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Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.

Look at what happened with Claude Code. We learned via the source code leak that the whole thing is a Rube Goldberg machine of shoddy regexes and Markdown snippets telling Claude to lie, and yet proverbial moments later, Anthropic announces a new product that *totally works this time I swear* and all of a sudden discourse about AI tools "working" is completely reset.

Getting stuck in that discourse loop opens you up to being perpetually distracted from the far more important ethical problems.

https://clojure.org/dev/contributor_agreement#_no_generated_code 👀

Clojure’s code is written and reviewed by humans. Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as Anthropic’s Claude, GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama et al, is not compliant with the covenants and representations of Clojure’s Contributor’s Agreement, and is thus not acceptable as code for Clojure.

I'm aware of Hickey's sarcastically titled post "Thanks AI!" post but didn't expect a formal position tbh. Good stuff to see.

Clojure - Contributor Agreement

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

EDIT: Well the text is now out and it's as bad as you could imagine. It's not even just that you need to verify your age to access a website... operating systems must verify your age to let you *use a computer at all*

EDIT EDIT: Thanks to @Andres4NY for pointing out that it also holds responsible anyone who has any software shipped on the operating system of a computer, meaning FOSS developers eveywhere

I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few years, and I think the best response is to stop.

https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?

The little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.

Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.

Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!

Flex routing (EU and EFTA)

Learn about flex routing and how it affects inferencing for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot chat during times of peak load.

i am going to get in on the ground floor of the post-AI hype bubble and start a monetized substack about how the one weird trick you need to 10x is to actually read anything
They want you to feel like you're losing your mind. They want you to feel crazy for standing for something, for standing with those you love, for creating things, for building communities based on trust rather than transactions, for fighting for a future beyond the nightmare visions of capitalists.
Standing outside the house yelling "I AM AN AI COMPANY NOW" and waiting for pallet loads of dollar bills to fall from the sky
There is nothing special about “age” as a differentiator. It’s just a data point, a condition and a branch. And if a system exists that can start from some condition of your identity and decide that you don’t get to use a computer today - meaning, talk to your friends or employer or read the news or get medical information or, you know, _participate in society_, then that system can use _any_ data to make that decision. Age, gender, race, credit rating, anything about you and anyone like you.
Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.