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"But people create these weird relationships with their AI agent and once you see how some prompt their machines, you realize that it dramatically alters what comes out of it. To get good results you need to provide context, you need to make the tradeoffs, you need to use your knowledge. It’s not just a question of using the context badly, it’s also the way in which people interact with the machine."

lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Zen, Zed, Zod, and Zig all being things in my circles of tech interest is too much.

@rickf @akamran clearly 🙄

@akamran @rickf "We should run the government like a business!"

If you posit the fediverse as some part of the solution to this dystopia, I can't take you seriously. The fediverse is a nice alternative to the hellscape that is corporate-controlled "social media", but it is not going to change the world.

blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-design-convergence-review-2018-2026/

Why must we contain multitudes?! 😧 😵‍💫 😕

27 / 42 days no-weight-bearing (64.3% complete)

By the end of this, I'm going to be an expert at doing things while standing on one foot (my left foot, to be precise)