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Username expired @rune@sound-city.dk @dysfun @cthos @davidgerard I think one of the tangible difference (not sure it is exactly from december, I don't use LLMs) is that "agentic" models exploded the quantity, not quality, factor of LLMs. Developers can now make the LLM run many more sequential queries without having to interact with the model and review the code, so the LLM can make something eventually "work" before the developer has to review anything and at that point there is so much code it overwhelms the human ability to review all the small details and identify the problems in the code. End result seems to be that confidence in the model output sky rockets and they then spend all their extra time trying to convince everyone else that they aren't in the middle of some kind of psychosis.

why the vibe coding addicts are getting even more rabid, a hypothesis

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I very much hope those in government will read this and understand the risk they're taking with one of the UK's most consistently successful sectors - a risk profoundly bound up in an enormous speculative bubble and tech that has horrific externalities and is terrible at nearly everything.

my mum has a lanyard - she works in a care home for minimum wage

You told them so.

I told them so.

Everyone told them so.

Transphobia is toxic. This was always hate, all the way down.

My recollection is that in 2012 the England Athletics registration per athlete was £5, now it's £23, gone up from £20 this year, and they have rejigged the age bands and now you have to start paying a year earlier.
Also the per club fee is £210 which is a bit harsh if you have, say 30 members

Will you make Birmingham's roads safer? Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.

106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term.

Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.

Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?

Concerns over pay and display scheme at South Hill Barn car park Seaford Town Council is bringing in a pay and display scheme at a car park near the Seven Sisters.

More entitled drivers whining like toddlers about having to pay to park.
They could walk or cycle to the beauty spot for free of course.
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Abingdon's Radley Road neighbours angry at parking ban to speed up buses The restrictions to parking have been made to help speed up bus journeys along the road.

I love the way expensive new roads are celebrated, even if in business case terms, they only shave a few seconds of journeys.

But when it is a modest scheme to help to get buses moving, that same argument is deployed against.

Sorry Bub, it's not your road outside.

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I don't know him but as a joke post:

Pro: Josh a smart climate reporter and an outdoor guy, good for outdoor sky and news + existance

Con: He was manager of impact communications at REI when they made the union busting podcast that started with a land acknowledgement.

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so much of tech innovation is trying to repackage blatantly abhorrent ideas into forms you don't think so hard about

me 3 months ago: £100+/mo is an unjustifiable expense for what claude does for me

me now: not sure I could live with myself knowingly giving £100+/mo to the "blow up a random school" machine

Noem has just been fired

It's the car parking, every time.

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.

Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.

since I am reminded that this dude exists and singal just got published in the NYT again it seems a great time to bring this back

Study: AVs Will Super-Charge VMTs — Streetsblog USA Yes, robocars address many of our traffic violence troubles, but they may fail to uproot the deeper rot of car dependency that has hollowed out our society

Yes, robocars address many of our traffic violence troubles, but they may fail to uproot the deeper rot of car dependency that has hollowed out our society.

Shaming paid SHILLS who are actively trying to get people to use tools they will later need to pay for in perpetuity is not the same as shaming people who have ADHD who may turn to those tools as a means of bandaging a real, systemic lack of support.

I see this attitude a lot among disabled people in the west, and I think the issue of gAI demands critical thinking and choice from disabled people, too. We aren’t exempt from doing so because of our access needs, all the more so because disability is so often used to justify tech monstrosities

The term ”sodomy” low key the most successful and destructive psyop of all time. Cishets took a civilization getting smote for its lack of hospitality to the poor and the stranger and deflected the blame to gay sex for like a million years and counting.

Ten pages into @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s AI Con and already finding it immensely clarifying.

hallway with a staircase Accident Shuts Down Hallway Traffic HAMILTON, ON - A shoe somehow lost control & ended up hitting the stomach of a walker. We're told it was dark in the hallway where the accident happened and that the walker had black pi's on. Speed was not a factor. More to come.

My kid kicking his younger brother as reported in the media

he's a bad faith actor, he thinks any means are justified for the eradication of trans people, including pretending he gives a shit about gay people

the whole line of thought here is to split g's from the t's while giving themselves moral cover for their mission of eradicating us

There's another dynamic going on, which no one in the mainstream press I've seen has touched (though @polgreen.bsky.social got closest), and that's the fact that it is unprecedented to ban or heavily restrict a treatment on the basis that the evidence isn't high quality enough.

I click through to the next slide of my presentation. "The first thing to know is that everybody who votes for us is scum," I say. "The only real people are the ones who hate everything in our manifesto." The audience whoops and cheers. Someone calls me a genius

a map of openai's influence on other media companies

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.

imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!

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Does this explain why a primary school was lethally obliterated twice?

They must have had to block you because they were running late to their shift at the overrun Almost Hit By A Cyclist hospital ward.

The unlikely group being just the Epstein class

Fine, but Labour have no plans to substantially "break down trade barriers" with the EU. Perhaps because they judge that to be politically impossible but, if so, that needs to be said. Otherwise, we just continue the endless dishonesty which has characterized Brexit.

Lorries with unsafe meat imports skip border checks, UK government says Data provided to Commons committee highlights major flaw in post-Brexit inspection regime

It is so tiring having to say "told you so"...
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