Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
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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.
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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"If you’re going to use an LLM to write me an email, I’d much rather you just send me the prompt; at least then I’d have an idea of what you actually meant to say." noperator.dev/posts/you-ca...
You can just say it
There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. It usually goes something like this: In the age of AI, we should still prefer humans in certai...
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trying to help a friend with the windows 11 upgrade and every microsoft support page redirects me to log in after a second so i have to view it through archive.org 🙃
📝 When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break daverupert.com/2026/04/more...
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slo...
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im coining a new term. vibe linting: pr review feedback thats based on iterations of natural language and feelings
I have never had a good day from tackling a todo list, but I have had many good days from helping just one person with something
When I write code by hand my meat fingers are compelled to write bad abstractions to avoid typing. AI is really good at copying things and typing out a lot of boilerplate, which is exciting for software quality
looking at moving to deezer but you can only have 10000 songs and 2000 albums in your library? and i have more than that
I wanted to run today but I was too tired. Here’s what I did instead: I ran anyway and tripped on the trail twice and cracked my phone screen.
local eco/health food store selling "The Good Crisp Company" pringles alternative but upon closer inspection non recyclable packaging (pringles is now recyclable) and uses palm oil (pringles uses sunflower oil) 🤦
Here’s the thing the thing is hey let me tell you the thing let me tell you the thing is are you listening the thing is
someone should make a compiler that turns tailwind into html and css