being told that “ai use” is “becoming a core competency” at work :\

Last I checked Vi Hart still seems like a good egg (idk if the closeted teenaged self hiding in the recesses of my brain could take it otherwise 😭)

Nicky Case posted the ending to her AI Safety for Fleshy Humans series and gosh I miss when I thought she was cool 🫠

linking to Rob Miles and an EA longtermist fund at the end of the outro really gives the game away lol

(interestingly this also involves Hack Club, which is the org that Ghostty is now part of from @gerikson@awful.systems’s post earlier today? I wonder what’s up with them)

thanks, I hate it 🫠

looks like more things are occurring? https://www.haskellforall.com/2025/10/nix-steering-committee-vote-of-no.html

can someone catch me up to speed on what the latest nix fiasco is?

AI is important. But we don’t yet fully know why.

k

Cal Newport jumpscare (some productivity “influencer” who anxious teen me read)

looks like the group is called Collective Shout https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

Looks like itch.io has (hidden/removed/disabled payouts for? reports vary) its vast swath of NSFW-adjacent content which is not great

addendum: itch.io finally put out a statement https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

true that

prior stubsack from last year

https://awful.systems/comment/6765016 also discussed here

strange æons takes on hpmor :o

https://youtu.be/TKMzmOYcEUE

appreciated the intro music on this one

💜

It didn’t scroll for me either but there’s a reply by this corbet person with a highlighted background which I assume is the one intended to be linked to

https://lwn.net/Articles/998435/ sigh

I do hope Lix sticks around and flourishes

I don’t go here but seeing these two posts come up within an hour on lobsters feels telling

https://devenv.sh/blog/2024/10/22/devenv-is-switching-nix-implementation-to-tvix/

https://determinate.systems/posts/announcing-determinate-nix/

a1l a7g t0o k5u