The whole idea of "agentic" coding is so depressing. I learnt to program because I like making things, not because I want to feed tokens to a team of semi-competent sycophants in return for files upon files of well-commented slop.
Sam McGowan
@sam-mcgowan.bsky.social
22 he/him, UK Programming in Rust 🦀, art, photography, shitposts. Humanist. 🤖 Bot follows & engagement farmers will be blocked.
Tip for UK Firefox users who want to view Imgur images without a VPN: Add a custom search engine in the Firefox settings with the URL "https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=%s" and a keyword like "@imgur". Then you can type "@imgur <your image URL>" to view an image.
instead of arguing about whether AI art is art we should put to bed the asinine question of what "counts" as "art" and just all agree that AI art sucks
Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme
if i try hard enough they will surely see that i am an earnest young man with joy in my soul and autism in my brain
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Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.
We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
erininthemorning.com
🤢 How much sewage was dumped in your river last year? 📍On my map, click anywhere along a river's path to trace every spill upstream from that exact spot. 📈 Scale spills by size to see the worst offenders. 📅 Compare 2023 and 2024 spills. 👉 www.janderrfuss.com/sewage-spill...
Sign this petition to repeal the new Online Safety Act introduced in the UK. The act is vastly overreaching, vague, and invasive.
It's starting to set in for me that there is a very real possibility the UK will have a Reform government by 2029. Fuck.
The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
madoc cairns@madoc.bsky.social · last yr.Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀 This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more! Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
Announcing Rust 1.88.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
Woe is me. My whole family have Munchausen by proxy, and honestly I think I deserve a bit more sympathy.
Aliens seem very interested in abducting and probing conspiracy theorists. Someone should look into that.
Starmer's Labour Party expels leftwingers for the tiniest perceived infractions. Yet it welcomes people who are basically Trumpists into the very heart of its operations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
theguardian.com
