Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains

I’ll Log Off When I’m Dead

Happy year of the fire horse [Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]

really resent any UI that makes me push a button that says “let’s go”

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more: www.404media.co/students-are...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

using Claude Code is like summoning the Mimic Tear ash in Elden Ring

every day I wake up to be brutally facemogged

I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

I had an email exchange with a guy yesterday who insisted I was making a mistake not outsourcing my writing to an LLM. He said, "It knows more than you do." He couldn't understand that this was impossible because the work of writing is figuring out what "I" think.

All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

Nicola Bayley

hair growing out and I look like the 67 kid

I think Paul is fundamentally correct that even if AI companies went bust, the tech is here forever. What boosters consistently fail to consider though is without the soft touch from the media, without the relentless boosting and without the mandates, is the usage gonna be anything like current? no

displacing poor communities for the most part

this site still needs fewer mastodon vibes as well as group DMs

This tech is pretty common now but I don't think people fully understand what it means that anyone including police can use it www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists www.404media.co/the-washingt...

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

would it surprise you to learn that one of the most annoying crypto lolcows on here has pivoted to AI

we still know who you are

computers be like "this shit true asf" and it's the number 1

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

one of the many reasons you should sub to @404media.co

good article

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“Not only is most of the chatter on Moltbook meaningless, but there’s also a lot more human involvement that it seems. Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots.”

GenAI is a wonderful technology for generating infinite toil. We will be painstakingly undoing its damage for generations. We’ve already made a superfund site of our collective knowledge.

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The AI data center "buildout is overwhelmingly powered by natural gas." Despite claims re: alternative generation, "the equipment actually being installed in 2025 and 2026 is almost entirely gas-fired. Renewable capacity, where committed, is scheduled for 2028 or later. Nuclear is a decade away."

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

My trusted device

we really need to shut down Nature Comment until we can figure out what’s happening

"desocialization" (like "social deskilling") is a good term for what was once talked about in terms of "social graph" vs. "interest graph," or of "algorithmic recommendation" nymag.com/intelligence...

Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination

is Minnesota Man the inverse Florida Man

I feel at this point that LLMs should be harder to access and their use cases much better regulated

burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...

there’s a French Mr. Bean in my coworking space