The tech industry is basically a sociopathic houseguest whose only passion in life is seeing what he can get away with. Didn’t bring anything to the potluck, ignored the host’s hints that the party was over, nicked a vase. Next time he’s gonna pull down his pants and shit on the living room floor.

The New Yorker brings out this useful idiot whenever they need someone to write flowery language about some dogshit and sell it as dinner. SV realized long ago the most important part of the grift is getting dolts who don't understand shit to write their press releases for them as articles

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Given this long history, it's sensible to conclude the US has been a tyranny from the start (with periods of waxing and waning intensity). This should be uncontroversial but for many, accepting the stark facts is hard, perhaps impossible.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

I keep thinking about that Matthew Broderick ad for AI that presented it as something that could do your work for you and let you take a day off. Yeah, man, be sure to tell your boss that AI can do all your work for you, that'll probably lead to lots and lots of time off.

I have a thesis that investment in ‘tech’ starves funding for the sort of actual useful innovation that takes years to develop and requires nontrivial capital outlay. Dutch disease, but instead of oil it’s VCs throwing money at smarmy San Francisco brats who are trying to invent a computer god.

Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

The thing about LLMs is that answers that are correct and answers that are wildly wrong are presented with *exactly the same level of confidence* If you're informed enough to know the difference you don't need the answer If you aren't you can't trust what you get

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them. There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

Some fuckass plane is farting Kalshi ads into the skies above Santa Clara and I would probably be a lot more upset if any of them were actually legible

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

This loser admits she doesn't use her real name when she uses AI to write books and doesn't reveal they're AI. Which means she knows it's wrong and she knows it's shameful and does it anyway. The New York Times thinks that's neat though! Unsurprising that this toilet paper rag aligns with hacks

The woman in the quoted article is running a grift that only works with novels. Visual art you take in immediately, music you can try via streaming, movies and video games have trailers, but for books you only have recommendations, author reputation, or your willingness to give someone new a chance.

There's a lot of bad takes on this website (and especially the other site) but people who say "linear algebra is not fundamentally evil" or "it's just a tool" are looking at the wrong level of abstract.

incredibly funny to say "Epstein was dyslexic" so confidently when your entire body of evidence is "one essay some nutter with no clinical training or qualifications to diagnose it wrote three days ago about a guy who died in 2019"

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Capitalists: we have invented shit bread. It's cheap, because shit is free from sewers, and we expect it to obsolete all other food by 2030. 'Socialist' asshole: this article lays out my argument that the real problem with shit bread is that workers do not collectively own the shit bread bakeries

Incrementalism is not enough. This shit needs to end now.

We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.

Software ‘engineering’ is an anomaly in that many of its practitioners claim to find LLMs genuinely useful. This actually makes sense once one understands that there is almost no correlation between the average programmer’s notion of increased productivity and any useful notion of human flourishing.

Generative AI is an all-out no-quarter-given assault on much that makes society decent and worthwhile: the idea that truth matters, that craft and mastery are worth respecting, that people should be fairly compensated and credited for what they make, that we shouldn’t be eating our damn seed corn.

If you don’t believe you have anything to say that isn’t the mean approximation of a zillion different images that other people already made, that’s a deadness inside that no amount of attention or validation is gonna fix. Literally go touch grass, take a breath, and figure out your life.

Not reading all that but "A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

”You liked this $20 until you learned it was counterfeit!” they chirp, confident that they have won the argument

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

New polling shows that 60% of California voters support the proposed one-time tax on billionaire wealth. www.nestpointgroup.com/post/new-nes...

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

I do not think the danger is that they will actually succeed in stealing the election. I think that it is very likely that they will irreparably break something while attempting to do so, which frankly may not be much better an outcome.

i cant even begin to tell you how goddam sick i am of society wasting our time and resources on humoring morons

i just cant imagine having such a soulless and empty life that you fall in love with a chatbot that talks like joss wheadon got a job doing HR

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

LLMs ‘solving’ Math Olympiad problems is exactly as interesting as forklifts winning deadlift competitions (not at all), and for the same reasons.

I witnessed an exquisite new shitlib brain dropping — "if you oppose the forced extirpation and extermination of native populations by settlers [i.e. genocide], you are an Immigration Enforcer morally No Better than ICE", reified as "land acknowledgements are bad Leftishly".

Most NewSpace enthusiasts (read: SpaceX fanboys) are white nationalist fascist fellow travelers who happen to at least be self-aware enough to keep it on the down low, so seeing their little game of double dealing being exploded by this merger is extremely satisfying.

Ripping up every government contract with these companies should be a priority on the same level as abolishing ICE.

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Amy Klobuchar tweeting about the price of coffee while other people free her constituents from camps

You can get a 'light' case of measles with minor symptoms, and then 7 to 11 years later, your brain can swell up for no reason and you will die because there's no cure. OR! You can develop a Parkinsons-like neurological disorder and die slower over 1-3 years while your brain just.. fails.

bsky's leadership is sauceless, the very existence of a 'rude' tag is even more sauceless, but the fact that the 'rude' tag is only ever manually applied by bsky leadership might be the most sauceless thing ever

Prediction: More firms are going to start taking “immediate termination” stances on using AI, rendering the pivot to AI products by legal research tools a massive boondoggle.

Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.