Mastodawn

AI-assisted coding has taken down Amazon services in a "trend of incidents" with "high blast radius": https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

Microsoft Windows has deteriorated so much in software quality after pushing AI inside the org that people are actively looking into switching to Linux.

Careful what you commit. Whatever the AI agent can do, it won't take the fall for service failure.

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica

@kfanyo Maaaaaate that's so true

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Feb 20

Levi Sumagaysay Feb 20

The Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump’s use of an emergency act to justify his wide-ranging tariffs. My story: https://calmatters.org/economy/2026/02/trump-tariffs-supreme-court/

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs. Here's how they've affected California

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump does not have the authority to impose the broad tariffs that have affected California.

CalMatters

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Feb 13

I wonder if the Epstein files have ever been used as a blacklist for discrediting someone or as a threat, a means to extortion by a third party, in addition to the kompromat Epstein and the files have become famous for. I mean, Epstein was active for decades, doing "dirty deeds done dirt cheap". Seems like, at some point, being placed in the Epstein files could seem as bad as being put on some enemy combatants list.

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Feb 10

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116043318616562236

I'm thinking AI is showing how comfortable we've become as a society with synthetic relationships. Little semantic daylight between a "synthetic" and a "prosthetic" relationship. So many people seems very, very lost.

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Jan 15

I'd ask all the doomsayers to be sure they want to be saying the USA is that vulnerable. Broadband paranoia may help or relieve the one but certainly not all, much like farting in a theater.

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Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Jan 6

And praise upon praise for making the scroll bar control obvious...

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Jan 6

Praise be Jerry Hall and all involved parties who made the item count text intelligible. For any who might ask, I don't know why it matters so much, especially since I turned off my follower count a year ago...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Dec 14

Today I met a good man
and he said my name.
And, in that moment,
I felt myself ushered
into the world of his
wisdom and his kindness
and his certainty that all
things in the world
will be fine. And I shall
live for the moment next
when I may hear a good
person say my name.

Ken 🌎 🇺🇦

Dec 13

In addition to AI, we now have AS (Artificial Stupidity). Yes, Rufus seems to think he can have a greater impact if he repeats himself. And, yes, that is the first question I ever asked Rufus. And, yes, Rufus, in obvious MAGA thrall, doubled down.

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