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@andthisismrspeacock@mas.to Happens to those of us from the rest of the world too, but you'd think Massachusetts would be a harder to ignore example.
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The best kind of ice cream is one that you like and that your partner hates.
Excellent sustained comparison of AI adoption to the Great Leap Forward. https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
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@matt@toot.cafe Anything that sufficiently embeds itself in the economy will find good and bad use cases associated with it. Once we have a car-oriented society, there will be cases both of lives saved by someone being driven to the hospital and others where someone's dog got run over. I agree we should look at the good and the bad, but adding up individual cases is quite hard.
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@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz Not at first, because I was wearing yellow-tinted sunglasses. When I took them off yes.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win From another angle, I worry about the opposite, that we'll take its word when it confirms our preconceptions (which it's trained to do).
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Yeats
The hidden villains of the dastardly ICE action in Minnesota (and elsewhere in the U.S.) are the administrations from Clinton onward who built up regularisation debt and primed the situation for an actively bad actor to exploit.
Delighted solidarity with my fellow immigrants to Spain. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/31/undocumented-foreign-workers-welcome-spanish-amnesty
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@futurebird@sauropods.win I find it evolutionarily puzzling that cats expect us to solve their problems.
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@davidcelis@xoxo.zone Nice piece. My experience is different - for me using Claude Code has made coding fun again. I got to the stage in my career where I was overwhelmed by the accidental complexity of programming. Claude's raised the proportion of my time engaged in what I regard as the essential complexity of problems I'm trying to solve.
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@Andii@mas.to @oscarjiminy@aus.social Unusually robust moral integrity is a common feature of autistic folks that I know.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca If not reviewing is bad, and waiting for reviewers is infeasible, perhaps we could take another look at pairing?
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @cstross@wandering.shop Interestingly, AI generated works aren't subject to copyright in the US, according to Doctorow. https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @cstross@wandering.shop Sounds plausible to me. I guess we'll see.
@ElenLeFoll There are a lot of countries that could in theory have the same issue.
Maybe we don't need professional soccer.
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@matt@toot.cafe As it happens, I'm in favour of using LLMs for coding, but I don't find it easy to evaluate the balance of goods and harms.
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@0xabad1dea Great point. They didn't arrive at their conclusion with your facts and assumptions.
Spanish word of the day: "esmoquin" = "tuxedo", a hispanification of the English "smoking jacket".
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @timbray@cosocial.ca It's pretty pervasive in my workplace, but I totally get it's not a universal preference.
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@kevlin Because you aspire to developing multiple products (that you don't want people to remember).
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@romeu@mastodon.social @roundcrisis@types.pl @ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io If you keep making tweaks to allow different communities to consume it, eventually it will become Ultimate Knowledge.
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@roundcrisis@types.pl @ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io Distinguishing between stressors that you need to act on and ones that you keep in the back of your mind. Basically the whole YAGNI conversation.
Good luck, Brazilian democracy.
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org Happy to transfer to you if that works for you. Btw, I get card declined even if I select bank transfer.
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@lina Not explicitly so, but folks are associating Angine de Poitrine with anti-AI due to their originality.
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @cstross@wandering.shop The lawsuit succeeded on the point that works were pirated e.g. through PiLiMi rather than obtained legitimately. The judge ruled that the training itself was fair use.
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org I got my (Spanish) card declined - don't know if you've seen others outside UK succeed.
Italy always makes me think of Audioslave.
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@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca Not for us, but we do have a certain enthusiasm. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291832/