So, in the late 90s/early 2000s the US basically deindustrialised by outsourcing manufacturing

The bargain was basically "you make the stuff, we provide design, research, services, software, and financial markets"

Now they seem to be "de-servicing" as well:

1/3

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

i'm so tired of websites that insist on sending you a one-time sign in code every time you log in instead of letting you set up a normal account with a password. why are we doing this. stop it

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

PSA: LLMs aren't here to help you. The sole purpose is to erode your ability to think for yourself, and make you increasingly dependent on an abusive dystopian tech company.

I have been writing software professionally for thirty years or more and there is only one thing I am clear on: it’s an art not a science.

“AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/

“How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

The prevalence of LLM written blog posts on technical subjects is a staggering indictment on our failure to reach people in technical fields how to write

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

Also, wild that we use the same language for AI adoption and rape culture.

“And”???? Should be a comma there

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Ever since I saw this article, I can't stop thinking about it.

Notably, advertising *is* propaganda, just via the private sector instead of the governent.

simone.org/advertising/

The far right will break any rule in pursuance of its agenda. Meanwhile liberals will sacrifice everything they purportedly believe in to obey a bunch of rules they made up in their heads, like “ex-presidents can’t be political leaders” or “you can’t be honest about how bad the opposition is”

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

@smallant.live To fix the audio issues you and Fir had in Sardines, go to chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-allow-input-volume-adjustment and set it to Disabled. This will prevent Chrome from lowering your mic's volume for Discord and OBS, when using Amethyst's Sardines voice chat app.