OMG I'm fucking dying here — who designed this house?? 🤣

Apparently it's ‘Ferrotopia’, NDSM, Amsterdam (NL) https://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/exhibitions/

from my link log —

Why so many industrial control rooms were seafoam green.

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam

saved 2026-03-27 https://dotat.at/:/79PUJ.html

Inspired by this post (https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534) I made an animated, alphabetised, deeply cursed clock.

https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

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.

Thinking of coming to the UK to study?

Don't.

The universities are fine, but the visa system is a nightmare and getting worse. Successive governments have targeted students to score anti-immigrant political points.

This may be incredibly disruptive to your studies. If they cancel your visa in the middle or give you one with a shorter duration than your degree and then decide not to renew it, you will not be refunded for the time or money spent for your studies up to that point.