I’m so old that I can remember reading newspapers because I liked to be informed about world events.

The Cognitive Hotdog model of AI, why your brain is not a symbolic computation system, and why that's a problem.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1003794/ai-education-computational-model-thought

a while ago I made a bunch of unhinged requests to Amazon's shopping AI about things like "the best conceal carry holster for my dog" and I'm pleased to announce it's paid off

Congratulations to Hitler Mussolini on his election win.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hitler-mussolini-wins-local-election-peru/

Massive Semen explosion described as a "major blow" for farmers. (This was a cryogenic facility; legit a dangerous situation. But also 😁) https://www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-semen-explosion-farm-australia-1459673

The last few years have definitely inspired a few new kinds of application software.

RIP legendary Apollo project programmer Margaret Hamilton, next to a printout of the node_modules directory listing for her first Hello World react app

I wrote about the personal reasons why I'm particularly angry about genAI.

https://www.midwist.com/posts/2026/10/burn-it-down/

"Summarize the key takeaways from this saved post".

Prime Day is so commercialized now, it's like we've lost track of its true meaning.

RE: https://front-end.social/@Aaron/117396206868555205

"Certainly we have more software. But is it better? I don’t know."

Well, we do have actual data about this. And no, it is not better. It is much, much worse:
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

> For every code change merged, the probability of a production incident has more than tripled.

> Bugs are accelerating, not stabilizing.

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256

#Git #Security #OpenSource

Software developers are not okay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

Wikimedia signs a business deal with OpenAI to sell the content we built, and OpenAI attacks their web tools?

Ruby goes all in on genAI, and OpenAI inserts malware into RubyGems packages?

Linus invites AI use for kernel code, and kernel.org gets hammered by AI bots?

I'm going to need to stock up on strings for my tiny violin.

What is making you stay in tech in this age of slop?
#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibecoding

How did this story fail to do the rounds on Mastodon?

«If you’ve been wondering why “furry culture” became a topic on the Senate floor, you can thank Sen. Tommy Tuberville. […]

Tuberville claimed an “alarming” number of pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries.»

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/washington-dc/2026/09/25/why-a-dca-pilot-incident-has-tommy-tuberville-talking-about-furries/91934681007/

This is one hell of an article:

"Dr Saul Newman has uncovered the “secret” to living to 110"
(Spoiler: it's 'poor record-keeping')

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/dr-saul-newman-has-uncovered-secret-living-110

Money quote: "Dr Newman’s research was supported by a 2010 Japanese government review which found 82 percent of people over 100 years old in Japan were actually already dead – including the country’s oldest man, whose corpse had been hidden by his daughter while she pocketed his pension for 30 years."

Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight:

“My favorite thing about radium water is it pulls the vaccine toxicity out of the body, and also is a solution to [electromagnetic field] sensitivity,” Roeske says later in his video, holding his radiated jug up for the camera.

https://futurism.com/future-society/alternative-health-influencer-drinking-radioactive-jug-revigator

☢️💀☢️

If you want to make sure that your site can be manipulated agentically by Meta's Muse, do not block traffic from ASN AS32934, because if you did that, it might make it impossible for the Muse agents to reach your site.

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Scientists are feeding bees with genetically modified bee gut bacteria, to make them resistant to organophosphates.

The moral of the story: change the bee you want to see in the world.

https://igem.iit.edu/iitchicago-2026/description