tante
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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- So if you are a EU citizen would you do me a favor and sign this petition to ban "conversion therapy" throughout Europe? Thanks eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen…
- I think the most tragic aspect of deploying "AI" in teaching and learning situations is how much it pushes people into a situation of learned helplessness. This constant feeling of not knowing how to do a thing of being incapable of actually doing work on one's tasks is mentally so harmful.
- "If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence." If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
- Sesame Street went dark E is for Ennui
- Dann wollen wir mal.
- Heute eine Keynote in Braunschweig zu Tech Hypes.
- Quick remarks on where the term "agentic AI" fits in and why it's a sign of the crumbling hype. tante.cc/2025/05/12/on-agent…
- Another "AI" coding assistant review from the actual field "But for anything more nontrivial, I found it took me more time to validate the code and fix the numerous big and subtle errors than it saved me." Martin Pitt: Testing sourcery.ai and GitHub Copilot for cockpit PR reviews
- "The vision here is to use a playful machine to hook users, rather than the engagement of other humans, and lock them into a fully-automated ecosystem that Meta owns." Meta has a cool new slop feed
- "thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language, presented as folk wisdom. It’s meant to short-circuit critical thinking. And it’s a fantastically effective way to get a piece of insidious thought into your head by framing it in a way that’s almost fun. C...How to get good fried rice
