X has become the Everything App that Elon always wanted, if “everything” means all the tools you need to fuck up someone’s life, in one place. www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...

I have fulfilled my dream of working for the Norwegian state (a state-owned company to be more precise, but it still counts!). I started a new job on Monday. 🥳

If history repeats first as tragedy (Nixon) and then as farce (Bush), then who is Trump?

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

God lørdag folkens, ettersom nazistene nå er på Enderudhytta i Eidskog Kommune er det viktig å aktivisere lokalmiljøet der oppe. Alle på vennelista mi som er derfra, eller kjenner noe der må legge press lokalt for å få dem fjerna fra den hytta.

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.

For all the needless suffering they have caused domestically in the US, nothing will likely ever surpass this singular evil

KI har tatt jobbene fra arbeiderne. Men mange sjefer angrer, og nå kan vi få en bølge av at _lavlønte_ arbeidere "tar jobben" fra KI. 🙃

My talk, Exploring best practices for a greener #Kubernetes, is now on YouTube. Thanks again to @cloudnativebergen.dev for having me! #SustainableIT #GreenIT youtu.be/MgAAJqJkFsc?...

Seems fine.

the term "what the absolute living fuck" gets thrown around a lot these days,

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

Do not build the Torment Nexus and so on.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard. 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

0,15 prosent av ChatGPTs brukere har samtaler som indikerer et potensielt selvmord, viser deres egne tall. Det betyr *én million folk*. 🥀

Thanks to everyone who came to my #CloudNativeBergen #cnb2025 talk about practices for #sustainable #Kubernetes administration! You can find the slides on my speakerdeck: speakerdeck.com/xamebax/expl...

Exploring best practices for a greener Kubernetes with @paciorkowska.bsky.social 💚 #cndb2025 #cloudnativebergen

“The software that is most environmentally friendly is the software that doesn’t exist.” Great quote from @paciorkowska.bsky.social at @cloudnativebergen.dev Also, her talk on green Kubernetes is great!

What’s up, #CloudNativeBergen? Excited to be speaking today. Chat me up with your favorite Norwegian word throughout the day. 🫶🏼

I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

In a month, I'll be speaking at Cloud Native Bergen about sustainable IT practices with a focus on #Kubernetes. I'm happy to get that opportunity, and it's going to be my first talk after a long break.

I feel like whenever someone suggests using AI to deliver documents in less time, there is an implicit "don't worry, nobody is actually going to read these" attached to it.

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (404 Media Live at SXSW) 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-b...

Great article by @janus.bsky.social in @404media.co about owning your digital media! @robert.takahashinovak.com and I spun up a Plex server for streaming music we own and it’s awesome, managing it also gives you a hands-on relationship to the media you own. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.

GREAT piece by @brianmerchant.bsky.social "in order to halt his campaign of governmental destruction, we have to dismantle the idea that AI can or should replace government workers’ jobs." I ask "Who makes this clear to RW media, MSM, & on Social Media?" www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/whats-real...

[old prospector voice] "Time was, you would just get your fresh horrors in the morning! Why, I remember some morning didn't even *have* fresh horrors! Now it's fresh horrors all day long. Mercy sakes."

People can't even come up with original hate speech now?

“You could not stop if you saw something traumatic. You could not stop for your mental health. You could not stop to go the bathroom. You just could not stop. We were told the client, in our case Facebook, required us to keep going.”

Amazing essay about the difficult, underpaid, and traumatizing human labor (often based in the Global South) that makes AI seem so seamless.

Nicely done Guardian

In the last 3 months of 2024, I applied for 51 academic jobs; 3 in Denmark, 48 in the US. After waiting and waiting and waiting, the results are in: I made it to one shortlist, had one Zoom interview, and received zero offers. This market is so brutal. In other words: I'm still looking for a job!

"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship."

I am always very happy to talk about how to run #Kubernetes optimizing for a lower carbon footprint. 💚 This time, I'm holding a mid-March morning session at Cloud Native Day Oslo! oslo.cloudnativeday.no