@Techmeme@techhub.socialA software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgFreshwater Writing
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/11/10/freshwater-writing/
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialBeware thoughts that don't have a specific subject.
"It was decided..." — who decided?
"Users want..." — which users?
"We are..." — who is "we," and who is not "we"?
When writing, these formulations obscure your meaning. To make your writing clearer, get rid of them.
When reading, these are red flags, weasel words. Someone is trying to oversell their case, and hoping you won't notice.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTrauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/06/trauma-and-mental-health-in-the-writing-workshop-a-theor…
@jake4480@c.im
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd obviously you tune your bullshit radar even more by writing, painting, sculpting, making music, sharing your thoughts, designing and building—in short by creating.
Don't let them take this from you either.
@glauber@writing.exchange
@frankel@mastodon.top
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialKeep in mind: if you are a booklover and want to write reviews: consider writing it on #bookwyrm
https://joinbookwyrm.com
@isonno@mastodon.social@… Saw this go by on Hackaday - https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2025/11/typewriter-tom-fuels…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
6. How has your past writing shaped your present writing?
7. What future writing goals are you working towards with your present work?
8. How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?
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6. Typically, the more you write, the better you write. 10k hours and all that.
Beyond that, hard to say.
7. Reaching audience to s…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Icons in menus everywhere! Send help!
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
saved 2025-12-08 https://
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFacts •do• matter. The thing is, vibes matter too.
This thread was prompted by this story (ht @… and @…), which is •so• tantalizing and so aligned with what I •want• to be true that all my skepticism alarm bells are going off:
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2675132346/
If if we’re holding a trial or writing a history, well…I’ll wait for the dust to settle, expecting this not to hold up. Facts matter. But — no, not “but”…AND…
5/
@fgraver@hcommons.socialPluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgOn my way to a Writing & AI symposium in Luleå. First leg from ZRH to CPH. The plane is almost empty, but air quality rather poor
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialHvis man har lyst til at nŸrde sprog med mig og et par kolleger, er her et spritnyt afsnit af podcasten Writing wrongs (med en lidt for dramatisk titel, synes jeg, men hvad): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/writing-wrongs/id1797795962?l=da&i=100…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAfter writing some questionable `rust` code for #adventofcode Day 8, I've managed to get the right answers in a reasonable amount of time which has taken far, far longer than I'd care to admit. I'll jump on the Python and Nim solves later because my brain is absolutely fried at the moment.
Solution:
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAnd speaking of @… , send an email to their president robin.sparkman@propublica.org with text similar to the following:
Dear Robin Sparkman,
I am writing to you in solidarity with the ProPublica Guild. It is past time that you agree to a fair contract, complete with the protections these workers need to continue producing award-winning journalism…
@boris@cosocial.caMajority of the people I see recommending moving to Matrix are running on the main home server.
Which is fine, it's the easy path to get started but be aware that roots your identity in that homeserver.
My _personal_ take is that I consider public community chat to be ephemeral, which is why I've never been particularly concerned about using Discord.
Other than encouraging use of a forum for long form & persistent writing that can be discovered / linked over tim…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toTo ChatGPT: At the time of writing, there is not a single mass media article comparing Neuralink Blindsight with The vOICe. Why? #BCI
@whitequark@mastodon.sociali'm writing proper docs for git-pages; does this style of writing look good? does it communicate the point well?
https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeI just looked for my knitting needles I knew I had, but knitting was so many obsession/fixations ago. I had to look through the detritus of successful and false-start obsessions of years past. There's creative writing. There's photography. There's travel. There's fandom. There's running. There's sewing. There's needlepoint/cross-stitch.
Ah, ha! There's my knitting needles. I knew I had the right ones for this project. Now, where did I put my knitting ba…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"When we synchronize initiatives that are small enough to manage and big enough to matter ... things actually happen. Parks get built. Gardens get planted. Food gets served."
—Andrew K. Barnett ’12 M.Div./M.E.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections in his piece titled "The Gospel Politics of Hope"
@kazys@mastodon.socialOne thing that I haven't heard remarked upon yet is the immense impact AI is going to make on Open Source Software. I will be writing about it soon, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts (please, not just it's awful, going to ruin everything, let's think about this in depth)?
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings Week 28—With erotic works, do you begin with the end in sight, or discover the finished work as you go?
I plot my fairytales, depending on
- is it an original (like "the queen's pleasure girl"?
- is it an erotic retelling/mash-up? (Like "the princess' frog")
- what kind of meta writing do I want to do around it?
