Mastodawn

A funny case study of the 21st century “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

Michael Zimmermann (@zimm3rmann) on X

@m_franceschetti Is 16+gb/mo a normal amount of telemetry? Can you not do any local compute of “get hot” or “get cold” with a multi core processor and multiple gigabytes of memory? Can’t just repeat the previous nights settings? It’s bad enough that you slapped a $200/yr subscription on things,

X (formerly Twitter)

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Oct 20

Foone🏳️‍⚧️Oct 20

it keeps turning out to be a mistake to put one third of the internet in one building

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Sep 24

Iris van Rooij 💭Sep 21

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)

Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Sep 24

Show thread

Kevin Beaumont Sep 24

Delays at airports continue today. ARINC/Collins have been unable to tell impacted airports when services will resume. https://www.vienna.at/after-cyberattack-continued-disruptions-at-berlin-airport/9691694

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Jul 28

sofia Jul 22

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Jun 18

paul Jun 18

@Kierkegaanks

the application of chatGPT into my clinical practice was...problematic.

Luis León Cárdenas Graide Jun 18

RealJournalism Jun 18

Discarded #UK Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in #Ghana https://e360.yale.edu/digest/ghana-densu-delta-wetlands

Discarded U.K. Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana

Yale e360

Luis León Cárdenas Graide May 23

@amturiel estudio: ningún país con alto estándar de vida lo hace dentro de límites planetarios; exceso de riqueza no mejora estándares de vida; post-crecimiento es compatible con altos estándares de vida y sostenibilidad
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ7tnu9SyIk/

michael mezzatesta on Instagram: "drop a 🌱 for a link to the paper and my personal reflections upon reading it! i believe the world really needs more post-growth thinking. & follow the authors who are on IG: @drjasonhickel @proftimjackson @kate_raworth @dr_diana_urgevorsatz thumbnail photo by @summergwagner #postgrowth #economy #planet"

29K likes, 4,569 comments - michael__mezz on May 21, 2025: "drop a 🌱 for a link to the paper and my personal reflections upon reading it! i believe the world really needs more post-growth thinking. & follow the authors who are on IG: @drjasonhickel @proftimjackson @kate_raworth @dr_diana_urgevorsatz thumbnail photo by @summergwagner #postgrowth #economy #planet".

Instagram

Luis León Cárdenas Graide May 21

Gerry McGovern May 20

"New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241776

Luis León Cárdenas Graide May 15

penworks May 15

When you hear someone say that "AI is the future of search" as if it is a great thing, and a foregone conclusion, what they are actually saying is that the doors to any individual blog or website or resources are closing. The digital waypaths to finding sourced content directly are being shuttered and boarded up. That human search via multiple methods utilising various recommender systems is being removed. In favour of a single gateway to pre delivered materials all owned by private monopoly companies. And we are expected to react as if this is a good thing, the "future".

#ai #ChatGPT #GenAI #openai #extractivism #academia #archives #internet #KnowledgeEquity #knowledgecommons #search

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