DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

Perhaps you’ve ditched algorithmically curated playlists for vinyl and enjoy DVDs rather than streaming

So much talk about getting on the AI train, not enough about who's laying down the tracks.

“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.

My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.

Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.

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[ny bok om pedagogikk] "KI er i ferd med å endre måten vi lærer på". Nei. Måten vi tilegner oss ferdigheter på er forankret i vår nevrobiologi, og har ikke forandret seg nevneverdig på 500 millioner år. Du mener å si at sektoren vi har satt av til dette er i ferd med å oversvømmes av chatboter.

Browsing LinkedIn makes me think of the Tom Waits line, “the rat always knows when he’s in with weasels”

ah the "this basket has to be good for I have put all of my eggs in it" argument

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3d ago

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

Things are going well, just submitted a lightning talk called "Against optimism" to the Booster conference in Bergen next year.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

I'm disgusted by CAPTCHAs. "You want access to this? Train the machine little flesh underling."

I'll be speaking at Y-Oslo on the 27th of October: "On the limits of automation" What's the end game of all this automation we're so excited about? Se you there? www.y-oslo.com/talk/2026/ch...

is this Moby Dick?

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

There's a tremendous amount of tool wankery going on these days. So much so that it's worth recalling that while tool wankery can be fun and educational, and some tool wankery is necessary and useful, tool wankery by itself does not deliver value to anyone but the tool wanker.

We are so bad at the Turing test that we fail even when we know the answer.

Me too sunflower. Me too.

Business logic is a euphemism.

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind.

Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not

We should let people dream of something besides labor

stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

It has never been harder to follow rule #4 from Jim McCarthy's book "Dynamics of Software Development": "Don't Flip the Bozo Bit".

Oh ha ha I wrote a blog post about fluent assertions for logs, as if the year was 2016 and I was a C# craftsman. einarwh.no/blog/2026/09...

Vent litt, jeg har det på tungen. Et kort ord.

Today is not a bowl of soup. It is the last day before the weekend.

The most anticipated talk at #ndcoslo for me this year, “Safe systems in a chaotic world” by @bryan-hunter.bsky.social

Hey assholes, make better software.