Notes

In the way the dismantling of USAID is a practice run for DOGE dismantling the US government, I’m growing concerned the birthright citizenship attack is just a first step towards weakening the 14th amendment.

If we don’t purposefully raise AI, the internet will do what it will: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04465-z

I find it worrying how often Github Copilot offers to complete my Rust database access code using .execute(), which is a method on the very popular sqlx crate, which I am not using. It feels like I’m constantly being judged by a dumb popular kid for making a less popular choice (in my current case, cornucopia).

Our LLM friends could really regress us to the mean more subtly than media consolidation already does.

My biggest fear with AI is that we’ve reached a plateau. If we’re stuck with “smart enough to bullshit” but spend a decade struggling to actually automate meaningful solutions, I fear for human culture.

This feels like a glimpse of the future: coding by writing examples that are treated like unit tests: https://austinhenley.com/blog/mirrorlang.html

Germany, of all nations, should be keenly aware of the dangers of forgetting state attrocities. So it’s especially upsetting to see Berlin supporting Japan’s effort to censor history and remove memory of the ianfu. https://www.theleftberlin.com/berlin-mayor-insists-on-removing-statue-for-victims-of-sexual-slavery/