In which @mitsuhiko, who’s on a tear recently, defends and promotes the use of the word “clanker” to replace “agent” (in the LLM sense): https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

#genai #clanker

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Riennä kertomaan ajatuksias AI-työkalujen käytöstä verohallinnossa: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/C89361DF0D44F9AB.

Voi miten kaipaankaan päästä keskustelemaan maailman monimutkaisimmasta pakollisesta asiasta jonkun natsibotin kanssa!

#verot #ai #clanker #LisääVeroja #yhteisvastuu #julkisetpalvelut

https://youtu.be/bt5dyXcwF8w?si=2HQl0UXpMrwn757C

Southwest Airlines bans humanoid robots after one flew into Dallas Love
[lithium battery safety rules were updated afterwards.]

#clanker

Southwest Airlines bans humanoid robots after one flew into Dallas Love Field

YouTube
ISHOWSPEED RIZZES MOXIE ROBOT!! #clanker #fyp #wspeed #speed #ishowspeed #i #robots #robot
#AI is going too far. I don't think I want a #clanker as my #budtender. What does a #bot know about quality #cannabis ? On SE Snark Street in #PDX #PortlandOR where else?
#AI is going too far. I don't think I want a #clanker as my #budtender. How's a #bot going to recommend quality #cannabis? On SE Snark Street in #PortlandOR, where else?
Is a Clanker Being Used to Carry Out AI Fuzzing in the Linux Kernel?

Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don't outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing.

It's FOSS
*I'll give you some free publicity if you'll tell me which of your 426 colleagues here is the one that you like best. #chatbot #clanker #agentic #BlueSky #shoggoths www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cek2g6p4tffunbw3bqmg3gpf/post/3mjbwsrokbs2c


Shoggoths and AI

Clanker rights are human rights!!!

/j

#ai #clanker #socialjustice #humanrights

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116245314873281441

Purity war like saying " #clanker " is how you get people to go the other way.

Maybe we should start saying "FRACKING TOASTER" instead?

But the holier-than-thou purity shit is how you run people away.

Then again, things are playing out dumber than #NeddLudd 's timeline. At least they understood that owning the machines of production were important, and not "machines bad".