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  “This is a Conflict and there are Sides” https://azhdarchid.com/there-are-sides/ > But I wanted to write this specifically to say to other people in this position: No, you're not insane. We are living through a horrific break in human history, and we are going to watch people fail to recognize the battle lines being drawn or simply fail a basic decency check. We are watching a mass betrayal of humanistic values unfold before our eyes. It is natural to be shocked and disgusted.

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  “Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/11/02/microsoft-just-gave-us-the-perfect-name-for-ai-thieves-kyle/ > The narrator drops a precise timestamp, like he’s recounting the exact moment of a terrorist bombing inside Kyle’s soul.

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  That every single software, app, or platform I rely in has gaping feature and design holes in it – all of which cost me and every other user money in lost productivity – and yet those fuckers keep ignoring the shit they should be fixing in favour of more "AI" features is just constantly incredibly annoying The shit we're forced to use is full of beginner design mistakes and then they just turn around and keep inventing new ways to break things every day This industry is so frust...

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  “Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going AI slop – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/30/proton-mail-goes-full-ai-slop-tuta-starts-going-slop/ >

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  “Slouching towards Bethlehem | deadSimpleTech” https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/slouching-to-bethlehem > What's happening to tech, and to the wider world in our current tech-infested era, is a collapse of our model of the world.

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  “Multiple Reports Say Nvidia Manufactured the Gaming GPU Crisis by Forcing Big Tech to Stockpile Unused AI Hardware” https://respawnfirst.com/multiple-reports-say-nvidia-manufactured-the-gaming-gpu-crisis-by-forcing-big-tech-to-stockpile-unused-ai-hardware/ > the problem comes from Nvidia reallocating manufacturing capacity to force-feed enterprise clients AI hardware that they don’t have the capacity to use Because of course.

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  Autumn comfort cat photos: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/autumn-comfort-cat-photos-2026/

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  Because the automation paradox came up in a thread today, I figured I might revisit the original paper that outlined the paradox, "Ironies of Automation" by Lisanne Bainbridge. It's easily found on the internet and worth the hassle Once automation is good enough for the human to switch into monitoring, outcomes can paradoxically get worse. The original paper outlined a few reasons but one of them is participation is easier than vigilance, so we will miss errors we were supposed to...

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  Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed. You do know that we can see the output without using it ourself, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?

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  “In Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at School” https://www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-amira-salesforce/?ref=coyote-weekly-newsletter > “Most of the parents I’ve spoken to are not experts in data privacy, but they immediately understand how fucking creepy it is that their kid has been talking to an AI character all year in school, and the first time they’re learning about it is from… an interview I’ve done,” says Ozoma, who built a website to help parents organize and...

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  I keep a few pro-"AI" blogs in my feed reader to keep tabs on the rhetoric and some days it's just genuinely exhausting. One of the latest outlines how it thinks that anti-"AI" sentiment is a psyop designed to sabotage the golden age of open source and the democratisation of software (apparently, Russia, China, and 'big IP' are the likeliest conspirators) Four years ago the blog in question was writing about functional programming and cross-compilation

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  “This Is How a Border Crisis Can Erupt in 24 Hours” https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/this-is-how-a-border-crisis-can-erupt > A meme moved 50,000 bodies to a breakwater. The question is who built the machinery that carried it.

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  Thought of the day: anybody who has spent any time working in tech is at most two degrees removed from the Epstein files—most will probably know somebody who knows somebody in the files. 😬

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  As far as slop indicators go, variations on “let me break that down for you” have to be somewhere in the top ten Also, do people not realise how condescending and insulting this phrasing is in a reply to a support request? Do they even read their own responses?

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  So the Netlify bill for the surprise bandwidth overage caused by a bunch of badly written services and scripts downloading and re-downloading the podcast episodes comes down to $193 USD The bunny.net charge for similar bandwidth would have been about $13 USD 😬😬😬

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  “Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/ > Anthropic warns how many of its largest clients are not locked into long-term contracts and could drop Anthropic in a moment.

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  The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent" But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker

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  “The “Nonexistent” Research on AI’s Benefits for Education” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/14/nonexistent-research-ais-benefits-education > But according to preliminary findings he published last month, several of the existing peer-reviewed studies that say AI is an effective learning tool are based on flawed methodologies and analyses that rely on misapplied, miscalculated or misinterpreted statistics.

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  Just heard that a CEO I know (or used to know back in the day) is using a ghostwriter for their linkedin posts. Which I honestly kinda respect. Still fake as hell but at least a step up from slopping the posts yourself. Outsource the slopping to somebody else, FTW.

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  “The death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearing” https://molily.de/web-dev-education/ > Rescuing a field from disappearing

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  @Dangerous_beans@aus.social Too true.

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  "'Software issue to blame' for UK flight disruption" https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/sep/18/japan-raises-interest-rates-central-bankers-fight-inflation-gb-retail-sales-rise-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6aad30998f085ee1fe6a0621#block-6aad30998f085ee1fe6a0621 Of course it was a software defect. We're going to be seeing a lot more shit like this happen over the next few years as people discover that the software industry is being...

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  Giving the vibe-written ideas of an npm founder whose track record is such that, if they found the philosopher’s stone they’d use it to turn gold into lead, any airtime is probably not the most constructive use of anybody’s time Esp. since said idea is basically “Spotify for OSS libraries” Spotify being a model FAMOUS for paying artists a liveable wage… Wait, no. It’s famous for the other thing. The opposite.

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  If the pope released a statement that the world was ending next Tuesday with the rebirth of the Messiah, the job of a reporter isn't to schedule an interview with Jesus H. Christ reborn but to figure out what's wrong with the pope Media accepting "AI" millenarianism as fact is genuinely disturbing

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  “I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.

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  All this engineering and all this money and both tech and software just get less and less interesting by the day. All this energy; so little imagination.

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  The problem with hoping that we get a "reset" of sorts for software development after the bubble pops is that the shape of LLMs as a tech today is an epiphenomenon of the bubble Because of the bubble distortions and wildly irrational economics, the post-equilibrium models will inevitably be very different from the current models This is likely the peak effectiveness of the technology, as right now its backed by the wealth of everything.

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  “Bad Vibes Coding – Spectre Collie” https://spectrecollie.com/2026/09/05/bad-vibes-coding/ > My take on generative AI has pretty rapidly gone from a tentative, “it sucks and I hate it, but after the bubble pops, there might be a few very specific use cases for it, like with programming,” to a vehemently zero-tolerance stance. It’s all garbage, burn it down.

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  “UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ > The vendors always claim that patients trying to get an appointment out of the AI can totally speak to a human any time. This turns out not to be true. Generative models have no place in healthcare.

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  “DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security” | flyingpenguin” https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/ It's certainly starting to look like much of tech is run or financed by Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. As in, out and out "will to power" fascists