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fucking disconnections

my entire life trajectory was oriented towards "being good at things", I sacrificed quite a lot to get where I am today, and now society has deemed expertise not very valuable anymore and for what little remains, AI/people using AI will siphon it out of you the very moment they smell it in the air

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

"why can you not just enjoy AI art?"

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Ditto game devs. WE KNOW. I assure you, we have obsessed for weeks about all those thinks you "spotted". We have had multiple hour-long meetings costing millions of dollars of salaries about them. We fucking know, man. I'd have loved to have been a "lazy dev" but I just didn't have the time.

now more than ever, the teachers should try to explain to students _why_ they are forced to write essays. there might be a student or two or twenty in their class that would really really really appreciate actually knowing the reason

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Having tried both here and Mastodon after leaving Twitter has convinced me more and more that the microblog format itself is just plain cursed.

It was followed by "also crepes are WAY worse than pancakes, I can't believe you're talking about pancakes at all"

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?

To be clear I am not saying there are no applications for lots of compute. But capitalism doesn't like people asking what they need and staying within limits. And modern capitalism especially doesn't like people saying "maybe it's a good idea to pay employees a good wage so they can buy our stuff"

what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity

Adding some wreath headwear for fun 🥰 Gonna make them actually craftable soon. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

platforms should make AI generated content opt-in spotify, social media, youtube, steam, all of them "but then nobody will-" correct!! that is the point

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

I'm sure it is bad when cyclists intentionally do things that make themselves or others less safe but that is a completely unrelated conversation unless you're pointing out that good bike infrastructure makes it significantly less likely that cyclist behavior will impact other people in any way!

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

I used the power of the One Ring. I recognize that it's evil, and I expect a lot of people to be mad at me for using it. Sorry! However, I plan to continue using it. Here's why: (1/62)

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

I think the saddest thing I see is that to endorse generative AI, many of its defenders also have to adjust their definition of what accuracy and competence are... and then wind up defending inaccuracy and incompetence. Truly irrational.

There will always be people who appreciate what YOU make, it just might take them a while to find you.

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

a lot of people online are, for various reasons, strongly against correcting somebody else's grammar (at least as long as the meaning is conveyed as intended) How do I easily signal that I want all the grammar corrections that you can give me, because I want to learn the languages that I use?

"The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that can't do your job" - Corey Doctorow

“If we don’t talk about climate change, why would anyone around us know we care — or even begin to care themselves if they don’t already. And if they don’t care, why would they act?” - Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Something I think I may need to be explicit about in regards to my politics is that "yes, we're in a shitty system where you are being oppressed, but you can still make poor choices within this system if you're not aware of how anything works. So learn as much as you can to fight back"

More than two decades of EU policy, science-based monitoring, and collective action has delivered results that can be seen, measured and breathed. We are proud of the progress. Now, the work continues. Read the report: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2014-2024-de...

From NASA: Got something weighing you down? Shake it off (like Curiosity)! The Martian explorer unintentionally picked up a rock while drilling a recent sample, but the team was able to dislodge it by having the rover move its robotic arm and vibrate the drill until the rock fell off. 1/2

joined this site almost three years ago me not a single solitary thing that has happened since has convinced me that arguing with people online is a good use of time