Jeremy Kahn

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more.

#LLMSkeptic. farm-to-table organic free-range prose only. Don't send me generated text.

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2026-10-22 21:14:44 UTC

Describing a coworker as a "Hanlon's Law edge case"
#petty

2026-10-22 03:23:49 UTC

I just walked past a bus stop.
There is a guy strutting around in front of it in a sea captain's hat ⚓ with all his worldly belongings in a bag on the bench.
He has a lot to say (singing, in a nasal falsetto):
What do you mean 🎵
The brains of a pigeon 🎵
Highly intelligent 🎵
The brains of 🎵
Highly intelligent people 🎵
The brains of a 🎵 piiigeoon🎵
I have fallen into a gritty live-action remake of DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS #grimdark #truestory

2026-09-12 04:14:45 UTC

Y'all, I know I'm old because I confidently filled this in as CORTANA
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/117/256/115/107/589/570/original/694b553101350a3f.png

2026-08-01 23:45:54 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
This is making me THINK, as you and your formicogical thoughts often do.
I love this analogy; what is a mirror to a colony organism, anyway: an optical mirror is meaningless to a hive mind
But a massive LLM is like a papier-mache collage from our collective written output
it's a mirror to the culture (collective organism?) looking backwards in time
And we react to it like the cats that puff up in the mirror at that weird other interloper

2026-07-19 15:15:39 UTC

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"a programmer needs a chatbot like a manatee needs a cybertruck"
(pace Irina Dunn)

2026-07-19 15:11:41 UTC

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"An LLM-based chatbot is a Cybertruck for the mind"
(now translated for a Twitter-ish audience)

2026-07-18 18:47:09 UTC

Computing before 2000: "a bicycle for the mind"
Modern computing: "a cybertruck for the mind"
all the implications of this metaphor hold up
- public safety
- cardiac health
- availability to ordinary people
- traffic congestion
- home repair
- vendor lock in
- climate change

2026-07-18 06:00:32 UTC

Numismatist alert!
I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp*
Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)?
Apparently not in 1943!
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/116/939/421/646/511/910/original/4e56021b0aa94ab7.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/116/939/440/744/649/316/original/c0d0162bd9ef79a8.jpg

2026-07-17 15:23:09 UTC

This feels like a postmodern throwing of the gauntlet
If it's not considered a word, but I can make a meme of it, is it really unmemeable?
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/116/935/981/458/090/134/original/da55ce0031c85dc7.png

2026-07-12 02:16:32 UTC

I see a token famine coming
Centrally planned economies with track records of shooting or rusticating the bearer of bad news (like Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, or Zuckerbergian Menlo Park) are always going to have surprise! resource shortages

2026-06-29 04:34:52 UTC

https://huggingface.co/spaces/society-ethics/annotated-encyclical
Meg Mitchell, aka Shmargaret Shmitchell, with whom I am proud to be acquainted, has provided an annotation of an AI paper by none other than the Pope
The world is a strange and mysterious place

2026-05-28 05:17:16 UTC

While we're in chaos anyway, why not try a little mutual-aid anarchy, as a treat?

2026-05-19 19:16:56 UTC

Okay this is a really fun "biowordle" game
https://metazooa.com/

2026-05-18 00:58:55 UTC

The Butlerian Jihad famously includes the phrase
"Thou shalt not make machines in the likeness of a human mind"
But if I were starting off today, I would say "thou shalt not force the human mind into the likeness of a machine"
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116592289675413403

2026-05-17 23:06:09 UTC

So, GUILLOTINES, then?
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/116/592/417/737/081/548/original/62364335139bf098.png

2026-05-17 06:20:08 UTC

In the midst of work chaos, I decided to watch KAOS
I've now only watched one episode but I'm already mad that there's only one season.
Goldblum hamming as Zeus is alone worth the price of admission, and *what* a cast.

