Adam Zimman

I mean, does it matter?

Not meaning to dismiss your question, but interested to know how you view this changing things and for what audience.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Sounds like a fun OSS project to contribute to.

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like An iPhone: Dutch Defense Secretary The F-35's vendor locked software is becoming a greater concern as relations between the U.S. and longtime allies falter.

*Cory Doctorow intensifies*

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There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Loving this thread.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

all the gatekeepers be like “agents are poison because you’ll never learn anything”

and Learning Scientist Cat just says “nah”

Oh, and I wrote about some considerations for all those now tasked with MEASURING the impact of AI on their organizations. Because social media debates don't really help those of us actually struggling with this real work right now.

www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...

Might be cheaper in the long run too.

I appreciate Steve’s writing and his journey of discovery. But I also fear for the folks that remain enamored with the fanfare of discovery and ignore the lessons of experience… such is the human condition.

The AI Vampire This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Alternate title: When the junior chickens come home to roost.

steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x …

AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x revenue - while software CEOs get a 2026 "grow up" playbook. Meanwhile, enterprise AI reality stays slow and messy, and burnout + Ballard remind us what the work rhythm used to look like. // Friday afternoon links: cote.io/2026/02/13/r...

A cardboard box on a packed-snow surface. It is loaded with quart-size baggies of rice. (A quart bag of rice is about 2 pounds).

Today my block leader told me that a volunteer had come and cleaned her kitchen and bathroom. We were breaking Costco-much rice into smaller bags at the time.

I hope that one of the things people learn is that we all have gifts we can give, even if it is not showy. It all can help.

Hear me out: Curling, but with ducks

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Yes. I aspire to be as old and wise as you. 🙇🏻

I knew I was old when the majority of my comments started to begin with, “I remember when…”

Douglas Adams actually answered all your questions about the universe. " Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"

An image of the milky way with a barely visible yellow dot marked by a red arrow

when we have discussions of how come we never ran into aliens if advanced intelligent life exists I think of this photo. That yellow dot marked there is not Earth, it is the extent that all human radio signals ever sent have traveled.

Question kinda answers itself, really

Image to a woman holding a cup of coffee with the words, “DRINK COFFEE Do stupid things faster with more energy.”

AI is the coffee of technology.

Brent would have been fired after vibe coding agents that erased the company database.

It’s kind of like asking how a Romeo and Juliet would have changed if they had cell phones. Tragedy would still occur, but it would have happened faster.

🐙 I built OctoStore: leader election and locking as a service.

No etcd cluster. No Consul. No ZooKeeper. Start locking via HTTP.

Single 🦀 binary. Self-hostable. Free hosted version.

No business model. Just a thing that should exist.

octostore.io
github.com/octostore/octostore.io

many beautiful women named zendesk are trying to get my attention

I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story.

I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.

This firmware mod for espresso machines is the coolest thing I’ve seen since Magic Lantern gaggiuino.github.io#/?id=home

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...