CarrotBaum 🥕

reverse centaurs

couple it with those who think it god -willing reverse centaurs- and we got a problem

Gotta protect the system

I feel seen

I haven’t seen it used too much irl, though I live in Spain.. I heard Doctorow coined it to harness our feelings when cussing and bring attention to platform decay, and in that sense it seems to me to be well defined. Though I can see how trying to make it more memeable like that could’ve misfired

Yes, after late 2025 “stochastic parrot” has shown cracks but it wasn’t a bad compression itself of a complex process

“Enshittification” oh the other hand I see only as gaining strength, though I am not particularly fond of the term

I’d love to hear more about your gripe with enshittification

The world is full of passion projects. One museum after another if you look close enough

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Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.

You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

Simplicity is hard

He is senile! 👏👏👏
Repeat

Formal verification and software design?

Sorry if those are obvious (or dumb)

Mature politics entails that we let our hypothesis die in our stead when we are wrong.

A lack of critical thinking skills fuses our identities with politics.

Admitting that we are wrong then involves a messy process of ego death rather than a simple correction.

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The fun for me is staying in the loop, scratching the different epistemic itches that arise during dev and I feel sufficiently powerful with git worktrees & adversarial critical agents. I don’t know if all this seemingly more powerful flows r for those that enjoy end products more than the building.

The casual fascist remark in between his unrelenting smile is so fucking aggravating

I find this dudes’ bumbliness in the midst of all this chaos really aggravating

Yesterday

She didn’t even get a promise, whatever that is worth from Trump…

And when shit hits the fan in Venezuela the only shiny object she could have dangled in front of him will have been gone… and her political opponents will rightly point at her grovelling…

oh but she got some merch…

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When shit hits the fan in Venezuela she won’t even have the shiny object to dangle in front of him…

All she got in return was a promise… from Trump… and when shit hits the fan in Venezuela the only shiny object she could have dangled in front of him will have been gone… and her political opponents will rightly point at her grovelling…

oh but she got some merch…

Happy feasting everybody!

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Async agents on the same codebase? Don’t they step on each other’s toes?