“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

hngggg Sam Barnett!!!

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Stressed out? World a mess? Having an existential crisis? Seriously, go check the #aurora trending feed. It's stunning, incredible, mind-blowing - and great for a little 5min brain break. bsky.app/profile/tren...

One day, I, too, will see the northern lights with my own eyeballs.

Polar lights over Hamburg! My.first ones!

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

fucking dystopian. How is this allowed?

That kind of a day in NYC.

Von all den Dingen, die ich je mit Medien gemacht habe, scheint die Check.Pod Folge mich Checker Tobi das mit Abstand coolste zu sein, was ich je gemacht habe (laut vieler Menschen mit Kindern, die mich kennen :p).

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

oh who COULD have forseen that this was an atrociuous idea .... Infantino needs to resign. Trump needs to be impeached. What a mess. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fucking yikes

it's going great .........

What the fuck is happening? Why is NOBODY saying no to this absolute bullshit?

Once again, this is all I can think of when I read the news about what ICE are doing in the US right now. youtu.be/Lzz50xENH4g?...

That is causes a decline in service quality is just so obvious. Has been from the start. It's not too late to jump off the sinking ship and go back to valueing human labour, flexibility and creativity. Fuck AI.

Ich kann diesen Menschen kaum noch ertragen. Statt sich um die wirklichen Probleme im Land zu kümmern, wird jeden Tag eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben und auf die gespuckt, die das Land am Laufen halten.

In der S-Bahn: "Ich begrüße Sie zu unserer Fahrt nach Wiesbaden mit allen Unterwegshalten. Das sind alle, die Halt und einen Bahnsteig bieten." (@[email protected]) #BahnAnsagen

LLMs are spam generators. That is all. They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent". But really, all they are is spam generators. We have hit the spamularity.

Blocklist for all US Gov accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Elmar Schenkel schreibt einmal mehr einen sehr wichtigen Text. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

can it just stay down?

Fuck GenAI

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

Es gibt übrigens keinen „Streit“ oder „Konflikt“ um Grönland. Es gibt einen vollkommen durchgeknallten Imperialisten im weißen Haus, dem Recht scheißegal ist und der engen Verbündeten mit militärischer Aggression droht.

Can people please just stop saying no to the orange clown and keep sticking to it? It's literally the only way to deal with a bully. ffs grow some balls, people! You know he won't do shit for you as soon as he feels you no longer lick his boots.

delete spotify (they also sponsor AI killing people)

Not exactly the same, but a similar situation here.

Sadly I missed both the in person meeting and the zoom for this so I am grateful to get to catch up this way and see all the lovely people <3

Was glad to review F. Pianzola's "Digital Social Reading" for the current issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend (and it's OA)! journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr @fpianz.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Ironically, this is also exactly what OpenAI et al. do. There's a strong connection between these kinds of imperialist ideas.

The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds

Windows11 is just so utterly, horrendously bad. Who the fuck even greenlit this? Can we please go back to a functional system that doesn't eat itself? The amount of work I can't get done because shit doesn't work! Gah!

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

I have zero regrets not watching the last season.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

Herr Merz, schreiben Sie mal bitte mit.

"average british person hates 3 trans people a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hates 0 trans people per year. JK Rowling, who lives in cave & hates over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Das, was Daniel Günther sagt, gefällt AfD-BroSis und ihren Kulturkampf-Medien natürlich nicht: 👉 „Die AfD ist eine Partei, die aktiv daran mitwirkt, Demokratie und demokratische Institutionen zu desavouieren sowie die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung abzuschaffen.“ #AfDVerbotsverfahren? „Ja!“

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

Nachdem es zu einer "Überproduktion" von Kartoffeln kam, haben sich Ecosia und Berliner Morgenpost zusammengeschlossen, um die kostenlose Verteilung zu organisieren. 🥔🥔🥔 Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

Er fühlt sich zurecht verarscht. Die Mutigen werden im Stich gelassen.

Jupiter showing off tonight!