Nick Piegari

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

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You know what? I AM a single issue voter. No fascism. There's my single issue.

I wish I could mute images so I don't have to see that fucking smiling health scammer every fucking day

If you dislike AI please stop saying AI can code now. Just because it can generate code that works for some loose definition of the word works doesn't mean it can code because coding is so much more than that. Please, I'm begging you, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

I hear bsky is having some AI drama but unfortunately I didn't leave Twitter over AI, I left over this

Anyone calling it Super Intelligence tells you everything you need to know.

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

Just drove past a house with tons of Christmas lights up. Folks, I regret to inform you that Halloween is no longer holding the bulkhead against the holiday season. Early October had been breached; late September is sure to fall next. By this time next year we may be witnessing a Christmas in July

I imagine AI will get better and the ecosystem will evolve in ways that make it easier to build that context, but right now I still feel like AI agents are mostly for people who like tweaking their setups and don’t mind that it’s not actually faster/cheaper because they’re having fun

I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.

when ai leaves u behind

Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job https://theonion.com/smoke-alarm-sick-of-being-yelled-at-for-doing-its-job-1845127577/

"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

This machine ——-> (AuDHD) kills artificial intelligence

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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

at last, a worthy target for all the lawyers who tried to bankrupt every teen with kazaa installed circa 2002

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

This didn’t happen

@joystiknik.space hehe, pp

Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch. #nasa #artemisii

The Artemis Moon mission has been a real ray of sunshine for me. Hearing about their successful return to Earth has made me realize how used to feeling ashamed I've become. It's been so long since I felt some sense of pride in my country, or maybe even my humanity. I'm really thankful for them.

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.

The global headlines right now should be that America went to the moon, and instead we get another rehash of a disaster in the Middle East. I fucking hate this shit.

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

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this kind of stress and attention is the preferred food for these monsters they prefer adoration but this is second-best

this was my childhood in a nutshell and it’s a major reason why i am doing my best to not freak out bc i know this cycle extremely well and i also know there’s very limited scope to what i, personally, can do about it

what being alive currently feels like