2026-05-02 01:41:52 UTC

My team of linguists is lamenting the screwed up decisions of our entire industry
---
> so many [people on our team] know so much about so many things
> [But why they gotta] make it so weird for hiring linguists
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So I gave a little pep(?) talk:
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I really *do* think these are related
Linguistics people — all of you — are just amazingly well prepared for this LLM dystopia that we are all living into
We're the Mad Max(in)es of this particular epistemic hellscape
(1/2)

2026-05-01 13:53:05 UTC

This is a really exciting list of new books
And both Ann Leckie and Martha Wells have entries! Always here for more Radch and Murderbot.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524887-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-may-2026/

2026-04-20 20:44:29 UTC

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@nprofile…y4qv
I think it's a bad look to put your apology in the same breath as defensive criticism of "hidden rules" and implications of hostility to neurodivergent people
I don't identify as neurotypical, but I don't need or want my ND defended
If anything, my experience of neurodivergence and neurodiverse ppl is that us NDs put in *more* consideration towards the layers of significance of our speech acts than most NTs
(I may have a biased sample, I hang out with a lot of linguists)

2026-04-19 14:45:36 UTC

This study's results suggest that LLM sycophancy amplifies publication bias (the "file drawer" problem)
The LLMs didn't like to tell the user that their hypothesis was not confirmed by the data
H/t @nprofile…x9m9
https://social.vivaldi.net/@bibliolater/116252085690032777

2026-04-18 23:43:05 UTC

Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months.
We've killed a lot of sparrows.
The AI Great Leap Forward
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

2026-04-18 16:54:01 UTC

This @nprofile…c2nm story is wild
Thiel and Balaji attempt to insert forced arbitration into fact-checking AIs
1000% blackpilled cyberpunk dystopia
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116422294912297690

2026-04-11 01:43:42 UTC

A work friend said this to me today, in the middle of continued reorg chaos
> Piffle. When things blow up I expect you will extend an invitation to build rad slow tech normal ass ML and FST based products for people who need them
Reader, my heart grew three sizes

2026-03-28 00:26:12 UTC

work director just tried to console us after the layoff
with the parable of the house on fire from the Lotus Sutra, chapter 3
i guess that makes us lowly employees... the children in the burning house? and he has bravely deceived us into running out, by telling us there are toys outside?
i don't even understand this as a Buddhist parable
but i _definitely_ think it was inappropriate for a director of engineering to say it to a group of colleagues mourning their laid-off friends.

2026-03-27 19:51:52 UTC

"we had the radical idea to turn off all the stop lights in the city.
The point of transportation, after all, is to go, not stop. We didn't want to hold our associates and 10x drivers back from their best opportunities to create impact"

2026-03-27 06:01:11 UTC

Hey it's @nprofile…8f3n and @nprofile…5876 on the 404 Media Podcast
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
What a pleasant surprise to hear you come up in my podcasts.
Also shout out to my old classmate Lesley Carmichael; where are you now friend?

2026-03-25 01:44:16 UTC

Just got the dreadful email from above
"[Entire org of thousands] should work from home tomorrow. More guidance to come tomorrow."
It's Wednesday, and they've been leaking hints about a layoff for weeks.
Here we go.

2026-03-22 01:52:35 UTC

I'm so angry and disappointed in Cesar Chavez today.
never put *anybody* on a pedestal; it's the only way forward to a healthy future

2026-02-28 01:50:22 UTC

Oof, kid is sick, so I am staff-engineer and chief of nursing staff at the same time today
I am experiencing a dissonance between effectiveness and care on both roles
I care a lot about kid, but I can't do much besides bring him blankets and warm drinks
I am super effective at work right now, but I can't bring myself to give a damn about the job (I do care for — and resent — the précarité that so many of my colleagues are feeling)

2026-02-24 05:30:50 UTC

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@nprofile…97y5 honestly the x risk stuff just sounds so silly that I'm kinda glad they left it in

2026-02-23 06:40:04 UTC

I love the Daily Show for just... saying it
https://youtu.be/RcPthlvzMY8

2026-02-12 18:16:31 UTC

> the rot has taken somebody...
> it’s chewed out that chunk of their brain that understood decency and responsibility once upon a time.
> It’s the sound of somebody letting that happen, because they never really liked feeling those things in the first place.
tell it, @nprofile…x8t7 !
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/02/12/the-pride-of-subject-hometown-here/

2026-01-21 04:03:56 UTC

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@nprofile…4ru5 my 13-yo's kids' magazine had a story last week about a 220-pound art toilet made of gold that sold for $12 million to Ripley's Believe It Or Not
And I went to look up how much that would be *just for the gold* because I wanted to know how much Ripley was paying for the shape of a toilet
And apparently Ripley's *made a profit* even if they just melt it down into ingots

