Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Casey Brant

H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social · 18h

No kings except for

a man wearing glasses and a grey shirt is looking at the camera

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a grey shirt is looking at the camera

media.tenor.com

1 3 57

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 15m

Oh wow, YouTube changed the UI on the video settings panel to make it very hard to tell whether "Stable Volume" is enabled or disabled ("on" used to be bright red, now it's slightly lighter grey). So they *know* it sucks, but instead of getting rid of it they want to trick you into using it.

1

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 5h

Firefox oh my goooood stop it STOP IT just show me webpages your *only job* is to show me webpages I do not want to CHAT TO A CHATBOT ABOUT THE WEBPAGE FUCK OOOOFFFF jesus christ

2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 17h

November is fast approaching, which means it's almost time for PiCoSteveMo! Join us for a fun, noncompetitive game jam celebrating the fantasy console PICO-8 and the works of Stephen King. itch.io/jam/picostev...

PiCoSteveMo 3

A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. This is the third i...

itch.io

3 4

Reposted by Casey Brant

Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation

All technologists who work for them are culpable.

They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

42 78

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 2d

it's crazy that the top 10 objectively best anime series all came out when I was in high school, what are the odds

4

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I've been talking to my computer more or less daily for decades. The second it responds, though, it's getting Office Spaced.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

1 2

Reposted by Casey Brant

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 2d

I saw a post that claimed they saw a post, but I couldn't find a citation. The post was:

Every programming language has one of two flaws:

* it has macros
* it doesn't have macros

19 13 170

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry, but if you were spending so much time on boilerplate code that an LLM writing it for you saves you enough time to be excited about, then you are too ass at programming for me to take your judgment on anything seriously.

2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 4d

Is anybody maintaining a fork of Firefox that just reverts all the stupid shit that doesn't have anything to do with rendering webpages Mozilla keeps insisting on cramming into it?

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 4d

"Want to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones?" n...no? what?

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 4d

The YouTube UI looks wildly different every time I go there. I think they've advanced beyond A/B testing and are doing A/B/C/D/E/F/G testing.

Reposted by Casey Brant

[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4d

not even slightly joking when I say that sora should not exist. it should be crime for something like it to be made available without restriction to the general public. its servers should be destroyed with hammers

7 67 260

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 5d

Counterpoint: the junior dev won't tell me I'm mommy's special boy every time I ask them to do something.

1

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 5d

Well *I* have a youtube account where 40% of the words spoken are "cozy" and I disagree.

2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 5d

Love how the AI coding guys are suddenly experts at ultra-precise estimates, but only for how long a feature *would have* taken them without their bot friend.

2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 6d

Saw somebody saying ChatGPT is better than your doctor a couple weeks ago, and I have to admit that I did not consider the possibility that they could be technically correct by the mechanism of we ruin all the real doctors.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 7d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

1 1

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 6d

Whoever invented the first recipe that involved separating out an egg yolk was a freak.

2

Reposted by Casey Brant

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

7 43 150

Reposted by Casey Brant

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 12d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

5 1.1K 3.4K

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 7d

I don't think it should be me (I would waste it all on FFXIV glams) but we really ought to try letting anybody besides the world's 100 dumbest guys decide what happens with all the money.

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 7d

Sharpest materials on earth, ordered by increasing sharpness:

- carbon steel
- diamond
- obsidian
- the plastic they make fucking Brita pitchers out of

2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly great news for anyone still stuck on GitHub since every new feature they release makes the user experience worse.
thenewstack.io/github-will-...

GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development

GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.

thenewstack.io

3

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly best sales pitch I’ve heard for a conf in years. Maybe I’ll try to catch the next one.

1 2

Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 8d

LLMs make good programmers miserable, so even if they did speed up making software (which they don’t), by mandating their use, you only benefit from that boost until the misery catches up and tanks the ability of the programmer to do anything at all, which is something like a couple months.

1 2