Jeremy Kahn

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

#WestSeattle #Duwamish unceded land

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2024-09-22 03:40:32

Cracked up/outraged 11-yo when I explained that the correct plural is "Spiders-Men"

2024-09-21 23:38:36

We don't deserve dogs
#dogsOfMastodon
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/113/178/168/680/859/192/original/d2b138794341da00.jpg

2024-09-21 03:56:26

> Mulaney then shared an anecdote about how he and his son, who is nearly 3, like to play baseball in their front yard.
> “We’re just two guys hitting Wiffle balls badly and yelling ‘Good job’ at each other,” he said. “It’s sort of the same energy here at Dreamforce.”
Some genius shit-stirrer inside Salesforce pitched this idea and then walked away from the explosion without looking back
Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/

2024-09-20 23:35:04

Watched AGE OF ULTRON (I know, I'm years late)
I didn't miss much, and WOW does the smell of Whedon permeate the whole movie.
Steve Rogers and Thor should not be making Buffyesque quips (okay for Tony, though)
And the impersonal destructive AI should not be making gross body humor or even have lips. What is going on there?!

2024-09-20 22:21:56

In work chat; A, B, and C are all typing.
C: 0
C: sorry wrong window
...
A: ZERO WHAT though
...
B: hey, C, how many fucks do you have left to give … sorry wrong window

2024-09-18 15:35:34

Provisionally entitled: GHOST CAR
Found art, West Seattle, 2024
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/113/159/276/709/557/535/original/73991ef06abf9dce.jpg

2024-09-18 00:44:36

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am assuming you mean Cory, but maybe E.L. also fits the bill? Not sure it's feminist though; it has been decades since I read any

2024-09-16 15:47:08

Spotted in West Seattle
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/113/148/006/108/410/091/original/32968b8b03040636.jpg

2024-09-15 18:53:52

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Are you suggesting that I should watch S1 and stick with it, that I should start with S2, or something else?

2024-09-15 18:27:24

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sure, yes please

2024-09-15 18:05:36

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I so love this conversation about the true humanity of software projects, and I'm putting Halt &CF on my watchlist

2024-09-15 17:19:16

The fun way to shut down scammers
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/113/142/702/984/494/518/original/dabff4e6687cfa62.png

2024-09-12 14:53:13

"It looks like if Hot Wheels made a VHS rewinder" — reader, I laughed aloud
Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? | Defector
https://defector.com/have-you-seen-a-cybertruck-yet

2024-09-12 00:25:33

Why do I describe my recent professional career arc as
"nobody wants to take responsibility for this thankless but critical piece of infrastructure, so I guess it's me now"
when I could have said
"sucked into an engineering leadership vacuum"

2024-09-08 04:09:53

> Racism. The only reason the US clings to this foolishness, is racism.
— @npub1ay2…exel
This is applicable for many values of "this foolishness" (here, the electoral college).
But also:
- college debt
- medical bankruptcy
- housing crisis
- "war" on drugs
- Wyoming
- …
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113097479640776449

2024-09-07 19:59:51

My home office bookshelves are loosely organized by topic, so I have three sections I keep near each other
- approachable STEM books (Gleick's CHAOS, Hofstadter's GEB, HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS, etc)
- books *about* tech's ugly underbelly (ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION, WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, etc)
- memetic hazard books (SUPERINTELLIGENCE, THE FOUNTAINHEAD, Richard Dawkins, etc)
Nate Silver's career has moved him from left to right one step every few years
https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/113096866873561009

2024-09-01 22:28:57

Got home from a month vacation.
Old EV (2012 vintage) wouldn't start. Turns out the battery drained — not the motivating battery, but the 12V brick for starting/accessories
Diagnosed and fixed it — recharged the 12V battery with mains power.
Man card renewed ("I fixed the car! 💪")
but also, _why can't I charge the starter battery from the main one_

2024-08-30 05:21:01

Just got home and going to bed after a twenty-hour travel day (chasing the sun CDG 9a local -> KEF -> SEA 7p local)
Jet lag is ROUGH

