Surely the bus is going to turn around

Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out? www.ft.com/content/2a29...

Extremely dishonest headline: what they mean is that Wikipedia charges data companies for scraping the website. It already does this for Google it is just further expanding this.

Make it stop 9to5google.com/2026/01/08/g...

Jon Carmack wants you to go back to twitter and enrich his experience.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

A boycott can take many forms and doesn't necessarily need to have the goal to reduce sales. If at every mention of ubisoft we make sure to remind everyone that they are a pest that do illegal antiworker stuff, then that alone is a pretty good boycott in my view www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

I think it's critically important to contrast this with credit companies openly disenfranchising independent pornographic artists. The average American should be aware that right now we live in a country where a paragovernmental group is banning all porn except revenge porn that they sell you.

I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.

Why is it that box office profits are public and updated in nearly real time while Netflix viewership numbers are kept in a locked box in the Mariana Trench whose precise location is only known by a blind crone that only speaks in riddles?

here's a list of readings on the myth of job replacement by AI. i might turn this into a blog post as a sort of lesson plan for anyone who wants to use it, but it's just a reminder that every time we see "self-driving" cars or delivery robots, invisibilized workers are always behind the scenes.

Retro Handhelds

lol the innovation at Microsoft is unbelievable. They've finally found a way to make Rust code unsafe.

I develop tools for artists and I’m personally just adding ✨emojis to buttons to keep the MBAs off my case. This year my group got highlighted by the CEO as the model group for AI implementation. We don’t use any AI.

bsky.app/profile/vexo... PS: I am as confused as you are about my constant use of "LLVM" in this thread instead of " LLM" . I think I was legitimately being stupid. But anyway, this whole thing about "AI skills" is nonsense.

This unhinged supervillain rant from 1995 is considered a sensible business plan in 2025.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Almost no retro consoles were 4:3

What an amazing tech it must be when the company making it has to threaten its own employees to use it. www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ce...

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

A lot of this reporting on the memory price hike seems to have the intention of pushing FOMO. I've seen declarations such as "NOW is the time to upgrade your PC" alleging it will get much worse. But the reality is that we don't really know that.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Am I just learning about javascript's ?. syntax today? welp.

Last night's biggest surprise was Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, led by Casey Hudson, who directed KOTOR (and Anthem). Exciting news for lots of people... but Lucasfilm says the studio was founded this year, which means that 2030 is an *optimistic* guess. Maybe it'll be a PlayStation 7 game

"It will keep getting better"

A bit inconvenient for potential alien life forms if they’re constantly being incinerated by their own suns

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I am deeply worried for the future. NVIDIA's revenue is a chain of pain - selling GPUs bought with debt that are rented to unprofitable LLM companies subsidized by VC who sell access to unprofitable AI companies subsidized by VC. The end will be gruesome. www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...

Two posts I saw this morning

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

All those folks that try to modify the terminal experience are so weird. Anyway, I just figured out how to make ghostty save the current contents of the terminal and load them on glogg. Pretty cool.

A fintech firm that routed $500 million to an entity affiliated with President Trump is yet to file its report for the third quarter, which ended in September.

Just did a test of the new Mario Kart World patch and I think Nintendo really outdid themselves this time.

avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...

Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$

More of this please

Decided to go full Furniture Science in the branding.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Lately my opinions about AI have turned a new page. This thing finally helped me find the words. My fear about AI is not that it'll ever be able to be as good at doing things as humans are. My fear is about whether or not our bosses even care if it's good or not. bsky.app/profile/litt...

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

I am coining a new term. It's called "MShittification", it's for when Microsoft pushes a whole industry into becoming as shitty as Microsoft. So yeah.