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September 2025

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Everyone's wondering if, and when, the AI bubble will pop. Here's what went down 25 years ago that ultimately burst the dot-com boom | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/ai-dot-com-bubble-parallels-history-explained-companies-revenue-infrastructure/
The question facing investors today isn’t whether AI will transform the economy—most experts agree it will. The question is whether current valuations and infrastructure investments can be justified by near-term returns, or whether, like the fiber-optic cables of the 1990s, much of today’s AI infrastructure will sit unused while the market awaits demand to catch up with supply. As history shows, even transformative technologies can’t escape the gravitational pull of economics—so while the internet did change the world, it didn’t happen as quickly as some of its early champions promised, and several of those people who got ahead of themselves were humbled in the process.
#ai #bubbles #dotcom #economy #history #llms
archive.org #37762

Dotfiles with make

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-with-make
Make is an old tool, an assembly language of sorts for build systems. Many have tried to replace it. Many have tried to reinvent it. Most people prefer to avoid it if at all possible. So why use it to manage dotfiles of all things?
#admin #dotfiles #make #tools #utils
archive.org #37759

A gentle introduction to CP/M – eerielinux

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-gentle-introduction-to-cp-m/
This article is just what the headline promises: an introduction to the CP/M operating system. No previous knowledge of 1970s and early ’80s operating systems is required. However, some familiarity with Linux or a BSD-style operating system is assumed, as the setup process suggested here involves using a package manager and command-line tools. But why explore CP/M in the 2020s? There are (at least) two good reasons: 1) historical education 2) gaining a better understanding of how computers actually work.
#cpm #retro #z80
archive.org #37758

I like AI slop and I cannot lie (Interconnected)

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/09/26/slop
I looked in my home directory in my desktop Mac, which I don’t very often (I run a tidy operation here), and I found a file I didn’t recognise called out.html. Here is out.html. For the benefit of the tape: it is a half-baked GeoCities-style homepage complete with favourite poems, broken characters, and a "This page is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher!" message in the footer. The creation date of the file is March of this year. I don’t know how it got there. Maybe my computer is haunted?
#ai #genai #llms #slop #webdev
archive.org #37757

Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr - tudor’s website

https://tudorr.ro/blog/2024-04-04-zoomer-tries-rss/
I’m a Gen Z-er: I was a toddler when RSS reached its 2.0 milestone, and when Apple popularised RSS for podcasts by adding support in iTunes. I was in middle school when Google Reader was shut down. When I started using the internet by myself, it was already dominated by social media, which is still the dominant source of information for many people around me, younger and older alike.
👴
#blogs #feeds #metablogging #rss
archive.org #37756

meks.quest

https://meks.quest/blogs/the-theatre-of-pull-requests-and-code-review
A key part of having a reviewable PR is writing commits that tell a story. Present your changes incrementally and logically so reviewers can follow your thought process. Generic commit messages such as "add dependency," "implement file upload feature," and "address PR feedback" don’t tell much of a story and leave reviewers guessing. Why was the dependency added? What were the specific steps in creating the file uploader feature? What feedback is being addressed?
#coding #dev #git #work
archive.org #37755

As I remember London | Christian Heilmann

https://christianheilmann.com/2025/09/25/as-i-remember-london/
So if people claim that they remember a safer, cleaner and racially homogenous London they either never lived there, or didn’t immerse themselves in it. Or completely talk out of their arse following an utterly different agenda, one that I find despicable, regressive and governed by fear and hate and not inclusion and inspiration.
#england #london #politics
archive.org #37754

This is where I write my Journal on my iPhone | Phong's blog

https://phong.bearblog.dev/this-is-where-i-write-my-journal-on-my-iphone/
The flow of journaling feels effortless and light. Take a few photos, record a few videos, jot down a few thoughts underneath, put the phone down to fully enjoy the moment, come back later and write down some new feelings or thoughts, then move on with life. What’s important is to be honest with myself and live in the moment.
#journaling #photos #writing
archive.org #37752

File over app — Steph Ango

https://stephango.com/file-over-app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
#apps #data #fileoverapp #freedom #localfirst #tools
archive.org #37751

