OK it’s official I’m turning into the Joker

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Clearly, the diaper program is discriminating against Nappy-rash-Americans

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

A company is a explicitly cancelling 401k matches for the rest of the year to pay for AI investments. Definitely a healthy economy. www.thestreet.com/employment/a...

“Not. Happy. Jan!”

Antitrust exists for more than one reason. There was an American conspiracy to destroy the laws, simply through convincing judges to never enforce it, by conservative actors, funded by businesses.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Who does this get offloaded onto? Pension funds. 401k's. Index funds. Risk doesn't just go away because it got parcelled off onto someone else.

Not to be a bit cliche, but there’s that bit from the start of Winter Soldier where Roger’s is all like “no polio, foods better we used to boil everything, etc” like yes. Medical achievements and better sanitation and food regs have saved millions of lives. Literal millions.

I always love how these pieces are like "i asked the ai agent why it fucked up and it told me it just ignored protections and did the thing." Yeah, it gave you a statistically reasonable response of contrition. That has nothing to do with the real reason why it happened.

I've migrated a good chunk of my dev over to neovim for personal stuff. Not thrilled to see vscode do this, when I use it pretty frequently at work.

My pal @puccanoodles.bsky.social made a bunch of her friends in Tomodachi Life and she gave me a floppy disk and it’s my most realistic portrayal in anything ever

Google should have been broken up a decade ago. Facebook too.

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

The kids are alright

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

when GitHub reached 89% uptime and we were like "oh my god, they've finally achieved zero nines of reliability" the reply guys all thought they were geniuses for saying "I see a nine right there!" anyway the uptime has continued to fall, and it is now well outside the Reply Guy Margin

not to make everything about AI, but AI is fundamentally anti-worker. it's a tool built and bought on the promise of lowering our collective value and concentrating wealth at the top. pro-union every day, but especially today: hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

Age verification laws are based in magical thinking. Full stop. All legal considerations, privacy, and human rights concerns aside, there is simply no safe, reliable or practical way for social media companies to verify the age of every single user. Full stop. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

New cars already have this kind of technology. I can be staring at the road, at the car in front of me, and the car will yell at me about being distracted. It would not surprise me in the slightest to find out that it's already being sent to Mazda. I can turn the feature off, but for how long?

Based on how some of my fellow students used to react to ethics for engineers. I suspect maybe that would have been a more effective course title.

Remember this every time a Reasonable Democrat says we should be onboard with legal/technical measures to stop minors from accessing adult content Once you create a category of Bannable Speech, you've created a tool for the powerful to ban any speech they want; just put it in the Bannable category.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Plausibly deniable indiscriminate killing machine.

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Smash-cut to the year 3058 and Earth looks like the Strogg home planet, and some alien species is dropping pods on us for retribution.

"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...

The current US administration literally wishes mRNA technology would actually just "go away."

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

It's a 104 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

I love that the counter-argument to "guys this isn't because it's vibe coded" is implicitly "it's because we're incompetent"

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

Stargate SG1, ten seasons. (1997-2007)

WTF? No. Stop it right now. This is insane at all levels. What would you even do about computers at public libraries. Oh, that's right, Republicans would probably like to remove the computers & the access to information by marginalized communities and vulnerable people @repherbconaway.bsky.social

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

One small task

"Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said he is open to the idea that Claude may already have some form of consciousness, and company leaders frequently talk about the need to give it a moral character." This is a sales pitch, and journalism that doesn't highlight this has failed.

FYI to people sharing this, the copilot feature isn't being removed, just the button

@jennschiffer.com is the proverbial thumb on the scale, I suspect.

Getting tired of being right all the time, it's truly exhausting What do I even do with all these "I told you the research said it had a 40% rate of lying! And that's even more dangerous than it sounds because they're subtle confident lies!" trophies I'm owed Do I like build a shelf? Hmm