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X has decided to limit access to using Grok to create deepfake porn and CSAM to paying subscribers. This article makes it sound like a response to the outcry but this just sounds like a business move to monetize creating illegal content.

Is there a good reason why kids yogurt pouches only come with 4 pouches? Why don't they give you enough for the whole school week??

joining the war on slop on the side of slop

The next two years of Software Engineering - addyosmani.com/blog/next-tw... ✍🏻

In my home office, I work at a desk nestled in a library of some 6000 books, their presence reminding me of the lives and the accomplishments and the ideas of the individuals who labored to create them and who speak to me through them.

i don’t understand why everyone says liminal spaces are scary or spooky i find them peaceful

this is one of those posts that won't hit til 2027 aka; my most popular post this month (jan 2026) is the 2025 version of CSS features every front-end developer should know

this is the best reframe i’ve ever seen about calling your politicians

All of my social media apps are wall to wall gay hockey show except this one so I'm here to correct that.

Empires typically last 250 years following a consistent lifecycle from "pioneers" to "decadence" according to Sir John Glubb in his book, The Fate of Empires.

you ever hear about an ancient culture that smeared dung in the eyes to see god, or something, and think “lol how did they ever believe THAT would work?”

High influx of Facebook-ass image macro posters rn

"the american southwest is a land of contrasts… or, at least, contrast" #tucson

watch this. making progress doesn't mean everything gets better fast. but progress is progress.

Politicians resigning if they’re even so much as suspected of breaking the law

xAI loses over a billion dollars a quarter but don’t worry, it’s going to power Tesla’s Optimus robots. We’re about to see the first person groped to death by a horny, racist robot.

The last Fallout episode should have an 18+ rating for promoting and advertising the use of drugs 💉💊😛

Problem solving, the ICE way.

tonight's storm was a cold beauty

Dang it, I ordered so many cookies.

Got a kick out of chapter XXXI 🐋

we are headed exactly towards Beijing's and Moscow's multi-polar world. China gets southeast Asia and Africa, Russia gets Europe, the US gets the Americas. This is what's being set up.

AI is probably hugely violating this

they don’t have the manpower to fight more than 1 city at a time

if you need an inventive, rip-roaring story, where every twist is earned… this is it

that’s actually huge!

I have a question, if anyone here is deploying some backend apps to servers (like VPSes) and *not* using Docker/Kubernetes/containers etc. - what tools are you using for doing deploys? 🤔 (Not looking for something that configures and prepares the whole server, just for deploying code to the server)

they are trying to reach me

is that a stick in your pocket, or……?? #shittycamerachallenge

New reply dropped, “I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it, sir.” 🐳 #MonthOfDick

does acab include ralph loops?

Can right-wingers please find something new to hate instead of the private lives of other people? How about potholes? Hate on potholes. (Conveniently combines two of their favorite things to hate on, pot and holes!)

You thought you lived in the United States of America but you actually live in a Judge Dredd comic book.

Twitter being banned in various countries for becoming a deepfake porn app wasn’t on my bingo cards.

nobody does logistics like ikea they told me my order was ready for pickup (a day late) and then that i was refunded 30 minutes later

Portmanteau of “Clanker” and “Droid”

is OSS dead thanks to AI? viva CSS (closed source software)? 🤪

*extremely 90s voice* Avoid the Cloid

Man, this is a bit of work… third day spent on this I think 😅 #ruby #rubylang

i would have personally done this level of outreach before firing 75% of my staff

some bluesky services, including fulltext search, have delayed indexing right now, by 2-3 hours. working to resolve the infra issue, after which all content should be correctly indexed

we get horrendous wind here and the squeaking only started today, and the wind is a bit gusty but not noteworthy and i walked around outside, the squeaking is inside it sounds like one of those bird calls, you know where you twist a bit of wood on a bit of metal? EXTREMELY annoying

The myth: LLMs can replace experts. The reality: LLMs can create a decent first draft that can then be reviewed by an expert. Cheap, fast and good. Pick two.

