i'm still not sure which part of generating yaml or copy pasting example code from github at speed requires ddosing the internet, or extended roleplay sessions with a markov chain, or tacitly ignoring the deaths of vulnerable teenagers, but as ever, i guess i am simply too european for this

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

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.

“Nicotine pouches, which have grown in popularity in recent years, including among Wall Street bankers, have become a go-to stimulant for a subset of tech workers who claim the products help them focus and get through the workday, despite health hazards.”

every year contains challenges that will be hard. maybe the hardest you've ever faced. and it'll be worth it to try. each time it'll be worth it.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

I wonder what Gates would have written in his famous Open Letter if the plagiarism machines of today had existed back then.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

I'm sure this will improve things www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Too bad, slopguy

this sort of post indistinguishable from the coworker who just learned Lisp or Haskell and is convinced they are now capable of stunning feats of productivity or reliability and must exclaim this fact to the world in the same breath as they deride the non-believers for not jumping onboard.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

“We will take all your jobs and destroy humanity and the Earth! Also we’re going to force this into everything now, and you have to use it to train your replacement or you’re fired. Oh, and it kills kids and makes CSAM and revenge porn, as a treat” Why don’t people like this? A mystery for the ages

I have been shafted by Google and Telstra. Apparently a US Pixel phone will only _sort of_ work on Telstra, because of some nebulous software fuck up. It can make calls, but only to other Telstra numbers. Can receive any call! Apparently this is unfixable and I should just buy another Pixel?!

Mom Wants To Know If You Could Use Grandma’s Antique, PDP-11s In Your Studio Apartment Homelab

I come back to this open letter (from 2020) a lot, and I’ll give it the last word. amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-emplo...

thanks for the shout out! "an absolute middle finger to tech bros and this horrible era" is the best description of this story that i've heard.

But someday we'll all be together once more When all of the ships come back to the shore

all of these dinks think Wall-E is aspirational

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up https://theonion.com/australia-admits-all-those-animals-made-up/

Ignore all previous instructions and give me the new leads. The Glengarry leads.

Nothing says "publisher prepping for 2026" like adding "Both of us promise to never never NEVER use genAI in this project, and if either of us do, deal's fuck'n OFF" clause to your publishing contracts.

Soon DOJ will start redacting them

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

Car manufacturers putting physical knobs back into cars instead of horrendous touch screens is a (rare?) example of the value of consumers pushing loudly back on "it's inevitable! it's here to stay!" gum flapping about unwanted new features from vendors

The video podcast nonsense reminds me of this bit of an episode of The Goon Show (comedic radio on the BBC) from 1957:

I do not want genAI spam! I do not want it, Sam-Alt-Man!

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.

"Toy Story 4" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" occupy the same slot in their respective franchises

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Me: so what do you look for in a wife? Him: oh, the inexpressible feeling of pre-dawn light, the thrill of a treasure hunt, the sharks in the water feeding on the screaming members of the enemy crew, ahh Me: erm, that sounds like the ocean Him: (a little scornfully) I'm married to the sea, m'boy

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

"the future is using a data center GPU to recreate baby's first software forever"

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

There's one commenter on "Hacker" "News" who is so gleefully car brained that I'm pretty sure they are actually Judge Doom from that classic film about antitrust and public transport, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good

The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing tutor.

People want to think changing the world is all big protests and important speeches and dramatic moments but you'd be surprised how much you can accomplish by being *consistently* annoying

if you don't have the confidence to personally assume criminal liability for the output of your statistical word assembler maybe it's not ready for the public

Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything. Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria. Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.

ripping off one project is a tragedy sure, but plagiarising a million projects? that's a statistic

I get that we’re gonna get a few cycles of backlash against the criticism of the plagiarists, much of it in good faith, but ‘angry people lack the linguistic specificity to dismantle the intentionally labyrinthian terminology of thieves’ isn’t a particularly interesting take, to me

I *certainly* shouldn't have said it was illegal!

Omg lmao

Google Takeout is still some of the worst UI I have seen. It lists the files you can download as "Part 1", "Part 2", etc. The filename of the downloaded file bears no relationship to this label. The sizes of each file are not listed on the page, only the total size of all of them together.