Jon Eaves

Self important people getting their fee-fee all knotted is serious. Makes them all sad, and we can't have that

Just been talking with a mate about "AI mandates at their work". So, to actually get work done, and to "appease" they wrote some python scripts to do the actual work. Then, they wrote some Claude skills to call the python scripts when they needed to execute them.

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Yup. Post-truth society. It's been going on for a lot longer than people recognise. Social media is not the cause, it's just (amusingly) democratised disinformation. I think about what I was taught growing up, and I'm horrified at how "white truth" it was slanted. Just astounding.

Go you good thing! They did a study about this in some wild socialist country (like Norway) where they found that if the other person perceived you were walking faster towards them than they were walking, they would yield.

Yup. It was a pretty cool infograph that showed all of that. Like 1979-ish it started (possibly before tbh). Showed the "date", the "reporter" and the "time to nukes" and it has consistently been 2m or less for 40 years. Manufacturing consent at its finest.

Somebody posted a timeline a week? ago showing the "reports" for the last ~20 years of "country we didn't like that has mostly brown people in it" is "within 1 week of nuclear weapons". It was very, very sobering and shows the underlying rationale pretty clearly.

I joke a little bit here, but for a long time I've discussed with teams if we care if meteorites hit the DC, and what that means for our resiliency.

Quickly adding "Impacted by objects " to my DR planning.

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Another rapidly-growing risk with relying on "AI" coding assistants and - well, these days, pretty much any kind of software product - is geopolitics. As users of Claude Code may be about to find out.

My posts need an annoying typo to guarantee they get reposted

I'm just so astounded that the "latest technology" is equivalent to 1990's screen scraping of web-pages using cron to schedule and perl to process, but burning down a rain-forest each time.

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

Rising far-right populism? Festering discontent? Time to give the people what they want: austerity.

Victoria can't solve the nation's housing crisis alone.

Time for NSW in particular to lift its game.

We've carried that poorly run corrupt jurisdiction for far too long.

Summer Yue on X: "Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb. https://t.co/XAxyRwPJ5R" / X Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb. https://t.co/XAxyRwPJ5R

Fucking love it when people post things openly that you couldn't get from me via torture. x.com/summeryue0/s...

This can’t be right. All the Very Smart People in the media told me they are just ordinary frustrated mums and dads.

Planes are much faster than trains.

For me, to get to central Edinburgh by train takes about 5 hours.

By plane, about 5 hours.

It's not raw speed that determines how long these things take. It's the constraints on the system.

But also maybe KS3 and KS4 English literature absolutely kill the joy of books by picking irrelevant works (classics!) or pretending that old plays make good reading (verily!). That's how it went for me.

If only there was some well-known book we could read about how the bourgeois always end up siding with the oppressor to save their own skin.

You can see why conservatives and the Murdoch press are champing at the bit to change the state government

OH: “When I was younger, I used to wonder how the dark ages came about, but now… *gestures broadly*”

The weird thing about all of this is, a 15% tariff gobally, on all goods, is just a 15% input cost hike on everything. Tariffs are protectionism for local suppliers, and only works if there's local goods, otherwise it's just pure inflationary.

Yeah, exactly.

"Will not happen to me"

This has mystified me for a while. Like, I have c-suite people complaining endlessly about the "risk of lock-in" to normally some variant of Unix running in a container, and yet, come LLM coding, it's YOLO time.

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“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina.

Of course you shouldn’t, Kristina. You should be blaming yourself for being a garbage human who inflicted this on your own son.

But you’re too fucking stupid to do that.

Angry people with guns. How can this go wrong?

I'm so sick of the piss weak inevitability argument being made about generative AI. No, you're just lame CEOs who have realised that the entirely fantastical spectre of GenAI gives you an out for being incompetent leaders, disconnected from the rest of humanity.