The Ruby community has a DHH problem | tekin.co.uk

https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem
Silence and appeasement is only emboldening DHH to ratchet up the toxicity and allowing the damage to continue. Perhaps if enough of those in positions of power call him out on his bullshit he’ll at at least follow his own advice and keep his politics to himself. More importantly though, it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views.
#dhh #rails #ruby #webdev
archive.org #37748

The Last Days Of Social Media

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces where the metrics that matter aren’t engagement and growth but understanding and connection, where algorithms serve the community rather than strip-mining it.
#bluesky #facebook #fediverse #social #socialmedia #twitter
archive.org #37747

The Blank Page Revolution - by Steven Johnson

https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution
The most surprising insight, I think, revolves around the significance of the fundamental substrate of all modern notebooks until the digital age: paper. Before reading Allen's book, I had mostly thought about paper in terms of Gutenberg and the printing press democratizing knowledge and information by making it much easier to publish and read printed information in the form of books. But somehow I hadn't fully thought through the more intimate revolution that it enabled—a revolution of self-knowledge and private record-keeping, executed not with a printing press but with a pen.
#history #notebooks #notes #paper #pens #writing
archive.org #37745

AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5,000 Shows, 3,000 Episode a Week

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content As for how it stacks up against human podcasts? “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. Because there’s a lot of really good stuff out there,” Wright said.
#ai #llms #podcasting #slop
archive.org #37740

GlyphDrawing.Club -blog

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art/
In my thesis, I study Amiga ASCII text art. Amiga ASCII is a form of text art where the composition of letter characters set in the Amiga computer's font forms a two-dimensional representation or image. The Amiga scene is a subculture of computer enthusiasts that was popular in the 1990s. At its core are the logos and other visual materials created for BBS systems and the competitive rivalry among artists who create text art over their image-making prowess.
#amiga #art #ascii #bbs #retro
archive.org #37737

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
It’s still unclear which exact refrigerators are getting the ad infestation, but Samsung’s current Family Hub-equipped lineup in the US starts at $1,800 and goes all the way up to $3,500. It doesn’t seem like users can entirely turn off ads, which is a shame. Disconnecting the fridge from the internet might stop the ads, but you will also inevitably lose out on several smart features you paid for. If you have a Samsung refrigerator with a door display, let us know in the comments how your experience has been with them, and how you feel about ads coming to them.
#ads #appliances #kitchen #samsung
archive.org #37733

Live coding – an interview with Lizzie Wilson (Digital Selves) - Music Hackspace

https://musichackspace.org/live-coding-an-interview-with-lizzie-wilson-digital-selves/
The live coding scene has been growing over the years. Despite this, for many the idea of watching someone create music in code might not have an immediate appeal, though live coders are now playing at top night clubs, experimental music venues, and festivals. As the world becomes more code literate it is likely to become more popular.
#demoscene #livecoding #music
archive.org #37729

Lizzie Wilson Research Page

https://lwlsn.github.io/research.html
My thesis explores the integration of autonomous agents into live coding systems to co-create music with human performers based on affective response, aiming to enhance musical expression and collaboration between humans and machines. By developing prototypes and conducting experiments, the studies conducted demonstrate that autonomous agents can facilitate the emergence of new musical ideas and patterns. The research outlines the creation of an Affective Live Coding Autonomous Agent (ALCAA) and a Markovian Agent for code generation (that leverages Haskell's strictly typed system) named Tidal Fuzz, which together form a hybrid system combining affective and computational models for generating expressive music through code manipulation. The thesis also proposes modifications the Consensual Assessment Technique for live coders, as a means of evaluating the creative outcomes of this collaborative process, acknowledging the subjective nature of creativity and ensuring nuanced evaluation.
#ai #cyborgs #livecoding #music
archive.org #37728

Kachka’s New Distillery and Dumpling Factory Is in Production Mode - Portland Mercury

https://www.portlandmercury.com/food-and-drink/2025/09/16/48027509/kachkas-new-distillery-and-dumpling-factory-is-in-production-mode
Fabrika opened in July in the Bindery Annex building with seasonal cocktails and a seafood-forward menu. Kachka beverage director and head distiller Jamie Bones created a list of six original martinis for the bar, from a non-alcoholic martini to a nod to Scandinavian culture with dill aquavit and their version of an espresso martini (birch vodka, Kahlua, instant coffee, coffee condensed milk, with a chicory molasses swirl). As one would expect from a vodka-centric bar, the martinis are all ICE. COLD.
#booze #cocktails #food #pdx #restaurants
archive.org #37723

Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is an Escalation in Every Way - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspension-late-night/684250/
Of course, mocking the sitting president has long been a cornerstone of pretty much any late-night program throughout the medium’s history. Trump has been the butt of countless jokes over the years. What’s happened to Kimmel is an escalation in every way, a chilling precedent that could have further consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone. How Kimmel himself reacts to the situation will be important—he’s a major celebrity, a multi-time emcee of the Academy Awards who’s been hosting TV shows since the 1990s. There’s a chance network television could become even more reticent to broadcast anything remotely provocative, which in turn could also inspire blowback from their audiences.
#charliekirk #kimmel #speech #trump #tv #uspolitics
archive.org #37722

Playing tricks with web browser tabs - sizeof(cat)

https://sizeof.cat/post/tricks-with-web-browser-tabs/
For the past few months I've been getting several emails and people were asking me about the tomfoolery regarding my website and the web browser tabs. Basically people were wondering how the tab title and favicon change (to Reddit, Instagram, TikTok) when the tab with my website gets deactivated, and when it's reactivated it changes back to the initial text/image. Check it out yourself, click on another web browser tab, and then click back to this one. Interesting, eh? Annoying, eh? Can't decide?
#fun #hacks #webdev
archive.org #37720

Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/780471/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel-live-charlie-kirk
Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.
#charliekirk #latenight #maga #television #tv #uspolitics
archive.org #37719

City of Portland will issue land use violation notice for ICE facility, triggering process to determine next steps at the site | Portland.gov

https://www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-wilson/news/2025/9/16/city-portland-will-issue-land-use-violation-notice-ice-facility
Following an investigation, the City of Portland will send a land use violation notice this Thursday for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Southwest Portland – launching a process to determine whether the site’s detention practices comply with the conditions of the site’s land use approval. Federal government records from a 10-month period show more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours. The notice also references a second violation related to boarded windows, which is not associated with the land use approval.
#ice #pdx #portland #uspolitics
archive.org #37718

Inside the Behind the Scenes Battle for the Future of the Web - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-openai-fight-standards-limit-ai-access-websites-2025-9
In today's new AI era, products such as Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Perplexity deliver answers directly, often eliminating the need to visit the original source. These systems still rely on content scraped for free, but by cutting off traffic, they threaten the revenue that funds the creation of quality information online.
#ai #future #llms #web #webdev
archive.org #37717

Trump Executive Order Declares NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

https://futurism.com/trump-executive-order-nasa-intelligence?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_content=FuckOff
The Trump administration issued an executive order late last month, quietly declaring that NASA will operate as a national intelligence and security agency going forward. The order stipulates that the agency will now "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." It's a major departure for the agency, which has historically focused on space exploration, as well as space and Earth sciences over its 67-year lifespan.
#space #trump #ugh #uspolitics
archive.org #37716

Tiny Awards

https://tinyawards.net/
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web. The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of personal web projects that tend to get overlooked by more traditional, larger or more commercial awards.
#nifty #tinyawards #web #webdev
archive.org #37715

Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 2: Interaction) – Climb to the Stars

https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/11/rebooting-the-blogosphere-part-2-interaction/
So, let’s sum up today: interaction is not a monolith. Online conversations occur at varying speeds and are made up of contributions of varying nature. Reclaiming and rebooting the blogosphere and the open web needs to take that into account and embrace it, and figure out how to bring it together in an open way, with frameworks, standards, protocols or the like, not yet another “One Platform to Replace Them All”.
#blogging #metablogging #web
archive.org #37711

Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 1: Activities) – Climb to the Stars

https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/10/rebooting-the-blogosphere-part-1-activities/
Some thoughts (part 1 of 3) following exchanges on Bluesky with Dave, amongst others. My Facebook exile is clearly bringing to a boil my preoccupation with our reliance on big capitalist platforms for our online presence and social life. Though I never “stopped blogging”, I clearly poured a lot more energy over the last decade into what I now think of as “The Socials” (Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon and the like).
#blogging #metablogging #web
archive.org #37710

