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Art from 'Aliens: Reapers' from 1991. This was a short 8 page no dialog comic story by John Arcudi and illustrated by Simon Bisley about 'Reapers' - an alien race that infiltrate Xenomorph hives to eat their eggs. My kinda alien race. 🍳
#Alien #SimonBisley

"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

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(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)

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.

Das Fediverse hat mit dem #2MR heute so ein richtiges live Feeling, wie Twitter zu seinen besseren Zeiten.

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

I have a feeling that Wu Yize has played a deal of pool in the alleys of Lanzhou.

I am already starting to feel the winds of the enshitifaction with the AI providers. For someone who is deeply embedded with AI for coding and every day operational needs this is slowly bubbling up to the top of mind. It's your typical tech company story arc: a very generous and cheap functionality to get you sucked in and then they suddenly start tightening the noose. Be it the strength of the model or usage credits but I am feeling it. It's coming.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…

Guinea worm is close to being the second disease eradicated in history, following smallpox
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/02/04/guinea-worm-is-close-to-being-the-second-disease-eradicated-in-history-following-smallpox You may have seen this online at some point, a long white worm being pulled from someone's leg, looking almost like a white string. This worm has been plaguing...

"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.

I Am Exhausted. And I’m Not Looking Away.
On working class exhaustion, solidarity, and the choice we cannot avoid