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Reminder: de-skilling as a trend in software engineering was already in progress well before LLMs.
Toxic productivity culture, people meeting badly-designed internal reward metrics, hopping jobs and never seeing the consequences of bad choices, plummeting quality, short-termism.
Sure LLMs add fuel to this fire, but I’m not at all convinced they’re causal.
If anything, their popularity seems more a consequence of the culture than cause.
“Banks are hunting for new ways to offload risks tied to a glut of data centre debt as the race to build #AIInfrastructure stretches financing limits among the largest global lenders. Groups including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SMBC are trying to find ways to distribute portions of data centre-related deals to a broader range of investors, according to people familiar with the matter.
Lenders are exploring private deals to sell stakes in the #debt as well as so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending. The efforts showcase the unprecedented scale of #borrowing that underpins the #AI sector and the pressure it is putting on lenders. #Oracle and #CoreWeave, two data centre operators, have borrowed hundreds of billions to build sites across the #USA for #AILabs.”
#ArtificialIntelligence / #Banking / #capacity / #profit <https://archive.md/GoRyM> / <https://ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f> (paywall)
“Split into 13 “thematic” body types, from pregnant and ageing to disabled and variations on nudity, the exhibition pairs about 200 sculptures and artworks alongside 200 garments and accessories. “The focus is on bodies marginalised in fashion, and ones that haven’t been valorised in either fashion or western culture,”
I see the usual Villains are attending the #MetGala to view Mugatu with his new “Le’ derilict” & “Oddbods” collection.
#Fashion / #Art / #CostumeArt / #JeffBezos/ #LaurenSánchez / #MetGala / #NewYork 🪩🕺💃 <https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/may/03/met-gala-jeff-bezos-art-fashion-new-york>
People who’ve never been to Australia: all the creatures in Australia are trying to kill you!!!
Meanwhile the creatures in my Aussie neighbourhood…
originality is dying a slow algorithmic death. even though human beings are innately creative… virality has became queen. metrics get rewarded faster than revelation. algorithms don’t ask, is it true? is it alive? is it brave? algorithms are like mini traps designed to keep attention. will it repeat well? will it scale?
and so the strange and unique gets sanded down. the rough edges that once signaled original are now treated like liabilities.
“Coffee has a long history in Yemen. While the plant was likely discovered in #Ethiopia, by the 1400s it was being cultivated in Yemen, where #monks brewed it to stay awake during prayers, according to the National Coffee Association, a U.S. trade group.
#Yemen monopolized the #coffee trade for around 200 years until #Dutch #merchants smuggled #CoffeeSeeds to #Indonesia and began growing plants there.”
☕️ <https://apnews.com/article/yemen-coffee-cafes-taste-spices-war-72b5d2fdec7375cf476a6881810d8ce6>
Hundreds of years ago, Yemen helped introduce the world to coffee. Lately, the mountainous, war-ravaged country that borders Saudi Arabia is exporting something else: its coffee culture. Yemeni coffeehouses are opening at a rapid pace across the U.S. Restaurant consulting company Technomic says the number of cafes run by six major chains that serve Yemeni-style drinks grew 50% last year to 136, and that doesn't include smaller chains and independent cafes. Yemeni coffeehouses are meeting the moment for several reasons. They stay open late and provide a place to socialize for the growing number of U.S. adults who don’t drink alcohol. Americans are also seeking out global flavors.
“ “This is very normal. … The problem is, this is going to happen more and more and more because drones are the new normal; #drones are going to be operating,” Ritondale said.
He said the 10-day #NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) shutdown of airspace over #ElPaso made little to no sense considering the size and population of the city. He speculated that communications became muzzled from #JointTaskForce Southern Border up to #NORTHCOM, and then within the #DOW, the base command within #FortBliss, and then with the #FAA.”
Last February, NOTAM for 10 days? …more drones. ✈️🛸
#USA / #Texas / #UAS / #UAP <https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/02/11/el-paso-airspace-closure-federal-government-messaging-shows-breakdown.html>
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