Mike Doughney

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Professional doomscroller.
Maître de la maison à Château d'éphémères
Formerly with Digex, UPI Radio, Mutual Broadcasting.
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This is a catastrophe for many American families and businesses — and only underscores the shame that the Trump admin spent the last year unwinding all the terrific progress on electric vehicles and renewables.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzfzawdilrmsfikvr4c6ytk4/post/3mivknas5bs2q
LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

"The #US🚨is learning some very expensive lessons from this war - particularly if, as I expect, this is the work of Shahed drones."
-Chris Owiki

"Iranian forces🚨appear to have damaged or destroyed multiple USAF KC-135 tankers parked in the open at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia."
-OSINTTechnical
#Incompetence #Drones #DOD #Hegseth #Trump #TrumpRegime #NationalSecurity #IranWar #Israel #Waste Corruption #IllegalWar #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #NoKings #Protest #USPol

Tells you everything you need to know about le internet circa 2026. Digg tried to relaunch but quit after being overrun by bots and AI...which also overrun every other existing site and service. Tthey're here too but much less visible and don't get algorithmic boosts.

#AI

https://www.fastcompany.com/91509667/digg-comeback-paused-after-bots-and-ai-overwhelm-site

Digg's comeback hits pause after bots and AI overwhelm the site

The social news pioneer is shutting down its relaunch just two months after going live, saying automated accounts flooded the platform as it tries to build a more human-centered web.

Fast Company

Worth repeating: AI platforms built by greedy tech CEOs aren't "making mistakes" they are working as designed

Part of that design is undermining experts, removing human connection & trust, and hiding decision making

Those are the things that make our communities work, and the more we lose them, the worse things get

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

Web4 will be fought with telnet to port 80

"The actual text of Kent’s resignation letter suggests that he is not taking an admirable antiwar stance, but laying the groundwork for an antisemitic conspiracy theory that could define the future of the GOP.

Kent’s resignation should not be celebrated by principled critics of the Iran war, but rather serve as a cautionary tale for how a just cause could be hijacked by extremists to promote something awful."

https://www.vox.com/politics/482918/joe-kent-iran-war-resign-trump-antisemitism

#USPol

A top Trump aide resigned over Iran. Liberals should stay away from him.

Antiwar antisemitism is still antisemitism.

Vox