Mastodawn

It's the same as AI "authors" and "artists". They don't want to make things. They want a get rich quick scheme, or the cachet of being an author or being an artist without actually ever having done anything. The hyperrealistic version of the Foucauldian author-function. Utterly horrific

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flexghost.1d ago

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.

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JA Westenberg 16h ago

We have spent 100x more compute training AI to generate waifu art than to solve protein folding. I am not saying this is the Great Filter, but if aliens find our radioactive remains, they’re going to be very confused by the hard drives...

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It was probably installing subversion. No wait, that was only pulling in the Exim MTA. 🤷‍♂️

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Wonder what fucked dependency chain brought Bind 9 onto my desktop system. 🤔

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Clueless by Sam 2d ago

"The Left hates Technology" no, Dario, we hate *you*

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Slopless vim fork by Drew DeVault

https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

A eulogy for Vim

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Project Hail Mary is one of the worst books I've ever read, but people seem to like the flick. 🤷‍♂️

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allison 5d ago

ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile

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Ivan Enderlin 🦀6d ago

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines, https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment.

So. Google is changing the page titles listed in their search results because they believe it can provide more traffic.

Users have no indication the title is not the original one. If Google rewrites a title to something stupid, it will be credited to the site, not Google.

Google is violating the site’s copyright by doing so. It’s an immense breach in the remaining trust users may have in this search engine.

#google

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

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