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  Y'all, I ain't kidding about LLMs being "word shoggoths" especially if you read "Elder Things" as "Slow AI" LLCs Look what it says on Wikipedia: > Though able to "understand" the Elder Things' language, shoggoths had no real consciousness and were controlled through hypnotic suggestion. > …exterminating the shoggoths was not an option as the Elder Things were dependent on them for labor and had long lost their capacity to create new...

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  Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

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  I have a very senior peer co-worker Donald (not his real name) who's most useful when sent to yell at misbehaving partner teams. He is also unpleasant when he comes in turn to yell at my team. I remarked to a (different) peer that Donald should have a T-shirt that reads THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY

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  A name I just came up with The org-chart version of Dead Internet Theory. Most middle managers… don't really know what's going on "on the ground". They were once a jr mgr who didn't quite get it, so they're pretty sure that the other sr mgrs don't know what's going on either. & they're pretty sure that *their* managers, the VPs & C-levels, are also doing their own kayfabe & nobody is willing...

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  Move over "this meeting could have been an email" The new hotness is "this site incident could have been a unit test"

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  "MLM" and "LLM" are separated by a Levenshtein distance of one …and not much else

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  Computing before 2000: "a bicycle for the mind" Modern computing: "a cybertruck for the mind" all the implications of this metaphor hold up - public safety - cardiac health - availability to ordinary people - traffic congestion - home repair - vendor lock in - climate change

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  Numismatist alert! I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp* Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)? Apparently not in 1943!

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  I see a token famine coming Centrally planned economies with track records of shooting or rusticating the bearer of bad news (like Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, or Zuckerbergian Menlo Park) are always going to have surprise! resource shortages

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  While we're in chaos anyway, why not try a little mutual-aid anarchy, as a treat?

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  Discussing the creeping enshittification of streaming video services with spouse Them: "welcome to the Hotel California—" Me, cooperatively overlapping: "—n Ideology. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

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  The Butlerian Jihad famously includes the phrase "Thou shalt not make machines in the likeness of a human mind" But if I were starting off today, I would say "thou shalt not force the human mind into the likeness of a machine" https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116592289675413403

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  Okay this is a really fun "biowordle" game https://metazooa.com/

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  Layoffs tomorrow at 7am My boss signed off for the day (he's on Eastern time), and included his contact information "in case I lose my laptop password" Feels like a riff on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates "I am going outside and may [be some time] lose my laptop password"

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  Watching the livestream (twitch) launch of https://labor.dair-institute.org/

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  I survived this morning's public humiliation rituals and I still have a job. I'm relieved and exhausted by turns. And a part of me is — as expected — sad about the road not taken

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  Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting But the real problem is even dumber -is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes -is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes -will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup -will it ruin countless organizations who...

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  This is a really exciting list of new books And both Ann Leckie and Martha Wells have entries! Always here for more Radch and Murderbot. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524887-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-may-2026/

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  My team of linguists is lamenting the screwed up decisions of our entire industry --- > so many [people on our team] know so much about so many things > [But why they gotta] make it so weird for hiring linguists --- So I gave a little pep(?) talk: ---- I really *do* think these are related Linguistics people — all of you — are just amazingly well prepared for this LLM dystopia that we are all living into We're the Mad Max(in)es of this particular epistemic hellscape (1...

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  Friends Everywhere Slicers' Cooperative "slow tech for people who need it"

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  This study's results suggest that LLM sycophancy amplifies publication bias (the "file drawer" problem) The LLMs didn't like to tell the user that their hypothesis was not confirmed by the data H/t @bibliolater https://social.vivaldi.net/@bibliolater/116252085690032777

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  Yolo contendere

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  So I'm off to a little community fundraiser tonight (my kid's school!) And it sounds like the nerd prom elsewhere is Going Great https://mastodon.social/@deadline/116468239893400127

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  This @davidgerard story is wild Thiel and Balaji attempt to insert forced arbitration into fact-checking AIs 1000% blackpilled cyberpunk dystopia https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116422294912297690

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  Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months. We've killed a lot of sparrows. The AI Great Leap Forward https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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  That Marc Andreesen interview where he was coked up to his eyeballs and claimed that introspection was a scam by Big Freud to hamstring Great Men It should have a warning label on there; "pure, concentrated testosterone poisoning ☠️" https://youtu.be/1-Rp2nkf8Dw

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  Excuse me, mister SVP of Engineering? Have I introduced you to Admiral Potemkin? He has a wonderful plan to impress the Tsarina

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  A work friend said this to me today, in the middle of continued reorg chaos > Piffle. When things blow up I expect you will extend an invitation to build rad slow tech normal ass ML and FST based products for people who need them Reader, my heart grew three sizes

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  Got the book by @rwg , but I have some competition for getting to it