2026-01-15 06:02:39 UTC

Haha f**k you evernote, you enshittifying SOBs
You think I'll just happily ride along with $250/year. I *used* to pay $40/year, just cause inertia
No, I don't want your "starter" plan at $9/month either.
Cancel the entire thing.
Oh, *now* I can get 40% off?
No. I already did the work (including reinstalling windows temporarily) to get 15 years' notes exported, I'm done.
Tell ya finbro execs that I don't want AI in my notes app, anyway.
Joplin is my new bestie now

2026-01-14 06:33:14 UTC

I think I'm okay with Warhammer banning AI Slop, with the possible exception of the technomages of Nurgle, the Chaos God of Decay and Disease
... Seems like Nurgle might be into it

2025-12-29 07:15:59 UTC

Wait, he *really did* call his security company "Sauron"
Need to start a white hat hacker collective called the Fellowship now
and maybe work on my "we are all Samwise" rabble-rousing speech

2025-12-28 17:36:43 UTC

The Google Keyboard is a quiet collaborator.
"antifascism" is not a spelling error.
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/115/798/392/302/550/362/original/a9462152aaf71c0a.png

2025-12-18 19:47:59 UTC

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@nprofile…fltn @nprofile…np83
who had _this_ on their bingo card
(everybody raises hand)

2025-12-13 21:31:34 UTC

My uncle — in his 70s — just explained to my parents that Deep Space 9 is an "old science fiction show"
And I am *myself* crumbling into dust

2025-12-05 23:14:01 UTC

@nprofile…lc00 I <3 "this is what demonology looks like" and might need to get that on a AI Hype Theater t-shirt somehow

2025-11-12 22:46:49 UTC

Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned

2025-11-06 20:10:44 UTC

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@nprofile…tcpf my employers have built an embedded system in C++ ; I have no reason or way to switch to Rust

2025-11-06 14:52:44 UTC

Lord help me I'm starting to enjoy coding in C++.
I find myself saying "if you're writing *that* kind of C++ you've done something wrong at the design stage"
I caught myself feeling grateful that the language punishes you with unreadability and untestability when you do too much in one function
Is this... Stockholm Syndrome?

2025-11-04 16:11:31 UTC

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
#wishThisWasMicroFiction

2025-11-03 18:40:45 UTC

Lysenkoist devops practices
"You must use AI because AI makes you more efficient"
"but, uh it's not making me more efficient"
"the Party has decreed that it *does* make you more efficient, off to the gulag for you"

2025-10-27 22:30:17 UTC

Coworker is using a multi-billion-dollar coding assistant to read regression-test error messages back to them
... error messages that I wrote specifically so that they could be interpreted by a non-expert, including suggestions about "what to do if you see this message"
so now they're is bragging about how they're "increasing efficiency with AI tools" and SOMEHOW IT'S MY FAULT AND I'M NOT GETTING THE CREDIT AT THE SAME TIME
*ahem*
anyway, can't wait for the bubble-pop.
how are *you*?

2025-10-21 15:57:10 UTC

Pushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115412469811918135

2025-10-18 04:46:24 UTC

I _wish_ this were the last word on this subject
it's a good one
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/order-2

2025-06-18 04:59:09 UTC

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

2025-06-17 23:40:28 UTC

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@nprofile…3sf2 wow that is _good_ stuff

2025-06-17 16:43:05 UTC

"AI" product development is in a strategic falsifiability crisis
The crisis is shaped like the No True Scotsman fallacy, Sunk Cost fallacy, and conspiracy theories ALL AT THE SAME TIME
there is no possible accumulated evidence that would lead boosters to conclude that "an LLM isn't an appropriate artifact to address this problem"
I see them throwing LLMs at *already beyond-adequately solved problems* (units conversion! chess! constraint fitting!), getting *worse* results, and carrying on

2025-06-17 05:21:12 UTC

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@nprofile…s6x2
"Lower bound of six times the escape velocity from earth's gravity well"
I think I know why we never found the lid (assuming some part of it was still moving close to that speed upon exiting the atmosphere)
Anybody ever try to calculate its trajectory? A 1956 launch might have actually been the first man-made object to make it to the moon

