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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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@francescabria.bsky.social & @josebautista.bsky.social haben das Vorgehen von US-Big-Tech kartografiert.

Ihre Fazit: Ein autoritäres Netzwerk ist auch hier dabei den Staat zu privatisieren.

Wir müssen #Palantir & Co den Stecker ziehen bevor es zu spät ist.

me and the homies buying each others art

5 Questions to Reintegrate Your Individuality Factories needed consistent output, so their workers needed to be predictable, reliable, and remarkably interchangeable.

It's us humans who will have to deal with the wicked problems.
thestillwandering.substack.com/p/5-question...

Wenn wir doch nur so akribisch die Lücken bei der Steuervermeidung o. Cum-Cum schließen würden, wie CDU & SPD das gerade beim Draufhauen auf die Ärmsten dieser Gesellschaft tun.

Es wären Milliardensummen im dreistelligen Bereich, die wir zur Verfügung hätten – & niemanden tuts weh.

The cover to the book, "Writing Your Own Program: Creating A Database: Adventure Game." Each line is in its own font. The computer (a black affair with rainbow keys" depicts a scuba diver swimming, handcuffs in hand, as it is attacked by a giant cross octopus; the painted octopus is literally bursting out of the monitor. A tiny little banner in the corner states: "For Commodore 64 And Apple IIe Computers"

Man, 80s computer books made even non-relational databases look fun. (Source.)

AI Agents are usually only one part of a workflow. If you use them to decide which action happens next, you need to ensure that action executes durably, especially when there are costs involved (API calls, database transactions, external services).

AI content is the new microplastic.

I'm just eight instances of Claude Code in a trenchcoat

BoWa-ware

Bohniger Brennpunkt

A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.

This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review. A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.

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Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

👍 Really good article
😉 I would just nitpick on the fact that AI agents can help on other tasks than just coding

ordep.dev/posts/writin...

RAMburg meine Perle

the collective acceptance that all work must be inside a panopticon is depressing

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477...

Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school so you better start eating healthy.

has been an amazing few years for introverts who would never accept an invitation to a mansion party, a freak off, a private jet ride, or an island retreat

Berlin Sidewalk Generator - Made with Houdini

Curious how I made that? Check out my breakdown article! www.artstation.com/julianbragag...

#houdini #sidefxhoudini #procedural #3d #techart #tools #tech #berlin #technology #gamedev #architecture #3dart #proceduralmodeling

Communication - creating shared understanding of problems and solutions that everyone can grasp and act on.

left: the interview questions

right: the actual job

A lesson about iteration /via @FND@hachyderm.io theoatmeal.com/comics/creat...

Wer glaubt, die „Ausländer raus“-Stimmung würde verschwinden, wenn weniger Geflüchtete kommen, sollte mal nach Ungarn schauen.

Im Kern geht es nicht um Herausforderungen durch Flucht und Migration, sondern darum, die Lust am Treten nach unten auszunutzen – für den eigenen Machterhalt.

people who use weird firefox forks are like oh no i switched to FlunkWeb 2 weeks ago. I'm on PissWeasel now. Oh no I don't use that anymore, I'm on Dirt now. Download Dirt right now. Dirt kind of supports all your extensions. Let's get mad at extension devs if their shit doesn't work on Dirt.

CarFire. What’s next? FireARMs?

RED FLAC!

JockGPT

Unfair: machines get human-readable APIs with MCP while we suffered through WSDL.

There are two problem-solving approaches:

1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it
or
2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems.

The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

I have published a new blog post to explain what benefits Spring developers can expect from the next-level Spring null safety support based on JSpecify and NullAway. spring.io/blog/2025/03...

It will be available for general consumption in the upcoming Spring major version at the end of the year.

Es ist in Deutschland ja so: Jede Subvention der Autoindustrie gilt als Marktwirtschaft. Und jede Investition in unsere Kinder als Sozialismus. #Groko