commonly misused words by political pundits: "conservative" should mean "let's carefully consider and test before making it happen, then gradually roll out until issues appear" "liberal" should mean "let everyone do what they want, wherever it may lead" hardly anyone's using them correctly

many people have "I know one word and I'm not afraid to use it" energy once you start seeing it, you can't unsee it

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

stock markets and other money-for-money schemes are so harmful to the actual economy if you have the money "invested", you're not buying things the foremost things to get cut are donations and payment-optional purchases because "imagine how much that money could grow over time" literal cancer

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... where's the EU lawsuit? @ec.europa.eu

that feeling when you finish watching a 37 minutes long video 26 minutes after it is released

www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas... dude's complaining about state-owned companies and wants them taken public at the same time, he has not even disclosed the assets he himself holds (especially stocks) conflict of interest much? OECD is looking increasingly like a nest of vipers

missed this: x.com/MintPressNew... can skip "seemingly" or "probably" from my earlier tweet, all of what I said is fully confirmed by her lol (to the extent that expressed intent can confirm it) people like this should be vaporized for selling out the people of her country, not given any awards

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

still waiting for some food place to make a big ass button that says "EMIT CONDIMENT"

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgR7... why does he (or many like him) think that if "AI" actually were to replace 10% of jobs, there wouldn't be a corresponding set of adjustments in prices? both for the "AI" itself as well as for the product being optimized

in a world where so many are hyping up AI use for governing... there is actually a very old example of how that would go - YouTube any long-term user has probably heard of lack of due process, automated appeal rejections, being unable to get any kind of human review it exists and it sucks already

www.oecd.org/content/dam/... this report is severely undermined by not separating "AI" into specific types of tech, or even by failure mode LLMs, OCR and pathfinding are not even close to each other makes most of the report effectively useless this is relatively nice however (on page 9):

imagine attempting to regulate US services while having your government depend on them for critical infrastructure www.computerweekly.com/news/3665661... how stupid can the UK government possibly be? (related: today's AWS outage)

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace... what they conveniently omitted from "facts" is that she's a neolib who seemingly wants to sell the country's resources to oligarchs (probably those in the US) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%... not exactly "liberation", just replacing one oppressor with another

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFT... finally somebody has reviewed the stupid AI doomer book and found it to be as stupid as one might expect now it's time to ridicule anyone taking it seriously

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/a... what "something productive"? the endless spam? the broken shitpost images and videos? the overpriced half-GPUs with a ~5 year lifespan or the massive buildings they're in? holy shit these people are either fucking stupid or in damage control mode already

random thought for some economist to untangle: could data center building revenue be currently outcompeting house building revenue? depends on what's the overlap between data center builders and house builders (quick look at datacentremagazine.com/top10/top-10... suggests there may be some)

Surprise surprise, I've been saying this for years. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

the big brain super geniuses at HBR remain at the forefront of missing the point by 🤏 that much "workslop" is the only thing "AI" (LLM) is capable of producing, as has been constantly observed ever since LLM chatbots were first released

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXE... apparently #spotify wants people to sign away the right to create derivative works (most commonly #AI slop these days but not always) and I'm wondering why one-size-fits-all service contracts are still a thing we need a "right to negotiate" for online contracts

www.politico.eu/article/alba... since AGI doesn't exist, this is either extremely stupid... or just trying to cover up regular old corruption by pretending that a huge procurement contract with PM's friends/family was signed by some super-smart entity for a very big brain smart genius reason

the "far left": oh no not our dear *billionaires*! x.com/Cernovich/st... I can't even tell if this is parody

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

damn, what an ugly week for those who hoped that google would face justice 09/01: www.mlex.com/mlex/article... 09/02: x.com/LeeHepner/st... considering the time of announcement of stopping android users from installing software they choose, they must have known pure corruption I want blood

currently finding it slightly amusing that the word "pacifist" contains the word "fist"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2t... I remain surprised that there aren't any ecoterrorists blowing all of that shit up every single day what the big #ai corpos do to people is basically 50 shades of theft and what, they're gonna give you like 5 free uses? that's cute, you already paid for much more

voidfox.com/blog/payment... this needs a "I read all of it and haven't been deterred yet" section :)

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.

"AI race" my ass the "AI" bros are losers (in every sense imaginable but especially financially) trump doesn't like losers curious what sacks and other admin-adjacent shitbrained VC bros have to say about this though the "who spoke to trump last" effect may still change things

substack's/mobile chrome's sliding headers are annoying I like to scroll up and down as I read things, and that infernal concoction peeks out unnecessarily despite me not wanting to ever use it, not even once gotta start nuking what I can with ublock's custom filters, can't stand them anymore #ui

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

while generating an obituary seems fucked up, I've also never understood inertially following traditions both on their own lack of value as well as how every single one has been taken over by corporations to extract the most money out of every sucker

my takeaway from this story is - does anyone ever actually read anything? or is it just the world's most popular pastime to fool oneself into thinking that people read?

Heads up to anyone considering using music on this site: I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call): www.youtube.com/@incompetech... Check the descriptions.

youtu.be/Ng_Bj7tVw78?... wait for 3:33 #ai

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

reminded me of this: youtu.be/MxipeStPXGI?... in a way, the war on tourism might just be a long-standing US tradition reaching new heights at this point

the full thread is in some respects a bit more interesting than the often shared screenshot of the first tweet excluding the linked example link to tweet/thread: x.com/TimSweeneyEp... some of my thoughts on it in replies

how am I finding this only just now? :) currently reading this (jumped over the middle section for now) but so far it aligns with my own understanding of the system I've been calling LLMs techno-numerology (focusing on the mechanics) instead of LLMentalist but this explains the human side better

the alternative is to upload *only* encrypted archives with a strong password then it doesn't matter which service you use - the providers can't view the data or use it in any meaningful way though it does require encryption to be legal in your country for this to be a risk-free option

arstechnica.com/security/202... the company providing the library/disservice that's integrated into browser extension is called Mellowtel

thinking about a particular name shortening approach "weblog" -> "blog" "webcomic" -> ??? "webinar" -> ???????? "webless" -> 🤔🤔🤔

The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.