Justas Medeišis

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Just submitted my entry for https://badux.lol/ (Bad UX World Cup) 🤞

The other entries are just too good. Mine: https://cheeaun.github.io/clockwork-date-picker/

#BadUX #DatePicker

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

Not at all shocking. We all know about fake news. But what about fake news that isn't made for human consumption, but rather for digestion solely by LLMs, and designed to influence how they represent the news to others? Newsguard had a report about it earlier this year, regarding a Russia-based news network.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

@simontatham Peter Guttman's paper "Do Users Verify SSH Keys?" has one of the best abstracts I've ever seen.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gutmann.pdf

A lot of people who've never seen the red bead experiment are in charge of things in this world and it shows.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/09/measuring-up/

Measuring Up | blarg

This is great: ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaks down some of the “hidden” special effects that he and his team have worked on, incl. for Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Transformers. “I make the stars in Star Wars.” https://kottke.org/25/10/ilm-visual-effects-artist-breaks-down-hidden-vfx
ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX

If you were one of those people who loved watching DVD extras, you’ll enjoy the hell out of ILM visual effects artist Todd

kottke.org

The future isn’t exhausting because of how fast it moves.

It’s exhausting because nothing ever stays still long enough to master it.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhaustion-of-permanent-disruption

The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

The Slow Death of Mastery

Westenberg.

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"! (with my tongue only partially in my cheek)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/

Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Let’s talk about AI art.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not just "downloading some code", it is *establishing an ongoing trust relationship with a set of human beings*. this fact is *way* too obscured in all the tools we use.
Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
Why I gave the world wide web away for free

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

The Guardian