JA Westenberg80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."
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Perl. Vim. Cats. Recovering bird-site addict.
Baldur Bjarnason"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
> Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything.
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.
Ketan JoshiFor some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.
Compare that to:
Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%
Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?
RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116086075775143166
Way back when 1MB of code in 3 years was considered a real feat. And when they also wanted all that code to actually work.
Der Postillon 📯Kulturstaatsminister Weimer verbietet Bücher mit linksbündigem Text https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/weimer-linksbuendig.html
Just came across https://www.bookseriesinorder.com which seems like a useful resource for book-nerds with no relation to that bald guy.
4. Found it very hard to understand what I was supposed to do in the practice games.
5. Found out that I still suck at memory, but that I can pass the test without looking (never mind reading) those memory cards.
6. Did not download the "certificate" at the end.
7. Will need at least one hour to recover and motivate myself to get some work done today.
5. Found out that I still suck at memory, but that I can pass the test without looking (never mind reading) those memory cards.
6. Did not download the "certificate" at the end.
7. Will need at least one hour to recover and motivate myself to get some work done today.
So I just finished the mandatory annual corporate IT-security training and ... I can't ... even.
1. Got an email that looked like phishing containing a link to a hostname I've never seen before.
2. Found another way to the training app to confirm it's real, clicked from there and my browser wouldn't open it because of access to local network and lots of CSP violations.
3. Found another link to start the training and was bored out of my wits 5 minutes later.
#it-security #corporate-horror
Dan Kennedy 
AI will eat most of the jobs in the next 2-5 years:
Roles at high risk:
- Professional fax cover-sheet designer
- VHS rewinder
- Medieval town crier
- Mall ninja sword tester
- Radio Shack manager
- “Have you tried turning it off and on?” Tier-1 specialist
- Blockbuster late-fee negotiator
- Corporate synergy translator
- Elevator button pusher
- Clippy emotional support specialist
- MFA enrollment apology specialist
- Dot-matrix printer paper separator
- Video store genre re-shelving specialist
- AOL trial CD distributor
- Zoom waiting-room DJ
- Hashtag optimization intern
- Office “reply-all” damage control analyst
- Legacy VPN appliance babysitter
Roles that are safe:
- Executive apology speechwriter
- Incident response finger-pointing coordinator
- Professional conference badge collector
- Lunch-and-learn sandwich reviewer
- Nation-state” attribution enthusiast
- Guy who says “let’s take this offline”
- Slack status philosopher
- Office thermostat warlord
- Chief Culture Evangelist
- Professional podcast guest who “loves what you guys are doing”
- Professional mic-not-working guy on webinars
- Office fridge passive-aggressive note author
- PowerPoint slide transition critic
- Corporate offsite trust-fall facilitator
- Professional “per my last email” drafter
- Strategic pause facilitator
- Guy who says “that’s not how attackers think” in every meeting
- AI ethics panel moderator
ninai have a feeling that everyone who is arguing about LLMs in the sense of stuff like productivity, quality of the output, performance or functionality of generated code, largely even licensing or whatnot is kinda missing the point
even if LLMs generated the best code in the world, i would not be using them
even if LLMs gave me the biggest ever productivity boost i would not be using them
even if the output was clean copyright-wise and fully original, i would still not be using them
i can't consciously support a worldwide slop machine that helps and finances the rise of fascism, that helps further oppression, that helps a bunch of billionaires control public opinion, that drives society-wide psychosis with far-reaching consequences, that attempts to strip all joy from activities people like while using that to make the rich even richer, and that's not even getting to environmental stuff or whatever
i'm getting left behind you say
well fuck your industry and fuck you
even if LLMs generated the best code in the world, i would not be using them
even if LLMs gave me the biggest ever productivity boost i would not be using them
even if the output was clean copyright-wise and fully original, i would still not be using them
i can't consciously support a worldwide slop machine that helps and finances the rise of fascism, that helps further oppression, that helps a bunch of billionaires control public opinion, that drives society-wide psychosis with far-reaching consequences, that attempts to strip all joy from activities people like while using that to make the rich even richer, and that's not even getting to environmental stuff or whatever
i'm getting left behind you say
well fuck your industry and fuck you