Notices by Large Heydon Collider (heydon@front-end.social)

@inthehands The real promise of LLMs/agents is they can make software just as shitly as humans, at a comparable cost.

🎄 Advent thread:

Every day until Christmas I'll be posting a new clothing design.

The theme is “monochrome pride”: celebrating pride but without all the bright colors.

1st December: Am Trans.

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/am-trans/Black

#pride #trans

I've said before that the AI art aesthetic is "dipped in cum". You know: that uncanny, glossy, overly smooth, high-but-low resolution thing.

I was just listening to some AI country music and the vocals have a weird catarrh-like quality that sounds like their throat is *coated* with cum.

Go figure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGremoYVMPc

I am available to do a conference talk about AI and cum.

"AI is using up all our clean water resources."

"Actually, we pivoted from using water some time ago..."

Given most people use AI to generate porn to wank off to, this could actually be a sustainable approach.

The easiest way to detect an AI video is to determine if it's *worth* watching.

The next time you're watching a Youtube short of a monkey escaping a zoo on a space hopper, stop asking questions like, "did his middle and index fingers switch places at 00:21?"

Instead ask: "what the fuck am I doing with my life?"

Sometimes I'll start dunking on people and ripping into their shit technologies. And liberals will be like "that's harsh, what have they actually done to harm people?" and INVARIABLY they end up being fascists or adjacent. The thing is, I can tell FROM the tech. The way tech is architected betrays the ideological zealotry that begat it. Tailwind is essentially Brexit for fucking CSS. "CSS is made by standards beaurocrats, let's destroy it" https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/115265962274406839

If you hate the idea of your job becoming about cleaning up horrendous "vibe coded" output, spare a thought for accessibility specialists. They've been doing that all along.

Turning Point USA is a pro-gun and anti-vax propaganda machine.

Its founders are both dead: Bill Montgomery from Covid and Charlie Kirk from gun violence.

I'm just stating facts.

Longshot, but are any of you in (or know someone who is in) a garage punk/rock, noise rock, or surf rock band who can play in Manchester on the 11th of October?

We're planning on doing a gig up there on that date to promote our new album, but we've had some folks pull out. Would be first or second support, on a bill with us: Ravenous Hounds (see: https://ravenoushounds.bandcamp.com/)

No fascist bands, naturally. RTs appreciated.

The app white-screens too. I wonder how long this will be an issue, because I can't be arsed to go and speak to them in person.

Another day, another multi-billion dollar company's website I try to use and it is fundamentally broken.

Today: Vodafone’s upgrade page has a JS error and just shows a white screen.

`TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map')`

Okay, I have chosen somewhere to host my new Monochrome Pride site’s code. Appropriately, it’s https://git.gay.

Had a mare with SSH keys, but now made my first push.

This git host is managed by the @besties collective. I will donate a proportion of goth-pride-type-clothing sales to help them keep the server running. :queercat_pride:

https://front-end.social/@heydon/115014461405280158

This shit is straight out of Shindler's List. https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115008924413004677

I'm out. https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

Casual reminder that I have a recent record out. It has some original tracks and some covers. If you want to hear a bad acid trip version of Maneater by Nelly Furtado, roll up, roll up. https://deathgarage.bandcamp.com/album/death-garage-3

Back to the hospital for the fourth time this week. CT scan.

It was the appendix all along!! And we're having it out.

Coding LLMs are just technical debt generators.