I've seen lots of dumb Americans say that asymmetrical warfare is cheating, but I've never seen an American act this victimized about it. A true accomplishment

I have to say, there is a special kind of strategic genius involved in taking a country from the brink of complete collapse to incipient regional hegemon status in a matter of months. Infinitely more so when that country is your sworn enemy.

America’s priests, in America’s church, wondering how America’s god will react to the slaughter of millions

pro-AI folks who do nothing but make bad-faith arguments in favor of AI whining about shitposters mocking them with bad-faith jokes against AI will never cease to amuse.

one of the worst things about the US-dominated English language internet is that it's nearly impossible to get away from the unceasing pro-imperialism nationalistic opinions that get splurged all over social media if you want to use these sites at all

Basically the lesson here is, I think, that bad faith is so endemic to the broad arena of LLM usage – in fact it's almost like LLMs drive their users towards it – that however rabidly anti-AI you are, maybe you need to be more.

I refuse to trust any essay whose argument is that the death of human endeavor is a good (or inevitable) thing, and that it specifically takes the form of everyone becoming a manager of an army of dullard slop machines.

JOHN BROWN: if I burn in righteous hellfire so be it. But I believe it is my sacred duty to cleave you in two with this here blade. JOHN BROWN AVATAR GUYS: being impolite to the police is the main problem in the country

If I see one more person cite some scientific or niche application of non-LLM machine learning as evidence that "AI can be a force for good :)" I'm going to scream

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

Not sure anyone in the American media is capable of naming a single scientist or engineer who might actually be worthy of the title of 'innovator'. Instead, as with everything else, finance subsumes all and valor stolen from the worker is freely bestowed upon the capitalist.

Nice to see that the US is still winning the US-China race to commit civilizational suicide-via-AI.

centrist poster: here is conveniently plotted data showing bluesky user activity is shrinking. lefties keep ruining my day centrist poster: don't celebrate missiles hitting datacenters. it's anti-intellectual. iranian school? what school centrist poster: y'ever notice THOSE people are always poor

Astronauts have reached a crucial stage of the lunar mission where they must decide which moon to navigate towards They are looking through telescopes at the two identical surfaces, examining rocks and craters to determine which is the Real Moon and which is the Fake Moon

Ultimately I find that my view inverts. To the extent that LLMs can be observed "solving" problems in some domains, that to me implies not that there's some hidden depth being plumbed so much as that the domain is just shallower than we think.

SimIsle (sort of like Tropico but without the dictator and more serious in tone). I wanted to like it but the game was confusing, ran like molasses, crashed frequently, and the gameplay was moving your agent through the jungle hoping he'd find some hidden ruins or waiting for things to finish.

And by extension, it also indicts the United States which time after time abets this behavior. The only reasonable conclusion you can make is that the US cannot be trusted to keep its word under any scenario because it will allow Israel to breach any agreement for any reason.

AI cannot fail, it can only be failed. 😉

So the US-Israeli war crimes on Iran are to "free Iran's people" and "stop Iran from getting an illegal nuke", perpetrated by a coalition of the US - a morality-free oligarchy building concentration camps for its undesirables, and Israel - a genocidal apartheid state holding illegal nukes?

I unironically applaud pro-AI people decorating their essays with slop; in doing so, they make a meaningful contribution to improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the internet by self-identifying their content as noise.

Quite frankly to the extent that coding agents "work", which is in itself uncertain and debatable, I think "more software, faster, with less thought put into it" is *itself* a negative externality

Want to know why misinformation is dangerous? Because whilst trolls were saying ben-Gvir and Netanyahu were dead based on nothing but internet rumors and calling anyone who disagreed a Zionist, ben-Gvir and Netanyahu were pushing their evil Jim Crow mass death bill that passed today.

What we are seeing is that a lot of computer touchers value their access to neat toys over literally anything else, and the appropriate reaction is to just identify these people as morally deficient.

“LLM Guy” <- type of guy it makes sense to be, even if I don’t like it “Anti-LLM Guy” <- type of guy it makes sense to be; probably a fair description of me “Anti-Anti-LLM Guy” <- type of guy that it does not make any sense to be and that I keep seeing posts from. Get a life, this type of guy!

Just like clockwork, at the end of the article: "I still use AI, but very carefully". Nobody ever learns.

It’s so embarrassing that with each new story of AI exponentially escalating signs of bubble pop out come the software devs to defend how great it is at doing their job while also attempting to get ahead of the response and lay out that they themselves do enough work to justify continued employment

Don’t really have an issue with heavily regulated normal gambling if there is at least some skill involved, but gambling on real life events (sports, news) is essentially a way to inject the most horrific perverse incentives into all of society and should be highly illegal.

Wondering if cars are like dogs, in that if they’re used to a specific brand of gas and you suddenly switch they get indigestion and act like they aren’t feeling all that well.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

The annoying gruntwork you’re off-loading to AI is how you learn basic information and skills that help power the logical leaps that lead to creation and innovation. This is why CEOs are all f**king idiots.

The pending enshittification of bluesky is going to be very funny, at least, considering that the entire userbase is made up of people who, by definition, will switch social media apps when one gets shitty. (since that's why they're here at all)

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

since we talked about antisemitic dog whistles yesterday, lets talk about zionist ones today: anyone that tells you that “greater israel” is not a real policy that the Israeli government is pushing for is a zionist. even if they criticize bibi.

keep this a secret but if you want a Sneak Peak™ about what we're working on at @ko-op.com... here's an art asset i made for it today 👀

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Portland 💪🐟

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I truly despise the accusation of technophobia for hating AI, as though all inventions are progressive and good by default; as though there's no historical precedent for attempting widespread adoption of something we later abandoned for our own good. like zeppelin travel, or radium, or asbestos.

it’s amazing to see the solipsism of americans on display in regards to iran. people just cannot even conceive of the idea that iran has its own strategic goals and and agency, and might keep the strait closed regardless of what trump does.

It is somewhat darkly funny how Trump has bumbled into destroying fossil fuels as the world's main energy source and empowered China through its renewables manufacturing.

I've heard a few people remark that AI coding is "just the next abstraction layer, like a compiler," but this isn't a very good comparison. A compiler is a deterministic transformation. Moreover, it would never venture to independently resolve any omissions or ambiguities in your specified intent.

“The horrible garbage I put out into this wold is for your children not mine” is pretty much the conservative view point on everything.

It was never really ever software ‘engineering’ to begin with, but maybe we can call it software superstition from now on.

that theft machine man was like "you should have to buy intelligence" and then that one with the egg shaped head was like "oh yeah, i will buy that actually bc i've never thought a thought in my life" and yet somehow i am the one who has to have 17 active projects and a full time job so i can live

lmao eat shit

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I think it’s telling that the “geniuses” of this generation proudly dont read and so spend a whole lot of time recreating solved problems from first principles.