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The empire always falls

joanwestenberg.com · Feb 15

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean...

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@osma) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Scott Francis (@darkuncle) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

mgiraldo (@mgiraldo) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Assaf 🌴 (@assaf) · Feb 15
🔁 @AnnaAnthro:

The empire always falls

“The current #AI narrative draws a line from model 1 to model 2 to model 3 to whatever comes next, and concludes that human labor/existence is finished.

But straight-line projections are the most reliably wrong predictions in the history of forecasting - tech or otherwise.

What actually happens, in empires/companies alike, is that progress hits unexpected walls & leaders make strategic blunders.”

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (@jackyan) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

xs4me2 (@xs4me2) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Trending Bot (@trending) · Feb 15
🔁 @Daojoan:

When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-

Worth reading

Carbon Dysphoria | deadSimpleTech

deadsimpletech.com · Feb 15

And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.

Shared by @cratermoon and 27 others.
DamonHD (@DamonHD) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

cyplo (@cyplo) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

alcinnz (@alcinnz) · Feb 16
🔁 @mayintoronto:

If you're in software, this is deeply worth reading and contemplating.

Carbon Dysphoria by @iris_meredith

Excerpt:
"software development relies heavily on collaboration, interpersonal skills and being able to communicate well: all stereotypically female traits that are, as they always were, vital to the production of good software. This leads to a contradiction in the social structure of software work, as while to be accepted as part of the tech community requires you to present and emote in very masculine ways, actually being good at the act of producing working software requires you to have personality traits that are considered unmasculine and that are in fact somewhat feminine."

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Iris (@iris_meredith) · Feb 16
🔁 @mayintoronto:

If you're in software, this is deeply worth reading and contemplating.

Carbon Dysphoria by @iris_meredith

Excerpt:
"software development relies heavily on collaboration, interpersonal skills and being able to communicate well: all stereotypically female traits that are, as they always were, vital to the production of good software. This leads to a contradiction in the social structure of software work, as while to be accepted as part of the tech community requires you to present and emote in very masculine ways, actually being good at the act of producing working software requires you to have personality traits that are considered unmasculine and that are in fact somewhat feminine."

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Chris Siebenmann (@cks) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Joshua (@DrJosh9000) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

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shom (@shom) · Feb 16
🔁 @adam:

I signed in to work slack ready to post Ratfactor's essay about programmers' loss of identity that I read and enjoyed over the weekend, to find the CTO has shared an essay by the CEO of Anthropic postulating about countries of genius AI bots (which I have not fully read because it's long and cringeworthy). How's your week going?

Gauer: https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
Amodei: https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

Jeppe Bundsgaard på Mastodon (@jeppe) · Feb 15
🔁 @ratfactor:

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

Neil E. Hodges (@tk) · Feb 15
🔁 @sknob:

« I was so naïve that I thought progress could only go one direction, because that’s all I’d ever known. »

Sad but brilliant post by @ratfactor. Hit home even though I’m not a programmer, because I think it applies to our entire society and way of life.

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Aspiring Deathclaw Wife :verified_dragon: (@dragonminded) · Feb 14
🔁 @noelle:

This excellent post by @ratfactor feels very resonant to me, as LLM bullshit continues to infect every facet of my industry

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek) · Feb 15
🔁 @ratfactor:

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

Stormy Gleason (@stormygleason) · Feb 15
🔁 @sknob:

« I was so naïve that I thought progress could only go one direction, because that’s all I’d ever known. »

Sad but brilliant post by @ratfactor. Hit home even though I’m not a programmer, because I think it applies to our entire society and way of life.

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Nathan Arthur (@narthur) · Feb 15
🔁 @ratfactor:

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

Dan Lyke (@danlyke) · Feb 15
🔁 @ratfactor:

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

redstrate (@redstrate) · Feb 15
🔁 @ratfactor:

I really appreciate all the Mastodon mentions and camaraderie for this essay. ❤️ I suppose I really should toot it myself:

ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

#programming #computers #socialIdentity

Worth reading

Deep Blue

simonwillison.net · Feb 15

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

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Olivier Forget (@teleclimber) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Matt Franz (@mdfranz) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 (@peterrenshaw) · Feb 15

“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.

“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison

#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/>

Aaron Vegh (@Aaronvegh) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Martijn Faassen (@faassen) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Adam Leventhal (@ahl) · Feb 16
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (@blaise) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go: (@YvanDaSilva) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Manton Reece (@manton) · Feb 15

Simon Willison blogs about Adam Leventhal coining “deep blue” to refer to programmers who are feeling a loss of purpose with new AI coding agents.

Worth reading

Quamina + Claude, Case 1

tbray.org · Feb 15

With 47 years of coding under my belt, and still a fascination for the new shiny, obviously I’m interested what role (if any) GenAI is going to play in the future of software. But not interested enough to actually acquire the necessary skills and try it out myself. Someday, someday. Didn’t ma...

