Mastodawn

There is a lot of ageism in tech. One reason, I think, is that 30-year-olds spouting recycled Y Combinator bullshit don't like having the obvious flaws and contradictions in their statements pointed out by people who've lived through two or three previous hype cycles. Not hiring the elderly ensures that they're always in a high-adulation environment, and never have to worry about whether staff will resist being guilted or bullied into sacrificing their personal lives for someone else's gain.

caranea 1d ago

tante 2d ago

There used to be this deal between Google (and other search engines) and the Web: You get to index our stuff, show ads next to them but you link our work. AI Overview and Perplexity and all these systems cancel that deal.

And maybe - for a while - search will also need to die a bit? Make the whole web uncrawlable. Refuse any bots. As an act of resistance to the tech sector as a whole.

caranea 1d ago

Kashmir Hill 2d ago

After writing about people going into delusional spirals with ChatGPT and having what look like mental breakdowns, I wanted to understand exactly how it happens.

A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.

We analyzed the transcript & shared it with experts. Now you can see the interactions & how delusional spirals happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=url-share

caranea 2d ago

nixCraft 🐧2d ago

Finally somebody said it better 😅🤣

caranea 2d ago

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦2d ago

💬 "If you live in #Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue." - Joey Contino

caranea 4d ago

XKCD bot 5d ago

#xkcd No. 3126
Date: 2025-8-8
Title: Disclaimer
Alt text: You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
https://xkcd.com/3126/