Mastodawn

This is a great personal essay -

"When you transition, you uncouple the physical and social reality of womanhood from the biological mandate of the state's factory line. My bodily autonomy is an insult to their patriarchal assembly line. We are walking, breathing sabotage."

"The state is correct to be afraid of us.
When a trans woman hacks and rebuilds her physical form, she proves the state's most foundational lie- the immutability of assigned biological destiny- is a fiction. We expose the fragility of their entire gendered economy."

Extracts from -
https://innerspiral.lol/Blog/pride/pride

#Pride #Trans #PrideMonth #Transjoy

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I Built This Body To Hold Yours

Matthew Skelton 21h ago

Romano Roth 21h ago

For two years we treated AI tokens as free. In June the bill arrived. Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Copilot went per-token and our devs burned 50 dollars each in the first hour.

A chatbot stops when you stop. An agent keeps going.

New issue of The CAIO: AI FinOps, the government letter that switched off frontier AI, Microsoft vs Knuth, Capgemini on falling trust in agents.

https://romanoroth.substack.com/p/the-bill-arrives-is-this-ai-request

#CAIO #AI #AIFinOps #CyberneticEnterprise

Matthew Skelton 21h ago

CHOCCY MALK™

1d ago

#ai #genai

Matthew Skelton 21h ago

David Gerard 1d ago

fucking springer

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted

their plagiarism bot decided Max Planck was self-plagiarising and retracted hundred year old papers

Matthew Skelton 21h ago

Tom Gauld 22h ago

My latest cartoon for @[email protected]

Matthew Skelton 1d ago

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Dave Rahardja 1d ago

@mattsheffield Just because human code is generally not very good, doesn’t mean that vibecoding is “about the same”, because their failure modes are very different.

The way human code fails can be predicted by individual or team habits, quirks, or blind spots; in other words, the more you know a person, the more you know how their code tends to fail. This causes the failure mode to cluster around some weak points, which the human can correct for and improve over time.

Vibe code fails in random, bizarre ways, often exhibiting errors in plausible-looking but ill-advised patterns, or code that looks right in isolation but makes no sense when combined with others. This kind of failure mode is diffuse and stochastic, and is very difficult to correct for.

Good employers don’t necessarily look for *language* competence; they look for *engineering* competence, which involves knowing what you don’t know, and compensating for it using checklists, tests, and (gasp) asking help from other competent people.

Matthew Skelton 1d ago

Jeff Atwood 1d ago

Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/

Thousands more artists join Ireland’s basic income plan

Thousands more artists will soon receive direct payments as part of Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts plan, made permanent this year after a three-year pilot program was hailed as a massive success. “This is a gigantic step forward that other countries are not doing,” Ireland’s Culture

Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • RGMII

Matthew Skelton 1d ago

Alexander McCord Oct 14, 2025

One of the earliest sign I knew AI chatbots was going to be horrible for mental health was actually from my lived experience of using speech-to-text transcription.

Context: I am deaf, and I was born that way, and I grew up with hearing aids and got my cochlear when I turned 15. The cochlear, by itself, improved my speech accuracy to 75% from 25% with dual hearing aids.

During the pandemic, my speech comprehension skills worsened due to fundamentally lossy audio quality over Zoom.

Matthew Skelton 1d ago

Ruth — of systems & design 1d ago

Scenario: Your org has tried "trying shit to see what sticks" and now you're at "ok, maybe we ought to try *design*"

Well then! I have a workshop for that!

It's a great opportunity for product and architecture leadership to collaborate, and to practice system design as **system** **design**

Preview material:

Systems, Architecture, and System Design Overview
(pdf):
https://www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025SystemDesignOverview.pdf

Matthew Skelton 1d ago

Neues Wort: Flughafen-Sonnenuntergang

Part of my Bicontrast series - daily mindful photo edit in colour and mono

#Bicontrast 🎨🔳

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