Trial of live #FacialRecognition in #London stations leads to a #FalsePositive and no arrests | Facial recognition | The Guardian
Now if they'd only get off of #MicrosoftGitHub. :-(
Loops also blocks AI code contributions.
I should have made this policy much sooner, my apologies ❤️
https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#ai-generated-contributions
Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.
We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.
Thank you for your feedback!
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions
AI Credit and Credibility Collapsing
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/ai-credit-collapse-boosters-doomers-oracle-anthropic-openai-softbank.html
"It's so annoying when our tech visionary class is busy building trillion-dollar cloud castles to have these totally earth-bound grinds pointing out that they’re not even built on sand."
At least Claude isn't listed as a contributer to BridgePoint, and the tool still works well on Linux. I haven't had to fork my hobby yet.
Sad to see that Leon Starr has decided to get an AI lobotomy. This coming on the heels of learning that Cortland Starrett was going that way as well. Sad day for #ShlaerMellor development. OTOH, there's not much influence coming from these sources, so not much net effect.
A decade ago during a project, I was griping about the trouble friends of mine had been having with their landlord, who was controlling the thermostat remotely to save money (rent was inclusive of bills). This was a shit thing to do when you don't know a family's schedules or even the local weather…
But when I was venting about this, the other devs got defensive and angry.
Turns out they were both landlords who did exactly the same thing to their tenants
Even if the code quality hadn’t declined overall, LLM users would still make the worst collaborators.
UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/un-warns-of-narrowing-window-to-restore-worlds-forests we need more trees
“Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers” by Chelsea Harvey, Lesley Clark and Corbin Hiar for @politico:
New Kickstarter post on the upcoming free Zoom event on Sunday, October 4th.
Share! 🎉 🎉 #NoAI
Plus news about my book writing progress, and a call-to-action to late pledge to my successful Kickstarter campaign, because it's my only source of income. About $12 USD for an eBook.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/posts/4810752
Realizing I don't actually know how to ask for an introduction or recommendation.
All my previous successful job searches involved already knowing someone on the inside of a company I liked, and for whatever reason that's not happening this time. But I do see a few people that some ex-colleagues know.
Is it as simple as "Hey, I see you have a LinkedIn connection to so-and-so at Whatever Corp, would you be willing to recommend me to them?" or what? This feels like something I should already know but I've only worked at 2 places in the past 13 years so I don't have much practice. 😅
"Death by Data Centers"
dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/data-center-energy-pollution-cancer-alley/
> The data centers haven’t infiltrated the cancer statistics yet, but state politicians, including those at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, already deny that residents of Cancer Alley face a higher cancer risk.
Or at least what we have observed, that people are using LLMs to replace search is a very real thing.
And I can point out that it was LLM spam that broke search in the first place, and I can be correct about that but it doesn't matter.
The power and control of information flows that is represented by running search engines may be changing hands and changing shape. Search engines have gotten worse, and LLMs do their job more effectively and people are changing their workflows accordingly.
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Offer ends 10/1.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa