Zac Audette
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Coding is only filled with drudgery if you don’t treat it with respect and as a craft. People don’t learn it that way in bootcamps, and startup culture and short sighted leadership don’t create an environment that encourages good work. The answer isn’t to turbocharge slop.
February 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Coding is only filled with drudgery if you don’t treat it with respect and as a craft. People don’t learn it that way in bootcamps, and startup culture and short sighted leadership don’t create an environment that encourages good work. The answer isn’t to turbocharge slop.
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They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
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No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
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7. Unlike other federal courts, immigration courts are run by the DOJ. That means Bondi/DOJ can reassign cases. And, right now, Somali migrants are being reassigned in bulk to Ashworth.
How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants
During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.
popular.info
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
7. Unlike other federal courts, immigration courts are run by the DOJ. That means Bondi/DOJ can reassign cases. And, right now, Somali migrants are being reassigned in bulk to Ashworth.
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At this point, we should treat almost all the media coverage about AI consciousness, ethical consequence, personhood etc as downstream from AI corporate marketing and comms efforts. It’s all they have since the gloss wore off the initial excessive claims.
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
At this point, we should treat almost all the media coverage about AI consciousness, ethical consequence, personhood etc as downstream from AI corporate marketing and comms efforts. It’s all they have since the gloss wore off the initial excessive claims.
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8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social: