The whole "AI", i.e. content generator, spectacle is such a perfect example of why the idea that technology is neutral is such garbage.

There are so many damn things we could be doing with all this processing power and money, and what the people making the decisions are choosing to do is line their own pockets and destroy the livelihoods of the people they call "creatives". Stealing other people's work and repackaging it as computer-generated swill. The stupidity of it is infuriating.

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS