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April 09, 2025

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Bluesky has become a home for humourless left-wing scolds, says Wired, which has long been a home for humourless left-wing scolds so they know a thing or two about it. (Wired) (archive site)

Also it's paywalled. Wired. Paywalled. Humourless left-wing scolds who are... Never mind.
What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue.
Yes.

Why has Bluesky become such a dumpster-fire of anauralia outpatients?
Bluesky also got a big boost in users from mainstream television: MSNBC ran multiple segments about the social network, including bumps on Morning Joe, The Weekend, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Regular MSNBC viewers who took the plunge might not be as familiar with the tenor and style of online conversation on the smart-ass social web.
Oh. Well, yeah, that'll do it.

Tech News

AI mandates are driving developers to the drink. (LeadDev)

Oh, brink? You say potato, I say potato.

AI tools for developers are much the same as AI tools for anyone else: The make easy things easy and hard things impossible. But when senior management sees an easy thing done easily using AI, they start demanding that hard things be done the same way.
Sam Altman says that AI won't be used to replace programmers (it will) but instead will make them more productive (it won't). (Windows Central)

It's Bangalore on demand.
The CEO of Shopify says that nobody can be hired without the department first proving that the task can't be done by AI. (CNBC)
"I've seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, ones we wouldn't even have chosen to tackle before, with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done," Lutke wrote.
WHY AREN'T YOU ALL SELF-SACRIFICING GENIUSES, YOU WORTHLESS SLACKERS?!
Samsung has a new 32" 2560x1440 colour e-ink display. (Notebook Check)

It's battery-powered and lasts up to 200 days between charges, which is a lot.

Designed for in-store displays.

Price not stated, assume expensive.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I deny everything, some of it twice.

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What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue. Yes. Why has Bluesky become such a dumpster-fire of anauralia outpatients? Bluesky also got a big boost in users from mainstream television: MSNBC ran multiple segments about the social network, including bumps on Morning Joe, The Weekend, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Regular MSNBC viewers who took the plunge might not be as familiar with the tenor and style of online conversation on the smart-ass social web. Oh. Well, yeah, that'll do it. Tech News AI mandates are driving developers to the drink. (LeadDev) Oh, brink? You say potato, I say potato. AI tools for developers are much the same as AI tools for anyone else: The make easy things easy and hard things impossible. 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