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“I should have known better” is the chorus of this year’s top AI ballad.
(Leo has been championing his own wearing of this thing for the past few months, and nearly everyone he tells about it (on air at least) replies something like “it records EVERYTHING?!” “yeah, but don’t worry; I’m wearing headphones so it can’t hear you”.)
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What should worry England is that, while "better"*** for most of the game, their starters cannot score. Their subs, Kelly and Agyemang carried them. Again.
And with another PK opportunity (on a sooooooofffftttt foul), they failed to convert again, initially anyway.
I assume they'll meet Spain in the final and that could be rough if they don't get right in a hurry.
*** "better" is tough to gauge when one team scores and bunkers, but...

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Don't worry, I'll cover you. [Tarrant charges to the rescue as Avon picks up a gun. Piri watches the fight in horror as Tarrant gets the worst of it. Avon stands by calmly until he gets the chance to shove the gun in Cancer's face]
AVON: As I was saying, we all have to learn to live with disappointment.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: [V.O. over comm.] Muller can't.
AVON: Well, we'll give him a refund on his ticket. Just get that ship back, Tarrant. We'll worry about the details then. Out!
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This was fucking hilarious #NYCMayor

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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We don't need to worry about the files being released cuz the ego of everyone that could be in them is likely big enough that they'll all tell on themselves in due time anyway.

As the week's cyber news continues to heat up, check out today's Metacurity before you fall behind on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market,
--Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims,
--Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector,
--Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China,
--$10m reward for Cybe…

Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market
Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims, Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector, Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China, $10m reward for CyberAv3ngers hackers, WhatsApp ads worry privacy experts, Yes24 apologizes for attack, much more

It's good to see The Economist taking the impact of climate change on the #AMOC seriously. It isn't a particularly good article - no info on likely timescales, no sources - but it is something that should worry us all. Here's Carbon Brief's recent piece:

Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief
A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.

"The places that need to worry are those that look vulnerable or unlikely to fight back. Greenland may fall into that category — which suggests that Denmark and the EU need to find ways of letting Trump know that there will be a price to pay if he makes a move on the island"
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too - https://on.ft.com/458Z5FI v

I think the cats are planning something... :ablobcathungry:⁠:ablobcathungry:

I worry spending so much time shitting on how bad AI images look will be a trap when it changes style.

Just for clarification, dear namesake, rules and red tape are acting as a “boot on the neck” of *bad* businesses.
Good businesses don’t need to worry about rules and red tape as they don’t need rules to stop them doing bad things.
#ukpolitics

From glaciologist Melaine Le Roy on Bluesky:
MORE THAN 24H ABOVE ZERO ON TOP OF MONT BLANC!
The station located at Colle Major, 4750 m, on Mont Blanc recorded a maximum of 3.7°C on 28/06, while the minimum today, 29/06, was 1.1°C, more than 24 hours above zero!
But don't worry, it's summer... 🙃😱
Data source @meteovalledaosta

It’s going to get worse.
Trumism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos.
Each time a new one is broken,
the previous one is normalized,
made to look not so bad by comparison.
The cuffing of Padilla was a red-line moment. And yet:
There’s plenty of reason to worry that in four months, we’ll look back on it as a moment of comparative innocence.

The Manhandling of Alex Padilla Was a Red-Line Moment for America
This is the essence of Trumpism: Go intentionally overboard, and then lie about it and try to reverse reality.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Boeckner:
🎵 Don’t Worry Baby
#Boeckner
https://boeckner.bandcamp.com/track/dont-worry-baby
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ubhnwSszcbqyjH6iDDZV8

So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.

So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.

So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.

anyway, I’m sure training models on any and all source code will be fine — don’t worry about it

Amazing version of the Beach Boys classic song "Don't Worry Baby" recorded by the Pastels offshoot Melody Dog.
Released on the "We Are Icerink" compilation back in 1994.
#music #BrianWilson

Can Nick Sorensen keep Cowboys special teams on top? https://insidethestar.com/can-nick-sorensen-keep-cowboys-special-teams-on-top

Good article about ICE.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-miller-big-beautiful-bill-200-billion-spending-increase/

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

CPJ says police have assaulted "more than 20" journalists, including by less-lethal projectiles, since LA protests began on June 6, echoing the 2020 US protests (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/09…

Journalists come under fire covering L.A. protests
Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement in Los Angeles. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.

"We reach out, arms in exasperation, in tired anxiety, in worry, in unknowing—and God hands us back a feast. God plants flowers in our open palms."
—Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

Never Forget.

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

@… For sure, ICANN shouldn’t be at the top of the priority list.
A lot more immediate is the reliance on MS for GitHub and NPM, AWS for hosting, and you could probably come up with a few more.
It’s just a shame that, even though it is far down the list, one needs worry these days about *any* way the US could exert control over the web.
Maybe that’s a…

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The iPad really is a kind of miracle device when you think about it: an unbrickable, essentially virus-proof, simple computer for computer-illiterate people and the elderly. A UNIX system you can give to your great-grandma and she can use comfortably without having to worry about some update breaking it or some other random change rendering it strange and foreign. (I haven't turned mine on in years, mind you, but the point stands.)

