Tech

lol here’s my point: get back to hating bosses, not workers

I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Cr…

Me, fine-tuning my edgy neolib posts so they sit just right for the Bluesky audience

This is important because it makes obvious the lie being used to support the analogy that AI is similar in kind, or following a similar adoption pattern, to those technologies. Those also weren’t _sold_ — they were free and open.

The majority of “web coders” are folks who got into the industry because they found the trade interesting and saw an opportunity to support themselves and their families. They are a labor class being exploited by these same tycoons. A mill…

I grew up deep in this stuff in California worshiping these organizations just to find out they're really just millionaire affinity groups for people who did LSD in Marin

I do worry about the epistemological foundations of people who have not yet encountered an LLM being wrong in a way that alters their approach to them.

It’s a version of the same thing I pointed out the other day, when journalists would rush to defend Milo Yiannopolous, insisting that he couldn’t be a fascist or white supremacist, because he had gone to “good” (the same as their own) scho…

It is fine, even good, to be angry. But be *precise*. Which institutions are the ones signing over all their history and their students’ futures right now? Is it the hedge funds formerly known as liberal arts factories? What credentials mo…

Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree.

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - an…

I will admit, maybe I know nothing. I don’t have any formal credentials; I was working when others were getting their degrees. But, like a lot of folks, I tried to read & learn and better myself on my own time, and to support other workers…