2025-06-17 01:11:54 UTC

Gen (Z correction, alpha) kid (into punk/grunge) explains the difference between The Clash and The Sex Pistols
"The Clash is , like, real anarchists
but the Sex Pistols are, like, clickbait aura-farming anarchists"
#notwrong

2025-06-16 00:16:37 UTC

I feel like that video of the squeaky tank is a riff on a Tex Avery cartoon or a Mr Bean or Mel Brooks or Monty Python chase scene
Waiting patiently at the crossing for all the piddling vehicles to go by before resuming the chase... And the last one is a little old person on a bike
But Google is crap now so I can't remember which one it was.
#LazyFedi help me out here

2025-06-15 23:10:44 UTC

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@nprofile…qz4x
@nprofile…2n45
Very proud to be an Atlanta kid today
Also there's a serious antifascist street band scene in Atlanta, and I'm glad to see it's still alive!

2025-06-12 22:21:51 UTC

Me 'n Tom Morello have been calling for a liberation of Los Angeles for some time now
but not like this
not like this

2025-06-12 22:12:03 UTC

I get a kick out of talking to experienced software engineers just after they have encountered ML research scientists for the first time
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/672/679/726/714/719/original/06e95ac7b571d91f.mp4

2025-06-12 04:22:30 UTC

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/668/425/257/049/552/original/54bc8cd969a77ba3.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/668/449/282/931/266/original/58b261c6c92f742e.jpg

2025-06-11 16:49:28 UTC

oh _no_ wikipedia, this is a _terrible_ idea and WTF are you thinking
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
(h/t @nprofile…flnf for the coverage)

2025-06-10 16:50:32 UTC

today I actually got to use the phrase "[system] can't do that because it requires a higher level of the Chomsky Hierarchy than we've got available"
**and it was the right answer to a product problem**
feels like the core plot arc of The Last Starfighter
"this apparently useless thing you've spent your life practicing? turns out, *today's the day*"

2025-06-10 02:14:04 UTC

Cranky to see people posting ai images of the LA crisis
Pretty sure that there are a lot of great pictures of the Waymo cars on fire that *aren't* generated slop

2025-06-09 00:25:04 UTC

Ugh between LA and the Madlee I can't look away but I ain't much use

2025-06-08 04:00:47 UTC

I think in this #StarTrek timeline — obviously, the bad timeline, with the goatees — we get the "Taco" Bell Riots in LA Instead of the #BellRiots in SF

2025-06-05 16:05:47 UTC

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.
-- @nprofile…gffv via @nprofile…q54u
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
so, so many parts of this that resonate with me. Thank you for sharing these thoughts

2025-06-03 21:00:11 UTC

When @nprofile…zwgs goes on a dunk-fest like this,
somebody should provide Talmudic annotated marginalia explaining each joke (I only understand about half of them.)
This commentary would provide a complete reference guide to the socio=techno-political history of the Fediverse
#archivists, get on it
https://social.coop/@cwebber/114621311866235080

2025-06-01 07:05:22 UTC

Watching MURDERBOT ( the TV show )
It's not the books
But it's pretty fun. Particularly love the Preservation team, who are adorable goofballs, every one.
Still has the delightful combination of emotional competence porn (on the part of Preservation) and miltech competence porn (on the part of Murderbot)
They need each other in ways they don't know.

2025-05-29 17:23:26 UTC

Nothing good will come of this alliance, Gríma son of Gálmód.
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-and-meta-team-up-to-transform-xr-for-the-american-military/

2025-05-24 03:53:21 UTC

"we’re losing one of the last places on the internet that prioritized joy and experimentation over engagement metrics and revenue optimization."
😭
The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't)
https://keith.is/blog/the-end-of-glitch-even-though-they-say-it-isnt/

2025-05-23 20:15:03 UTC

If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind
LLM-powered chatbots are, correspondingly, Cybertrucks.

