Becoming Worthless Together w/Cory Dransfeldt

The timeline is healing. ❤️‍🩹 The people have spoken. (And especially young voters!) Indeed, the vibe shift post-U.S. midterms is **massive**…it really can't be overstated how major of a sea change this is. And in the words of Rep. Robert Garcia: Lawyer up! ⚖️It's music to my ears to hear reporting to the effect of “AI executives should be called to testify under oath” and “there were 41 local ballot measures in 10 states up for a vote on Tuesday that would place restrictions on the construction of data centers in different ways, and voters sided against data centers in each measure except one.” Pass the popcorn, friend, this is getting good! 🍿P.S. Elon is cooked! 🔥😁📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksYoung Voters are Fired Up and Changing Long-Held Political NarrativesThe Trump Era is Collapsing and Big Tech is Officially On Notice“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PCWeekend Update: Elon Musk on His Tough Week After Midterms (SNL)Reuters: Democrats planning flood of AI bills when they take control of CongressPosted on Mastodon: "Asahi Linux, we're with you."Keila: Easy & Reliable Email Newsletters

Friends, for far too long we’ve lived with a sorry state of affairs: the prevalence of “video podcasts” which are not, in fact, podcasts! Where’s the RSS feed? How do I watch these episodes in my podcast player of choice? The answer? There’s no feed, and you can’t watch the video. 🪊😢Good news! That era is coming to a close, and a new era begins: a true industry-wide* standard for publishing and consuming RSS-based video podcasts with modern HLS for fast, high-quality playback.* Well, not everyone is on board. Yet. (We’re working on it.) Learn about all the details of the game-changing Podcasting 2.0 ecosystem injection in this episode of Vibe Coded. This ain't your grandpappy's podcast spec any longer! 🤯📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksPodcasting 2.0Podcast Standards ProjectPodcast hosting platforms and apps that support HLS video in RSSCursed article from Spotify 😡

The all-new Pixelfed mobile apps are here, and after some time evaluating the iOS experience, I am pleased to say it is worlds better than the previous app and genuinely a pleasure to use. This leads us nicely into further discussion of Instagram (and YouTube) competition in the form of Haven, a hot new up-and-coming anti-AI social media platform which is in the middle of an already-funded Kickstarter and attracting much buzz. My questions: will it federate? Who’s behind it? And how will it protect artists from AI slop? Let’s dive in.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksNew iOS Pixelfed app released (Mastodon)Why Gen Z Is Disappearing From The Internet (YouTube)Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance (Kickstarter)Prelaunch WebsiteVildrArt interview with founder William Lavelle

The “Internet of Things” has gone terribly, terribly wrong. A string of horrendous cyberattacks, most recently refrigeration units in grocery stores across Europe, has left us with few alternatives. It's time to reconsider the playbook of Everything Everywhere All at Once being connected to Internet-accessible networks. Perhaps we take a page from Battlestar Galactica? Also…a sneak preview of my upcoming thoughts on the unholy Trumpian marriage of NAR + TESCREAL. Now that's a mouthful!📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksCal Newport interviews Émile P. Torres (YouTube)'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting  — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident

Cory Dransfeldt has returned to the show for a rousing discussion on the zomg AI agents gone ROGUE! 😱 doomer narrative, withholding your data from Big Tech as you "become worthless", the public outcry against AI data centers and ALPRs like Flock, unaccountable techbros scared of future AI overlords, and the fascist dotfiles of Omarchy. What is the (Rails) World coming to? Let's dive in and "become worthless" together.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksCoryd.devBecome worthless (to tech companies)Cory Dransfeldt on Keeping the Bots at Bay (Vibe Coded ep 6)It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees (Futurism)Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization (Futurism)What About Rails? (Jared Norman)

Do the “AIs” really think or understand? Are we on the verge of machine consciousness? You know how I feel about all that (lol), but more important than such discourse on X (not real life, also lol) is who is actually pushing back against the Associated Press Stylebook’s warnings against using anthropomorphizing language (Emily M. Bender will surely be pleased!). Discover more about this shady bunch, what we can do to stop them…and why humans treating LLMs et al. as entities capable of experiencing real things and existing in the real world is a dangerous fantasy.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksHow to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization by Emily M. Bender & Nanna InieThe Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 PodcastAI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings (Futurism)Contra Chiang on machine consciousness by Henry Shevlin (not to be taken seriously)OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring of ‘nuisance’ AI policy executive (re: Dean Ball)It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs by Cal NewportMeet the developers rejecting AI by Sage Lazzaro

I'm back from vacation—a road trip through Northern California and Southern Oregon with my brother—and I return with a clearer perspective on the things which matter to me. Yes, to this show! And also, yes to building solidarity and connective tissue within the hand-coding community. We are facing the possibility of an extinction-level event, a future where it is literally impossible to participate in the software community without being required to use agentic coding practices. How can we fight this? How can we stand firm against the onslaught of fashtech? Let's get the dialog going. The solutions are bigger than any one of us, and as the saying goes, we're stronger when we work together.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Human Web Collective Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksHandcraftedCode.org“I'm beginning to wonder if handcrafted code is the only ethical filter required…to fight fashtech…”

Yep, I've been hard at work on a new web software application—not for nerds, not for developers, it's for everyone. This is a new concept for me, so I'm stoked to tease a few initial details with much more coming soon. This was originally released on the Intuitive+ members-only podcast Future Insider, and now I'm sharing it with y'all. Enjoy!📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben Elson

Apple CEO John Ternus is a monster! He is an angel! Everyone is rushing to define this guy. And I think that says much more about the sorry state of tech media than anything about John Ternus. Here’s an episode that is not about the upcoming Apple Event, but about the people talking about the upcoming Apple Event. Because that’s how we roll here on Vibe Coded.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinksGive Apple CEO-Elect John Ternus a ChanceTim Cook won't be presenting the iPhone 18 Pro eventLuke Miani on John Ternus and the Apple Event (YouTube)

This is about the Ruby developer community, but it's also about so much more than Ruby. It's about all of us, and what we can do to hold fascists and white supremacists to account. (As well as clanker supremacists, and surprise! They're often the same people!) The story of the Ruby on Rails web framework getting forked (finally!) is just one of many stories of how communities are protecting themselves against slop machinists and anti-social rhetoric. This is a good thing.📢 Hosted by Jared White💬 Chat with me! Discord / Signal / Mastodon🧭 Hire me! Whitefusion.studio🤌 Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month (plus listen to the members-exclusive new show Future Insider)📥 Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter, the companion to Vibe Coded🎶 Theme music by Ben ElsonLinkshandcraftedcode.orgCodeberg on protecting FLOSS comons from LLMsForking Railsan effort spawned from Plan Vert open letterRails is done (aka, feature-complete)Fresh Fusion 127: Hey, So For How Long Has Open Source Been a Nazi Bar?