LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.

But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.

That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.

The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.

“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.

Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅

#AI #llm #LLMs

Lohnt sich: Hier könnt ihr euch die Öffentliche Anhörungen zur Petition gegen #Palantir in BaWü anschauen.

Innenministerium und LKA lamentieren herum oder tun so als wüssten sie offensichtliche Fakten nicht (Zweckbindung, CLOUD Act, Rasterfahndung) und ich war ziemlich on fire. 🔥🔥🔥

https://www.landtag-bw.de/de/mediathek/videos/oea-peta-vom-6-november-2025-602650

Ha! Well I'll be goddamned.

I built an audio interface to software observability.

Like, it really happened. I made a dream come true. Fuck yes.

#SRE #Observability #DataScience #DataAsMusic

📰 "Wood-based battery research is unlocking safer, more sustainable energy storage using materials from trees"

🗒 "At Michigan State University (MSU), scientists have shown that a battery separator made from lignin can last 60 percent longer than traditional plastic separators. This battery component also withstands heat up to 300°C, making it safer and more reliable than conventional parts."

https://happyeconews.com/charging-the-future-with-wood-based-battery/

#greenenergy #solarpunk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/115510783113183878

This is helpful framing. One of the things that this article points to is the degree to which we've eliminated backpressure by individualizing communication buffers. In 1983, if you called me, and I was already on the phone, you got a busy signal. If I was buying groceries, no one picked up at all. If the communication was important, _you the sender_ owned the buffer, and owned the responsibility of trying again.

In 2025, if you text me, at the same time that my kid is texting me and the app driver picking up my groceries, _I_ own the buffer in the messaging app and notifications on my phone. The senders have no idea how busy or not I may be; even if every sender is well-meaning, and sending a message that most receivers would welcome, we now take for granted that triage is the receiver's problem, and an effectively infinite one at that.

It's challenging to think about what plausible social changes could rebalance this (I think the technology is not the _primary_ barrier here).