@moshik_temkin the birth rate alarmists will be complaining about how there are too many mouths to feed 20 years from now.
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vik
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Ben Sasse is a member of a political party that has done everything it can for decades now to create a political economy in which fewer and fewer Americans can afford to raise a family in comfort, security, and dignity. Talking about candy crush or whatever is pure silliness.
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“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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@evefairbanks it wasn’t rhetoric. it was reciprocity.
it’s not the journalist in me. it’s the ship captain.
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This is the most perfectly uncanny piece of AI-assisted writing I've seen--and a great tutorial on how to identify AI text. The OP is a captain! But the tell for AI isn't rhythm, wording, or fact errors. It’s that problems with *all these elements* exist equally & at once. (1/7)
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@Richard_Vixen Fake I’ve been the same weight since puberty to now (30) no hip widening has occurred
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WOMEN: genuine question do you feel your hips get wider after puberty? I keep seeing posts claiming women’s hips got wider in like mid 20’s-early 30’s. Real or fake? Didn’t happen 2 me
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@Richard_Vixen looks like the pelvis continues to widen over the reproductive years and then starts narrowing back down afterwards. its so gradual that idk if it would be noticeable though.
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NYC observations after spending last week there
• people are actually outside touching grass (or cement 😅)
• very few AI ads or billboards around
• even cafes i went to - very few screens with claude code or cursor or some coding tool
• people are way more open to socializing. everyone is willing to strike up a conversation (not about AI agents)
• the energy is electric - everyone’s moving with purpose.
• found a way to talk to folks without mentioning AI
• way more artists, and non traditional creators. Met an actual physical product designer which was cool.
it’s genuinely refreshing to remember there’s a whole world outside the feed
been traveling the last few days and the SF tech bubble makes it easy to forget how alive real cities feel.
sorry SF, you’re still home… but perspective is healthy 🤷♂️
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vik retweetledi
Vibe coding has resulted in more outages to major online services in the last 6 month's that the previous 10 years before that.
Can Vardar@icanvardar
87.87% uptime for one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure on the internet has ai made the whole stack this fragile?
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@katewillett Jacobin has been a trojan horse for Silicon Valley talking points for a while.
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Jacobin has a lot of good , real socialist writers but since 2022 it seems to be also a place where cultish Silicon Valley ideologues can throw Marxist jargon on top of what are otherwise Elon Musk’s beliefs.
Not just AI, birth rates, abundance, longtermism. It’s a bit odd.
Jacobin@jacobin
Blocking data center build-outs is a tempting shortcut to slow the unnerving speed and spread of AI. But the real challenge is building democratic oversight of how it develops. jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-dat…
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@Halalcoholism why would a trad woman who didn’t passively follow along with hook up culture want to be “led” by a man who did, given that she demonstrably has more of a backbone than he does?
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@hasen_95dx That’s what AI is trained on and it often multiplies the errors.
humans at least have the *ability* to write high quality code if they aren’t on a skeleton crew with huge backlogs, which they have been for at least the past 6 yrs.
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Am I the crazy one here? Why are people pretending that corporate "programmers" were writing high quality code before the advent of AI coding?
Kyle Gawley@kylegawley
AI coding is just kicking the ball further down the road At some point the technical debt is going to cause serious headaches Great for prototyping but if you have 100s of customers the last thing you want to be doing is trying to unravel a rats nest of AI code in production
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@Sevenontheriver @JeremyWard33 Executives are never gonna replace themselves with AI. That’s who this is all for.
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@JeremyWard33 "Before they disappear" she can't even help but let it be known that whatever she's grifting on to make more money for herself is short lived as they'll come for that too
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AI Execs: "I destroyed your lives, your economy and your future. Now lionize me. I am actually the good guy"
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@Cactuscali1991 sad dudes on here ONLY go out of their way to trash the most beautiful women.
if she wasnt stunning there would be no discourse, so it’s kind of the highest compliment they can give.
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If there's discourse on how this beauty queen looks, we're all cooked. Happy late birthday queen, sorry twitter is a cesspool of angry men.
disco barbie@annabesss
my bf looks insane here but it was my birthday anyway so i cropped him out
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⚠️ AI agents are wildly premature technology that is being rolled out way too fast. The deepest lesson about the vibe coded AI agent disaster story that is running around is NOT about losing your data. ⚠️
𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆.
The user wasn’t (totally) naive. He thought system prompts and guardrails would save him. They didn’t.
In this case he lost data. Eventually people will lose lives.
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@ThePrimeagen Before 2028 there will be a documentary about how these companies managed to pull off such a grift, and we will still definitely not have AGI or anything close.
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I think some people are misunderstanding me here.
I am 100% confident that LLMs alone will get you a hot steaming pile of absolute shit and it has played out again and again.
What irks me is that a bunch of normies were sold that this is PhD level intel and that they have 0 worries and this is the future old man, get with it.
They go off, sell a product to REAL customers and then absolutely get wrecked.
There will be a whole bunch of people that will continue to get wrecked because an entire class of people cheer them on and more so CEOs of the worlds largest companies tell them they are correct.
I can imagine that we will see quite a few lawsuits in the coming months / years due to this.
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen
There are a lot of people dunking on this guy and the arguments at the end of the day come down to "You are holding it wrong." But to be fair there has been nothing but a constant stream of "Stop holding it, Software Engineering is over shortly." I am not shocked that this has happened and I am 100% confident that this is not going to be the last one. The problem is the vogue nature of insane hype claims, most specifically from Dario himself being most guilty. People are lulled into a faux safety due to the belief that these LLMs are literal gods in their pocket. Infinite knowledge and speed for a simple monetary exchange. Cannot wait for ThePhilospher to explain how a loving God could delete a production database.
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@GambelerQuail The first two examples in the article were MURDERS. I don’t think the wife’s weak girly legs or any other sex differences were the primary issues at hand in those situations!
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This is hilarious because he could have just said the alpine divorce “trend” is fake and there is no epidemic of men trying to abandon their partners while hiking. I guess there’s nowhere in a piece like that to bloviate about sex differences lol
Matthew Schmitz@matthewschmitz
“Alpine divorce” stories are a reminder of basic sex differences, @fbasboll argues. compactmag.com/article/there-…
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@thechosenberg All it takes is a little empathy and active listening to get these kinds of people to admit that they feel the same way but are just dealing with it differently.
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@shoe0nhead @RachelReneeRee1 stop being such a tattletale. shirking an essay assignment from your dumbass blogger mom is a perfectly legitimate use for AI. goddamn.
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@RachelReneeRee1 “thats not friendship. thats complicity”
tell your daughter to stop outsourcing her thoughts to chatgpt
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My 18yr old making her debut on my Substack today about her disappointment with Cooper changing, not standing up to her friend, and forgetting her original GenZ base.
🔗: shorturl.at/63afn
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@Carboniferoys @GambelerQuail I would take it a step further and make them replace it with shows about girls falling for mid-level bureaucrats.
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It must feel good as hell to just be able to ban a specific annoying media trend as a middle level bureaucrat.
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
What am I going to spend all my time watching now???
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