Sam Stephenson

@sstephenson
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born, never asked 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
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locationChicago / CDMX

1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.

Must be great to be a big tech company. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/ki-macht-tuebinger-journalist-zum-kinderschaender-100.html

Du bist ein Kinderschänder - sagt ein KI-Chat einem unbescholtenen Mann. Ein wahrer Fall.

Der Tübinger Journalist Martin Bernklau traut seinen Augen nicht. Im KI-Chat Copilot von MIcrosoft ist er verurteilter Kinderschänder, Ausbrecher aus der Psychiatrie und Betrüger. Die KI spinnt rum - und das kann jedem passieren, sagen Experten.

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This morning I’m reminded of that one time Elon Musk, DHH, and the entire merry band of podcasting numpties and RW culture warriors decided that Signal was *less secure* than Telegram because me and some “woke” people like the NPR CEO were affiliated and went on about how they were pivoting to Telegram.

I am not actually affiliated, but why stop at being wrong for only one reason.
When your thumb holds the base
Of the new pizza case
That’s amore
Support PUT, PATCH, and DELETE in HTML Forms

My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.
Going to the modem store. Anyone need some 56k
The dynamics of the Patreon thing are actually *incredible*. Apple, taking 30%, will be making effectively 6x as much as *Patreon* will on every transaction for creators who are on the grandfather plan. Whatever value Apple brings, does anybody think it's *six times* the developer it's stealing from? What the actual fuck
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LLM word salad is evangelical glossolalia for tech bros

Forms on the web have become terrible. Lost state. No keyboard nav. Weird refreshes. Mobile hostile.

The reason is #frontend developers that think clientside state management is how to implement a form. It is not.

Good forms work without client #javascript (and then are progressive enhanced by js to work even better).

Good forms always submit. Good forms remember values and display problems inline.

How do we fix the misconceptions and, in the process, fix the forms on the web ?