My fairy…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialRE: #LesFicFri In my story about Demeter putting Minthe in her place for speaking ill of her d…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeOK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
@avstockhausen@fedihum.orgBookmarked: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria #HTR Transcribing thousands of medieva…
@hiimmrdave@hachyderm.ioi liked writing xhtml. I still write xml-compliant html.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialMe in school: the two things I hate most are homework, and presentations
Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation
@aardrian@toot.cafeNic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff
@jake4480@c.im @frankel@mastodon.top
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialThis is without a doubt, the most important video I've ever watched and I think everyone should watch it, even if you have an idea of what transpired, the writing and pacing is so good and immersive that you almost feel like an Italian in the 1920s through 1940s https://youtu.be/7xhwx8z8mJc
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhy the sports column still matters — and why I'm still writing one https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946845/2026/01/07/jerry-brewer-sports-columnist-introduction-the-athletic/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialYou may not believe it, but #documentation is almost harder than "just writing code". Structure, wording, rendering ...
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social"Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven’t seen since October 2024."
"According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition."
🥳🥳🥳
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialwriting a post as @… earlier and yeah no he would absolutely put it in the fridge
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"We are all capable of the change we seek, and we must not let the distractions of unyielding thoughts—'I can’t, I shouldn’t, or someone else will do it'—lead us into a place of complacency."
—Living Village resident Sheena Lefaye Crews ’28 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections in her piece "A Villager’s Dream of Sustainable Faith."
@timfoster@mastodon.socialThat really is lovely writing:
"Every action you add is another set of house keys you’re handing to someone you’ve never met and hoping for the best."
@holger_moller@bildung.social"The fact that large language models (LLM) have scraped my website and continue to do so has had me feeling less motivated to share my thoughts. But maybe the best act of rebellion against AI slop is to keep writing and not let the silicon valley bastards grind me down."
@…
@fgraver@hcommons.social«LLMs are cliché machines, trained on a resilient human weakness for generating maximum content with minimum effort.»
Bingo.
Unfortunately, this too hits the nail on the head: «Bad art is something human beings love to do, in vast numbers. It’s part of who we are, and when abandoned by inspiration we trust in the same methods we’ve programmed into LLMs.»
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLike why would you spend hours or maybe even days or weeks on writing an essay or argument and refining it and agonize over the details and then you take a shit in the middle of it before you hit publish
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIt's before dawn on the 7th of January; I've written 10,000 words of a story that I first started actually writing on the 1st of January. It's about a God, a very old dragon, and how you reform a really sick society. None of what I've written yet is very good, but I have the bones of the whole story, including a satisfactory ending.
#AmWriting
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDocs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…
@glauber@writing.exchangeHappy Glauber History Month.
Please celebrate responsibly!
@mia@hcommons.social'I am scared to live in a society whose members are incapable of having deep discussions and arguments'
From: @…
https://scholar.social/@gedan…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaMy toots are getting too long and I sometimes want to share more than just (but also) my tech ramblings.
With all that metal running just fine, it's time to do sth else. And more.
The two excellent write-ups below pushed me over the brink, website and blog time!
Thanks to @… and @…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaHrmm, worked on writing the #adventofcode 2025 Day 1 solve in Rust, wasn't too horrible. Pretty fast though I did have all of the tabs open trying to figure out how to do things.
#rust
@servelan@newsie.socialAnd pinkie swear, too:
Putin says he is ready to guarantee in writing no Russian attack on Europe | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/28/putin-says-he-is-ready-to-guarantee-in-writing-no-russian-attack-on-europe
@gray17@mastodon.socialI spent way too much time writing up this Terms of Service for my website.
By viewing this website, you agree that I have permission to inject words, images, and other content into your brain. 1400 words - 7 minutes
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/terms-of-service.html…
@jonippolito@digipres.clubEvery post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIf @… is correct, then this big dramatic reduction of ICE CBP in MN takes us from roughly 3750% of normal down to…about 2875% of normal. Yay.
https://writing.exchange/@davepolaschek/116013806927464588
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialinteressante sprachwissenschaftliche challenge:
"The World Endangered Writing Day 2026 #Phonemoji Contest; or, How Do You Write a Raspberry?"
https:/…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuHalf my writing process right now is whispering ‘oh no’ as the story takes a turn I didn’t plan. The other half is anxiety-inducing levels of caffeine. #writerslife #creativeprocess #writing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd yet another developer-person I really looked up to in the past now using "AI"-generated "art" for their blog.
Really mind-blowing how people do not understand that this makes their whole writing highly questionable and unreliable—how I am supposed to know if you actually wrote that post yourself?
