Standard tired dad. Black. I’m a technical writer for however much longer that career exists.
Likes: Iain Banks, AsciiDoc, Yamaha guitars & basses, human-computer interaction, accessibility, photography, simple docs.
Dislikes: Neo-Nazis, jazz fusion, cars, advertising, AI everything, covid
| Learning | Spanish, printmaking |
| GOAT | Tim Duncan |
| Linux distros | EndeavourOS, Debian |
| AI bullshit | I'm so tired |
The @ab has published "Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work" as a Group Note.
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly synonymous with “AI”, and are used by people within our community, the Advisory Board wants to highlight considerations around different ways in which LLMs can be useful or problematic when it comes to leveraging them in standards work at W3C.
#LLMs #WebStandards
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/group-note-use-of-large-language-models-in-standards-work/
Tomorrow Vercel is updating its terms to use your code and agent chats for AI training and third-party data sharing. So we just wanted to remind you that the CEO of this company openly aligns himself with Netanyahu.
Here's quick guide on how to opt-out or even better: how to migrate off Vercel.
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/vercels-ceo-likes-war-criminals-now-he-wants-your-code/
September 2025. Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, poses smiling next to Benjamin Netanyahu at a private AI tech meeting in New York. The photo goes viral within hours. Employees resign. Developers cancel their accounts and migrate to competitors. Enterprise contracts get terminated. The backlash is immediate, loud, and widespread. But
"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"
then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.
some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.
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so I got laid off again, for stupid AI-pilled reasons.
Anybody need a writer or editor with:
- 8+ years of technical writer/content strategist experience, mostly in software
- One published short fiction anthology (as editor)
- A master's degree in sociolinguistics
- A knack for learning new content management systems
- A love of working with invested SMEs
- A basic understanding of web dev
- Strong boundaries
- An aversion to generative AI?
Prioritizing remote work in Canada.
#GetFediHired
Fuck. Reflect Orbital apparently had more time than we thought to respond, and they just did. We have a lot more writing to do. Hopefully some of you who wrote comments will also write and submit replies to Reflect Orbital's FCC response. I'm sure it's total bullshit, and I am not sure when I will have the strength to read it.
Fuck you, Reflect Orbital. I hate absolutely everything you are planning to do. Really tempted to submit THAT to the FCC...but I will rethink when not 100% exhausted.
A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role. The work appears in Cell Reports Medicine.
World Wide Web Consortium
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Tech For Palestine
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The Mïghty Kräcken
Ramsey Nasser
Jess Rose
Alex, the Hearth Fire
Prof. Sam Lawler
Brad Mitchell