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Friday January 16th, 2026

Join Ice Dan Lyke / comment 0

Need to start collecting protest songs... Jesse Welles — Join Ice (YouTube video)

LLM links of the morning Dan Lyke / comment 0

Paco (2026: New) Hope @paco@infosec.exchange

I finally figured out something LLMs can do that people can’t do. Apparently LLMs can do productive work without going into an office.

Betteridge's Law applies: USC Dornsife: Can we prevent AI from acting like a sociopath?

Via ResearchBuzz.

jacquelines 🌟 @jacqueline@chaos.social

you know how there’s an increasingly large dataset showing that talking to LLMs a lot is like really really bad for your brain? there’s no ‘except for software developers’ carve-out. just fyi !

lotta yall still dont get it Dan Lyke / comment 0

a lotta yall still dont get it

Gas Town Mayors can use multiple Polecats on a single Refinery.

If Google we're serious about making Dan Lyke / comment 0

If Google we're serious about making Gemini useful, they'd give it an "okay, after I spent a few hours dicking about with the CLI and giving up, here's the code that *actually* worked, use this to train the next version" option.

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who Dan Lyke / comment 0

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who works in an administrative capacity for a shipping port? Trying to do some due diligence for someone, pretty sure I know the answer, but an exchange with someone actually in the business would be helpful.

Thursday January 15th, 2026

Gas Town Dan Lyke / comment 1

Steve Yegge: Welcome to Gas Town

Gas Town is a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances. Stuff gets lost, it’s hard to track who’s doing what, etc. Gas Town helps with all that yak shaving, and lets you focus on what your Claude Codes are working on.

Every time I thought the gag was played out he managed to take it a little further, and then I was browsing the github repo. Via Metafilter, who also can't figure out if it's a joke or real...

I used to kinda be grateful advertisers Dan Lyke / comment 0

I used to kinda be grateful advertisers for helping to support the podcasts I listen to. But now I hear ads for BetterHelp and Lifelock and seriously side-eye...

landlord for your data Dan Lyke / comment 0

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Lily Cohen @lily@foothills.social notes

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

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Contra Dance as a Model For Post-AI Culture Dan Lyke / comment 0

Jeff Kaufman: Contra Dance as a Model For Post-AI Culture. Thinking about the focus on live music vs Modern Western Square Dance's recorded music, and, once again, this drops back to the centralization of the role of the caller, and how that interacts with those dancing, and making the music.

Via Tara Calishain.


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