Ricardo RR

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Is 60 minutes using AI for their news presenters?

It just took the web 30 years to get fully customizable selects 🥹

Sounds like Bluesky finally found its business model

whenever i try to use `--ours` vs `--theirs` in git:

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

Watching some of these non-Musk tech firms jump behind the anti-DEI wave feels to me like a miscalculation, extrapolating current trends out infinitely into the future. It's possible the decline of a lot of the corporate DEI stuff - never very sincere - is receding, but latching to Trump is risky.

A typical day in America during the Trump/Musk presidency.

1. Impact. How much revenue does my work protect or generate? 2. Quality. Does my work meet or exceed customer expectations? 3. Efficiency. Reward making the right buy versus build decision. 4. Reusability. How do others leverage my work? 5. Supportability. How much work do I create for others?

Was in Mexico and oh boy, was surprised by the number of Chinese cars/dealerships compared to 2 years ago. Imagine all the data those cars are generating. China growing its trade with the Rest of the World while US is going rogue with tariffs seems like the wrong US strategy for the long term.

We’re all on the same page that Ariel would be super into feet, right?

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

This brought Microsoft Paint memories back.

I basically disassociate when I start hearing these stories.

One thing about me is that I do absolutely suck at listening to stories about weird, apparently paranormal things that happened to you. 100% intolerable “that was definitely a drone” and “you can stop worrying about your past lives because they don’t exist” shit.

US might have been an oligarchy all the time, but it never was this obvious’

Where do I report a murder?

I would just like one justice system for everyone. Wild, right?

Tamagui has been a pain in the ass. Looks pretty though.

OpenAI right now

When someone says “the president is not a dictator” and you say “maybe soon though” I worry that that’s a akin to “obeying in advance.” No. The president of the US is not a dictator. Even if he would like to be, we will not allow it.

OMG, I just learned about Text fragments and how they allow you to link to a webpage and highlight a string of text: alfy.blog/2024/10/19/l...! WHY HADN’T ANY OF YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THAT*, IT’S AWESOME! *Well, until @cassidoo.co just did in her newsletter 🥳

One more here thanks to @kelseyhightower.com Did you detonate this tech migration?