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Jason Gorman@jasongorman.bsky.social · last wk.

Crikey. 50% of tickets sold in 4 days. This might be the only evidence-based training workshop on AI-assisted software development, and I'd figured very few folks want to hear it. Perhaps I've been spending too much time on LinkedIn. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

After many work done during the last 4 months, VaireDB is finally out on my personal GitHub. github.com/matteobovett... I'm working for close the gap to release v0.1 in the upcoming months. #database #analytical #vairedb

GitHub - matteobovetti/vairedb: VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database.

VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database. - matteobovetti/vairedb

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Lots of "ethics aside" people announcing their conscientious boycotts of Codeberg in my feed today, like I didn't have plenty of reasons to love Codeberg already.

OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me · 2w ago

It's totally unprecedented, nothing like the same marketing hype cycle Anthropic did around their model "going rogue" and "breaching containment" recently. Not like that at all

I just want to state for the record I'm completely on board with all of the ToU changes at #Codeberg. 🚫 Ban cryptocurrency. 🚫 Ban slop. It is long past time to reel in the technolibertarian dystopia we've all been suffering through for years now. I truly believe in *heavily* moderated spaces […]

For folks looking to read/listen to other good folks, I've just put together a summer list. Only high-quality and personally vetted recommendations in there makemeacto.cc/how-to-expan...

How to expand your horizons during this summer

A curated selection of online sources for information and education in technology, society, culture and politics. Check them out during the summer, and make them your own sources of information beyond...

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What I loved the most about the #worldcup Spain (Pedro Sanchez), beating Argentina (Milei) in the USA (Trump's feud), by leveraging the power of the collective over egocentric individuals. There's hope for the future

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

> If Mary Shelley were alive today, she'd probably write a book titled "Frank-Epstein". Except this one won't be science fiction but investigative journalism. I'm particularly proud of that sentence I came up with for my latest article. Should I feel bad? makemeacto.cc/how-exactly-...

How exactly is doing more AI going to make it better?

A reaction to two recent popular articles by Charity Majors. Is AI a big deal? Is resistance to AI fundamentalism? Does the solution to the current problems emerge from doing more of it?

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futurism.com/future-socie... lol

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Company: "I have AI FOMO!" Accenture: "Here's a bunch of expensive slides on how to drive AI adoption." Company: "I'm spending too much on tokens!" Accenture: "Here's a bunch of slides on how to curb token usage." Instead of AI replacing big consultancy firms, it's the new cash cow.

Could there be a more ringing endorsement though?

@oxide.computer I just unlocked two achievements in the past couple of weeks: * I have been rejected in a job application at 0xide. ☹️ * I got my first PR merged in Omicron. 😁 I guess I'll try again in a few months!

When Anthropic steals from Authors, Artists, Creators, it's "fair use". When Alibaba does the same to Anthropic, "they benefit from American investments without bearing the costs and risks associated with training advanced AI models." Such clowns. forklog.com/en/anthropic...

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba-Linked Operators of Distilling Claude | ForkLog

Operators linked to Alibaba and its AI lab Qwen have conducted a large-scale campaign to distill Claude, according to a letter from Anthropic to U.S. Senate

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New month, new review of the books I read last month. June could be defined as a @doctorow.pluralistic.net month: * 1 book referenced in Enshittification * 1 book written by Doctorow * 1 book blurbed by him Love authors leading to more authors! go.makemeacto.cc/SpH8mG

📚 Books I read in June 2026

June brought me an insightful book to better understand the current macroeconomic context and the role Big Tech plays in it, complemented by 3 engaging sci-fi books, each one with its own different st...

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After completing the transition to Ghost, I've finally published issue 3 of the Something Big Is Happening series. To celebrate the move, this issue is available to everyone for free! It covers AI and SWE, OSS projects, AI enshittification and fossil fuel investments. rush.mn/x9hVGL

Something Big is Happening #3

More reports on the impact of AI on software engineering, a look at the growing enshittification of digital products through AI, and how the tech industry is dealing with the climate crisis

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Significant increase (..almost ~50% 🤯) in cumulative generation from coal in the latest ISP. FY27 projection is a mere ~27%~ higher than where we thought we would be in 2024 ISP 🥲.

Going through older magazines, this @tomgauld.bsky.social is so on point on the state of corporations disdain for their customers and enshittification… (from @newscientist.com )

To those who changed the notification sound in Google Meet. Please don't. First the icons, now this. What metrics are you trying to move exactly by confusing people? Oh, right, the only metric Google is looking at is AI usage these days. Everything else is cosmetic.

I've said this before and it's a good day to say it again: media outlets have horny male editors and horny male photographers who want to snap creep pics of women in skimpy outfits, and that is a big part of why they illustrate a deadly event with this type of stuff

Small step for a human, big step for humanity. Today I've completed the migration of Sudo Make Me a CTO to Ghost, bye bye Substack makemeacto.cc @spavel.bsky.social thanks for being among those who helped me learn more about Substack and the good reasons for leaving.

No Docusign, I do not want you to summarise a legally binding agreement that I'm about to sign. In fact, that's the last thing I want you to do, even if you pretended to be legally liable for errors. Have the decency of not showing that modal by default. It looks desperate.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

47 minutes, not a single question about energy, climate or Anthropic's use of fossil-fuelled, illegally operating Elon Musk data centres. No country is doing the grift more successfully, and with less scrutiny, than Anthropic www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wZ...

Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit

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Big surprise today in the mail! Just received the latest book by @doctorow.pluralistic.net. I was expecting this much later, and I was definitely not expecting this to be a signed copy! Well done all the folks at AwesomeBooks, and thanks Cory for signing! Can't wait to start reading it! #booksky

Just discovered this website isaiprofitable.com Lovely initiative, would be curious to know if @edzitron.com finds the data accurate / in the right ballpark. I don't know who the author is, but they have my profound respect!

Software engineers salivating about the recent launch of Fable (or any other model) makes me think of taxi drivers getting excited for a new release of the Uber app. If you stop following along and think about long-term consequences for a second, you realise the suicidal paradox.