@lucascp

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Wife Guy da @buca

please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

How frequently do you chat with LLM?

not at all
67.4%
a few times per month
14.7%
multiple times per week
13.6%
over 1 hour per day
4.3%
Poll ended at .
Many of you asked that I react to Richard Dawkins announcing that he fell for a chatbot. Instead of just pointing and laughing (my initial reaction obv) I dug into the “why” of it all: his obfuscations, insecurities, and utter sadness https://skepchick.org/2026/05/richard-dawkins-claude-delusion/

my code has started (and ended) romantic relationships, changed how people view the world around them, and brought people bits of otherwise unachievable joy

it is embarrassing to tell on yourself that you can't do the same, but it is downright ignorant to claim it cannot or shouldn't be done at all

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116424721686619312

Matthew Garrett (@[email protected])

When I write code I am turning a creative idea into a mechanical embodiment of that idea. I am not creating beauty. Every line of code I write is a copy of another line of code I've read somewhere before, lightly modified to meet my needs. My code is not intended to evoke emotion. It does not change people think about the world. The idea→code pipeline in my head is not obviously distinguishable from the prompt->code process in an LLM

Nondeterministic Computer

They want to create rules for the use of AI at my university. For me, this would be enough:

If you include something (a phrase, image, etc.) in your text and do not cite the source (which can never be an LLM, as these “generate” their content from other sources and are not always able to say what they used to generate the content), you are plagiarizing. The existing rules for plagiarism apply.

"etm." can be jokingly used to mean "and shit" at the end of a list for comedic or informal effect. 😈
Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what until recently was believed to be a first world country. "Abolish ICE" doesn't go nearly far enough in my view.
Librarians get it ...

Used Theremin

Like new. Never been touched

This is an old blog post of mine, but I still really appreciate this subtle feature of Rust: one of the ways it supports robust thread-safe concurrent code is by _not making everything thread-safe._ It's odd that this property is so rare in languages. Just like how clear boundaries are critical in relationships, being able to designate which parts of your program _can't_ be shared across threads is critical for ensuring that the shared parts are correct.

https://cliffle.com/blog/not-thread-safe/

#rustlang

Safely writing code that isn't thread-safe

An under-appreciated Rust feature