it’s full of quotable bangers like this, and it’s hard to choose the one to quote, right.

i thought that the whole ruling principle of the effective altruists is primum non docere

the virile space men will have

i’ve heard they like to read sf, they might want to read heinlein’s luna stories and miss the point entirely

here’s another very good take from baldur bjarnason, answering the question if he had hardened his stance against LLMs.

(the answer is “not exactly”, and you want to read the whole thing, because the answer itself is the least interesting part of the essay.)

intellectual elite my arse.

yup. there’s a video, and a transcript on her blog with the gory details.

being a member of the old boy club beats ideological differences.

happy to hear it!

one or two minor snags I still need to solve (such as back-kill-word not working in search, just haven’t looked into it yet)

there’s a separate key config for search mode which may give you what you need.

that kinda tracks the type of replies @corbin@awful.systems is seeing to his lobsters challenge, doesn’t it?

retains the same informational content after running through rot13

it’s funny to contrast his lobsters comment to his banter on bluesky, where he feels less constrained and allows himself to be plain nasty (nora’s blog is sephiroth-posting, nora has an axe to grind etc. etc.)

just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive “hans, are we the baddies” moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.

as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.

we don’t care, we don’t need to, we’re the token company

ronacher is just the dude who couldn’t understand why people call dhh a fascist after dhh wrote his fourteen-words-in-longform blog about london. (paraphrasing: sure, he said, that’s not a good blog, but why would people say such terrible words about dhh.)

kat marchán goes by she/they fwiw.

jesus fuck.

nothing formal, but the backlash to criticism is becoming absolutely disproportionate: for example, the person who made the list of slopware, kat marchán, was bullied off the social media by the slop merchants. this looks eerily similar to the right-wing braying about cultural war, where they call harassment any critique of their positions, and call a reasonable critique any harassment they do themselves.

(and just very recently the always very nice CTO and co-founder of the oxide company, a major rust shop, decided that shaming the promoters of the confabulation machines is not to be done at the company.)

think LLM agentic software.

seeing the furious reactions to shaming of the confabulation machine promoters, i can only conclude the shaming works.

It is, however, a sign that the situation is much worse than it was months ago, that fascism is progressing, and if this is the point at which someone not paying attention wisens up and goes “shit, we are moving towards a totalitarian nightmare” then good, welcome, grab a pitchfork.

oh, i’m not a pitchfork purist. anyone is welcome to grab one at any time.