adarsh 🚲

@adarsh@ruby.social
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Director Emeritus of rubycentral.org. Ruby developer and consultant. Parent of an autistic kid. Leave trans people alone. Bicycles are antidepressants. If you made a thing, I’ll probably promote it. (he/him)
LocationOakland, CA
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Well.

Did you ever notice how every “disruptive” business idea contains the seeds of its own destruction? All these “revolutionary” ideas like AirBNB, Uber, self-driving cars, delivery vanbikes that can (ab)use bicycle lanes, restaurant reservation flipping services et cetera…. These all work if a few people do it, but break society when everybody does. AI slop is the same, it puts one person ahead of the pack, until the pack catch on. The early adopters get rich and then the whole house of cards falls down.

Disruptr, our new AI business model generator helps you find your next disruptive business idea and predict the optimum moment to eject before collapse. It…wait, who threw that. What are you…Aargh. No help.

— Transcript of bootleg footage from the riot at Something Digitial Launch keynote, Brisbane, Aug 2025.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

That last line tho.
Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.

Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.
US-American suburbs…
#meme #humor
This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.

So there’s papers/studies that show:

1. LLMs don’t work (high error rate and making stuff up)
2. Using LLMs reduces your productivity
3. LLMs cannot—ever—be “scaled” to achieve human-level intelligence
4. Most people who speculate in financial bubbles lose their investment

Any questions?

Anyway. When you see people hyperventilating that "B-b-but paying farm workers more would make food unaffordable!" please correct them up for me.

They might mean well? They might be trying to make a point about how much we owe the humble farm worker?

But that kind of talk is exactly how you get people believing "Gosh shucks golly. I guess we just need slavery to live."

Cut it out already.

This helps explain why it's so hard to automate farm labor!

It's not that it's too hard to make a robot pick crops.

It's that humans are really, REALLY good at it. It's hard to make a robot that's BETTER at it than people.