@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-07 16:32:10
"One proves political maturity by not banging on about injustice, by not troubling too much the rich and powerful. To try it out, simply stand in front of a mirror and slowly declare yourself to be “pro-business and pro-worker”. If you can do that without flinching at the obvious contradiction, then congratulations! You too can be prime minister"
This isn't my analysis of why #Starmer
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-06-07 02:04:50
404 Sleep not found.
(Zum letzten Mal weckt der Zeitungsverteiler, weil Assistenzhund 🐕🦺 Maxi Angst vor seinem Elektrofahrzeug hat und es vertreiben will. Am neuen Wohnort hören wir es nicht mehr)
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-06 19:48:57
BlueSky seems to be having connectivity issues for me this afternoon... people there are blaming it on the use of AI in their codebase, so I think now would be a good time for someone to review my PR I have open against it, to tell Claude to ensure it's following the proper licensing requirements: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9709
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-08 11:59:44
Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-03-08 11:11:31
Catching up on a few stray pods this morning:
🎧Career in Ruins - archaeology with Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw. I like the practical and career-focussed slant to this.
🎧Tides of History - er, history. I like the way Patrick Wyman weaves it into a personal story.
🎧Front Row - general cultural stuff that I can feel remote from in my day to day.
🎧Film Stories - Simon Brew is a great presenter and really draws you in to what went on behind the scenes of the films we all kn…
@Simone21@mastodon.social2026-04-06 12:09:41
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2026-05-04 10:50:22
Das Fediverse hat mit dem #2MR heute so ein richtiges live Feeling, wie Twitter zu seinen besseren Zeiten.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-03-30 05:18:05
Official Israeli Persian account pushing a conspiracy theory that civilian casualties in Iran are being faked: straight from the Gaza playbook.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-04-02 09:21:35
Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-06-04 15:31:54
"It starts, specifically, with the sight of working class people being used as weapons against themselves. Not by accident, not through some failure of communication or lack of the right messaging, but deliberately and with considerable skill" -- @… writing very much what I'm feeling today.
Worth a read.