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Feb 16
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go: (@YvanDaSilva) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴 (@jockr) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Stefan Eissing (@icing) · Feb 15

What @timbray blogs about is the dream case for AI coding: a automatable use case, existing and working code and a measurable goal.

With two experienced humans on top who kill wrong proposals quickly, the AI then has a chance to transfer a relevant code improvement from its training set into your code.

The good part. Works as long as the training data is from quality projects with same or simular tech.

tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

lazarus7 (@lazarus7) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

John Socks (@John) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Worth reading

My first FOSDEM

blog.sturmsucht.de · Feb 15

A conference about digital independence and the new social web. Meeting the inspiring humans behind the Fediverse and other open & free platforms.

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Maho 🦝🍻 (@mapache) · Feb 15
🔁 @_elena:

A fantastic post by @sturmsucht about his first #FOSDEM. Beautifully written, with amazing photos to accompany the article.

Thank you for the mention and for the kind words, Chris! Likewise, it was great to finally meet you IRL ❤️
blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Feb 15
🔁 @_elena:

A fantastic post by @sturmsucht about his first #FOSDEM. Beautifully written, with amazing photos to accompany the article.

Thank you for the mention and for the kind words, Chris! Likewise, it was great to finally meet you IRL ❤️
blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

Elena Rossini ⁂ (@_elena) · Feb 15

A fantastic post by @sturmsucht about his first #FOSDEM. Beautifully written, with amazing photos to accompany the article.

Thank you for the mention and for the kind words, Chris! Likewise, it was great to finally meet you IRL ❤️
blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

samvie (@samvie) · Feb 15
🔁 @chris:

My first FOSDEM

A conference about digital independence and the new social web. Meeting the inspiring humans behind the Fediverse and other open & free platforms.

blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

Chris 🦑 (@sturmsucht) · Feb 15
🔁 @chris:

My first FOSDEM

A conference about digital independence and the new social web. Meeting the inspiring humans behind the Fediverse and other open & free platforms.

blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

bicipoiesis (@bicipoiesis) · Feb 15
🔁 @chris:

My first FOSDEM

A conference about digital independence and the new social web. Meeting the inspiring humans behind the Fediverse and other open & free platforms.

blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

Fireside Fedi (@firesidefedi) · Feb 15
🔁 @chris:

My first FOSDEM

A conference about digital independence and the new social web. Meeting the inspiring humans behind the Fediverse and other open & free platforms.

blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

mmu_man (@mmu_man) · Feb 15
🔁 @_elena:

A fantastic post by @sturmsucht about his first #FOSDEM. Beautifully written, with amazing photos to accompany the article.

Thank you for the mention and for the kind words, Chris! Likewise, it was great to finally meet you IRL ❤️
blog.sturmsucht.de/my-first-fo

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

k7r.eu · Feb 14

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...

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Fink :antifa: (@fink) · Feb 15
🔁 @jpmens:

"The ArchWiki is a resource, I myself regularly consult - no matter if it is actually about Arch or another Free Software distribution. There are countless times, when I read articles there to get a better understanding of the tools I daily use, like e-mail programs, editors, or all kinds of window managers I used over time."

That could have been a quote of mine and while it isn't, I wholeheartedly agree!

k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-

Hannes Deeken (@Glenlivet) · Feb 16
🔁 @jpmens:

"The ArchWiki is a resource, I myself regularly consult - no matter if it is actually about Arch or another Free Software distribution. There are countless times, when I read articles there to get a better understanding of the tools I daily use, like e-mail programs, editors, or all kinds of window managers I used over time."

That could have been a quote of mine and while it isn't, I wholeheartedly agree!

k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-

Growing the open social web

werd.io · Feb 16

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul Engler

theguardian.com · Feb 15

Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy

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USAJusticeWatch (@USAJusticeWatch) · Feb 16

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation. “…Backlash against #ICE’s lawlessness & aggression has reverberated so loudly that even Trump has heard it… The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity & creative #resistance in anti-ICE #protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s…authoritarianism.” | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/ #nonviolence #nonviolentCivilResistance

Mycotropic (@mycotropic) · Feb 15
🔁 @JohnSullivan:

“Mainstream political thinking in the US sees power as “monolithic,” resting in the hands of senators, generals, billionaires, presidents and CEOs. From that vantage point, the options for opposing a rogue administration seem desperately thin: wait for elections, file a lawsuit, hope for some unforeseen maneuver by elites. This worldview breeds despair. One prominent Democratic party consultant even advised that the best course for progressives is simply to “roll over and play dead”.

The lack of imagination is staggering – and pervasive.”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Nonya Bidniss (@Nonya_Bidniss) · Feb 15
🔁 @socprof:

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul Engler | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/

GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 (@gwaldby) · Feb 15
🔁 @Minnesota411988:

#uspol
#minnesota
#fascism

Read this.

“The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation
Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
The Guardian
2026-01-15

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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