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Stephen King talks about this in On Writing. He carries a book with him wherever he goes and reads in 10m increments throughout the day.

So yes, it’s very possible. (Even easier if you are amenable to audiobooks IMO.)

I asked this question on Metafilter ages ago, should be some good suggestions in there: https://ask.metafilter.com/116971/What-are-your-favorite-nov...

Oh yes, this is totally off topic, let’s just keep talking about the same LLM subjects over and over and over and over again.

A distinction without a difference.

Do you think that programming is analogous to pouring concrete???

We’re soon going to return to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

Add a subtle bug or odd behavior to your code, see if someone else’s code repros it (presumably via LLM regurgitation), sue.

Very obviously, wagging your finger at consumers and hoping they change their behavior en masse will be far less effective than targeting the actual polluters directly. (Talk about motivated reasoning!)

Individual consumption is but a blip compared to industrial resource utilization.

Go outside and talk to your neighbors. This is not a problem technology will solve.

So why does this not apply to macOS?

There's nothing violent about eminent domain, either.

(Also... LOL.)

Yes, you must launder any advocacy for violence through the use of neutral language like “defense industry,” which has wide support and even VC funding around here.

AI is not an abstraction.

LLM use breeds insecurity, as well it should.

I think LLMs are particularly effective at turning once-competent developers into idiots. (“Just ask Claude.”)

This thread is primed for shitting on Bluesky, but the level of discourse among the people I follow has only grown over the past few years. In no way does it feel like a dying platform. (Same for Mastodon, actually.)

Indeed. Recent choice words from Musk:

* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"

* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer)

* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."

* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)

Indistinguishable from Stormfront. And his account (along with other far-right accounts) are the most engaged-with accounts on the platform.

Anecdotally, 90% of the interesting tech/art/gamedev people I’ve followed have moved to Bluesky or Mastodon at this point, and they’re never coming back.

Here's some totally normal stuff that Grok’s owner has been posting recently:

* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"

* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer)

* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."

* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)

Yes sirree: just a completely normal tech product without any asterisks.

As I recall, there are nuances around certain types of files that require expert attention, such as links, files inside frameworks/packages, and unmaterialized iCloud Drive files.

Empathy hijacking.

Eventually, they’ll try “I’m hurt that you won’t consider my suggestion for <advertised product/political position>.” And people will fall for it.

Because that’s what always happens? Because their raison d’etre is to squeeze you dry?

It will be absolutely hilarious when open source projects adopt the jqwik approach and start prompt injecting their code, comments, and any/all other text content. The LLM users’ histrionics will be delicious.

Your base premise is flawed. I know plenty of white collar workers who do not use AI for their job.

Not OP, but I’ve had horrible sleep over the past year. I had taken melatonin a while back before stopping, so on a whim, I decided to bite off a bit of one of my old 5mg pills before sleep. Didn’t give it any second thought — didn’t even think it would do anything. But I slept like a baby for the first time in months. And it’s completely reproducible.

Thou shalt not kill is pretty straightforward.

It’s not. It’s extracted.

No, not everyone here is.

Wealth of this nature is not accumulated; it is extracted.

It is my experience that renters in my cohort (SF yuppie) are very much pro urban development. It’s the homeowners who are the biggest NIMBYs. They want their home values to increase and rent to go up. Reduced housing stock is a benefit to them; it’s not a benefit to renters.

Also: no amount of “thinking long term” will convince a renter to vote for their own eviction in order to make housing (maybe) cheaper for someone else many years down the line. It makes no sense. That is absolutely the wrong way to frame the problem.

There is a path where we expand rent control and incentivize housing development. They are not inherently contradictory policies.