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Image credit: Janno Nivergall on Pixabay A lot has been written about how AI is not “just a tool”.

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Today I learned that Ford never owned the trademark to “GT40”, even though that was what they called their car that won Daytona and Le Mans in the late 1960s.

The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the arguments made by people who don’t enjoy his kind of privilege reminds me that there are some OSS projects that have…

I’m glad to (finally) see some buyer’s remorse in the corporate ranks about their rapid deployment of AI, often at the expense of jobs (or so they claim).

Most people who stand against AI Slop are not standing against AI tech itself, but the way that the tech is developed and deployed.

USians often have this notion of themselves as independent free spirits who are self-sufficient and have a who-the-fuck-cares disposition to what others think and that they use some god-given innate value systems to make their decisions and to hustle and…

One of the most off-putting things to me about LLM-based tools is that they encourage you to treat these models like people.

I think people forget that reputation has always been a very real thing among software developers.

People on the left have this bizarre trait of criticizing their candidates for not being left enough, when the current alternative is literally Hitler without a mustache.

A bit of car trivia I learned: The Ferrari 550 Maranello (1996–2002) had an interesting way of delivering fuel to its front-mounted V12 engine.

One thing that continues to grate on my conscience about AI is how artists and writers consistently feel that the technology has stolen from them.

I saw a post recently wherein someone used LLM tools to analyze someone else’s software, which eventually led them to a conclusion that was essentially completely wrong.

If your answer to anyone who doesn’t like something that an open source project is doing is “then fork it yourself”, you’re a piece of shit.

I think people wondering why US citizens aren’t more outraged by the wanton constitutional disregard committed by the US government need to realize that the US government has always been committing transgressions—just not against its white middle- and upp…

Nazi atrocities This article haunts me. https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?

We are all susceptible to conspiratorial thinking.

I want a society that’s designed to make everyone moderately wealthy, and not only five people astronomically wealthy.

Here’s how you can stop bridging your posts from Mastodon to Bluesky, and how you can stop seeing posts from Bluesky bridged to Mastodon.

Someone recently cited “tall poppy syndrome” as an illustration of a person who resents someone who has more wealth than they do.

Religious babble As we round the orbit to another season of Christmas, I’m once again bringing up as an ex-Christian that a lot of “Christian doctrine” that believers lay claim to was actually written by Paul, then expanded over time by countless Catholic…