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DoomSayer
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Environmental catastrophes, global change, war, the disgustingly wealthy and their tax avoidance, ecocide, economic collapse, population growth, authoritarian, top-down control from populist governments, the fallacy and hypocrisy of artificial intelligence, the fall of democracy, and the erosion of civil liberties and privacy. The world is dying, but don't forget to pay your bills...
An explanation for this.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/global-economy-transformed-humanity-future-un-chief-antonio-guterres
> Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
> Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
> Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?
The old 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear' adage comes with an implied trust in those who handle our data. I think we all know that trust would be misplaced.
#privacy #cybernews #signal #meredithwhittaker #nothingtohideeverythingtofear
https://cybernews.com/privacy/mass-surveillance-became-norm-signal-ceo-warns/
Either AI is good in which case it's a threat to jobs, or it's really good in which case it's an existential threat, or it's neither and we're experiencing the final writhing thrashes of a dying economy. The fact that Huang said this means we're winning. #fuckai https://www.techspot.com/news/110879-jensen-huang-relentless-ai-negativity-hurting-society-has.html
TechwerkersHow would you stay in touch if the Internet goes down? Can you set up your own long-distance communication network with mates?
This session covers what mesh network communication is, why and when it’s useful, plus some pointers on how to get started.
All welcome, no experience required!
Thursday 15 January
19:00-20:00 CET (UTC+1)
https://meet.jit.si/WhatIfTheInternetGoesDown
Last Year in Collapse: 2025, an Index
The headlines from each Last Week in Collapse.
https://lastweekincollapse.substack.com/p/last-year-in-collapse-2025-an-index
https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1q5viqt/last_year_in_collapse_2025_an_index/
SparrowWhen I was working for a large defense contractor, we tested rolling out AI tools for our developers.
The deployment numbers looked great: 52% increase for junior devs, 32% for mid-level, and 12% for senior engineers.
But we spent more than 80% of our time fixing bugs in deployed code(support burden). This has only gotten worse as people trust AI more, not less.
So when I see people like Rohit Agnihotri pitching charts saying we need less humans in the loop, or Chris Hughes peddling this narrative when he should know better, it tells me "expert" doesn't mean what it used to.
This is dangerous advice from people who shouldn't be positioning themselves as experts. Having a title doesn't mean you understand what happens in production where mistakes have real consequences.
If someone is telling you to reduce human oversight because AI is maturing, they don't understand the problem.
Do your own testing. Trust your own data. Be careful whose advice you're betting your systems on.
naladahc
An impressive, but slightly scary technical achievement here with a hint of geopolitical threat. Reminds me of Miles Dyson... https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/12/21/chinese-team-builds-optical-chip-ai-that-is-100-times-faster-than-nvidias-market-leader
