Flutterby™! (short)
Monday June 29th, 2026
agent orchestration
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highly praised and little
read
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures
Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their
own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save
their time and energy for more interesting and useful work
Progress OTD
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Futurism: AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to
Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
"If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts."
Via, and Via.
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
We didnt pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our
most knowledgeable engineers, says automaker
Via.
Codex SQLite feedback logs can
write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance
#28224
. Via.
Thomas Fuchs
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
So to summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost ten thousand
dollars, all applications will be forever be frozen to about 2025 design and
implementation (because thats what vibe coding outputs), power to run the computer will
be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer
in the first place.
Explain to me again how this is progress?
Take the shot
Dan Lyke /
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Garrett
Gilchrist
@garrettgilchrist.bsky.social
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young,
charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love
because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
Quantifying AI in stories
Dan Lyke /
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StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies
in AI fiction (Preprint)
Jenna Russell, Rishanth Rajendhran, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, John Wieting
A compact set of 30
core narrative features captures much of this signal: AI stories over-explain
themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonist choices
as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal
complexity (e.g., flashbacks, nonlinear structure). Per-model fingerprint
features enable six-way attribution: for example, Claude produces notably
flat event escalation, GPT over-indexes on dream sequences, and Gemini
defaults to external character description. We find that AI-generated stories cluster in a
shared region of narrative space, while human-authored
stories exhibit greater diversity. More broadly, these results suggest that
differences in underlying narrative construction, not just writing style, can
be used to separate human-written original works from AI-generated fiction.
Via LinkedIn: The Shape of Enshittification: Books That No
Longer Get Read, An Internet That No Longer Gets Surfed, & The End of Social Media As We
Know It..., which is a pitch piece for Return to Real: The Last Human
Advantage in an Age of Artificial Everything by Ryan Levesque, but which
suffers from LinkedIn-ness so deeply that I can't tell if it's AI generated...
Left Antisemitism
Dan Lyke /
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I saw the video in which Weiner was badgered out of the Trans Pride March (an event he's
attended for 22 years, since its inception), didn't think it needed amplifying, and I'm a
fan of Scott Weiner's legislative accomplishments, but I think this is a useful perspective:
Assigned Media: Scott Wieners Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism
Looks Like
warm gemini sound
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Andy Wingo
@wingo@mastodon.social
an't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no
honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm
gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models,
they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"
People around me vibe coding has taught
Dan Lyke /
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People around me vibe coding has taught me that all of those ridiculous tests that checked every stupid arithmetic operator are actually necessary and useful.
Saturday June 27th, 2026
REI got screwed by Meta AI
Dan Lyke /
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Interesting LinkedIn article about how REI's nonsensical AI generated two
handlebar bicycle ad was the result of obscure Meta controls that are opt-out.
They lied about "no water"
Dan Lyke /
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Data center that vowed to avoid Colorado River water is now suing for 260
million gallons per year
KPBS reported
that Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has gone to court to secure 260 million gallons
of water per year from the Imperial Irrigation District about 750,000 gallons a day for
a planned artificial intelligence complex in the desert.
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