What I don't get about this century is WHAT WAS THE SHOWRUNNER THINKING?!?

Who wanted a second season of Trump: White House Havoc?!?

And why the fuck are there SPACE NAZIS ON DRUGS crawling out of the woodwork everywhere?

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying  I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

It seems to me that we're living in a world dominated by AI—only it stands for Angry Idiots.

Welcome to the Shitularity!

In the face of increasingly convincing AI & its use in fraud, Stephen Bush (FT) think's face-to-face interactions will be on the way back;

'As smart machines do more & more work in research, bureaucracy & design, one solution to the “verification problem” may be that anything that requires peer to peer checking increasingly returns to face to face encounters'.

I like the idea that after the enhsittification of online communications, the real world will look more reliable.

#SocialMedia #AI

For those who don't know, wikipedia is a publicly curated encyclopaedia of just about all human knowledge that has driven Britannica to the brink.

Glowforge.com is a retailer of consumer-end laser engraving machines who host public discussion fora for their users.

These two sources are not equally authoritative … https://mastodon.scot/@petealexharris/114739349596357193

From Robert Armstrong, coiner of the phrase TACO Trump, in today's Financial Times

So much wisdom in one short sentence:

"I am irrelevant to history and old enough to like it that way"