Some Kind of Treason

Great post on Pluralistic today. Cory Doctorow is preparing to launch his new book on Kickstarter, but he’s also posted a bunch of links to his articles on end stage capitalism and the AI bubble. I recommend taking a little time to browse.

Hardly surprising, I know engineers using AI to produce code in languages they don't even know and just using trial and error to "debug." Meanwhile organisations make AI adoption a key goal, so nobody wants to speak up against it.

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”

Sigh.

"The monster wears your face"

We need to nuke this from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

ALL U.K. RESIDENTS AND EXPATS. Please sign and share as widely as possible. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Once you understand reading and writing *are* thinking, using AI in this way is obviously an obscenity.

I've thought for a while that there was something psychologically wrong with billionaires. This does nothing to dispel that notion.

What on earth is going on in the subcontinent?

ai is driving people to suicide, but it also destroys the wages and working conditions of multiple industries without adding real value, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

It's a bloodbath.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Cory Doctorow is usually worth reading, but this one seems particularly insightful. He ponders how AI can seemingly be quite useful for an individual who needs to throw a software tool together, while being terrible for use by teams who are developing software they'll need to maintain.

Title says it all really.

Say no to slop grenades.

Ed Zitron on the rise of the Business Idiot. It’s long but well worth a read. Not so much an article as a howl of anguish.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Cory Doctorow on "AI psychosis". I have to say "delusion as a service" is a phrase that could cover a lot of AI nonsense.

Sigh.

"Someone whose company was working for the AI sector, had held shares in an AI business, and had personal relationships with tech investors was invited in to shape UK government strategy documents of significant interest to that industry" www.ft.com/content/1b3e...

“Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/01/prompt-inject-chatgpt-with-any-web-page/ People keep defending this tech in my replies, meanwhile it's basically an ongoing open exploit on computing in general

Every day a new horror!

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

Why, oh why, is the UK electricity price dependent upon the price of gas when we now have so many green energy sources?!! Change the "marginal" pricing system Labour, now! - and you will gain support from most households. Don't say it's complicated - fix it.

A university that does not understand the value of physical libraries staffed with real librarians is a university that does not understand how knowledge is kept.

Every day a new horror.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Among Gen Z workers specifically, the sabotage rate jumps to 44% The stakes are real: 60% of C-suite executives say they plan to lay off workers who can't or won't use AI -- simply put companies should be concerned (those planning on using AI instead of ppl) www.metaintro.com/blog/workers...

People used to recognize me because they had seen one of my 7,000+ Stack Overflow "free" answers when they got stuck on a tricky CSS issue. Now, you will thank your favorite LLM for giving you that bad/outdated/inaccurate answer. And some people pay for that.

Every day a new horror.

Starbucks is abruptly scrapping its AI inventory tool for repeatedly miscounting and mislabeling items, just months after rolling it out at stores nationwide. It's the latest warning that the widely-hyped "AI revolution" could be a bubble that's going to burst.

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