2024-08-26 11:08:24

"I hate the word intuition, because it's one of two things: it’s experience—which is something we gather like research—or it’s confirmation bias."
Erika Hall Knows How to Fix Your Design Process (But You’re Probably…
https://dscout.com/people-nerds/erika-hall-better-research-and-design
Via @npub1hr7…jxyc

2024-08-25 14:57:21

Had a conversation about AI, mostly in French, — so I should say «IA» — with my wife's uncle (sustainable energy engineer) and her stepbrother (barman/bouncer) at the same time
in which I think I managed to express why the LLMs are always going to produce answer-shaped responses that look good to non-experts
and I think I may have convinced them that this is a fatal flaw that cannot be fixed

2024-08-17 16:51:54

My kid asked me if this was "the meme boyz" — _his_ French education not going so well
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/978/363/044/265/615/original/36a9b01e60347af2.jpg

2024-08-14 13:26:11

"Papers are not the output of scientific research in the way that cars are the output of automobile manufacturing." — [@ct_bergstrom](https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom )
"We don't have students write five paragraph essays because the world needs more five paragraph essays" — @npub15xv…0jms , (paraphrased)
Good folks from UW making me proud to be a UW PhD (and reminding me that my own dissertation was not the point of my degree!)
https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112957286693957833

2024-08-12 07:00:48

Woke up in UTC+1 to discover that my instance has been blocked by tech.lgbt [ETA: and then unblocked? I feel crazy]
Am hearing it's because we're accused of antisemitism.
I'm a "wrong-half" American Ashkenazi Jew (four patrilineal great-grandparents lived in "rootless cosmopolitan" Bialystok).
I reject the idea that murder by Israelis must be supported by all Jews, or that opposing this murder is somehow a condemnation of Judaism.

2024-08-11 11:33:22

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Oh whew (mops forehead) this is about the new book
Reading Brandon's tweet out of context I was afraid that JSA Corey had just milkshake-ducked

2024-08-09 08:32:39

Hah, in France, even eggs are on the metric system
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/931/129/458/769/004/original/4c9988e70f60e4f7.jpg

2024-08-05 02:23:58

Seen, traveling through airport, waiting to board a flight to Europe
20-something skinny white dude, alone, with tiny beard, and a t-shirt reading
I ❤️ MY ASIAN
GIRLFRIEND
#cringe #weeaboo #cringe

2024-08-03 15:35:04

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TIL about "stigmergy" from @npub1ppe…qv2g talking about ants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy in humans is also really neat, even if it's the same human that returns to the work later
leaving a FIXME note (or an intentionally failing but disabled unit test) in your code is an example of it
Maybe even setting your thoughts down "on paper" to look at them later is a form of stigmergy?

2024-07-31 05:37:45

Packing for vacation as I put some last few things on ice at work (they'll keep), decline meetings, etc
And that little voice in my head says "
you know, now would be a great time to write a linter for that DSL you've been curating and gradually improving"
No, brain, now would be a great time to HAVE ALREADY FINISHED the linter so my domain experts could use it as, like, a holographic-doctor-replacement for me while I'm gone
it is NOT a great time to start one, brain

2024-07-27 23:53:30

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I have not ; omg RIP my TBR list

2024-07-27 21:03:32

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I love the idea of a Building Towards Infomocracy reading group.
Sort of a polisci solarpunk radical approach
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub18x7…p6e7 @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l

2024-07-27 20:56:16

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I'm overdue for rereading M. Older's Infomocracy, but I can read backwards from that timeline into some of the things we would need to start building today, to get to the (still imperfect) place those books start from
One thing we would need is something like Information: collectively-accountable, socially-maintained, socially-connective information infrastructure that we can use to make local, organized, informed collective decisions

2024-07-06 17:47:23

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If the customer isn't the user, but the user is the customer's employee, a lot of these decisions make more sense
Also applies to AI writing and art
The people paying for it want to automate the labor of the people they're paying SO THEY CAN PAY THEM LESS PER UNIT, not so they can do better work

2024-06-29 18:24:30

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yeah it feels very 1984 out here
Not the Orwell novel (though, that too, with the memory hole gaining mass)
The Roy Cohn revanchist "Reagan Revolution" and the solidification of the neoconfederate GOP stranglehold on the new Jim Crow

