This 1000%

It's impressive that Big Tech was like: We aren't douchy enough. What if we made asshole intelligence and burned up some of the earth's power and water faster?

It's actually pretty cool to be able to remotely control a robot and could be useful for dangerous work (bomb squad, radioactive materials, etc), but it's wasted on pretending AI is real.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.

Curious to read this book 🌱 Personally, I don't fear AI; I fear the people who want to control it and commercialize it and who are enforcing it on all of us, on top of that, without caring or targeting any of the main social problems we have at present. 🌎🔥

Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us. Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.

A company that set itself sales targets on products that (now clearly) nobody needs or wants. I do hope keep reading that people stopped buying the trash that most companies want to force on us… “Viva la résistance!” 🙌

This is wild to me. “Customers resist products” - in what universe have we made companies so powerful that they can unilaterally force their products on us like we’re some kind of lower type animal?

I think this also has to do with how executives are "big picture" people, who don't fuss over details. So maybe they care less about the issues with AI making up shit, because it doesn't have as much impact for them? While the lower ranks are expected to get the details right?

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

I don’t have prime and I don’t buy at Amazon since 7 years ago. I also rarely buy online. 2 years inside Amazon were enough to me to understand how evil that place is. There’s also a great recent deutsche-welle documentary about its exploitative practices with vendors youtu.be/6r3x2t872Pc?...

Same

Sometimes, being a woman in tech means patiently waiting after having proposed the correct solution to a problem from the beginning, but being ignored for about five hours, even if you keep repeating the same, until everyone else discovers the solution you mentioned earlier in the conversation ☺️🌸💕💅🏼

Sunrise at King Street Station, Seattle WA

I think it’s sad when I see people getting anxious during Christmas 🎄 season for the pressure it puts on them. Buying all the presents. Cooking things they don’t like for people they don’t like. Having the perfect holiday trip. Don't miss the offers. Start thinking on New Year’s resolutions… 🧵

En un futuro, si logramos eliminar la mentalidad de esclavos y/o “ponerse la camiseta”, nos aterrará recordar que gente en la oficina veía mal que alguien tomara 1 hora durante el trabajo para salir a correr o ir al gym pero veía bien quedarse hasta tarde en la oficina en largas jornadas de trabajo.

One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.

"At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it." The Plague, Albert Camus

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake

Hoy recordé la importancia de respirar y recordar mantener la calma y la mente fría cuándo tenemos la, usualmente desgracia, de estar frente a un bully, especialmente uno obsesionado con destruir. 😌 Cosa nada fácil y que requiere trabajo constante en uno mismo para aprender a estar en paz. 💚🌱

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Mientras no tengamos robots autónomos que vengan a limpiar mi casa o a lavar y acomodar mi ropa, yo creo que trabajar en redes, dispositivos e infraestructura suena seguro. Podrán "crear" apps con un prompt, pero si un cable se desconecta o una máquina se sobrecalienta, el prompt no va a ayudar... 🌼

Me learning about diVine, “and other stuff”, Nostr jack dorsey but it’s not profit. The head of engineering at truth social is part of the nonprofit but projects are about open source. They promote AI to create software with a single prompt but also promote decentralization and collaboration 😮‍💨

Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk. DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai. Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.

Haha… es confuso, muy confuso…

El único programa drag que veo acaba de eliminar a quien opino era la participante más fuerte con increíble talento artístico, creatividad y carisma, su nombre Nayla Downs 💚 lo anterior además a través de odio y envidia. Una pena. Ojalá ya se deje de dar foco a todo lo que promueva odio y bullying.

Me when I see yet another AI commercial, advertisement, video, blah... etc.. "Stop trying to make AI happen!!" 🙅🏻‍♀️💅🏼🔥

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A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled) www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Charlatanes, en mi pueblo así les decimos Usarán IA para "generar photo-realistic images" Todos sabemos que la industria de la belleza se vale de engaños para vender, pero por que contratar modelos e influencers que ni usan sus productos cuando pueden dejar a pueblos enteros sin agua usando la IA?

"Topics often discussed by insufferable people" hahaha... I loved that and I 100% agree

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

"Alexa," He says into the void where once his friendships were. "Remind me... remind me that I'm a winner?" The pause is brief but brutal, a gasp of silence as his whole self-worth teeters. "You are so goated." She replies. "I am. I am goated, ain't I?" This time there is no answer. There never is.

The Netherlands is like a real life AI image creator of stuff I want in the US

A great article about the @realgdt.bsky.social film "Frankenstein" from @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social: crimereads.com/guillermo-de...

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Two tropical storms have damaged more than 16,000 homes and caused widespread electricity cuts.

This year I lost respect for any celebrity who collaborates with brands to promote materialistic stuff and I tried to stop consuming anything they promote and produce. These rich celebrities know and see the sad reality we're in, and yet they choose to ignore it and promote an aesthetic lifestyle 🙅‍♀️

Ayer leía a alguien decir que por qué Bluesky no se centraba en hacer una red social guay y se dejaba de mierdas de protocolos y descentralización. Es tremendo que ni con dos de las redes más importantes del mundo cayendo en manos de la ultraderecha seamos capaces de tomarnos en serio este tema.

A year after my last visit to the lil' town where my parents live, I was impressed about how this time people casually talk about AI, their understanding is pretty vague, I'm not sure yet how they see it, their assumption is like, is a magical thingy inside all new devices that does weird stuff... 🔮

Maybe growing up means recognizing that when billionaires talk about their space exploration initiatives, they refer to gaining control of resources on other planets/celestial bodies for purely economic purposes, not to exploration, the discovery of new life forms or gaining knowledge of our cosmos.

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Perhaps they were distracted by their work on developing an all-AI slop feed & app. It's very clear that Meta has no real intention of solving any of the problems their company is creating.