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I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/com…

"This strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence, I’ve realized, is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era. Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it."
https:/…

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

I think this is a larger pattern:
"AI" allows you to roleplay competence.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115054255141397973

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it:
"[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115230422460611013

Democracies should stop focusing on efficiency: Lack thereof and friction are important parts of what defines a healthy democracy. Efficiency will always sacrifice participation, representation and meaningful political discourse. The focus on it is a path into authoritarianism. In the essay ...

Truth
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115226109951809816

Die Bundesregierung nutzt die ganzen Sondervermögen vor allem dazu, den Haushalt zu sanieren und Wahlversprechen der CDU zu finanzieren
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales

Kreative Buchführung der Regierung: Mit diesen fünf Manövern trickst die Koalition beim Haushalt
Der Bundestag verabschiedet den Haushalt für 2025 und macht gleich mit dem für 2026 weiter. Beide Etats enthalten umstrittene Finanzmanöver. Manche davon könnten für Ärger mit dem Verfassungsgericht sorgen.

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.

David Gerard on the "AI doomers"/"rationalists" and their beliefs.
In the end they are a bunch of eugenicist, racist losers afraid of death.
(Original title: AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-

AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
I get a lot of requests for a piece on the AI 2027 paper. That’s the one that draws a lot of lines going up on a graph to show we’re getting a genuine artificial general intelligence by 2027! Then …

One of the best podcasts out there, Never Post, is doing a membership drive currently to become sustainable till the end of the year.
Those are some of the best 4 bucks a month you can spend on media.
Head over to https://www.neverpo.st/ and click "Become a member".
Really. The podcast is _…

Never Post
A Podcast About and For the Internet