2024-06-21 05:41:47

"… superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie…, or a mathematician… proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."
Ted Chiang has been ON IT for years and never misses
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

2024-06-20 15:40:18

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We might dub this "the South Park Corollary", or, more briefly, "Cartman's Law"

2024-06-19 03:04:59

#Atlanta has perfect weather (temperate) and terrain (plains; low hills) for #bicycling, nearly all year
the ENTIRE CITY was a deathtrap for bikes in 80s & early 90s. I survived by luck.
Things have improved! And now they're sponsoring an E-Bike Rebate Program.
If you're an Atlanta resident, even if you make more than area median income, APPLY. Showing interest will help fund other bike infrastructure!
Tell 'em there's a demand for public works that AIN'T Cop City!
https://atlantaregional.org/what-we-do/mobility-services/atlanta-e-bike-rebate-program/

2024-06-18 21:08:44

I want to start a band made of jaded, burned out LLM and diffusion model veterans and call it MODEL COLLAPSE

2024-06-16 15:05:14

This is still on point, a year later
> Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/109798526271267537

2024-06-14 16:14:40

OMG this post by @npub186y…xyyy is my professional jam.
I find myself wanting to go grab my (all too absentee) double-skip management by the lapels and say
> "read this! This is what I've been asking you to fund. It's more like market research than like infra, like Hazel says, but it NEEDS infra investment to work, and it needs you to CARE about the market research too"
Redefining Observability | Hazel Weakly
https://hazelweakly.me/blog/redefining-observability/
H/T @npub1p72…t8wm for boosting to my attention

2024-06-12 14:04:44

Apparently I slept for DATETIME TESTING IS HARD last night, how about you?
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/604/012/293/970/158/original/49c698a2ddda39ce.png

2024-06-11 18:38:12

"I'm not wasting time; I'm curiousing!"
new motto to live by

2024-06-11 15:40:29

> Another way to look at this is that you cannot optimize for resilience. Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach …. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity.
Against optimization | @npub1vud…pqdp
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/against-optimization
I love this contrast, and I agree: seeking resilience rather than optimization is a recipe for happiness

2024-06-11 04:10:52

> Generating code that can compile, execute, and pass a test suite isn’t especially hard; the hard part is crafting a code base that many people, teams, and successive generations of teams can navigate, mutate, and reason about for years to come.
Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You - Charity Majors st Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/

2024-06-06 20:57:49

How dare you, whoever stocked this snack drawer.
How. Dare. You.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/571/664/093/143/742/original/e6a5f7b9dc71836d.jpg

2024-06-06 20:48:33

OH* at work:
> Nobody writes a manifesto that says "everything should remain exactly how it is", except maybe Marc Andreesen
* okay, I overheard it because I said it

2024-06-05 03:33:21

My kid's band teacher invited us all to hear him play at a local club
And he shows up on stage wearing a t-shirt saying
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
I knew I liked the guy

2024-06-01 23:57:32

My front door lock -- which has a key code on it — was sticking.
I disassembled and reassembled it, replaced the sticky bit, and it works again!
I feel like 💪 because it all went back together without a single bit left over.
Adulting. Sometimes it doesn't suck.

2024-05-30 01:17:51

Come on, ya jerks. Targeting the _public library_ is a surefire route to the Bad Place.
These are people who hate good things. I hope that left-anarchist hackers can rise up and smack some sense into whatever script kiddie, privateer, or nation-state actor did this
Hackers target Seattle Public Library system
https://mynorthwest.com/3961228/seattle-public-library-goes-offline-amid-ransomware-event/

2024-05-27 14:33:58

> the immune response to the “AI” grift [is] beginning to mount now. …A lot more […damage] will be done as the grift continues to wreak ecological destruction and bad actors take advantage of its googly eyes and the human urge to empathy.
Lili Saintcrow | Hijacking Empathy
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/05/hijacking-empathy/
-- @npub18gh…dn7p

2024-05-25 18:18:49

A shockingly large proportion of SV technosolutions are band-aids for the "problems" of a techbro who
- drives to work alone
- in an expensive car
- with a good mobile connection
- through silicon valley traffic
For example:
- autonomous driving (or gig drivers)
- food delivery; task rabbit
- agents to read and respond to your email
- voice assistants providing emotional validation
https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/112502816917988936

2024-05-24 15:41:45

"I never imagined that _I_ would be the one surveilled by Private Panopticon", sobbed Bob CTO, local party chair for the Surveil-everything With Private Panopticon Party.
https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

2024-05-24 01:25:55

Watching @npub1yts…gqkl talking to a bunch of Seattle area independent schools about AI, ghost labor, and the idea of "inclusion" as a tricky word.
She played a clip from SLEEP DEALERS, and now I have to see this movie.