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services.
Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure.
Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without …

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

I am ignorant on what it is to be trans or a woman or a world-class athlete, but I THINK the problem here is a doomed project of representing a multidimensional continuously variable attribute with a single Boolean https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114639211101368863

Myth or reality? Examining the 'Madden curse' through the past 10 cover stars https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/43741048/madden-curse-fact-fiction-10-years-cover-stars

Aaron Huertas: "“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”" — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hwb7xa7tn2li2ozdijlw3w7h/post/3lqst33ujgc2c

The @noaa.gov site is slow to publish the June average of atmospheric CO₂. In these times of Trump's war on climate science (building and staff already affected), this makes me worry about the end of the Keeling curve, the valuable record of 67 years. Daily measurements still coming in, though.
#CO2 #emissions

Who has ridden the California Zephyr recently? It’s been many years for me. I know there is no Wi-Fi but curious if there’s decent cell service, particularly interested between Emeryville and Grand Junction. Or if there are particular zones that are no service at all. Not interested in being on my phone but like to give a heads up to a couple of family members when I will not be reachable at all so they don’t worry.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Thelonious Monk, Samara Joy & Samara Joy Octet:
🎵 Worry Later (San Francisco Holiday)
#TheloniousMonk #SamaraJoy #SamaraJoyOctet

Night Boating
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip

*I bought an actioncam.*
Finally!
I'm learning how to use it properly. I tried to capture some impressions from our #cycling ride last weekend near #Tegernsee. (And learned that I should really buy an appropriate SD Card.)
Don't worry, I'm still commited to photograph…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
The Beach Boys:
🎵 Don't Worry Baby
#TheBeachBoys
https://dontworrybb.bandcamp.com/album/beach-boys-club-vol-1-dont-worry-baby-covers-from-the-pre-pet-sounds-era
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KZqW1CRQjzpRgXoOmLkKQ

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.
Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.
-- Katie Porter

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.

Doing some work outside, I hear an “alarm” sound coming from my (senior) neighbours’ house.
A droning, repeating sound. It goes on a few times before I start to wonder if someone needs to pay attention to that.
Is it a fire alarm? Is it another sort of “something bad is happening” alert? It’s loud, but not TOO loud… Should I worry? Should I check on them?
Then I hear footsteps and “Allô?”
Of course… it was just their house telephone ringing. Forgot those existed for a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go.
#CurtisMayfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wdlG60d0WHoo8P3QzrlbG

How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos and projectors as an integrated narrative tool aided by AI, as some creatives worry about overuse (Michael Paulson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/theater/broadway-ai-s…

On Broadway, A.I. and High-Tech Storytelling Is Having a Moment
Videos and projections depicting an A.I.-generated actor, the digital memories of robots, a redwood forest and more: High-tech storytelling is having a moment.

Don't worry everyone, we'll fix it in the midterm elections. https://archive.is/S74FW#selection-1519.246-1519.265

Luna won’t worry about that deflection. Great diagonal ball out to Arfsten from Tillman. That will get his head back on right. #USMNT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go.
#CurtisMayfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wdlG60d0WHoo8P3QzrlbG

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: No drugs!
HAVANT: A mild sedative to help you to sleep. You must rest.
BLAKE: No! No drugs.
HAVANT: All right, no drugs. Now try not to think anymore. Don't worry, we'll get it sorted out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/117

When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park,
it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
And it was in character for a country that was first to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution
and is home to parts of the Amazon rain forest and the Galšpagos Islands.
❌ But recent moves by President Daniel Noboa have alarmed environmentalists and Indigenous leaders
…

Some in Ecuador worry about Noboa moves unwinding nation's green reputation
Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis for its green reputation. President Daniel Noboa has eliminated the Environment Ministry as an independent institution, folding it into the Energy and Mines Ministry. Activists and Indigenous leaders say the move weakens protections for some of the world’s most biodiverse areas and paves the way for expanded oil and mining projects. They also warn that a proposed law os…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Gossip:
🎵 Don't (Make Waves)
#Gossip
https://soul-direction.bandcamp.com/album/helene-smith-the-pot-cant-talk-about-the-kettle-gossip-dont-worry-me-soul-direction-origins

Mailbag: Can Cowboys afford 2026 free agents? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-cowboys-afford-2026-free-agents

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Tyler, The Creator feat. Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Don’t You Worry Baby
#Tyler #TheCreator #MadisonMcFerrin
https://open.spotify.com/track/45mVT3DCE7AATXgESSdfee

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
The Teddy Bears:
🎵 To Know Him Is To Love Him
#TheTeddyBears
https://theteddybearsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/to-know-him-is-to-love-him-dont-you-worry-my-little-pet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qcg5ANbDXjxJKiMgRMhHm

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Incognito:
🎵 Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
#Incognito
https://santanaremixes.bandcamp.com/track/incognito-dont-you-worry-bout-a-thing-dj-iva-n-santana-2025-remix-limited
https://open.spotify.com/track/6W0tadR4h853lh9emTqwyp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing
#StevieWonder
https://cigaweededits.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-dont-you-worry-bout-a-thing-dj-l-h-d-m-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QvWxgZvTU0w8rlPRE5Zrv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell We're All Going to Go (Maurice Joshua Nu Soul mix)
#CurtisMayfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wdlG60d0WHoo8P3QzrlbG

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Tyler, The Creator feat. Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Don’t You Worry Baby
#Tyler #TheCreator #MadisonMcFerrin
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/45mVT3DCE7AATXgESSdfee

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tyler, The Creator:
🎵 Don't You Worry Baby
#Tyler #TheCreator
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/45mVT3DCE7AATXgESSdfee