This is a very impactful talk by @thisisjofrank.bsky.social. Just one of slides she shared is below. My wife (age 50) is dealing with a good number of these, all while keep up with work and life‘s challenges.

Honza Dvorsky@czechboy0.dev · 18h ago

Mandatory viewing for all men in tech. youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

The sharpest executives in the industry are noticing this only 2 years after ordinary workers. This is why they get paid the big bucks.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21h ago

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Mandatory viewing for all men in tech. youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

Men in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026

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no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

It’s okay, we can fix agent-generated code with better tests *begins generating tests* It’s okay, we can fix the tests with formal specs *begins generating formal specs* It’s okay, we can fix the formal specs with better intent docs *begins generating intent docs* It’s okay, we can fix the int

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is the person whose feet most of the tech CEOs kiss regularly now. History will not be kind to them.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Swift Package Index now supports Swift 6.4 and uses it to generate documentation 📦 Package authors, check that your packages work with the move to Swift Build: swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-6...

Swift 6.4.1 is out now! ⚙️ This maintenance release improves compiler stability, enhances dependency resolution in Swift Package Manager, and includes fixes for Foundation and Swift Testing. More here: forums.swift.org/t/announcing...

Announcing Swift 6.4.1

Announcing Swift 6.4.1 We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.4.1. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.4.1 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly f...

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@pointfree.co's series on advanced macro techniques wraps up with part 2: type inference. A great read for Swift macro authors. Check it out at www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/2...

Advanced macro technique #2: Type inference

The final advanced Swift macro technique we will discuss is how macros can determine the static type of an expression whose type must be inferred by the compiler. This is particularly useful for macro...

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AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 5d ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

In fact, I'd love to see every tech exec who approves multi-billion opex or capex on LLMs to have to *bet their job* on them producing at least a reasonable, measurable ROI. Otherwise they lose their job *and* stock. You'd see a VERY different LLM industry. A much smaller yet healthy one. 🫢

Honza Dvorsky@czechboy0.dev · 5d ago

Maybe it's not the best idea to let un-fireable man-children like Zuck run our economy? At some point real-world consequences must meet these clowns. Imagine losing your company $80b on fhe Metaverse, and not only keeping your job, but then investing $200b for no particular reason into LLMs 🙃

Maybe it's not the best idea to let un-fireable man-children like Zuck run our economy? At some point real-world consequences must meet these clowns. Imagine losing your company $80b on fhe Metaverse, and not only keeping your job, but then investing $200b for no particular reason into LLMs 🙃

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d ago

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 6d ago

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

> Bluesky and Mastodon are too small for most people to care about  Let's check the receipts, shall we? On Bluesky, he has 54k followers, on X 334k, so 500% more. Engagement? ~1600 here, ~2000 on X, only 25% more. Oof. But on X you get 100% more Nazis, including the owner. What a bargain!

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

This, friends, is *how* fascism gets normalized.

John Gruber@gruber.foo · last wk.

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

I'd believe them if they'd go live next to an AI datacenter, powered by on-site fossil fuels.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

Palantir CTO, Shyam Sankar, claims AI researchers are taking up smoking to prove how much they believe AI will cure cancer and he calls it a “mass psychosis.” AI psychosis is an under-diagnosed ailment making it through Silicon Valley as we speak.

Oh god Anthropic will argue this axe is conscious won't they

Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 2w ago

Behold, a 3000 year old Chinese ceremonial bronze axe bearing a human face of which archeologists described as "fearsome and fierce".

Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way https://theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-hoping-company-can-capture-new-aud-1846058985/

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

can't wait to build my Robot That Mag Dumps 14 Rounds of 400 Winchester Magnum in a Random Direction Every Hour. i assume this is legal, since the precise time at which the trigger gets pulled is randomized!

This is the man responsible, through defunding life-saving programs at USAID, for the death of millions of children. Don't look away. Don't use X. Don't use Grok.

onion person@junlper.beer · last wk.

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2w ago

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

The fact that unverified leaks from private companies move billions on the stock market is such a strong argument for regulating any private company worth more than $10b similarly to public ones: mandatory disclosures, published audited financials, etc. So much opportunity for fraud here otherwise.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

Reports that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is closer to $50B than the previously reported $70B caused a chip stock selloff yesterday. A lot of companies have valuations that depend on OpenAI finding a money tree in the next year or two. Otherwise…pop. 🫧

Lots of great highlights this month. One of my favorite parts: ten years of Vapor, and the release of Vapor 5 beta! Congrats to the team on the milestone.

Swift Language@swift.org · last wk.

🗞️ Swift 6.4 landed in September, with Swift Build as the default in SwiftPM, Subprocess 1.0, and more capable Embedded Swift. Plus Vapor turns 10 and Google releases official Google Cloud client libraries for Swift. Read the latest digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n...

there's really no difference between this and saying that playing violent video games is harmful to the characters

dame@dame.is · last wk.

Anthropic is introducing a new policy to address users who are being abusive and cruel towards Claude. This is good and shouldn’t be controversial. Humans that perpetrate abuse and cruelty towards things, even “inanimate” or “lower” lifeforms, should face consequences for their behavior.