@MikeHicWriter

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Writer. (He/His) Recovering academic. Published in Bitchin' Kitsch, Brown Bag, Little Old Lady Comedy and Red Fez (amongst others!) Artistic Associate for Off the Rock. On Medium as @sirhenryatrawlinsonend

I don't want self-driving cars.
I don't want humanoid robots.
I don’t want AI in every app I use.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want a habitable planet.

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

We have really reached a stage where these big corporations don't like negativity about their services and products. So imagine how bad a person must feel who lost their job and can't afford basic things. If you really want to burn investor money and want positivity towards your company, go solve real problems like cancer, for starters. If that is too hard, how about a month long battery for a mobile device?

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115894410440299999

I will NEVER (for as long as it is possible to do so) buy an "internet-connected" domestic appliance or other gadget. Selling things has been replaced by rental and extractive economics.

Timely ICE reminder.
South East Water could lose operating licence after outages in Kent and Sussex

Fine of 10% of annual turnover among other potential penalties as environment secretary calls for Ofwat review

The Guardian

A lot of people are against AI in software development, but I actually feel like it has improved my productivity a lot.

You see, my bosses are always saying things like "I bet AI could do this faster" so I'm like "no fuckin' chatbot is better than me" and I work twice as hard to prove how bad it is.

A wealthy white person who cheats the government is a smart businessperson.
A poor black person who cheats the government is a freeloader.

A conservative who refuses to follow Capitol Police orders is a patriot.
A liberal who refuses to follow ICE orders is a terrorist.

Billions for Americans swamped with student debt is unfair.
Billions for farmers swamped with debt is fair.

β€œWhoever controls the narrative, controls the people.” – Abhijit Naskar, neuroscientist