.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
KingShawn ("Shawn King") wrote:

Wait…did Arment just make a blog post that is effectively, “I wish I could continue to stick my head in the sand and not know what others think, thereby absolving me of the responsibility to have to deal with their actions”?

This from a guy who *constantly* tells us what he thinks about any number of things.

"I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything.”

OK Marco…you first. STFU and shut down your blog.

https://marco.org/2026/09/04/bob-and-van

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

just posted on the blog: "know your place"

what type of places are you trying to create? who are you actively welcoming?

https://krrd.ing/know-your-place/

#Blog #Accountability #Power

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we should read the specs on the two kinds of loctite we have handy though, make sure we know if it's the kind we could get off with heat if we had to. one of them was for robotics and the other we didn't specifically pick, so, we can't take that for granted...

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

so, fascinatingly, it turns out the hydraulic line on our bike does actually have a slow leak at the screw thread. had to leave it a week to seep enough to matter. it's not a screw that needs to ever come out, and if it did it would be to replace the whole line, so, we're thinking we're gonna put some loctite on it...

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

I mean

https://youtu.be/vK3PwAC4dsU

RE: https://www.threads.com/@definitely%5Fnot%5Fa%5Ffish/post/Dc942QnGob8

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zrb@social.hildebrind.space wrote:

@jonny

"a game is a series of interesting choices" pshaw, whoever said that is a fucking loser, a game is a pretty graphics show

- AI vibe-coder somewhere who says "yeah I'm a game developer" at parties but who has never made a single game that's actually fun

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

So hang on. The screenshot test says I can pay 10 cents for a robot to move my mouse to a button?

That can't be right, it must be 10 cents to run the whole benchmark, there are only 1500 samples per run.

But the output tokens are all less than 1000... So either it can move my mouse with fewer than 1 token on average... Or...... 10 cents to move my mouse is really what is being shown here.............

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The kart racing game demo is actually a perfect demo of LLM-generated games: as soon as I opened it my phone got like 20 degrees hotter, and it requires no player input aside from holding down "go" to win. It can imitate the form of a game in the least efficient way possible while having none of what makes a game a game.