Not the Saudis, just a Saudi focused outlet.

House of Saud (publication, not the royals) asks if the Iran war was caused by AI sycophancy.

I’m reminded of the Kremlin reality distortion field that appears to have informed the decision to invade Ukraine.

I had the thought, that maybe the author could be intentionally trying to be mind-numbingly boring, but that just killed it. Into the slop jail!

Turns out, that uv also sucks now!

uv has a CLAUDE.md since January. Sooo, back to pip it is?

I tend to like her education takes. Like the first piece of hers that I read.

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I was low-key hoping for a technical philosophical article, which argues that to find any of this shit useful you need a distinctly american understanding of reality.

Kind of wild that the guy who popularized “enshittification” as a term will die on the hill that the technology which drives the industrial enshittification of all human media is fine actually, because some people find the plugins useful.

Ah, thanks! My expectations of node aren’t much affected I guess. Bun.js maybe?

Eh, straight pip with venv and pip-tools for support worked fine anyway. wrong uv!

As for systemd… time to look at the BSDs? Was Debian among the anti-slop projects? Would be nice if they took an interest in preventing the slopification of one of their core system.

Man, that harper piece is a full DnD alignment chart of the most online bay area weirdos you’ve ever seen.

Unfortunately the paper structure screams “AI senpai, notice me!”

AI coding agents seem bad at this job yet, but if you optimize for our benchmark…

I see two reasons why it’s ultimately not possible to recreate conventional social media success via Fediverse.

1. Some services are taylored to the needs of already-famous people who will tend towards bigger platforms to maximize reach and drag followers along (e.g. what Twitter used to be)
2. You can’t make a buck by cranking out content here. The possibility to make a living off your posting draws the most prolific posters to becoming professional creators for big platforms. You can’t really do that on Fedi unless you already have a dedicated donor base.

That said, I don’t think making more fedi things is pointless. But they are probably going to be smaller things, niche or local, particular to the interests of a couple fellas, points of human connection.

I can think of one notable project I ever saw one, and that’s Bookwyrm with the Anti-Capitalist Software License v1.4.

But this seems too vague-posty to refer to something that specific. Prolly just someone butthurt over copyleft.

I hadn’t heard of square either. Are they the guys doing squarespace? No idea.

EDIT: Okay, I did hear of CashApp, and it goes without saying that you need an entire lock-in ecosystem and a crypto-gimmick around a fintech product these days.

I would assume that you will only get across a very limited amount of information. If you pack them with details they will zone out, if you can focus on very few arguments something might stick. If you have the background knowledge to bring up points as needed, that’s great of course.

If I would try to sway some business people, I’d try this angle: AI intensification creates a dependence on your AI model vendor and endangers your human capital. Your AI vendor is knowingly selling you broken goods, so they can satisfy their desperate bubble economics. Your people are (on average) dabbling with AI, but diving into it too much can cause mental health issues (an in-progress paper trying to look at this [1]). And furthermore you’re endangering the maintenance and transfer of critical know-how because people are burying critical business processes in slop that sort of works but noone understands (throwback to the 80s where similar things happened with classical automation [2]).

[1] https://archive.is/20260212071631/https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0005109883900468

I started to raise my eyebrows when the Second Brain got lumped into the AI wife pile.

Bro, I just write shit down. I am in fact taking responsibility for my schedule and handling my emotions without relying on external support. Am I turning to (checks notes…) the notebook industry for a technological replacement wife?

I mean some valid points, and some of it might explain the gendered AI adoption gap, but too much generalization.

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Having virtually no experience with BSDs, I’m just going to accept this uncritically and use it as a mental framework to contextualize everything I will learn about BSDs in the future.