Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Meanwhile one of the big anarchist accounts On Here is reposting a No Starch Press pillar shilling for agentic coding and that takes no heat whatsoever, priorities amarite

So do we want to talk about the irony of mocking this guy via a screenshot without alt-text, or? If your goal is to *fix things*, that is, rather than gloat (Said missing alt: Chris Alvino on probably-Twitter, basically defending AI as an accessibility aid for covid-related disability)

Project T.B.O.N.E.@tbone.malware-virus.biz · 5h ago

Now here's a post

Putting a pin in that one to watch later because as an *actual* harm reductionist (shocker, the queer anarchist does not actually want covid lockdowns again and is deeply sympathetic to safer sex and drug use practices) seeing this misuse of the word has been driving me batshit

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 9h ago

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, ep 82 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... … in which @savasavasava.myatproto.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me for a good hard look at “harm reduction” as misapplied to “AI”.

SD really going full steam ahead on the Lügenpresse rhetoric, huh

This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”

(With the caveat that I'd love the Atlantic to stop giving a platform to anti-trans drivel, and therefore never feel comfy linking to them...) Good piece that I wish would quiet the "BUT SHE'S NOT A FILM CRITIC" nonsense. This hits similar points to newer critique of Spec Ops The Line, for example

Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterday

Turns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At least in this version she does not die of cold! She dies in her holding cell from… *checks notes*… sudden cardiac arrest. Huh. Strange.

Free story idea: The Little Match Girl but she gets arrested because she lives in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda (where there's currently a curfew for under-15s because a couple kids started a fire)

Wait, what the fuck, Ceuta isn't even in Schengen and the papers pathway that was discussed is not actually open anymore. Everyone's just been lying through their teeth! www.lacimade.org/drame-de-ceu...

Drame de Ceuta : jusqu’où ira l’indignité ? - La Cimade

Plus de 70 personnes officiellement décédées, sans doute plus de 130 selon les associations. De ce qui s’est passé à Ceuta ces derniers jours, on aimerait d’abord que l’on retienne cela : ces vies bri...

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Highly recommend making an effort to get to know your coworkers enough to find allies in, say, pushing back against AI bullshit. And if you can afford to be the visible, vocal but ever-polite stick in the mud, do that

Imagine analyzing which platforms people spend time on, going "social media usage peaked in 2022 then went down", and ignoring the unmasked elephant in the unventilated room in your analysis. HEY I WONDER IF ANYTHING HAPPENED IN 2020 THAT AFFECTED ONLINE BEHAVIOR, BIG IF TRUE

This is just the Shadok beauty contest all over again. "Lia, what the fuck" Okay so there's this absurdist birds French cartoon from the 60s which is actually about De Gaulle-

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2d ago

to imagine how impossible the idea of singularity is, to train a model to make a video game they'd need another model that can judge like 100 attempts and score how "good" a game creation attempt is better than a human can. they think they're doing this for all fields by like next year. lol man

OKAY BUT HEAR ME OUT The knitting video did indeed showcase the exact tendencies that enable and are exacerbated by LLM use: surface-level research, repeating blatantly incorrect but popular stories, failing to ask experts, and load-bearing misogyny

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2d ago

our media environment has become too rancid sorry

LMFAO Nvidia has a new UI framework with "a screenshot-first inspector for AI agents". Way to tell blind users to go fuck themselves. I'm done being polite, you're all brain-boiled ableist assholes and when you have that kind of money there is NO excuse to build inaccessibility-first frameworks

The uncomfortable part is that more and more supposedly serious software engineers are holding opinions not too distant from that one

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

Great. It's 6AM, meaning as cold as it's gonna get, and my place is... still at 25C. Cool cool cool that's definitely manageable and liveable

Also, free essay idea: "Finnish Studios With Bearded Wife Guys Who Suck, a comparative study of Alan Wake and Arjun Devraj"

Oh this is *good*, and right on time for me to get cracking on my own bullshit

Gamers with Glasses@gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 2d ago

@mayorhere.bsky.social on Saros: "Robert W. Chambers's Yellow Shore becomes more knowable in Saros than the original myth ever was, and something is lost in that. But the core idea survives: the horror was never the Shore. It was always the wanting." www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sar...

This sure was a great read fresh off a lengthy conversation about the complexity of building and being in community, of handling Mad abusers who are dangerous in very narrow contexts and nowhere else, of promoting harm and risk reduction without destroying yourself by aiming for perfection

Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...

And if you think we're any better about that in Europe because haha those silly yanks: those of us still on this beat routinely look at the US with *envy*, because you've got more people, putting on more events, and better access to better quality masks. France only wins on vaccine access

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 2d ago

I have no idea what to do with this Covid revisionism. It feels like the bad kind of group therapy where you help each other ignore facts. We don't have to go *that* far back in the social media timelines to prove how fucked up it was. We were so scared we were scrubbing eggs and baking the mail.

Apparently a (Black, this matters) influencer from the US came to Stockholm on vacation, absolutely trashed the town as conservative and boring to a tourist expecting vibrancy, and is now going viral over it. I hope it's not white zero-eights getting pissy over it because she is completely right

I just don't think the outdoors temperature in Northern France should ever reach body temperature ("Wait didn't you post this last week already" yeah see that's kind of the problem)

(Missing alt: the headline mentioned is from The Sunday Time, "When my ADHD diagnosis was removed, it was a relief") Sweden has also been seeing a growing push against ADHD diagnoses, notably by way of fearmongering about private clinics that people go to because the wait lists are so frikkin' long

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Last repost: do not, under circumstances, make life choices that will result in people who built Ravelry's DemonTrolls paying attention to you. If I had to choose between them and gamer mobs I would just run off into the woods and disappear

[Calvin's Dad] Knitting? I'll show you something interesting. Everyone thinks internet knitters are nice little ladies having nice little lady chats about their nice little lady hobby. I cannot begin to express how wrong this is. They've *lost count* of the "yarn dyer faked her own death" incidents.

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oooh, your parasocial relationship is really showing here. What a class act. Knitters already know what exact forces keep knits together and can tell by *touch* when they're not right lol. He also got a lot of other stuff wrong, e.g. the oldest known knit socks. That's nothing to do with physics.

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools)

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One thing folks urgently need to understand around LLM hype is how it brings experts as un/reliable narrators into razor-sharp focus. This has always been true - experts were always still human - but now it's getting extra-urgent

Bill Maher just went after maskers *again*, and you really have to ask, why does this victory taste so bitter in their mouths that they need to harass disabled people about it every few months? Doesn’t seem like gloating. Seems like barely contained rage painted as thin as gold leaf over fear.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

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