Asbjørn Ulsberg

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Gonna serve up more drum & bass for you and tea for myself tonight :)
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WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY

STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS

INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...

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There's been little acknowledgement but Susan George (political scientist as Wikipedia have it, or political economist, as I would prefer) passed on 14th February. I've seen no obituaries, but here is her Wikipedia entry which included the long list of her excellent & insightful books... many of which were always on my reading lists

I'm sure the lack of obits has nothing to do with her being a women or a critique of global capitalism. /s

#politics

h/t @AnnPettifor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_George_(political_scientist)

Susan George (political scientist) - Wikipedia

"Take life one step at a time."

The steps:

It’s really this simple.

#meme

If you care about being able to read real books created by real people, and real art created by real people read this and DO NOT use the "Not By AI" badge.

It's by AI bros to help them find non-ai content to train on. 🤦‍♀️

https://social.treehouse.systems/@imbl/115978426251286619

bimbo savant (cow arc) (@[email protected])

you know what, fuck it, im choosing violence today. notbyai.fyi is an ai industry op to let corporations hide their ai usage and i can fucking prove it. tl;dr: it's actually pretty pro-ai, it's made by an ai bro, it's directly enriching ai companies by giving them your data, and its whole purpose is to let ai companies declare their work ai-free even if they use ai because of the 90% rule (i'll be listing things in order from the page, but read on to find the 90% rule) the analytics and tracking cookies from known major ai companies: bing (microsoft), youtube (google), clarity (microsoft). these cookies last anywhere from 6 months to over a year the "chart" directly under their mission statement specifically calls out the problem of training ai on ai-generated images the first paragraph in their mission statement begins by mentioning "help audiences identify human-generated content" and then ends with some real tescreal shit about the advancement of humanity > The Not By AI® badges are created to encourage more humans to produce original content and help audiences identify human-generated content. The ultimate goal is to make sure humanity continues to advance. this quote from further down their mission statement makes it clear that the site is *definitely* pro-AI, and has yet more tescreal pro-ai-but-what-if-it-replaces-us shit > It is worth mentioning that AI technologies mark a major milestone in the history of technology and the Not By AI badge is not designed to discourage the use of AI. Instead, it is to make sure that, while we celebrate the achievement, we work with AI instead of being replaced by AI. and the 90% rule, which explicitly allows ai. for-profit is only allowed if you pay them. you have to pay an ai bro money to declare that your for-profit work is at least 90% ai free. dystopian. > if you estimate that at least 90% of your content is created by humans, you are eligible to add the badges into your website, blog, art, film, essay, books, podcast, or whatever your project is for non-commercial use, and, with a subscription, commercial use. and continues into explicitly allowing AI even more, and their first example is for ***legal documents*** > The 90% can include using AI for inspiration purposes, supporting legal documents such as privacy policies (assuming that legal content is not the main focus of your content or service), non-user-facing content such as SEO tags, and grammatical error and typo checks. their about page (https://notbyai.fyi/about) has a quote from billionaire warren buffet which is just weirdo shit (warren buffet cares deeply about eugenicist things like poor countries having too many people) but here's the fucking kicker. the "founder", allen hsu (https://notbyai.fyi/about), is the ux design lead at modo modo (https://modomodoagency.com/leadership), *which is an ai design company* (https://modomodoagency.com/about) > Artificial intelligence (AI) is cool and we embrace it. But when it comes to solving complex business problems, we don’t just press a few keys to generate answers with ChatGPT. We research, interview, brainstorm, and go through a human-centric process to come up with content and solutions that are tailored to your unique business need. there you go. its made by an ai bro. its full of tescreal shit. its literally not even anti-ai, and its letting ai companies track you. this is ai shit.

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The 5 Most Famous Laws in The World

1. Dunning-Kruger Law:
Stupid people think they're smart. Smart people doubt themselves. The less you know, the more confident you are.

2. Parkinson's Law:
Work expands to fill the time available, so longer deadlines often lead to slower completion.

3. Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule):
Roughly 80% of results come from 20% of efforts. Focus on the few things that actually matter.

4. Hanlon's Razor:
People aren't trying to hurt you, they're just being careless. That person who didn't text back? They forgot, not ignoring you.

5. Peter's Law:
Good workers become bad managers. Being great at your job doesn't mean you'll be great at the next level.

And I would add

6. Murphy's Law:
Anything that can go wrong, will, when you least expect and can't afford.