So "AI" has turned being a developer into a nightmare hellscape that I desperately want to eject from. I can't be the only one, what are some careers y'all are retraining towards to quit this godawful mess?

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

In 1993, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" made a Black man the star of a major sci-fi franchise and his character was like the Platonic ideal of a loving father, a great cook, a man who uplifted others, who was kind and tolerant but MILITANTLY so, and who also had flaws like any other human. Hail Sisko

Woah. His team should sue the magazine. This is bonkers. If a celeb doesn’t answer your request for an interview HOW is “I “interviewed” an AI version of you and published it” an ok thing to do when the celeb makes money off of THEIR image, time, and persona? (Also it’s just bad on a human level!)

And that's the problem: when you steal the entire Internet to create a statistical algorithm for determining the next word, you're going to end up outputting the statistically most likely next word. From the *internet*

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

The outright fascists are opposed by liberals for reasons that leftists often find disgusting - leftists oppose fascists because they do harm to people and because they do unethical things while liberals tend to oppose fascists because they're bad for the economy and cause major social disruptions.

Important to remember that most consumer-facing "A.i." is monstrously flawed and the billionaires who push it don't care, so if you sign a deal to sloppify yourself, there's a non-zero chance that your sloppergänger will eventually tell some kid to kill themself.

So he doesn't support trans equality

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Toss in a side of Stanislav Petrov and then add the note that the goal of military AI is to automate him out of existence

Disable ChatGPT on iOS Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions Toggle on Content & Policy Restrictions Tap Intelligence & Siri Select Intelligence Extensions > Don’t Allow Review the rest on the options on the previous screen Let me know if I got anything wrong here

my take on game industry finance is any analysis of dev time, dev cost, sale pricing etc. is pointless without acknowledging the role of big capital in systematically acquiring and extracting all of the wealth it‘s like giving someone diet and exercise advice while Dracula is actively killing them

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

i'm not saying I'm responsible or anything but Shaidorov was so adorable after being told he won at least bronze I did say, "what if the other two have a bad skate and he wins gold?"

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

“Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.” https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/vibe-prototyping-isn-t-solving-any-problems-but-it-s-creating-many-new-ones > AI created an environment where good design is impossible

The fuck did you just say to us

If I can think of something even more useless to stick at the top of every email, I'll let you know

started a new book series, i suppose it could be called grimdark fantasy. the first senseless, needless, unjust, and meaningless death just happened…..what- do i hate read the rest of the series for a potential modicum of justice or does no one need this right now? (not euphemism, actually a book)

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Hey, you better get on board with this technology, you don't wanna get left behind, etc.

There is no reality in which there is "room for genAI" I continue to unfollow and eyeroll at my peers who purport to be some flavor of "reasonable" (aka "centrist") on this. I am disgusted that you would "explore the possibilities" of added convenience in _this_ technology and what it's doing.

It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

hat tip to the absolute legend that runs the clock at the Balmoral in Edinburgh. People are out for new years and they set the clock back. Good lookin’ out! (They have a big clock near Waverley train station and they usually run 5 minutes fast so people don’t miss their train)

Okay I think I am kind of bored of vibe coding… Just prompting really isn’t that interesting. Need to think of ways to mix it up and maybe do more of it manually? Idk. I also don’t feel like I’m learning anything. 🤷‍♀️

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

I think we should actively encourage ad integration into LLM chatbots. Nothing gets people to dump their credible idiot friend that's wrong 5 times a day like said friend shilling an MLM.

I would like to see just one journalist quote Charlie Kirk’s problematic comments to Matt Shaw and ask him to respond.

Reiner as both a political and cultural figure is a grand lesson in how art matters. It’s not just the “art films” that matter, it’s the fun stuff too, the silly stuff, the seemingly inconsequential. It all matters because we matter, it’s all that deep because so are we.

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

If something is tedious or clunky, your reaction shouldn't be "let's have the machine write it," it should be "how can I redesign this to be less tedious or clunky."

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This hits close to home, I’ve worked at a place like this.

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

The more you utilize the library, for literally any thing, the more they get to point at usage statistics and go "see, give us more money"

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

The whole "you can break LLM 'safeguard' trainings by using poetic reformulations, even those produced through another LLM remix" just kind of further confirms that these are superficial pattern matchers, and that this is all they are. No intelligence at home.

It's hard to get neurotypicals to understand "I didn't do the task because I was so intensely aware of the need to do this that my brain built a wall around the concept of doing it", so we just say "I didn't do the task because I forgot."

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad