I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"
This is empirically backed btw, even just blocking internet on your phone improves mental health more than anti-depressants.
New URL, same post.
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Buddy, have I got the post for you.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
It doesn't "write". It doesn't "do research". It doesn't "think", "reason", or "know".
It processes and outputs.
In five years, this won't be any different.
Output 👏 from 👏 generative 👏 AI 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 creative 👏 product 👏
I will point out they're also talking about, and I quote, "shitting on Ipswich".
On the train home, and am next to a group of five 20ish loud multicultural lads drinking beers on the way to the football. They're talking about tarot, Basquiat, starting drama classes, your true creative self, respectful Tinder dates, and reading each other their astrology signs. Nature is healing.
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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social will become the latest Lesson Program of The Carpentries @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social in September 2026 🎉
They join our existing lesson programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry.
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Running a workshop in times of the war: report about the first @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop in Ukraine
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A stone cold alibi, except nothing says "low resolution phallic indulgence" more than Alan Sugar.
"I'm an AI developer" job search messages are fast becoming the new 419 scam emails.
A cult of personality where AI is the leader. Cultists so desperate to be "relevant" that they cease to understand that some people would rather be ethically right and "irrelevant".
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
Infosec used to be serious
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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("This" being Anthropic's study, not your post 😄)
Sadly the cynic in me doesn't believe for one minute that this is genuine concern for the community rather than arse covering.
Yeah I feel they're very much positioning themselves as "you can't sue us because the bot told you X - we said it sucks"
As someone who has sought and received funding for structured metadata in science for a lot of my career, all I can say is good luck getting funders to fund it long term, and scientists to actually do the work in the face of publication pressure. The system needs to change wholesale.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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UK government teaming up with Meta is looking great.
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They hand you your parcel? They leave mine thrown on my front path and put "handed to resident"
Is that a picture of a waxwork under a heat lamp?
