fuck you

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

even putting this fresh hell aside: piracy remains a more ethical alternative to spotify, because you’re not pretending to be ethical while giving your money to the owners of a platform that only substantially rewards its already rich artists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI is more unpopular than ICE

Executives are childlike fantasists who kneejerk adopt anything that sounds like it’ll replace human labor. Not one of them thought about the downsides because the magic beans were too tempting not to scarf down. They’re so desperate for free labor they’ll pay billions for the promise of it.

Getting old means watching history repeat itself as farce again & again & again... 1st AI bubble I saw was in the late 80s & very brief: as usual, CEOs wanted to goose share prices & "discipline labor" by automating expertise. Didn't work then, won't work now. Question is: why don't ppl remember?

Lest you younguns think I'm making this up...AI has been chugging along as a political-project-cloaked-in-tech for almost 60yrs. The political project is: deskill & devalue experts. Because experts are not only costly, they represent a source of power against capital. cacm.acm.org/opinion/how-...

watched PROJECT HAIL MARY. it was alright! i tell you what tho: good job the earth was getting colder, because if it was getting hotter nobody would have done shit

Counterpoint: No I will not

"...the biggest problem with AI is the foundationally awful oligarchs in charge of its trajectory, scope, and implementation. The biggest problem with AI is terrible human beings."

"I figure that if billionaires and brands are going to try to beat us into AI submission, it’s only fair we get to take a few swings...It’s time to give a voice to those who don’t view AI as an inevitability but a liability." "Now is our time."

An excellent video on something that every cyclist has to deal with daily. youtu.be/ZUUc_5Ce-fA?...

and like, when someone says, "AI is the future; you must conform" you can just say, "fuck you;" you don't have to first add the caveat, "well maybe AI can help with some programming tasks, but..."

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

that guardian novels list needs more stories about rich english people being sad in the past!

Same with translation. You don't want to do the work? Don't be a translator.

Okay but look, what about the fact that "AI" objectively _is_ bad (As in produces a lot less socially beneficial value than the cost it creates). ("Useless" is a straw man).

The dream of the 1990s is alive again 🥹

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

While everyone is watching hantavirus I'm actually much more eager to learn more about the Ebola outbreak in DRC's Ituri Province that Africa CDC has confirmed. Early information makes it sound very large for an outbreak that has just been reported: "about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths"

Baric, who is among the most-cited coronavirus researchers in the world, says his lab’s work played pivotal roles in helping companies bring COVID drugs and vaccines to market, saving millions of lives. “My payment for this is to be debarred?” he asks. “I’m being strung out for being a scientist.“ 🧪

"Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly." No, they won't. Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

I have chronic pain issues that make it hard to write or do anything at all, and I have disabilities that compound on those issues too, and I write all the goddamn time without using AI because I'm not also a fucking loser.

Make this CEO nonsense make sense: 'The cost of human translation...had until now been defined by the number of neurons we have in the brain. “That’s around 100bn,” Trombetti said. “But if we change that, then we change the unit economics of translation.”' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is all about this (publisher created) embarrassment of a book cover 👇 What? You don't remember how "Pretty Space Cat Sorceress Nyan-Chama" changed the world?

listening and learning, thank you john roberts