Tailwind CSS has had to layoff 3 out of 4 developers due to impact of AI on their business. Their business model is to upsell to their paid UI components from their developer docs. But AI usage has caused traffic to their docs to drop -40% and revenue has dropped -80%. Another victim of AI tool use

why is my house squeaking in the wind

New on The Modern Leader this week: While “good communication” is an important skill, it should be treated as table stakes and not the one to highlight. I cover three others that are worthy of your attention. www.modernleader.is/p/the-skills...

Lol, I'm asking GPT about how to do something in this Ruby documentation tool, it made up some options that don't exist and pointed me to non-existing documentation page, and keeps telling me bullshit that it exists 🫠 (that --gem which is real, is also not real) #youreabsolutelyright

skyfeed is currently down, main database seems to be having issues - sorry about this, I'm on it and trying to fix it asap

so, what terminal should i be using for macos these days?

#jj-vcs 0.37.0 came out yesterday! im intrigued by the new divergent change syntax, seems very neat github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...

People think America became the Bad Place after Trump got elected when in reality we elected him because this is the Bad Place.

it turns out the sum of my LinkedIn and Bluesky followers is about what my following on Twitter was. Take from that what you will.

Andor was so prescient, wasn't it?

my "this isn't meant to be used for harassment" sign i put on my list of enemies is raising a lot of questions answered by the sign

see? no AI slop images required to ID the guy.

Arsenal are huge favorites to win the game today 😢 As a fan, I'll keep hope alive for a great performance from Liverpool, but we're basically out of the title race already. #epl #lfc

Fiiine, guess I’ll be nice to myself then ADHD resources help.adhd-alien.com

Do you like genAI slop? I do not like them, Google: stop! 
I do not like genAI slop. Would you like them here or there? I would not like them here or there. 
I would not like them anywhere. I do not like genAI slop. 
I do not like them, Google: stop!

I put this thread out bsky.app/profile/bell... Tonnes of feeds and now Dave has made a script to make it easy to load ‘em up in your RSS reader

rocco loves to taste the extremely humid air #shittycamerachallenge kodak dc 4800

I need an excuse to submit a proposal for this.

*sniffs air, smells like cookies* me: what are you making? thomas: rice me: rice — thomas: and cookies me: phew, i thought i was having a stroke

What’s notable is that despite there being a news cycle around Grok being used to create deepfake porn, CSAM and violent sexual imagery, there has been no attempt to add guardrails by xAI. There is simply no morality at that company.

“The golden age of vaccine development” Now I want to see more photos of viruses and electrons. Didn’t know electron microscopes were this capable: worksinprogress.co/issue/the-go...

i gotta worry about claude farting now?!?

Cosigned. I love em dashes and won't stop using them. FWIW, I can tell if some articles were written or rewritten by AI even when no em dashes are used. 🙂

Alright, it's been long enough to know that I don't regret using github.com/ent/ent I've used it for half dozen very high traffic production services and it's been absolutely great. I have done some fancy stuff with its codegen templates once but mostly just use it out of the box on new projects.

Penlink's corporate responsibility statement reads like a joke, considering what it's being used for www.penlink.com/about-penlin...

just like they only have one joke, they only have one conspiracy theory

“the skills of critical ignoring” (haven’t ever heard it put quite this way before. discernment!)

Surgery update: the surgeon removed nearly 5L of diseased fat from my lower legs and knees. Picture attaching a 2L bottle of soda to each of your legs and living your life like that. He was shocked how much was there based on the size of my legs.

ADHD is thinking about all the things you have to do, getting stressed about all the things, worrying about the consequences of not doing the things, but still feeling stuck and unable to do any of the things.

“The boat and the lighthouseman”

good morning kodak dc 4800 (2000, 3.1mp)

People won't spare anyone here… 🫠

Current status outside:

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations” 🐳

[feeling old]

"What complicated problem was solved by an amazingly simple solution" What an interesting ask Reddit thread - worth a scroll through to see what people said www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

(this was a joke post, please look at the image more closely, stop replying with serious answers)