Petrik de Heus

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@soulcutter There is a similar PR for Rubygems as well: “here are 30 AI commits to make Rubygems 2x faster!”. The whole PR is impossible to review.
Tweederde van ons land ligt aan het infuus van de techbro’s van Trump en de helft bij 1 merk. We mogen ons niet wijs laten maken dat er geen alternatieven zijn. Die zijn er wel. Morgen komen ze naar de Tweede Kamer op uitnodiging van een aantal woordvoerders digitale zaken 👊🏼👊🏼 https://nos.nl/artikel/2599601-nederland-hangt-aan-amerikaans-tech-infuus-we-zitten-in-de-houdgreep

“Nederland is in verval, onze beschaving is zwak, een damsel in distress. In naam van het herstel zijn de rechts-populisten bereid om vrijwel alles overboord te gooien wat ons land zo mooi maakt: vrije pers, pluriformiteit, en uiteindelijk de democratie zelf. Zij vormen daarmee een anti-Nederlandse beweging.”

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/bewater-de-strohalmen

Als de rechts-populisten onze beschaving zo superieur vinden, waarom hebben zij er dan zo weinig vertrouwen in?

In naam van het herstel zijn de rechts-populisten bereid om overboord te gooien wat ons land zo mooi maakt: vrije pers, pluriformiteit, en uiteindelijk de democratie zelf. Zij vormen daarmee een anti-Nederlandse beweging.

De Groene Amsterdammer

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.

Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/06/AI-Manifesto

The Real GenAI Issue

ongoing by Tim Bray

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

404 Media
@murb Ah ok. That makes sense.
@murb Nice!
I think replacing the Range.each with a x.times can maybe speed things up? YJIT doesn’t optimize the range yet. See https://github.com/bddicken/languages/pull/23
[Ruby] Prefer .times over (0...N).each, also add --yjit by silva96 · Pull Request #23 · bddicken/languages

Ruby 3.3 and above optimized .times method, also .times is the most common way a Well Grounded Rubyist would do this. Also, I addded --yjit just in case your ruby installation isn't using YJIT....

GitHub
String | Ruby API (v3.3)

Nice to see @pluralistic on #DemocracyNow today. I’m grateful he got into the weeds about printer ink because it is so characteristic of what’s going on in capitalism/profiteering.
#Radicalized #HUD #AIgenerated #picksandshovels

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/cory_doctorow

Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk’s “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More

We speak with the acclaimed science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, who has spent decades writing and thinking about the impact of technology on our lives. He coined the term “enshittification” to describe how online platforms degrade the user experience over time in search of profits, though it has been widely adopted to describe a larger sense of decline and decay across society. He discusses his new book Picks and Shovels, Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence to discipline its workers, and billionaire Elon Musk’s work in the Trump administration. “The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” Doctorow says of Musk’s work through DOGE, which has gutted government agencies and wide swaths of the federal workforce. “In the reality-based world, even if you are worried about government waste, even if you want to make government smaller, you have to acknowledge the empirical fact that payroll accounts for 4% of the federal budget.”

Democracy Now!