The Future is Stupid

VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"

I don't want more features. I prefer projects to focus on privacy, security, performance, and accessibility. To do as much as possible locally. To work with others to build on common protocols. I don't want them to disrupt others. Give us incremental improvement. Give us a good sustainability story.

Thinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >>

Brilliantly put! "When bad actors are shameless, exposure accomplishes little." I for one will indeed be sticking this on a post-it note

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

who could have possibly predicted this

[EU-US relations] France says EU stands ready to shield ICC officials from US sanctions if negotiations fail

I’m at the Govt’s AI Summit, reminiscing about when tech conferences had people with purple hair & big ideas Overheard conversations between grey suited people this morning are how backs are holding up after multi-hop trips from Bxl, & the €900 someone paid Ryanair to get here

Some good news. Hungary ditches 2021 anti-LGBT+ measures

AI lets us work faster, which is why switching to using AI makes the game delayed

Respected US tech outlet Tom’s Hardware reported a sharp drop in Russian bot activity after Ukrainian strikes. Are all bots on Cloudflare’s graph disinfo bots? No. Does that mean strikes on three Yandex data centers had absolutely no impact on Russian disinfo? Also no!

Oxfam sues French state over tax inequality: 'Wealthiest buy privilege of not following same rules'

We are being killed by the world's dumbest people.

- Fais gaffe à ta sûreté informatique et surtout garde tes logiciels bien à jour. - Mouef. Ça va... Je travaille pas dans un secteur exposé. - Ah oui, tu fais quoi ? - Je gère des congelos de supermarchés...

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Irish Gov is hosting its "International AI Summit" next week Even I was surprised by how industry heavy is it 83% of speakers are corporates, 0 independent experts, 1 union rep I'm not explicit about this in the piece -but- surely this is, at best, tone deaf? www.techpolicy.press/at-irelands-...

They just have no idea how much work other people do for them

yeah, and I think we'll have to start sending kids to brain gym young (like 5 or 6), obviously with age & developmentally appropriate brain workout content that they can work up through in, like, graded levels with qualified brain fitness instructors.

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

To seal economic growth, I think I might set up an exercise to reduce red tape and regulation and this time it is bound to work unlike the last 15 times when it didn't.

Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is insane.

I don’t believe AI has consciousness because it seems all discussion around it is marketing fluff.

EXCLUSIVE: CEO of Fidget Spinner Labs Inc. says that fidget spinners pose an "existential risk to humanity" and could wipe out life on earth "by the end of the decade" ... journalists, pause here. Do you see how obvious the play is here from the Fidget Spinner Labs' PR team? Good. Remember that

Very good to see news organisations start to push back on "AI did it" and all the related industry spin about "agency" Companies that make products are accountable for those products Frustrating that it's taken so long for the media to get its act together, but at least some of them are wising up

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

So, what to do? USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN. THINK: “Would I give this information to someone who wants to make money off my ideas without giving me credit?” Don’t outsource your brilliance to these people. They are NOT good actors. It’s not rocket science; have a drop of self-preservation instinct!

Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

“Ah! can it be that out of sorrow's night, From tears, from yearning pain, from long despair, Into joy's sunlight I shall come again?” ― Robert Bridges a wish for peace🩷

Pro business tip: next time your company gets caught breaking the law, don't get defensive. Just act all concerned, and then announce that after an investigation you have discovered: a rogue AI agent did it, a fix is now in place, and no we don't need police or government to investigate thaaaanks

Streisand Effect, Activate.

It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

I would like tech companies to understand that just because I have signed up to use your software, that no, I do not want to automatically be subscribed to your product newsletter. Say less. Please stop spamming me. Just push code that works. Sweet jiminy christ on a flying biscuit just STFU

For the day that's in it

We have invented frictionless global communication and then added friction so that billionaires can sell the frictionless version as premium

If you're like me and on iOS, and got locked out of 18+ servers, but you're classified as an adult, go into the discord web app and recheck the age restricted servers on iOS. Even if it's already checked, uncheck it and check it again. That should solve your issue. This whole thing is dumb as hell.

Been saying this since the day the first slop draft landed in my inbox to edit Shovelling more sh*t does not mean more productivity, it just gives others more to clean up

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

when ai leaves u behind