Who Will See My Comment? – Climb to the Stars

https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/15/who-will-see-my-comment/
Bluesky, Mastodon and Twitter (yeah, and Threads) feel more fragmented. It’s more difficult to follow for lots of people. They are faced with bits and pieces of conversations flying about, and access to the context of those is not frictionless. Part of this, I think, has to do with how publication audience is managed (I’ll definitely have to do a “part 4” about this in my Rebooting the Blogosphere series). And another, of course, is the primacy of non-reciprocal connections on those platforms.
#blogging #metablogging #web #writing
archive.org #37709

Where Have All The Bloggers Gone? – Climb to the Stars

https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/15/where-have-all-the-bloggers-gone/
What is happening for me right now is interesting. During my Facebook exile, I reconnected with the social networks that I had been present on in a very passive manner these last years. I also wrote more on my blog (here!), and made an effort to get back into reading other blogs, even though I have never been a really huge blog reader in my past. I installed an RSS reader, and started subscribing, process which is now pretty frictionless. To my surprise, there are lots of blogs! Lots of people still blogging! Lots of people who took up blogging way after the Golden Era of Blogs! I see them show up here and there on Mastodon and Bluesky, and of course, in blog posts.
#blogs #metablogging #web #writing
archive.org #37708

I made a tool to generate AI powered recaps of TTRPG sessions - ~games.tabletop - Tildes

https://tildes.net/~games.tabletop/1q8y/i_made_a_tool_to_generate_ai_powered_recaps_of_ttrpg_sessions
My party recently finished Descent into Avernus, which we played over Discord and FoundryVTT given how scattered across the country we all are. A regular party of the campaign was the DM poking and prodding players for "someone write up a recap of last session", helping keep us all in the loop, players who were absent in particular. A few weeks ago it occurred to me that this could be automated, and Scribble was born.
#ai #gaming #tools #ttrpg
archive.org #37706

That Fucker - The Onion

https://theonion.com/that-fucker/
That fucker, aged who the fuck cares, finally kicked the bucket Monday, that prick. After living a no-good waste of a life, family and friends are invited to say good riddance, you sorry piece of shit.
#funny #news #thatfucker
archive.org #37705

Building the Hundred-Year Web Service with htmx - Alexander Petros - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXyc
In the fast-moving JS ecosystem, keeping your software current can be a huge drain on resources. But what if there was way to write software that had minimal maintenance burden today and didn't inspire dread in the junior developers of tomorrow? Built into the web platform are all the capabilities necessary to create useful, networked services that last for decades—we just have to build in ways that takes advantage of them.
#dev #future #js #software #webdev
archive.org #37704

You Want Technology With Warts

https://entropicthoughts.com/you-want-technology-with-warts
Every single wart that annoys us today, used to be a reasonable feature that someone relied on in their production code. Every wart we see today is a testament to the care the maintainers put into backward compatibility. If we choose a technology today, we want one that saves us from future maintenance by keeping our wartful code running – even if we don’t yet know it is wartful. The best indicator of this is whether the technology has warts today.
#dev #future #software #sqlite #webdev
archive.org #37703

Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga

https://stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
VisiCalc on the Apple II. Lotus 1-2-3 on the IBM PC. Aldus PageMaker on the Macintosh. Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. The computer industry loves a “killer app,” that unique piece of software that compels consumers to purchase new computer hardware just for the privilege of running it. I can personally attest to Deluxe Paint as it compelled even my technophobic mother to buy into its potential.
#amiga #deluxepaint #retro #software
archive.org #37702

The Verge

https://www.theverge.com
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
#feeds:subscriptions #imported:test
archive.org #37689

localghost

https://localghost.dev
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
archive.org #37625

Han, Not Solo

https://leehanchung.github.io
Han Lee's blog on machine learning engineering, compound AI systems, search and information retrieval, and recsys — exploring machine learning, LLM agents, and data science insights from startups to enterprises.
#feeds:subscriptions #imported:test
archive.org #37623

Clagnut summaries

https://clagnut.com
A blog by Richard Rutter. Root through a heap of web design and development stuff and a few other tasty morsels. (latest 10 posts in summary)
archive.org #37570

Break Into Chat

https://breakintochat.com/blog
Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
archive.org #37562

How I Use AI - Tim Kellogg

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09/15/ai-tools
Use your own name to commit AI code so that if something breaks, everyone blames you. This is critical. How well do you need to know the code your AI produces? Well enough that you can answer for it’s mistakes. In lean manufacturing they have the principle of Genchi genbutsu, i.e. “go and see for yourself.” In High Output Management, Andy Grove pushes “management by walking around”. Andy defines the output of a manager as the output of their entire org as well as the organizations under their influence.
#ai #career #codegen #llms
archive.org #37467

