Steve Faulkner

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

[Chain of thought] reasoning effectively reproduces reasoning patterns closely aligned with training distributions but suffers significant degradation when faced with distributional deviations. Such observations revealthe inherent brittleness and superficiality of current CoT reasoning capabilities.

infosec.exchange/@josephcox/1...

Archive link:
“More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive•org”
archive.is/HFLId

"Fireside chat: the resurrection". The background is engulfed in bright orange flames. On the left side, there's a cardboard chair shaped like a pixelated animal or abstract creature. On the right, there's a colorful, plush armchair with a rainbow pattern and a heart-shaped backrest. Above the rainbow chair, a silhouette of a person is upside-down in midair, seemingly falling or diving into the flames. The title text is styled with contrasting fonts: “Fireside chat” is in large, gradient-shaded bold serif letters (from orange to plum), while “the resurrection” appears in glowing neon green sans-serif letters beneath it.

🤔 If you could get one #accessibility (or accessibility adjacent) person into the hot seat for a bunch of questions that pull no punches who would you choose??

"Fireside chat: the resurrection". The background is engulfed in bright orange flames. On the left side, there's a cardboard chair shaped like a pixelated animal or abstract creature. On the right, there's a colorful, plush armchair with a rainbow pattern and a heart-shaped backrest. Above the rainbow chair, a silhouette of a person is upside-down in midair, seemingly falling or diving into the flames. The title text is styled with contrasting fonts: “Fireside chat” is in large, gradient-shaded bold serif letters (from orange to plum), while “the resurrection” appears in glowing neon green sans-serif letters beneath it.

🤔 If you could get one #accessibility (or accessibility adjacent) person into the hot seat for a bunch of questions that pull no punches who would you choose??

always a pleasure to be in your company

do it Dave, its a good one, bonus you can hang out with me 😘

Who is planning to attend #a11yTO in October?

👁️‍🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter...

#WCAG #accessibility #reality

Accessibility and the agentic web - TetraLogical Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the...

Accessibility and the agentic web by @tink.uk

#a11y #ai #agentics

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08...

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite model. It’s still …

I've had preview access to GPT-5 for a couple of weeks, so I have a lot to say about it. Here's my first post, focusing just on core characteristics, pricing (it's VERY competitively priced) and interesting details from the GPT-5 system card simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/g...

YouTube video by Randy Man. (thedudewiththeshades) The Damned - Smash it up. (HQ AUDIO)

#WrongAnswersOnly
#MusicChallenge
Day 8. Gentle.

Smash It Up.
The Damned.

"We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout til my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up til there's nothing left"

youtu.be/Ac7JldaN3HE?...

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

👁️‍🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter...

#WCAG #accessibility #reality

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

a cardboard chair and a rainbow plushy chair sit atop intense flames. Above it says “fireside chat, the resurrection” on the right are the uplifting and giving stick arms of the swallow in the form of a symbol or emblem. (the same symbol is used by Loserway)

check your mastodon dm’s i have a proposition for you

“FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world”
www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

The doc to review:
w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

#i18n #l10n

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

#a11yTO Conf We are super excited about our Playlist this year, get ready to join us in October.

👉🏽I see @ericwbailey.website is presenting at #a11yTO
conf.a11yto.com/playlist#It-...

#a11y

looking forward to heckling...

You have to buy your own Sharpie to write “with a Vengeance” on it tho.
bsky.app/profile/stev...

DEI HARDER, clenched fist Mug - black handle and inner.

✊🏽 Drink to the revolution

#DEI #merch #antifa

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

DEI HARDER, clenched fist Mug - black handle and inner.

✊🏽 Drink to the revolution

#DEI #merch #antifa

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? · Issue #11523 · whatwg/html What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? SPeKe YR BraNEZ (on the linked issue, not to me!) github.com/whatwg/html/...

mastodon.social/@laura_carls...

Does #ChatGPT understand my frustration as it claims?
Hell no, its nothing more than a mechanical gaslighting machine🤬

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i... - ignoring your expressed lack of consent to misuse your bandwidth and steal your data. Classy.

Meet the team: Craig Abbott - TetraLogical Meet Craig Abbott, another friendly face supporting the charming Northern arm of TetraLogical. His home office comprises of several laptops, about 30 pairs of artfully arranged trainers, and two giant...

👷🏽 Meet @craigabbott.co.uk

"Meet Craig Abbott, another friendly face supporting the charming Northern arm of TetraLogical."

#accessibility #professional

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08...

yeah, i don't even think that image has much truth in it

white tatooed dude wearing a black heather shirt with white text 'accessibility IS POLITICAL'

✊🏽#accessibility is #political

#a11y #merch

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

meanwhile in the US…