I knew a lot about his alias, but I didn't know his real name, so when I hear heard Evans refer to him as Moldbug I audibly gasped. It's an excellent overview of one of the worst internet thought leaders, great recommendation

“you shouldn’t lie or spread lies to make your point even if you think your point is true” is apparently a very unpopular opinion these days

Having used copilot at my job, can confirm. At times it makes useful output (sometimes very so), but I have to spot check everything it writes, which takes me out of the flow of coding. So even if it massively improved its success rate, it would make my job primarily code reviewing, which sucks

Eencephalophagy.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 8:42am

A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

And avoiding those is one of the few upsides of all my teams being eliminated or not making it

I've never been more grateful to root for Seattle teams than when I watch other baseball teams feeds and see the deluge of gambling content. I hope WA never legalizes sports gambling

This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

I remain thrilled that @wyden.senate.gov is one of my Senators

TWwashingtonpost.comSep 26, 2024 4:19pm

A sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn laws, require justices to undergo audits and remove roadblocks for high court nominations.

Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justices

The legislation by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is one of the most ambitious efforts to date to remake the Supreme Court following controversies over rulings and ethics.

One thing I think is important about this sustained attack - Vance is *still* tweeting about it - on Haitians in Ohio, is that it puts the lie to everything a certain sort of immigration restrictionist said they wanted. "Oh, we just want them to come here legally" They did!! 1/

This is genuinely starting to look genocidal. And I don't use that term lightly

NMnick-martin.bsky.socialSep 10, 2024 6:31pm

The Republican Party of Arizona claims it has taken out digital billboards throughout the Phoenix area based on the racist hoax being spread by vice presidential nominee JD Vance and others in the MAGA movement. This is not Springfield, Ohio. This is Phoenix, Arizona.

Yeah, in terms of the actual documented evidence of pet killing, Republican Governors hold a strong lead over Haitian immigrants