I watched the Star City pilot last night, and I now understand where the For All Mankind S5 budget went

progress

is species 8472 the same as mewtwo

I see that today @andrewnez has chosen violence.

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

Making the dominant smartphone in the alternate-2012 essentially an inch-thick iPhone 5 Pro Max running iOS 6 and calling it a Newton is an outstanding Apple joke and I am here for it

watching artemis ii coverage while i make dinner. the astronauts and I are namin' craters and scrubbin' taters

Patiently waiting for the Christians to denounce the current guy praising Allah on Easter Sunday just as loud as they did when the last guy acknowledged TDOV the same day two years ago

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:
(1) Two named Klingons
(2) Talking to each other
(3) About something other than honor

Getting "have you asked the chatbot" in response to a question is more enraging than I expected it to be

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

It’s probably not healthy for me to continue Becoming Informed first thing in the morning

I guess it's political text season

Tired of Teams? Meet Macintosh style from 1985 with VMCO.
I wonder if this could be ported to #GlobalTalk? 🤔
https://systemtalk.org/post/macintosh-history-8512/

Me (in a training session): "Can we change the Teams chat notification sound? it's really obnoxious during a meeting"
Presenter: "no, you can't change that"
Me: "really? is it just disabled for everyone by the admin?"
Another attendee: "if you uncheck this seemingly-unrelated checkbox you can"

(they were right)

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The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .

To address two potential objections I ran across:

1. "Disabled buttons have poor contrast and are bad for accessibility" Redesign them!
2. "People don't know why the button is disabled" Tell them!

(These are design problems that should be solved whether or not the button is disabled.)

#uxdesign #ux