czottmann

My German keyboard has umlaut keys: üäö. I use them daily. I was told that in other parts of the World, people don't have umlaut keys, and have to use combos like ⌥U + a/o/u.

Boy, I sure hope they don't think me an AI.

Just because many people have no idea how to use type certain characters on their devices shouldn't mean we all have to go along with their superstitions.

What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.

> Hypernormalization is a documentary by the British filmmaker Adam Curtis from 2016, which was produced by the BBC.

Contradictions and a lack of shame (about anything) are not lapses, they're integral part of the authoritarian playbook.

To be clear, I'm not "Just saying" – I'm actually saying.

Your comments make me think you've never seen hardships in your life that weren't self-afflicted.

Life can be cruel even if you've made great plans and took all the precautions you could think of. Illnesses, accidents, the lack of a social net because your country was set up that way, crime, the list goes on.

I am very certain it does occur to them but they simply have no financial means to do anything about it. Which must be soul-crushing to them.

Rest assured it usually isn't their choice.

Unasked-for meta complaint about the site, not the article itself:

I hate that thing where you visit a blog post (judging from the URL) yet the blog post is seemingly endless (judging from the scrollbar), and when you scroll down you hop into the next blog post (URL just changes).

The scrollbar is useless in that case, I can't gauge the real length of the article. The Gates Foundation has more money than God, maybe spend a tiny little bit of it on a good UI designer, yeah?

If you're still actively using Substack as a creator, you're obviously very okay with them sending out Swastika missives, and you don't feel it's detrimental to your own brand – you'll not get any sympathy from me.

It's the equivalent of "voting with your wallet". Or "giving market share with your wallet".

Context matters, not just for LLMs themselves. And Grok/X/Twitter's context is tarnished indeed for a lot of us.

I've seen that video. I've also watched his complete disregard for other people (DOGE, anyone), seen his ideas of "free speech", witnessed Mechahitler, and Twitter being turned into the fascist club house.

That fucking salute was one thing. He knows what he's doing or trying to do. Many people in Europe are appalled by what they see. So they stopped buying his shit. Fair game, this being goddamn free market capitalism and all.

It isn't. I'm from Germany, and Musk doing the Nazi salute has widely made the rounds. Lots of people are appalled, so are people in other parts of the EU, and here are some actually numbers on that:

https://electrek.co/2025/08/05/tesla-sales-in-europe-are-in-...

The new car demand has dropped like a brick, and I'm quite sure used car sales have, too.

I built https://github.com/czottmann/render-claude-context for that exact reason.

> This node.js CLI tool processes CLAUDE.md files with hierarchical collection and recursive @-import resolution. Walks directory tree from current to ~/.claude/, collecting all CLAUDE.md files and processing them with file import resolution. Saves processed context files with resolved imports next to the original CLAUDE.md files or in a specific location (configurable).

I mostly use Claude Code, but every now and then go with Gemini, and having to maintain two sets of (hierarchical) instructions was annoying. And then opencode showed up, which meant yet another tool I wanted to try out and …well.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Well said.

Ah, overly broad stereotypes, you totally can't go wrong with them. May they never change

Here's a few instances of fan service in that movie:

- Andor running into Pigperson and Grover on Yedha

- That entirely random 20-sec scene with C-3PO and R2-D2

- "Red Leader, standing by" was archive footage from A New Hope (and arguably a tribute to the late actor)

I work my contextual macOS Shortcuts launcher a bit back: BarCuts (https://actions.work/barcuts).

Now I struggle with a marketing strategy, quite a bit. But hey, I was told it's part of the job ;)

There's a lot of money in international drug trading, and some people/orgs are getting filthy stinking rich pursuing that, consequences be damned.

By your logic, that makes it a good business. I dispute that.

English language version: https://www.wired.com/story/us-cuts-scientific-talent-europe...

(Archived: https://archive.is/20250508090733/https://www.wired.com/stor...)

I see your sarcasm, it just didn't add anything.

You do. Most barefoot folk I know thoroughly scrub their feet first thing when they get home in the evening.

> more concerned that what is essentially a dictatorship is rising in power significantly

Which one?

My money is on some kind of made-up "crisis" happening in 2 years or so, which means the elections would need to be postponed or cancelled.

macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago. Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

Add to that the non-macOS text handling, macOS-unlike font rendering, its insistence to not use the system-wide spell checker provided by the OS etc. It feels a bit rude at times.

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).

The video contains a segment about Tuffi.

You could always talk to the list owner.

Re childish: I'm sure the tracking services that find themselves on the various ad block lists used by uBlock Origin etc. feel the same way.

Thanks for sharing, good stuff.

simonw set up a "LLM labs" feed earlier today: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/lists/3lbfdgdukui...

Not a starter pack, but it might be useful to you!

Personal guess from a fellow European citizen: I think they meant to say 1700 kWh/year. According to most German power utilities, the average 2-person household consumes about 2400 kWh/year.

Choice quote:

> The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers.

> The Guardian said content on the platform about which it had longstanding concerns included far-right conspiracy theories and racism. It added that the site’s coverage of the US presidential election had crystallised its decision.

> “This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism,” it said.

> “The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.”

A searchable database of Bluesky starter packs, which should help with the discovery problem for people just starting out with BS.

I've no relationship with this project, I just think it's a neat idea.