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The Intercept: Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now.

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qdot @qdot@buttplug.engineer

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

OH at the "AI" meetup discussion: "It's been a bitch to have to execute my own ideas."

Adam Neely — Technocapitalism and the Bad Future of Music (YouTube video, an hour and a half) is some desperately needed sanity today.

Red Monk: AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers

AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code gets you permanently banned. Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, announced he would auto-close all external pull requests. Meanwhile cURL, the humble command-line tool that quietly powers approximately everything on the internet, just shut down its bug bounty program. After six years and $86,000 in payouts, Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL, pulled the plug. The reason? An AI onslop (pun fully intended).

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The AI Dirty List — Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.

Sycophantic AI increases attitude extremity and overconfidence Steve Rathje, Meryl Ye, Laura K. Globig, Raunak M. Pillai, Victoria Oldemburgode Mello, Jay J. VanBavel (preprint)

Sycophantic chatbots’ impact on attitude extremity and certainty was driven by a one-sided presentation of facts, whereas their impact on enjoyment was driven by validation. Altogether, these results suggest that people’s preference for and blindness to sycophantic AI may risk creating AI “echochambers” that increase attitude extremity and overconfidence.

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Realizing that the heel on my Xero running shoe has worn through too many times for the gasket material I've clumsily glued over some of the tread to solve, I'm wondering if there are any re-sole-able minimalist shoes for less than the $450 that the ultra-fashionable brands start at.

Work has me in a mood, so I went out on a walk looking for some hills, ended up going up Hayes Lane.

Futurism makes my day a little brighter: The Streets Are Saying Bitcoin Is Gonna Fall to $30,000.

Okay, really optimistic would be freakin' zero, but that's a good start.

Maybe a good thing that will come out of these "skills" files that the slop vendors are publishing is better documentation for humans.

A lot of useful quickstart guides in those repos, for projects and libraries that aren't as well documented in their own materials.

PC Gamer: Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

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From Viss @Viss@mastodon.social's thread about ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw that observes:

people are attaching this shit to their desktops and phones and their lives and somehow getting pearl-clutchy and surprised when it straps itself with nuclear warheads, dives into their bank accounts and detonates itself

and

i need to go look up that big "EA got sued because it got kids addicted to gambling" lawsuit because im pretty sure this is the same thing but for vibecoders

which then observes that:

oh my god, its the same fucking thing

With a link to Trulaw: EA Games Lawsuit for Video Game Addiction.

And, yes, it is exactly this, and, as further asserted in the thread, I strongly believe that it's both deliberate, and that evidence of that is the whole kerfluffle around ChatGPT 5 and how when they dialed down the sycophancy people revolted.

I mean, anyone who's spent time on this platform can tell ya this, but Tim Cook sold Apple's soul.

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Matt Gemmell: The Fallen Apple. Via

École des Bro-Arts @aphyr@woof.group

I've been trying to teach my kids that they should stop wearing and listening to the same things everyone else does at school. It's OK to get wild haircuts, piece their noses, go thrash around at electro-punk shows.

After all...

Children should be scene and not herd.

Eeenteresting, too soon to know what this actually means, but: Windows Central: You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

Details around how the company is going about this remain light, but sources say Copilot integrations like those found in Notepad and Paint are under review. This may result in Microsoft removing certain Copilot integrations from these apps, or at the very least removing the Copilot branding and pivoting to a more streamlined experience.

Pacific Antifascist Research Collective has "A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts." I think they mean pests, not pasts, but the rest of the point stands.