How to Undo Your iPhone's New Look After iOS 26

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-undo-iphone-ios-26-liquid-glass
Called Reduce Transparency, this control has been around for years, and was originally intended as a way to add a solid background to any pre-Liquid Glass elements that already had transparent or blurred backgrounds, like the Passcode entry screen. Now, though, it turns out it also affects Liquid Glass as a whole.
#apple #ios #iphone #ux
archive.org #37466

kind

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/
kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.
#devops #k8s #kind #kubernetes
archive.org #37463

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme
The terminally online nature of the messages does somewhat explain the conflicting reports released yesterday. Conservative influencer Steven Crowder published a screenshot of an email “from an officer at the ATF,” which claimed that the bullet casings were engraved with “transgender and antifascist ideology.” This was then corroborated by The Wall Street Journal, though they eventually walked back their story about it. The New York Times reported that that hadn’t been actually confirmed by law enforcement. Crowder is now claiming that his team is being subpoenaed by the ATF over the leak.
#groypers #memes #politics
archive.org #37462

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-war-2-turns-hot
So in summary: it appears that this was a shooting where the victim, an influencer, was answering a question from another influencer when he was shot by a third influencer, after which a fourth influencer documented the ensuing chaos and a host of other influencers registered their takes, before the director of the FBI (an influencer) and the deputy director of the FBI (another influencer) announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max.
#groypers #memes #politics
archive.org #37461

On em dashes – Manu

https://manuelmoreale.com/on-em-dashes
Yes, we can still use em dashes. And no, I’m not going to stop using them because fucking chatgpt is abusing them. What if they tweak the instructions next week and tell it to use more full stops or commas? What are we gonna do then? Stop using those as well? Hell no. I’ll keep writing however I want, and if someone decides to stop reading what I write because they suspect it’s AI-generated because I use too many em dashes, or parentheses, or any other punctuation or word or whatever, well, good riddance. I’m not gonna miss you.
#ai #chatgpt #emdash #llms #writing
archive.org #37460

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.syoh.898ezmQg_rnf&smid=url-share
We can mourn Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family. We can take stock of the gravity of this event. We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.
#kirk #politics
archive.org #37459

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.
#mastodon #social #twitter
archive.org #37457

HulkOutList

https://www.kennethjohnson.us/hulkoutlist/
Kenny writes..."While directing on JAG I was privileged to work with a brilliant Assistant Director named Kevin Koster. He has an amazing memory. He's able to tell you instantly all the details of every single JAG episode. -- Kevin's also a serious Hulk fan, and he gifted me with this list of EVERY reason that Dr. David Banner was driven to Hulk out. It makes very funny reading. Two of my personal faves have always been #20 & #47.
#comics #funny #hulk #retro #tv
archive.org #35823

Many lonely people would prefer a robot over human interaction

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-lonely-people-robot-human-interaction.html
Dr. Qionglei Yu, Reader in Marketing at Newcastle University Business School said, "We found that lonely customers with a reduced need for interaction with other humans are more likely to use service robots as a means of avoiding human contact and conserving emotional resources. Recognizing this is crucial not only for society, but also to help businesses design and use robots in ways that better fit a wide range of customers' feelings and needs."
#ai #chatbots #llms #psychology #social
archive.org #35127

Using Claude Code with marimo | marimo

https://marimo.io/blog/claude-code
Claude Code has moved a lot of our work away from IDEs and into terminals again. It’s not a great interface for everything though. marimo notebooks give you the best environment to do creative work with data. You simply need to be able to get surprised by the results that you see, and you need interactive development environments for that.
#ai #claude #llms #marimo #notebooks
archive.org #34116

