It's got to sting. You base your whole strategy on blaming last Govt for inflation caused by a global price shock, and then another one pops up as you head into the election! Now, can you invest in lessening the impact? Well, yes, but you can't because you've made fiscal constraint your thing! Lol.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The consequences of the hard pivot to slopware are going to be brutal. I have to hope that there's going to be a pivot back eventually, once the damage really starts to show. But given how much tech has enshitified over the last decade without any meaningful pushback, I don't know...

We are entering an era of degenerative coding. All of pop coding and React's worst tendencies are increasingly coded into the tools everyone is using, things will break and the solution will be to move to the next thing, everything will appear to be working while behind the scenes nothing will work.

automate the world's misinformation is the new organize the world's information

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

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This is so fucking stupid. The issue in the viral videos by Husk isn't that ChatGPT can't be a timer... IT'S THAT IT LIES AND SAYS IT CAN! It's all well and good that you can eventually roll a timer-tool into it, but it will KEEP LYING ABOUT OTHER THINGS.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

You know it's bad when this isn't an op-ed. It's a news article from the largest public broadcaster of the US's closest ally. Not really sure how the US comes back from this. Who wants an ally that just whimsically starts wars, threatens genocide, and tanks the global economy? Absolute clown show.

Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function. Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just having to un-repost this constantly in order to repost it.

Fact check: false. I'm not blocking ads, Snopes. You can show me ads. You just can't breach my privacy by using third party cookies or browser fingerprinting, which are completely unnecessary to show me ads.

1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️

Yes, this. aramzs.xyz/thoughts/don...

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

So, what should we be doing? 1. Focus Govt spending (and bank lending) on supporting the real domestic economy. 2. Avoid investments and strategies that increase our current account deficit (energy sovereignty ffs). 3. Focus tax collection on rentiers and lazy wealth. [Ends]

imo what makes computers a source of epistemic leverage is precisely the ironclad reliability of deterministic formal systems it's the ability to know that the information you get out of a computer relates in a well-defined way to what you put in if you take that away then you have a dancing bear

we are on day two of butthurt about this; apparently people don't like that i used the phrase "fact-checking" because apparently the computer CAN-ish perform the role of journalistic fact checker if you give it enough prostheses, but what i really meant was "emit statements which are factually true"

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

This is so, so well-articulated.

"[T]he agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most clear-eyed reader of contractual terms might suspect. It retains lots of your data and is even willing to hide its authorship from open-source projects that reject AI."

Remember when this tactic was a major plot point in The Hunger Games Mockingjay, used to show that supposed good characters had become as evil as the oppressors they were fighting against?

mild take: we're watching silicon valley get very excited about their tools in the same way a guy with a huge wall of ryobi stuff thinks his collection is more important than what he does with the tools

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

We have moved, in my adult life, from "you can't trust Wikipedia because they don't even have any gatekeepers" to "we gotta rely on Wikipedia to hold the line because universities have been coopted"

The Government’s planned $1 billion gas import terminal could raise energy prices and carbon emissions, Parliament’s environment watchdog has warned in a letter to the energy minister. #nzpol #lng newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/l...

Truly extraordinary that a country famed for a constitution of checks and balances turned out to be so exposed to a leadership personality cult.

Yeah, this is the problem!

how diffie hellman key exchange works (with as little math as possible)

This is the way

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

But I was told Hollywood was cooked... finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

This post by @mozilla.org's VP Eng (Andrew Overholt) is welcome news. For far too long, Mozilla has been nearly silent as Apple suppressed real choice in browsers, and any break with that inglorious patterns should be celebrated: blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/20... /via @open-web-advocacy.org

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

"when the briefs are unclear" babe understanding the brief, figuring out how to produce the solution, working toward this goal IS THE ASSIGNMENT

Keir Starmer has dragged the UK into this war against our will. UK bases face further attacks - putting military personnel and civilians in the potential line of fire. This is a Prime Minister who promised a vote before any military action - that must now happen on Monday.

There’s soo many things to drag this govt on I can’t believe they are still around tbh: -Cost of living: like they did nothing -Tax cuts: no one has seen them -Childcare rebate: ditto -THE FERRIES WTF -Pay equity -Unemployment -Voter suppression -Climate crisis inaction: EV, Solar etc Epic fail.

The fact that many tech CEOs find LLMs extremely useful for their day-to-day work says more about what these CEOs bring to the table than it says about the capabilities of LLMs.

The most consistently accurate frame to understand the appearance of articles like this is knowing that The Guardian and OpenAI have a partnership.

I have a bright student who excitedly told me about an AI tool she used to organize her notes before a test. She ended up having her worst grade of the year because she probably never internalized anything before that test.

But I was told it was inevitable!

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

If you haven’t watched this before, you really should. The brilliant Dr. Carl Sagan testifying before the United States Congress in 1985 on #ClimateChange. We should have listened then. Will we now? Remember, climate change isn’t an on & off switch. It’s an exponential dial. We’re making it worse.

Google's own email service (Gmail) classifies its own email, from Google, about its own AI product, as spam.

This Iran situation isn't looking great. But surely our politicians have been taking steps to reduce our dependence on oil. Would be very concerned if not thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...

This. You can’t just scoop the bias out with a spoon. It’s emergently woven into the fabric all this data comes from to begin with.

This crisis has also exposed a deeper failure in the Government’s long-term planning. They cancelled the Clean Car Discount, weakened the Clean Car Standard, hiked public transport fares & are locking in further exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices with their LNG terminal.