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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/

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A giant junkbot made of, variously, a ladder, a bathtub, a set of rickety stairs, a slippery rug, a pair of scissors. It brandishes a double-barreled shotgun. Its head is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It is bearing down on a male suited figure who is in the process of slipping and falling on his ass. His head has been replaced by a hoodie, which casts his face into shadow. He has lost control of a laptop that is about to fall to the ground. It displays a Windows Blue Screen of Death.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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48d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/23/resto-modding/

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A disassembled RIM Q20 chassis with a breakout board; the screen is showing an Android UI.

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47d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's FCC abandons fiber; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/

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The Earth, suspended in space. It is topped with Trump's hair. A poop emoji with Elon Musk's face orbits it, beaming a cone of shit-colored radio waves over its surface.

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45d

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/manifolds/

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A framegrab of Tommy and Dicky Smothers mid-act, with Tommy looked baffled and Dicky looking irritated; the image has been roughed up with static and CRT scanlines, and slightly desaturated. It is set in a wooden frame that is elaborately illustrated with scenes of antiquity - marble angels at the corners, magi and sojourners acting out scenes around all four sides.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Goodhart's Law (of AI); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/

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A black and white photo of an old one-room schoolhouse, seen from the back of the classroom. A teacher sits behind a desk and a US flag at the front of the class. Beside her, a small girl stands, reading aloud from a book. The image has been altered. In the foreground is a Robin Hood figure, seen from behind, holding a bow, a quiver of arrows on his back. Behind the little girl is the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' An arrow vibrates dead-center in the eye.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Lee Haywood (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/4659575229/

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