Mastodawn

Manni 6h ago

XKCD Bot 1d ago

#3226 - Home Solar

Manni 7h ago

Keith 20h ago

copilot is just for entertainment? Per the TOS...
Highlighting is my own. From that last boost.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse

Manni 17h ago

Taggart 1d ago

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

Manni 3d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311819757776279

"While it's true that the Trump regime in the USA is unusually bad, a lot of the personality traits that we see in Trump-appointed leaders come up in a lot of corporate leaders the world over: a disdain for expertise, deep incuriosity and an unwillingness to learn shit that might change their worldviews. A lot of CEOs are generally just... dullards."

Just the linkedin-relevant, uncritical content I came here for!

Manni 4d ago

Aline Blankertz Sep 17, 2025

Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.

If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.

And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.

Manni Mar 25

Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦Mar 24

Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.

Because, you know, all this.

Manni Mar 23

JA Westenberg Mar 22

80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

"Collaboration" is bullshit.

This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s

Westenberg.

Manni Mar 23

Baldur Bjarnason Mar 23

"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html

> Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything.

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.

Frank Elavsky

Manni Mar 23

Ketan Joshi Mar 23

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

Manni Mar 22

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116086075775143166

Way back when 1MB of code in 3 years was considered a real feat. And when they also wanted all that code to actually work.