2025-05-22 20:33:33 UTC

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@nprofile…e5sk
in addition to the dire horror suggested by a university president having ONE OF HIS FACULTY yoinked from the line because he expressed concerns about genocide
mailchimp has also botched the preview in a way worthy of a dark cyberpunk absurdist novel
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/553/375/135/929/399/original/4d2313708793c9b6.png

2025-05-22 06:09:36 UTC

Holy shit, Ed.
Tell us how you really feel
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
✊💀✊✊
@nprofile…ejlm thank you for writing this so I don't have to

2025-05-20 01:57:19 UTC

At Elliott Bay Books to hear @nprofile…gd2c and @nprofile…mr93 talk about their new book The AI Con.
Let's go, friends!
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/537/666/516/941/933/original/1d62be153b3439f5.jpg

2025-05-18 20:55:17 UTC

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@nprofile…e5sk
I also see a need for coverage of
(a) LLMs cannot do real knowledge work in practice, and why we can be sure it won't get better (though it may convert done jobs into "minders")
(b) why do executives and "thought leaders" keep telling us it's revolutionary (it's to keep the bubble inflated and exert labor discipline)
(c) how do they get away with this hype when there is not even ONE* profitable product line powered by any of the big LLM/AI companies
*Nvidia doesn't count

2025-05-17 16:26:11 UTC

@nprofile…mr93 @nprofile…gd2c
Pretty sure this is on your "Fresh Hell" lists already
but just in case it isn't
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114521998480883171
Looks like the AI materials science innovation paper by an MIT economics grad student ... was a fraud
The student appears to have been uh separated from MIT

2025-05-12 15:52:09 UTC

"the difference between an LLM and a rubber duck is that the rubber duck knows to shut up when it has nothing of value to say."
-- @nprofile…sqcg
(tyvm, may reuse)
https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/114494746307179113

2025-05-10 04:32:44 UTC

Listening to the Newark mayor and congressional reps finally turn and fight feels like the missing third book in the City We Became duology
Come on Mannie & Padmini & Brooklyn, tanks to the front. Newark needs you
https://mstdn.social/@vruz/114481555502212672

2025-05-09 16:56:48 UTC

OMG watching people *still* talking about prompt engineering explainability
it's still haruspicy, folks. Reading the entrails.

2025-05-09 00:15:48 UTC

My twelve year old has trouble remembering which is which among
Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
Backstreet Boys
"They have such similar names and they're all 'old people music'" 💀💀💀

2025-05-08 18:40:54 UTC

"Color-blind" (single-opsin) cephalopods perceive color by detecting chromatic aberration made by their their weird pupil shapes
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1524578113
what a cool hack; it is *wildly* different than the multi-nerve system of rods / cones that we have
via @nprofile…q6kd

2025-05-08 17:00:31 UTC

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@nprofile…s6x2
the closest things I've ever worked with are in massive monorepos which are indexed so that you can ask with a right-click "where are these symbols defined; where else are they used" when looking at the test (or the thing testing)

2025-05-08 14:04:27 UTC

Road sign
WARNING
CRONENBERG DYSTOPIA
MERGING FROM RIGHT
0.5 KM
New surgeon general nominee cofounded a16z backed health app with DOGE operative | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/politics/663114/surgeon-general-doge-casey-means-sam-corcos-startup-levels-doge

2025-05-04 17:27:06 UTC

LLMs lower the immediate cost of "fucking around"
and push "finding out" beyond management's forecasting horizon
which is Yet Another reason that everyone with actual expertise should Avoid At All Costs
#NedLuddWasRight

2025-05-03 17:18:42 UTC

This long essay about what Technical means by @nprofile…ahws is full of bangers
> I suggest you listen to the tone as not auxiliary to, but as central to the content of these rants (I suggest you do this in general in tech).
> not only do the structurally empowered 80%-to-90%-men of technical organizations get to choose emotions over efficacy, they get to do so while also maintaining the notion that they never have emotions in the first place
Why I Cannot Be Technical
https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/

2025-05-01 20:09:09 UTC

Hey the first conference on Unnatural Language Processing was twenty years -- and a month -- ago today
My entry was full of snark but still holds true today
> government agencies often use bag-of-words models to make grant decisions. [Please take note that this research has no bearing on terrorism, biostatistics of terrorism, biostatistical terror, or the missing chemical weaponry in Iraq.]
https://trochee.livejournal.com/118376.html

