Tootfinder

TIL of the 'Smithsonian institution, Feather Identification lab' - run by the FAA (which seems doubly appropriate). I saw it referenced in the NTSB prelim report on the Ryanair/Mailta plane that got a cracked window in Greece the other month.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safet

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nikka Costa:
🎵 Like a Feather
#NikkaCosta
https://djade.bandcamp.com/track/nikka-costa-like-a-feather-ade-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2L82XvyoCvUgePuljcA00o

here is a #sunrise snap from a couple of weeks ago almost. bbl

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Billie Eilish:
🎵 Birds Of A Feather
#NowPlaying #BillieEilish
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dOtVTDdiauQNBQEDOtlAB

OK, I guess I wasn't done after all.
Much of the opining about developer backlash to LLMs falls into two loose theoretical categories:
(1) Labor problem: developers now experience employment threat, loss of job security, layoffs, new levels of worry about the future
(2) Identity problem: developers used to feel special because generating code was placed on a cultural pedestal (sign of a special third brain lobe or whatever), that perceived specialness was a pillar of our personal identity, and now our egos are bruised because machines can do it and we don’t feel special anymore
While there’s doubtless truth to both of those in some / many cases, I posit a third theory:
(3) Purpose problem: contrary to popular belief, developers actually care quite a lot about the people who use our software and we derive a sense of purpose and meaning from doing what we believe to be good work; the current environment undermines that, not just LLMs but LLMs as part of a broader vortex of enshittification, and our world is effectively saying “everything you cared about doesn't matter, you can't hope to fight to make it matter, and you are stupid for caring”
I think there's evidence for that last theory in the kinds of despair you hear from developers: not just anxiety about paying the bills, not just angry feather-puffing, but a kind of existential despair that comes from the unraveling of one’s internal sense of purpose and meaning.
4/3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Theo Croker feat. Gary Bartz & Natureboy Flako:
🎵 light as a feather
#TheoCroker #GaryBartz #NatureboyFlako
https://theocroker.bandcamp.com/track/light-as-a-feather-ft-gary-bartz-natureboy-flako
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vVir4xcSOKntiZvfIxksD

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Billie Eilish:
🎵 Birds Of A Feather
#NowPlaying #BillieEilish
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv