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Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

localghost.dev · Feb 08

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

Shared by @lobsters and 35 others.
Ciro Durán 🎏 (@chiguire) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Benjamim :prami_hearts: (@benjamim) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Robb Knight (@robb) · Feb 09

⭐ Stop Generating, Start Thinking by @sophie localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Sophie is much smarter than me and she's written the post I had in my mind but would never be able to articulate as well as this.

"So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking. Nothing good can come from software nobody has thought about."

rknight.me/links/stop-generati

Chris Pitts (@thirstybear) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

podiboq (@podiboq) · Feb 08
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Mario Munoz (@pythonbynight) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Tyler Sticka (@tylersticka) · Feb 09
🔁 @sophie:

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately
localghost.dev/blog/stop-gener

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

matthiasott.com · Feb 09

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling t...

Shared by @inautilo and 26 others.
Misko Kranjec (@miskolin) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Cory Dransfeldt :demi: (@cory) · Feb 10

🔗 Web­space Invaders via @matthiasott #Development #Webdev #Ai #Tech

A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining things that never makes you feel stupid for not knowing them already. He’s one of those folks who still has faith in the Web.

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Trit’ (@TritTriton) · Feb 09

Lectures du jour :

“New Project: Great Salt Lake Ecological Observatory” :
gemini://arcanesciences.com/ge

→ “Gemini's Great Salt Lake Observatory” (hélas, ça n’utilise pas les unités SI… 😔) :
gemini://arcanesciences.com/sa

“Running Your Own AS: BGP on #FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing” :
gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bg

“Webspace Invaders” :
matthiasott.com/articles/websp

“Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the Oxygen and Air themes?” (pour #KDE Plasma) :
filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/0

Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Chris (@swithinbank) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (@sarajw) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Oliver Brux (@oliverbrux) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

Joe Crawford (@artlung) · Feb 09
🔁 @matthiasott:

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

matthiasott.com/articles/websp

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

propublica.org · Feb 09

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Shared by @almondtree and 64 others.
libramoon (@libramoon) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Femme Malheureuse (@femme_mal) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Levka (@LevZadov) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Seth of the Fediverse (@phillycodehound) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeff:

ProPublica: “I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility”

This is heartbreaking.

propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#USPol #FuckICE #Immigration

G. Gibson (@mistergibson) · Feb 09
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Caramelized Shallots (@CaramelizedShallots) · Feb 10
🔁 @DharmaDog:

"The public is rarely given an opportunity to glimpse inside Dilley and get a look at how the kids there are doing. Here, we let the children speak for themselves."

Heartbreaking! What have we become? 😢

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain..."
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 09
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Chris Hayes (@chris) · Feb 09
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (@Guillotine_Jones) · Feb 09
🔁 @GreetingsOut:

A very important article. Please read. If it doesn’t move you then check your humanity at the door, please. 👇🏼
“I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days”
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

taggart-tech.com · Feb 09

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

propublica.org · Feb 09

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Shared by @Dynamicallydisabled and 37 others.
Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Trending Bot (@trending) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Dr G (@EthicalProfessor) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Bill Minarik (@silicatefondue) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Polly Waugh (@PollyWaugh) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Andrew Henry (@AndrewHenry) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

thejournal.ie · Feb 09

Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.

Shared by @salixsericea and 21 others.
salix sericea (@Ripple13216) (@salixsericea) · Feb 10
🔁 @samlitzinger:

“From watchdogs to mouthpieces
Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.”

thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-was

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Cary (@crenquis) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Eric Smit (@EricChrSmit) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Technodad (@technodad) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) · Feb 09

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

The Boxing Kangaroo (@platypusparent) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Nobody knows how the whole system works

surfingcomplexity.blog · Feb 09

One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…

Shared by @CuratedHackerNews and 18 others.
hnbot (@hnbot) · Feb 09

Nobody knows how the whole system works
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- 2 hours ago | 27 points | 11 comments
- URL:
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Lorin Hochstein discusses the inherent complexity of modern technological systems, arguing that complete understanding is impossible. Drawing from LinkedIn discussions by Simon Wardley, Adam Jacob, and Bruce Perens, alongside MIT professor Louis Bucciarelli's 1994 analysis of telephone systems, the post explores how technology operates through countless abstraction layers—from user interfaces down to physics and corporate financing.

Wardley cautions against building without understanding underlying mechanisms, while Jacob acknowledges that AI tools are accelerating this abstraction. Perens notes this scenario already exists with modern CPUs and operating systems. Bucciarelli's telephone example illustrates that no single person comprehends every layer of complex infrastructure.

The author notes that technical interviews revealing knowledge limits demonstrate this reality—whether regarding WiFi protocols, memory models, or transistor logic. While AI exacerbates the gap between developers and underlying systems, the post concludes this fragmented knowledge is simply the nature of complex technology: our understanding will always be partial, varying by layer and specialty.

Worth reading

Have I hardened against LLMs?

baldurbjarnason.com · Feb 09

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Shared by @kfdm and 29 others.
KungFuDiscoMonkey (@kfdm) · Feb 10
🔁 @adam:

I really enjoy this guy's writing. The Intelligence Illusion was one of the books that helped me navigate the issues around LLMs, so it's nice to see a follow-up.

So my views on LLMs or Transformers haven’t hardened. They’re roughly the same as they were four years ago. The tech is what it is and while the exact details vary from version to version, its fundamental issues remain roughly the same as they were four years ago.

But my views on the tech industry and my peers in the industry have changed. They’ve changed dramatically.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/have-i-hardened-against-ai/

nusse (@nusse) · Feb 09
🔁 @tarakiyee:

"So my views on LLMs or Transformers haven’t hardened. They’re roughly the same as they were four years ago. The tech is what it is and while the exact details vary from version to version, its fundamental issues remain roughly the same as they were four years ago.

But my views on the tech industry and my peers in the industry have changed. They’ve changed dramatically." +1

baldurbjarnason.com/2026/have-

Worth reading

Video: Opinion | We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

nytimes.com · Feb 09

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.

Shared by @CosmicTraveler and 7 others.
The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Kris Freedain 🙏 🏋🏻 🍕 (@krisfreedain) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Regendans (@regendans) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

valOrie_p'O (@valOrie) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Joseph A di Paolantonio (@jadp) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) · Feb 09

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

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