@alex I <3 "this is what demonology looks like" and might need to get that on a AI Hype Theater t-shirt somehow

How to quit #spotify by @brianmerchant https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify

My spicy take of the day: Bring. Back. Administrative Assistants. For fucks sake, have people in the office who are literally professionals in drafting and editing memos, scheduling meetings, figuring out travel, coordination with other folks, hell, making a good cup of coffee. It's IMPORTANT […]

one day the “moderate” autoconfabulator pushers will understand that the primary use case of autoconfabulators is anti-labour. but not today, and not before the bubble crashes the economy.

Seen on Reddit: "42 is just old people 6 7" And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.

[AI, mental health, awful] The most evil part is where the companies are all, like, "We're putting in safeguards for vulnerable people" like every person alive isn't "vulnerable" to having ideas put in their head. Your brain is a squishy slippery complicated vulnerable little thing and if you […]

There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

My dining room hasn't been this clean since, well, *last* Thanksgiving. #happycolonizerday (as my neighbor said to me this morning!)

Just checked out some truly excellent books from the library to read to my 4-year-old: Adèle & Simon by Barbara McClintock (things to find), The Marvelous Now by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (rhyming & positive encouragement about mood regulation), and Forts by Katie Venit & […]

TIL about a real thing called the Shai-Hulud Compromise; and all i can say is These F'in People https://www.wiz.io/blog/shai-hulud-2-0-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

I very much believe that if capitalism hadn't tried to turn large language models into infinite money and they were strictly in computer science land, people would find it really cool the idea that weighted sums can independently figure out relative meanings of words via context clues is […]

Oof the AI world is eating its own here Somehow Google's AI got the wrong end of the stick about Meta's AI and Murati's AI and who is getting hired by whom everybody's grifting all the time forever

I actually like this a lot. Don’t hire jerks. (I’ll save you a click: she asks the receptionist whether the candidates treated them well. I agree that it speaks volumes.) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/former-netflix-chief-talent-officer-used-this-test-to-weed-out-disastrous-hires.html

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

It is being normalized. Just not how they want us to believe.

hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff. Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Check out the nifty article from my (younger, wiser) brother about the oligopoly on smartphones, and what you can do about it. https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly

not exaggerating when I say that this should be grounds for impeachment. it's not a crime, but it is I think a "high misdemeanor"; a flagrant abuse of office demonstrating sweeping contempt for the first amendment and the American people.

Convincing one's coworkers that *checking in the code* will make it easier to get "AI productivity wins" feels dirty Like trying to tell somebody that joining the union will clear up their acne and improve their pheromone profile Doing the right thing for silly and wrong reasons

Tell me you've never watched Star Trek without telling me #sttos #startrek

being stupid is such an incredible life hack

Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college "AI made simple for everyday life" ... And look at what comes next: "Flaggers certification" The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that […] [Original post on dair-community.social]

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users! Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox. Mozilla: Not like that. #mozilla #users #ai #nobodywants #firefox #listening

Yesterday at work someone was talking about how they had to write a toast for a coworkers anniversary and they were nervous cause they weren’t good at it. They said maybe they’d write a first draft and then pass it through an LLM to make it funnier. Another coworker responded saying that for […]

I guess it required a study to confirm that being a lame racist zealot with a head full of cottage cheese is bad for business

My brilliant (almost) 13-year-old is learning about verbal nouns and adjectives in his language studies class This morning I discovered that he pronounces "gerund" with the stress pattern of "Gerard"* not "Jared" And now I'm doubting *my own* pronunciation of that word * His choice is almost […]

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned

Not going to sugar coat it, I think it's a pretty idiotic thing to do to compare Zohran Mamdani's margin in NYC , in 3-person race off the usual left-right spectrum, to Kamala Harris's margin in 2024. So stupid as to make you question the intentions of the author www.thirdway.org/memo/ten-rea...

when compiling C code, enable the -fPIE option to compile to Proto-Indo-European, for maximum compatibility with all CPU architectures developed on the Eurasian continent

For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed […] [Original post on chaosfem.tw]

incredible pun work in the replies. bluesky, the official social network for dads

Lord help me I'm starting to enjoy coding in C++. I find myself saying "if you're writing *that* kind of C++ you've done something wrong at the design stage" I caught myself feeling grateful that the language punishes you with unreadability and untestability when you do too much in one […]

This is just basic risk management. A _trivial_ expense compared to the massive earth-shattering damage that the disruption of PSF services will do to your business. Sure, you could attempt to be a freeloader, and you may think that market logic demands that, but *all* risk mitigation is "optional".

I try to avoid posting about Jewish stuff on here but I've been itching to say something for days. In my opinion Mamdani's promise to defend the right of Jews to determine what is taught in their yeshivas tells me that he actually understands the interests of American Jews are much better than […]

The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam. #wishthiswasmicrofiction

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114837239641362654 IN OTHER #teenvogue NEWS so some of y’all found my July call to Mackenzie Scott to buy out the editorial crew from Teen Vogue and set them up in a new publication to rival them and all arts, culture & politics mags. with news of Condé […]

After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.

Lysenkoist devops practices "You must use AI because AI makes you more efficient" "but, uh it's not making me more efficient" "the Party has decreed that it *does* make you more efficient, off to the gulag for you"

They say that before the Thousand Suns, the sky was black, but for the pinpricks of other worlds. No one has seen it, for a dozen generations since the sky was lost to us. We have calculated a path through the debris, our vessel Noxifer will shoot down the sunsats; Nightfall will come. #tootfic […]

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

Coworker is using a multi-billion-dollar coding assistant to read regression-test error messages back to them ... error messages that I wrote specifically so that they could be interpreted by a non-expert, including suggestions about "what to do if you see this message" so now they're is […]

> Companies that can find the courage to trust their people, who bet on caring and curation and small models as differentiators instead of just rebadging big company products will have better choices and they’ll make better choices. Among the bangers here: Pattern Recognition And Repetition | […]

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is - transparently wrong - brutal - tacky, and - necessary to take seriously anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason https://journa.host/@w7voa/115412469811918135

This is the most punk thing I've ever heard of. This guy got his physics phd then proceeded to use it to create open source plans for everything you need to start a civilization. Definitely going in my digital apocalypse kit (wait, you don't have one?!), and this guy is now one of my heroes […]

"The cost to use AI is currently artificially low but, on the other hand, the demand is also low." Is... that that really an "other hand" it sounds like it's the same hand?

The president. Of the United States. Used artificial intelligence. To generate a video of himself. Defecating on the American people. And there's no mention of it. In the New York Times. Instead, they went with this pressing news.