Planet Python – Antoine Beaupré: A more nuanced view of LLMs

Aug 252026
 

Also in this series:
The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse
The people vs the AI overlords

After ranting and railing about LLMs or “AI” as the optimists (or
accelerationists?) call it, I figured it might be important to
be a little more honest about my use of LLMs and how I think about it
more practically in the world. The Debian vote context This is not a coming out. I am not using LLMs on a daily basis, and
this blog is, again, written out of my cold dead hands in a dying
world, with over-engineered hardware and (to a certain extent, hi
Emacs!) software, powered by 100% green energy built on stolen land. There is a vote going on in Debian….

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Planet Python – Anarcat: A more nuanced view of LLMs

Aug 252026
 

Also in this series:
The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse
The people vs the AI overlords

After ranting and railing about LLMs or “AI” as the optimists (or
accelerationists?) call it, I figured it might be important to
be a little more honest about my use of LLMs and how I think about it
more practically in the world. The Debian vote context This is not a coming out. I am not using LLMs on a daily basis, and
this blog is, again, written out of my cold dead hands in a dying
world, with over-engineered hardware and (to a certain extent, hi
Emacs!) software, powered by 100% green energy built on stolen land. There is a vote going on in Debian….

External feed Read More at the Source: https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-25-llm-nuance/

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Ars Technica – Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations

Aug 252026
 

Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti prints, a playful ’60s aesthetic, and bright Day-Glo colors that won admirers such as Andy Warhol.
Several examples of Sprouse’s work are preserved in the textiles collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, where conservationists are trying to learn more about the phosphorescent and fluorescent pigments the designer used in his creations in order to keep the colors from dulling over time. They described recent advances in that research at a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) held this…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/how-chemistry-can-keep-glow-in-the-dark-pigments-from-fading/

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