Cameron Watters

So much this! Friction is hormetic and (specious) claims about things now being frictionless often arise from relocating that friction and, sometimes even increasing it in that new location.

It’s not an accident that Anthropic is filing for IPO while the “tokenmaxxing” era is still in the trailing 12 month period, and before companies’ spending caps show up in the numbers. Companies now impose spending caps that limit their spend to 20-30% (or less) of their peak spend in 1H 2026.

i am fully aware of the overwhelming power of brute force but i do think it's worth stepping back and taking a look at where the fist is aimed and who it is heading for rather than tell me about how firm and muscular the hand is and how many things you'd like to see punched for low low prices

I am not aiming this at MY. I don't live in the same world with that discourse. But, I did want to say to normal people that his comment is not sensible. Thank you.

Idgaf what AOC says I refuse to accept the framing of Woke 1.0 what you had was one of the largest uprisings against racism in US history that reverberated throughout the social structure to the extent that businesses that otherwise didn't give a shit had to at least look like they cared

the thing about programming is the finding out is usually pretty disconnected from the fucking around, be it a dev/ops split, or user/developer, or even past/future, people do not get to experience the consequences of their choices and are not incentivised to imagine them either

In the US, the top 25% of pay >85% of income taxes. The bottom 50% pay less than 4%. This difference would be more pronounced in the U.S. if we fairly taxed the top 1% and taxed asset growth.

That’s not wildly different from what the US breakdown looks like.

Is Nick Emmanwori related to Michael Irvin?

While Ireland is at risk from the impending bursting of the AI bubble, it has not benefitted much from AI's growth. The investment happening here is producing little that can be taxed, and few jobs. It's virtually all cost and no benefit to us as a country. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

Apples, in general, are much better now than even when I graduated from high school.

"AI is a serious problem" Okay, agreed "You can't just ignore it" Very true "We need responsible adoption--" Ah, there it is.

"The military" here should be read to include domestic law enforcement.

Spy Hunter (arcade version)

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

The entire conceit of prosecutorial discretion.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

As someone who finds Trump's what folks label Trump's charm and/or charisma off-putting because of other experiences with narcissists, the way I make sense of this kind of observation is: Nobody wants to be like J.D. or Viv; too many people, unfortunately, do want to be like Trump.

These daze, I just assume that technically incorrect yous of homophones and near homophones on SoCal meet ya apps are a part of them letting me no that there knot using an LLM.

Voice note messages have the same energy as using speakerphone on an airplane during boarding or just after landing.

John Kreese, Karate Kid

Remember when we washed our groceries? That was a time.

A lot of the people trying to interpret this moment in the software industry—on both sides of the AI debate—despise software engineers, in general.

The "AI is taking jobs" narrative provides cover for the fact that in many cases it's just organizations no longer paying for skills or expertise they were ignoring or wasting anyway.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

This reminds me…why are the vowels in Sean Bean's given name and surname pronounced differently?

People keep accidentally correctly calling me a luddite because they think I hate technology (I do, but), not realizing that I'm a Luddite because I understand that these tools are not liberating anyone from the slavery of capital, just making it harder to survive.

And bestiality rationalizer!

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I (co-)operated a home childcare for a week in the year 2000. (the replies and quotes on this post are great)

The NLCS started and ended during the break between the WNBA Conference Finals and WNBA Finals.

Canadian friends I am so sorry that we continue to ship the worst models of every type of guy

@seahawksofficial.com

Give us Drew Lock!

The use of "human" as a modifier of terms that exclusively apply to humans is so…weird. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/ai-at-work-what-will-human-employees-do-now

(Gen Ai autocorrect is epistemic violence of the highest order, btw. Grrr. Let’s pretend all my typos are a radical resistance strategy and not just me being too tired to fix it. Kthx.)

The systems of state, market, and social control are powerful enough to never be legible to regular people again. If you can’t draw meaningful inferences or parse distinctions you are lost right now.

any interest I could have in AI as something cool (I have been on computer since the 80s, online since the 90s) has been swiftly eclipsed by its corporate purveyors’ strip mining of what I love (writing, reading) and how I love to do it (good labor conditions for all)

This. I'd also like the people who help me at such stores to know more about plumbing snd electrical than I do, and to be paid a living wage and have comprehensive healthcare, along with food and housing security.