2024-05-21 17:09:10

oof, a C-level executive is saying "coo-duh-grah" for coup de grâce
I ... feel like "coup de gras" might be a Freudian slip
"hit of grease"
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/480/175/166/780/865/original/045f1b5f53dcb7ee.png

2024-05-21 05:00:16

Y'all, I ain't kidding about LLMs being "word shoggoths"
especially if you read "Elder Things" as "Slow AI" LLCs
Look what it says on Wikipedia:
> Though able to "understand" the Elder Things' language, shoggoths had no real consciousness and were controlled through hypnotic suggestion.
> …exterminating the shoggoths was not an option as the Elder Things were dependent on them for labor and had long lost their capacity to create new life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth
https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112477267079709781

2024-05-19 20:18:30

I'm my own captcha today
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/469/586/051/133/435/original/110d6544b3970756.jpg

2024-05-15 15:41:51

In which an LLM skeptic demonstrates that any LLM with enough access to be useful is a vector for RCE vulnerability
https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112441889190313713

2024-05-13 05:30:13

Y'all . I feel silly for not seeing this before
A personal responsibility solution to
- "ebooks have libraries over a barrel"
- "ebook hold queues are too long"
- "don't spend so much time on your phone" problems
(If you live near your local public library; e.g. most American cities)
USE YOUR PHONE TO PLACE A HOLD ON A PAPER COPY
- shorter waits
- library doesn't pay Overdrive/Libby rent-seeking fees
- less time spent on screens
- occasionally get to take a walk or bike to the library

2024-05-11 22:30:23

Oh no, the #UW #Seattle encampment might get attacked tomorrow.
This is a crappy piece of "guidance" from UW administration, saying basically "we asked the fash nicely not to beat up kids, but they say they're still coming, and we asked the encampment to leave, and they won't either, so I guess both sides, and maybe don't show up on the quad"
#noMurderingChildren #NotInMyName #FreeGaza
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/424/794/971/000/034/original/0a1c8b27c9ca31e3.png

2024-05-11 16:52:25

#WestSeattle Garage Sale Day is today
Saw this gang of tween skaters chatting about where to visit next as they bombed down the hill next to me.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/423/480/494/709/361/original/85f626e72cff30f4.jpg

2024-05-10 22:00:11

the _phrase_ "prompt engineering" gives me the shivers now the way that "software engineering" probably _should_
neither one of these "disciplines" is worthy of being described as "engineering"; they're both antiscientific "vibes-based design"

2024-05-08 20:14:22

RIP Albini, who died at 61. He was an a**hole for the right reasons, after he grew up a little:
> “However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently – but these days he also says things like: “Life is hard on everybody and there’s no excuse for making it harder. I’ve got the easiest job on earth, I’m a straight white dude, fuck me if I can’t make space for everybody else.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

2024-05-08 00:34:48

NO RELATION. I don't know him.
New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

2024-05-06 02:29:37

Been watching The Good Place with my eleven year old.
We just watched the last episode of the first season, the one where [redacted for spoilers].
He did not see it coming AT ALL and his bafflement and delight are so pure that I want another go, the way Mindy St Claire wants another rail of coke

2024-05-05 20:47:27

Every once in a while I am amazed that one of the contenders for social media dominance right now is literally named "blue sky"
It's a term from project planning, and I'm pretty sure it's intended to mean "what you do if there were no constraints"
1/2

2024-05-05 00:17:35

Get you a pizza joint that can say yes to both #Burien
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/385/598/184/712/315/original/1b004abbf88cb918.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/385/598/503/129/119/original/6060c6737f791dd3.jpg

2024-05-04 04:50:33

Wholesome tech post!
(They're rare, so it's worth celebrating!)
https://fosstodon.org/@Nathaniellockhart/112380910601772854
Via @npub10de…s7rf (they're neat too!)

