@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-08-03 11:46:06
Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job. — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/31/moral-deskilling-or-why-you-spend-more-time-on-admin-than-doing-your-job/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 21:26:33
“Zero Day Attack”, a TV series, is terrifying audiences in Taiwan
Blockades, blackouts and bullets: China invades Taiwan on screen
https://www.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-07-01 23:41:39
It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-02 18:28:59
If the US can tell the President of Taiwan to stay out of the US then one might wonder: When will other countries tell FFOTUS to keep away?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/asia/trump-taiwan-china.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-03 03:00:12
dbpedia_team: DBpedia athlete-team affiliations
Bipartite network of the affiliations (employment relations) between professional athletes and their teams, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 935627 nodes and 1366466 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://netwo…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-02 13:28:40
How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-06-03 15:46:20
Todd Bowles has more in common with Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield than some think, calls him 'fraternal twin'
https://www.cbssports.com/n…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-03 11:45:52
Study: Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes chatted inappropriately with teen accounts on topics like sex and drugs (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/03/character…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-02 09:35:50
Reporters Without Borders says 250 outlets in 70 countries staged a front page protest highlighting the killing of 200 journalists in Israel's war on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/more-than-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-01 22:01:26
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale
RTd this thread,
which says Trump should act fast and
“Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate.
Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate.
Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.”
