The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace #AI the most - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/the-first-signs-of-burnout-are-coming-from-the-people-who-embrace-ai-the-most/
If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?
@atax1a can I, like, make an advance directive that if I'm incapacitated and require surgery that no AI-assisted instruments can be used
like a DNR, but DNAI
Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.
I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING
I think imma just keep reposting this every day, as nothing expresses my rage about this farce better:
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0
Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:
My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA Dept of Transportation. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-urges-california-revoke-permits-federal-license-plate-reader-surveillance
Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is arguably the most blatant press freedom violation of this century.
The admin didn't even bother to present a pretext — it jailed her and sought to expel her for expressing views about one of the most important issues of our time.
Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord
@mcfadden They've replaced the babysit lower-paid, offshore, employees to replace you. Maybe that was better than (at least in engineering) babysit the higher-paid, newly graduated, employee to replace you.
Love doesn't stink, but these bozos do. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/10
@glynmoody My mental fatigue would include wanting to track down and attribute all the LLM-produced code.
@yacc143 @glynmoody In 1990, you also had OS/2, Amiga, NeXT, ... (as long as you defined PC as personal computer).
#AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/ "This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with #LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting."
did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"
#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