Mastodawn

The promise and the reality:

The story of the Loughton supercomputer is an insight into the dizzying ambitions for artificial intelligence as an economic powerhouse, in the UK and beyond – but also how those hopes can dissolve into a less exciting reality.

The $17.5bn investment represents a plan, by a UK company, to buy chips made in Taiwan by a US company, put them in a building in Loughton, and rent them to another US tech company.

Asked about how the site would create 750 jobs, Nscale could not say how this figure had been calculated.

Again and again, @davidgerard, Ed Zitron and others have highlighted that many of these loudly trumpeted "commitments" and "contracts" to invest billions are nothing more than hype to inflate the AI balloon. Here's another shabby example. Who's behind it? Former crypto bros, of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard

#pivotToAi #cryptobros #FuckAI

RichardW Feb 13

I wore my new pivot-to-ai t-shirt for the first time today, and then got invited to a work meeting to hear about a plan to have 90%+ of dev work done with Codex, so nice timing at least

#pivottoai

Julien Dehut Jan 26

depuis https://bsky.app/profile/wolffen.bsky.social/post/3mdc3mje3kk2t

#pivottoai

Julien Dehut Jan 18

> Hopefully, you’re all following along at home and that’s now clear.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/11/office-is-dead-microsoft-decision-confuses-400-million-users/

#microsoft #office #pivottoai

‘Office Is Dead’—Microsoft Decision Confuses 400 Million Users

What's going on with Microsoft Office? The internet is confused and it's "getting worse." Now Microsoft has responded to the backlash.

Forbes

r-hold Jan 13

Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech - IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs-says-none-of-its-senior-managers-are-currently-excited-about-the-tech

#pivotToAI #AI #slop #StopTheSlop

Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech - IGN

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology.

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antlers Jan 2

had some fun ideas for it, but in light of FUD around RePebble's handling of third-party software, their announcement of a disposable ai smart-ring, and the founder's prior #PivotToAI, i will instead be buying ceramic-powder keycaps + imported switches and building / iterating on my novel keyboard *twice* (kinda-steno, kinda-combos, now: elevated thumb-column instead of adjacent cluster. The tilted profile of the bottom thumb-key is signifigant.)