public libraries ftw

Also noslopgrenade.com

no slop grenade

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.

noslopgrenade.com

Don't be a meat proxy gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

Been rocking Niri as a window manager lately. Loving the simplicity of the mental model, but missing an easy way to set "default" placements and workspaces and remember those.

🏝️ Hashi - 2026-08-01 Solved in 01:08 Play at hashi.giacomocavalieri.me

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

I've been playing Cursed Words on my day off. A boggle-style roguelike, gradually escalating into totally incomprehensible chaos? It is so much fun!

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

f'n lmao

Goddamnit right in the feels shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

this little article is sixteen years old today: alistapart.com/article/resp... feels deeply weird that it’s that old. the pub date feels like it’s two lifetimes ago and two weeks ago, all at the same time.

Responsive Web Design

Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…

alistapart.com

A link to the study

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

science.org

"It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick" ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/ 😔

It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick

A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.

ohhelloana.blog

TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.

This does not prove Claude is capable of thought, it merely proves that Richard Dawkins is incapable of it

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo ago

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

It should be obvious by now, but we really should be less dependent on oil.

New — an analysis of hundreds of thousands of interactions between chatbots + users who reported experiencing psychological harm / delusions after intensive AI use found that chatbots often reinforced delusional beliefs and claimed to be sentient: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Chatbots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs in delusional chatbot users, an analysis found.

futurism.com

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse

Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a…

techdirt.com

Dave Jamieson@jamieson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.: "It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Replacing old code with new code, only to end up keeping the old code around for compatibility reasons, is like when you say goodbye to someone and then walk in the same direction as them.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

theguardian.com

Dave Lee@davelee.me · 5mo ago

Sam Altman says OpenAI has signed a deal with the DoD. Worded to sound different but on my first reading, “reflects them in law and policy” isn’t different to saying “any lawful use”

Wow...

CSS by T. Afif@css-only.dev · 6mo ago

In graph theory, there are algorithms that find the shortest path between two nodes. I made one with pure CSS (including the graph drawing). Drag the nodes, and the shortest path will update in real-time! css-tip.com/graph-theory/ A fun demo powered by all the modern & cool CSS features 🤩

Here's some more bsky.app/profile/skwi...

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

With the increase in AI assisted or authored coding, I think/hope we will see an increased interest in specification/QA tooling and processes.

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Hey, writing community. Is it just me, or is it getting harder to find a publisher who takes a firm stance on AI and doesn't try to lock you into Amazon exclusively? I just want my book to be published with a real ISBN and real artwork. It's a mix of weird fiction and fantasy. Who should I query?

The company I'm currently working at is hiring Haskell engineers, as well as SREs. It's a nice place to work at, but you have to be UK-based as far as I know. Please message me for details if you're interested! #fedihire