People who insist it is a superpower are disregarding the very real distress it causes us. Unless you are wealthy and buffered enough to not *need* to function day to day, it can be debilitating and incredibly stressful. Does it also give us unique perspectives and connections? Yes, AND

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Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...

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The Democrats have never had a clear strategy for opposing Donald Trump. Party insiders speak to Crikey about what they need to do to win the midterms and take back the White House in 2028. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/d...

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Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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