Something intensely satisfying seeing this the same week as id software becoming a union shop.

Workers organizing against genai policies in the workplace: http://workersdecide.tech/

Sounds like exactly the thing unions and labor organizing is good for. Glad to see it.

They’re doing eugenics ads on the nyc subway https://hexa.club/@phooky/115640559205329476

Yup that’s one of them. The cryptonomicon protagonist no-nut-Novembering all the way to the ww2 treasure is another special fave

Lmao imagine reading a Stephenson book and being peeved that it ends

(His sex scenes are far far far worse than his endings, those are a mercy)

Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”

PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work

Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.

I would love this, lmfao

Claims to be against politics in the workplace, takes down rightwing websites anyway

This might be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios. The neutral outcome might well be that they generate dialog with training data from Scots Wikipedia. Or Scots Grokipedia I guess

Oh look at that, another report on the economics of ai datacenter buildouts https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/

Eh, how often can one guy be right

Rolling Stone on the emergence of the ai chatbot psychosis religion

A fact-generative AI, you say? https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess

Just saw this post on DHH, it’s really good: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

If you’re not careful, one day you will wake up and find that you’ve pushed away every person who ever disagreed with you.

Living a life as if it was able to bear a “I bought one before I knew he was a jerk” bumper sticker.

Fuuuuuuck. Thanks for the info but i hate it ):

Im very very happy on Fastmail. They are sensible people who offer mainly email (and calendar stuff) with no overpromises. Their servers are hosted in the USA tho, so that may affect your choice.

Oh don’t worry, in the second Dyson sphere datacenter they’ll just heat up a metal heat sink per request and then eject that into the sun. Perfect for reclamation of energy.

That’s how you know a human wrote it