All meal names in French (petit déjeuner, déjeuner, dîner) are a variation of different ways of writing « breaking the fast ».
I choose to read that as : the French , pretty much like a Labrador, always approach each meal like there wasn’t any meal before.
What a winsome impermanence.
“We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers ‘look for the helpers’ talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children.”
« The entire economy is already too tied to slavery, we cannot just change that, we need to adapt and not let slavery only to the bad people. Good people need to become good at slavery to do a better version of slavery, one that threats slaves more humanely » 🤡
« Drunk driving is already here and it already helps too many people get to work. Yes it kills people. And increases addiction. It is not pragmatic to be against drunk driving. We should not shame people for drunk driving. We need to find responsible ways for good people to drunk drive responsibly»
“LLM usage is inevitable” which is why we need to strongarm people into using it by menace and cajoling and punishing and firing people for not being enthusiastic.
Because just putting their bonus structure tied to it was not enough,
Which shows how inevitable it all is.
More generally, it does seem like the current trend is going from “trying to add LLMs to everything” to “all out destroying central products and replacing them with a LLM attempt to see if people use it when they have no alternative”
Google search, bumble swipes, photo search. All announced gone.
being a search power user was certainly a key enabler of my whole career.
here is to the end of a chapter, the end of a tool I cherished and that brought me a lot.
I tried many others and kept going back because even as the search quality of keeps getting worse : it was still in 2026 the best I had.
In most sites with search, searching with google was still a better search experience than using the site search.
So Google announced the end of Google search.
that was the one product I was not expecting to see in the Google cemetery.
Also the thing that kept me from degoogling so now there is nothing left.
TrueCrime should focus on billionaires doing wage theft
People are using « tokens used » as productivity metric ?! « Tokens used »?!?!? That’s like, the first time « lines of code created » gets beaten for the « worst metric of software engineering » 🫠
“Not deciding is deciding to let time decide for you” — @selketjah #Flowcon
“I don’t have a shadow IT problem” — person that definitely have a shadow IT solution #flowcon
People adding “I don’t want to be de-skilled“ to their pre-prompts:
• why do you think LLM providers don’t put that in the default pre-prompts?
• do you think most people want to be de-skilled and hence they cater to that?
• do you hope the machine can understand this? Save you from de-skilling?
Some dude, genuinely: wait what does the word “pedantic” means ?
@Cyriux , helpfully : someone that uses knowledge to assert power
Me: *panics*
C: *laughs* go on Romeu ! Say it!
Me: I… can’t contribute to this without being pedantic 😭
C: you said too much already!
Me: … pedantics specifically use the knowledge of vocabulary/conceptual nuance to assert that power not just any knowledge 🙈
C: I have nothing lore to add.
(Folks I AM AWARE IM NOT BEATING THE ALLEGATIONS)
Sense-making and Meaning-seeking are fundamentally different hobbies that get confused a lot.
Libertarians asking for a bitcoin bailout after years of screaming bitcoin is freedom from government : extremely on Brand
I’ve got the dreaded iOS glass update and : this is terrible : I cannot recommend enough not getting the update.
the Google reviews of my local Parisian public library feature A LOT of English speaking people leaving bad notes because “there are homeless people in the library“ and, I cannot stress this enough, United States tourists : THE LIBRARY IS FOR EVERYONE! Fix. Your. Hearts.
The everyday struggle of navigating Illocutionary acts in people’s text messages.
This distance between our thresholds of enunciation.
The amount of inferences the other infers that I infer.
The unstated refusal of struggling together out of a nonverbal demand for there not to be any struggle at all