Jason Streich
@jpstreich.com
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Web developer living in Raleigh, North Carolina USA. 🛠️ HTML, CSS, & JavaScript since ‘99 ☁️ Azure, Maps, Power Automate, SharePoint
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“… even with guardrails in place to try to prevent the bots from engaging in deceptive behavior, the AI models would become ‘misaligned’ as they they started engaging in unethical behavior.” #tech #ai #SocialMedia futurism.com/future-socie...
New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic
Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.
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geoffgreen.org
My youngest has been e-biking to school since freshman year in 2022, and just broke 5,000 miles of riding—most of them on the way to and from school and midday college classes. Read what we've learned @triangleblogblog.bsky.social.
5,000 miles - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
triangleblogblog.com
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”
AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
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“Creative workers aren’t typically worried that AI systems are so good they’ll be rendered obsolete… but that clients, managers, and even consumers will deem AI art ‘good enough’ as the companies that produce it push down their wages…” #AI #art #design #tech www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-ar...
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
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“RSL moves the industry forward—evolving from simply blocking unauthorized crawlers, to setting our licensing terms, for all AI use cases, at global web scale." #AI #licensing #webdev
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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.
“Really Simple Licensing” makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.
arstechnica.com
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rlsdvm.bsky.social
Our book is up and available for preorder!

We spoke with K-12 and public health administrators from around the US about how they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic together. The biggest lesson was to build the partnerships before you need them, so start now! Ships in time for Christmas!
K-12 Schools and Public Health Partnerships: Strategies for Navigating a Crisis with Trust, Equity, and Communication
Amazon.com: K-12 Schools and Public Health Partnerships: Strategies for Navigating a Crisis with Trust, Equity, and Communication: 9781041002406: Perkinson, Leah, Barrios, Lisa C., Smith, Rebecca Lee, Roegman, Rachel: Books
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“While Google says its increasingly AI-first search experience is still consistently sending traffic to websites, it has not released data to show that.” #google #tech #internet arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”
Google’s position on the state of the Internet is murky to say the least.
arstechnica.com
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swholocron.bsky.social
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.

(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
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bradfrost.com
📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...

It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
The History of Themeable User Interfaces
A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time
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theassemblync.bsky.social
A week after RedSpeed’s donation to the Senate GOP, the chamber’s transportation committee inserted a provision into a wide-ranging bill that could make the company millions of dollars. www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...
A New Way to Pay to Play
After a company that sells camera technology donated to a Republican fund, lawmakers passed legislation that could make it millions.
www.theassemblync.com
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“ChatGPT 5 is an incrementally better, higher-quality experience than its predecessors… But as a piece of software, it’s absolutely bananas how busted it is…” #AI #technology #software aboard.com/desperately-...
Desperately Seeking Software: Paul Ford reviews ChatGPT 5
If you want to be a true platform for the future, you have to actually make the thing work.
aboard.com
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washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: About 150 FEMA employees sent a letter to members of Congress, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harms the agency’s mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina.
FEMA staff warn Trump officials’ actions risk a Katrina-level disaster
About 150 FEMA employees signed a letter to Congress arguing current agency leadership has eroded and hindered the ability to effectively manage emergencies.
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jacobbiba.bsky.social
“A second FEMA employee who helped organize the letter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she wanted to sound the alarm before it is too late and the next hurricane has struck.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us
bsky.app
Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
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“Owlcat looked to the series for the visuals of key characters and the world, and has promised some of the actors will make appearances in the game.” #videoGames #theExpanse www.polygon.com/the-expanse-...
I got most of a space station killed in The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
My biggest question after watching a demo at Gamescom is if I have agreed to smuggle a cat
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sarasoueidan.com
'"Best practice" is just your opinion' www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/best-pr...

@craigabbott.co.uk on why using the phrase "best practice" in accessibility audits can be misunderstood, leading to unusable user experiences.
"Best practice" is just your opinion
Why we need a different term for best practice
www.craigabbott.co.uk
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chappelltracker.bsky.social
They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly
sladner.bsky.social
I can't be the only person disgusted by this cynical, lying garbage. (Sidenote: "America By Design" was a great book on the history of how engineers sold themselves down the river to corporate interests, RIP Dave Noble). www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Improves our Nation Through Better Design
IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to launch the “America by Design” initiative, establishing the
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