2025-05-01 18:29:25 UTC

heard mentioned and worth exploring further: @nprofile…3ee8 and Jevin West
https://thebullshitmachines.com/

2025-05-01 14:01:27 UTC

Look at this amazing business brain at work
Drew Harwell: "Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)" — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/post/3lo4foide3s2g

2025-05-01 13:27:58 UTC

Oh my neighbor nerds of the PNW, you should have asked me or @nprofile…gd2c whether this was a good idea, and then you would have only been yelled at in private
#Seattle #Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT – Pivot to AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/01/seattle-worldcon-science-fiction-convention-vets-panelists-with-chatgpt/
thanks @nprofile…yq8e , this is some high-grade disturbance-of-rocks-to-expose-the-crawlies

2025-04-25 20:37:59 UTC

This is giving me such schadenfreude/life
HOW LONG HAS THIS GUY BEEN A POSTER
https://bsky.app/profile/mugrimm.bsky.social/post/3lmsej4cxqk2n
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/400/512/887/435/745/original/5e4488ae4ed22a1c.png

2025-04-24 02:03:38 UTC

At Elliott Bay Bookstore to hear @nprofile…gd2c interview Vauhini Vara about her new book.
I'm kind of obsessed with this cover design, which puts suspiciously LLM-scented text in faint printing beside a bold title and cover image
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/390/469/658/238/558/original/02f147ebfd2752b8.jpg

2025-04-21 06:09:56 UTC

Abrupt attack of envy upon swinging by local library and seeing a middle aged guy like me chilling behind the reference desk.
I know it's not truly a bodhisattva path but it sure looks better than more OKRs

2025-04-19 17:00:42 UTC

*finger to ear*
I'm hearing reports that academic publishers
… don't pay editors
… don't pay authors — sometimes they *charge* them
… don't pay peer reviewers
… outsource proofreading (poorly)
… charge libraries millions
… drive small presses out of business
I'm sure they'll use all this power to defend the intellectual integrity of the content against the only monopolist with more power than them.
After all, they invest so much in _ideas_ 🫠
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114365042536451186

2025-04-15 02:14:32 UTC

First Reagan declared ketchup a vegetable
Now the Secretary of Education is sure we'll be saved by A1
Pretty sure the GOP is condiment-powered

2025-04-13 22:39:01 UTC

Am visiting my parents this week in ATL, bringing my son to see them too.
They have suggested pizza for dinner
I was considering inviting them to have a Seder, and then I realized -- what is matzoh but flatbread takeout
So that is why we are reading the old Haggadah over pizza

2025-04-11 16:28:52 UTC

They call it "prompt engineering" but it's really "semi-structured vibe coding"

2025-04-10 22:06:24 UTC

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@nprofile…3sf2 I love this essay; gotta take some time to really digest it

2025-04-08 01:55:22 UTC

When you're a grizzled principal & you've built up a custom devex infra for the whole team out of blood & tears
Awkward mixed feelings when a young gun comes in who "gets it"
Being the giant upon whose shoulders they are standing inspires both pride & jealousy
(A) YES I foresaw your need ✨ & you see where it's helpful 😍
(B) NO don't rush ahead! Don't reinvent that part either, I already built it
(C) GRUMBLE oh *that* part. No, I haven't built it yet, no time. Yes, you can do it *whimper*

2025-04-07 17:02:25 UTC

#WestSeattle you are stupid-gorgeous in the springtime
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/114/297/748/247/320/990/original/421c23eca5e199ff.jpg

2025-04-04 18:05:47 UTC

LinkedIn is infested with warrior-priests covering themselves in the blood of their enemies for the glory of the lawful-evil god IMPAKK

2025-04-03 16:15:57 UTC

"someone told Sam Altman that he had to make a friend and he took them too literally"
-- @nprofile…e5sk on @nprofile…uzew 's show in mid-March
I lol'ed

2025-04-01 20:33:06 UTC

IN MY HEAD: "stop installing hacks and pretending they're ready for production"
OUT MY MOUTH: "we could do that for demo purposes, but it is functionally uh deceptive to do it that way; it would lead our downstream partners to believe we are closer to ship-readiness than we actually are"
I am learning to code-switch between "principal engineer" and "product manager" registers