2024-05-03 14:12:34

> ooooh what if, like, at the beginning Murderbot and other bots/constructs are the only ones who sing, harmonizing with SecSystem MedSystem etc, while humans sort of talk at the margins...and only humans who treat Murderbot as a person get to sing?
— @npub1mms…gq3g , describing the central conceit of a MURDERBOT opera that I now feel like I have to see before I die
https://bsky.app/profile/older.bsky.social/post/3klhvd3zcho2f

2024-05-02 18:11:51

It is extremely in the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan to introduce exactly the right ridiculous vocabulary word ("polydactyly") to make the rhyme scheme line up with the snark ("well-actually")
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112372315828893297

2024-05-02 14:00:54

"[my AI] will learn from negative reinforcement, just like kids" is telling us a lot about the programmer's childhood and parenting style
https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/112371676009042430

2024-04-27 20:05:18

Kid K is playing a multiplayer shooter with a friend F
K: I just killed a kid
F: what? Did you say you killed Keon [a mutual friend]
K: no I only do that on Tuesdays

2024-04-27 03:50:31

Laugh it up, fuzzball.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/341/142/337/150/867/original/dfc0212e8e8f7d50.jpg

2024-04-25 04:20:44

Jeez, I'm surprised that Rick made it out of the conversation he describes here without being hunted for sport
My Dinner With Andreessen - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/
Via [@timnitGebru](https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru)

2024-04-25 03:19:22

Wow, the answers to [@grimalkina](https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina) 's question
(essentially, "tell me a possibly-useless programming language that I should learn to open my mind")
The answers are so great; they make me want to take a five year sabbatical and learn them all, from APL to Processing to Forth and beyond
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112329440755518358

2024-04-23 20:16:33

May I never ever ever be the kind of guy who Ed Zitron gets a hate on for
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Just a devastating career-long rundown of the dude who drove Google search into the ground, and some of the people on whose necks he stepped along the way
Via [@mhoye](https://mastodon.social/@mhoye)

2024-04-21 16:45:34

> 'a claim that "I'm being silenced" from the very loud should always be a red flag'
-- [@futurebird](https://sauropods.win/@futurebird)
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112309832187283732

2024-04-21 15:18:12

I've had this rstevens mug for... more than ten years, and DEFINITELY before the GPTs made generative text into a toxic waste spill
it almost feels like a manifesto today, or the kind of thing to put on a flag as we storm the Bastille.
Liberté
Fraternité
Égalité
Sémanticité
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/309/852/370/306/057/original/cb591c5ee7026f5a.jpg

2024-04-19 15:38:19

This article is one enormous [citation needed]
> “I’m more optimistic because we have been using the tool a lot, and some of the insights we’re starting to get from a scientific standpoint are things that none of our scientists were aware of,” he added.
Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/18/2024/moderna-ceo-says-ai-will-help-understand-most-diseases-in-3-to-5-years

2024-04-18 05:55:11

It is wild, WILD, I tell you, to think that "taint checking" [sic], a skill I learned in 1999 for LAMP stack CGI tooling, is coming back into fashion.
here's the gist:
Sanitize your inputs, or don't eval user generated content, ever.
It's like Robert Tables grew up and had kids
Bobby Ignore All Previous Instructions Junior
And his sister Sarah Repeat Previous Prompt
https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218

2024-04-16 04:28:29

Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

2024-04-15 19:40:41

Just watched a co-worker field a terrible ad-hoc bug report with the grace of a tai-chi master
"I need more information, because your problem description isn't making sense to me yet"
threaded the needle between servile appeasement and BOFH rejection
sometimes I just gotta watch and applaud.
[ETA: that "yet" does a tremendous amount of work!]

2024-03-27 19:07:41

This thread of trains driving on grassy tracks is pure solarpunk competency porn in the vein of [@annaleen](https://wandering.shop/@annaleen) 's THE TERRAFORMERS
(via [@blogdiva](https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva) ; thx!)
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/112168979067387415