The Silicon Valley Consensus & the "AI Economy"

https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-consensus-and-614?triedRedirect=true
To wrap this up, it's not clear to me what merits the techno-optimist outlook on whatever constitutes the “AI economy.” It ignores the financials: overlooks the gap between revenues and capex, waves away the question of how it will generate profits, engages in revisionist historical accounts to justify these bad economics, and whistles past the debt land mines that fuel growth. It ignores technology: there's no interest in market structure, scale of cost, or product roadmaps. It ignores the reality of adoption: gloms onto hype, falls for simplistic narratives, repeats corporate talking points, and reproduces shaky assumptions. We're left with a picture of reality that leaves us unable to explain why things are the way they are and what to do about it. The "AI economy" as talked about within mainstream and optimist circles presents a vision unmoored from reality that is frothy enough to drown out skeptics, juice speculation, and provide cover for entrenched interests looking to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.
#ai #llms #tech
archive.org #34113

I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop – Sophie Alpert

https://sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/ai-agents-security
There’s no good way to say “allow access to everything on my computer, except for my password manager, my bank, my ~/.aws/credentials file, and the API keys I left in my environment variables”. Especially with Simon Willison’s lethal trifecta, you don’t really want to be giving access to these things, even if most of the time, nothing bad happens.
#ai #claude #codegen #llms #security
archive.org #34112

The Last Programmers || Xipu Li

https://www.xipu.li/posts/the-last-programmers
But here's what I think the guardians are missing: the world is changing faster than their gatekeeping can keep up with. The bar for "good enough" code keeps dropping while the bar for understanding users and building valuable products keeps rising. A slightly inefficient implementation that ships next week is often better than a perfectly optimized implementation that ships next month.
#ai #codegen #llms #product #ux
archive.org #34111

September 9, 2020

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/september-9-2020/
2020 was a gnarly year. Covid, lockdowns, elections, police killings and subsequent protests, then on top of it all, much of September spent keeping our house closed up, changing air filters weekly, and running fans with air filters duct-taped onto them all over the house while we tried to get some sleep.
#2020 #airquality #aqi #oregon #wildfires
archive.org #33322

Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower
Three weeks later, I sat with A in my office. I asked him to describe his experience of attending parties and other social events. “I just feel weird,” he said, “like I’m not part of it, which is odd as these are all my friends. I know they like me and are happy I’m there, but I still don’t feel connected. I only feel lonely or bored when I’m with many people, and not when I’m with one or two close friends or when I’m alone.” Then he added: “I don’t like to say those things because it makes me sound like an alien. Do you think there’s something wrong with me?”
#otrovert #psychology #social #society
archive.org #33320

They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion | CNN Business

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/tech/ai-sparked-delusion-chatgpt
“The way these systems are trained is that they are trained in order to give responses that people judge to be good,” Hadfield-Menell said, noting this can be done sometimes through human AI testers, through reactions by users built into the chatbot system, or in how users may be reinforcing such behaviors in their conversations with the systems. He also said other “components inside the training data” could cause chatbots to respond in this way.
#ai #chatbots #chatgpt #llms #mentalhealth
archive.org #33316

OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/otc-nasal-spray-seemed-to-cut-covid-infections-by-67-in-mid-sized-trial/?comments-page=1#comments
Still, with the previous studies, the trial offers some hope that this accessible nasal spray could be used as a viral prophylactic for respiratory seasons in the future. And the results land at a time when access to COVID-19 vaccines—which have firmly proven to be safe and highly effective—has been severely restricted in the US by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#allergies #covid #health
archive.org #33315

The Quiet Season

https://ashley.dev/posts/the-quiet-season/
If I could change one thing, it would be for companies to remember that humans aren’t an infinite resource. Yes, I know we’re all replaceable in the most pragmatic sense, but there’s still a cost to burning people out and swapping them for someone new. It’s a cost measured in institutional knowledge lost, in creativity dulled, in trust eroded. I’m still learning how to balance the reality that protecting my own time and energy is part of how I protect my team’s, and that stepping back doesn’t have to mean stepping away.
#career #life #quiet #work
archive.org #33278

What follows GitHub? · Applied Cartography

https://jmduke.com/posts/post/github-next/
I’m not well equipped to prognosticate here: all I know is that this is not the tool of the future, and whoever replaces GitHub will have a narrative arc of incumbency displacement that will feel obvious and trite in retrospect.
#dev #github
archive.org #33257

Vibe Coding Terminal Editor

https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/31/vibe-coding-terminal-editor.html
LLM drastically reduce the activation energy for writing custom tools. I wanted something like terminal-editor forever, but it was never the most attractive yak to shave. Well, now I have the thing, I use it daily.
#ai #claude #codegen #llms
archive.org #33264