> A world where AI can solve diseases easily, and corporations can find ways to claim ownership over those novel solutions, is not one where we should be encouraging stronger IP laws.

How about a world where readers can't even find factual autobiographies because they are so outnumbered by machine-generated hallucinations?

Unlike "AI can solve diseases easily" what I wrote describes the actual present and not a hypothetical future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-...

> At least the way I use it, I still feel like my experience, knowledge and taste is being utilized to make it better than if I were to vibe it.

> What has made me enjoy it less, is having to deal with colleagues' use of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect

No, it's not a bias. If I vet every line of code still, but my coworker ships thousands of lines they don't understand, we're actually using it differently.

> Why would you ever want to ask an AI to make an app for you to complete some task, if you can instead ask the AI to complete the task directly?

Given the current trends in predictive language models, once users are able to articulate their needs with clarity and precision, conventional software development may become obsolete.

"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief..."

\- Alan Greenspan

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2009/03/30/...

Tech oligarchs: "Nothing can stop the software we are making from escaping and destroying everything."

Clueful types: "Did you try air-gapping it?"

Tech oligarchs: "Be realistic."

At this point I’m less worried about some malicious AI “taking over” control of critical systems and more worried about some rich doofus giving control to AI.

Already happened. Kegsbreath has AI picking schools to blow up.

It's not "pushing policy" if the policy has a popular mandate.

Compare the respective numbers of Democratic and Republican presidents in your lifetime who attained the office while losing the popular vote.

Popular mandate is surely 65% as the bare minimum. 51% is not a mandate, it just shows they hate you slightly less than the other guy.

The last decade has taken the edge off Hanlon's razor.

In violation of their own name-squatting policy, Github has refused to rename or remove an account that is squatting my legal name even after I sent them a scan of my ID proving that it is my legal name.

Unfortunately drawing attention to it would likely invoke the Streissand effect and be counter productive so I can only wait until the frabjous day that github goes dark at last.

Prisoners are in prison as punishment. Not for punishment.

That is a concept that eludes many.

> What's so interesting about tiling managers?

And of that interesting stuff, how much can't be had just by configuring the window tiling shortcuts in floating window managers to have the best of both worlds?

https://uli.rocks/p/tilling-xfce/