Get fucked.
@hex@kolektiva.social @seeingwithsound@mas.toChinese company #Gestala, founded and led by Phoenix Peng, aims to achieve whole-brain reading, writing, and modulation through phased-array #ultrasound https://www.gestala.com
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialHave you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
@paulusm@scholar.socialAny #writers on here in groups that have a good system for managing submissions and critiques? like we could do more with tech e.g. a task prioritisation queue, rather than a month for submissions, a month for feedback, which feels clunky
#writing #amwriting
@frankel@mastodon.topMartin Fowler's boardgame-related blog posts
https://martinfowler.com/boardgames/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles — in the United States —continues to unwind.
Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others,
announced that it has “reset” its business to adapt to lower EV sales, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion (€22.2 billion) write-down.
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was more bullish on electrification.
Even the US had relatively ambitiou…
@glauber@writing.exchange'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
<em>Melania</em> Is a Horror Movie
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-horror-movie/685843/?gift=TPTA7XiYh…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI'm so glad I'm writing the solutions in both #nim and Python because I tend to find ways to improve the Python solution with the Nim one and vice versa. Today was one of those days. The biggest thing I learned though is that solving these damned puzzles exhausted will never lead to good things quality-wise.
Solution:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856422/meta-ray-ban-display-emg-handwritin…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI think I’m more offended it attributes a metaphor to me that I can find no record of me saying or writing.
https://elementor.com/blog/web-accessibility-myths/#myth-6-overlays-or-plugins-are-enough-to-make-my-site-accessibl…
@cdarwin@c.imJeffrey Epstein,
at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s.
In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.”
He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish.
“Return to tribalism,” he wrote.
“Counter to globalization.
Amazing new all…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
META II: a syntax-oriented compiler writing language. (1964)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800257.808896
saved 2020-06-14 https://
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTrauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@boris@cosocial.ca @ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgSo, #ClimateScience mastofriends, solve an argument between co-authors: When writing a paper specifically using outputs from #CMIP6 models, do you prefer to use GCM or ESM as descriptor?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFour Nieman Fellow alumni discuss the potential of AI in journalism, offering varied opinions on its value for writing, sorting data, creating images, and more (Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/ai-research-risks-journalism-ar…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPerhaps LLMs can generate code because _writing 99% of code is trivial once you know what the software should do_.
But what do I know, I only have made software for 35 years.
@glauber@writing.exchangeRenee Good
Poet
Murdered by our government
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialAfter you have rung in the new year and the celebrations are done, you may find yourself writing out a New Year’s #resolution list. Spiritual growth has been a popular resolution among adults. We have put together a spiritual resolution list for adults and a separate one for children and youth. Learn more at
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTrauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@glauber@writing.exchangeAlex Preti
ICU nurse
Murdered by our government
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy most favorite subgenre of AI stan is the "AI software engineer" [programmers aren't engineers, engineering has formal requirements like e.g. engineering ethics].
Their logic goes like this:
"LLMs can generate a TODO-list application that pretty much works and only has a few hundred subtle bugs; therefore—as programming is the hardest and by far most intellectually taxing occupation that a human being such as myself can strive for to be an expert in—they obviously will excel and far outshine any human at any of those other, lesser, activities such as writing or art!"
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://
@glauber@writing.exchangeLet's flood Congress with postcards!
Let your elected representatives know you care!
#TheMajorityProject: 12 Million Postcards to Congress – Signs Of Justice
https://www.signsofjustice.com/products/tmp<…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Against SQL.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
saved 2021-07-10 https://dotat.at/:/3Q8D…
@cdarwin@c.imNorthwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@glauber@writing.exchangePeace and love, my friends.
Glauber Ribeiro, 2025.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imIn several posts, #Grok confirmed that the chatbot had #undressed the recently killed woman, writing in one,
“I generated an AI image altering a photo of #Renee #Good
@glauber@writing.exchangeI thought this was pretty funny. Awkward dinner parties.
Hopefully no paywall, gift article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/20
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"The relationship between power, poverty, inequality, and lack of political participation is mirrored in the damage to the natural world. They cannot be divorced from each other."
—Yale School of the Environment professor Gerald Torres ’77 J.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections https://
@cdarwin@c.imAs Americans slept and Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader,
an inconvenient deadline was looming:
the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing,
“We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”
“We have not forgott…
@glauber@writing.exchange@… , what do you think of Bandcamp?
My musical ex-partner Jack Urban asked me for my opinion.
From what I can see, it has good reputation and is used mainly by people who dislike the streaming status quo.
