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tess, 5 days ago to random

manic pixie torment nexus

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155652/chatgpt-voice-mode-gpt4o-upgrades

trochee, 25 days ago to random

May I never ever ever be the kind of guy who Ed Zitron gets a hate on for

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Just a devastating career-long rundown of the dude who drove Google search into the ground, and some of the people on whose necks he stepped along the way

Via @mhoye

trochee, 5 months ago to random

I propose that 2024 be the year of no more "sprints".

organize your work into "strolls", and connect up those strolls into "rambles".

aw dammit now I want a book pitch for the "randonneur's guide to software development".

mekkaokereke, 14 days ago to random

This paper is trash. We do this every few years.

The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is:

• Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies.
• Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

1/N

mekkaokereke, 8 days ago to random

If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

trochee, 1 month ago to random

Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

trochee, 1 year ago to random

> Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but buying a $25,000 La Marzocco espresso machine, if the La Marzocco was also bad at making espresso, but could, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso.

The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs | Defector
https://defector.com/the-computers-are-coming-for-the-wrong-jobs

trochee, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The boom in LLMs is going to hollow out a number of knowledge-worker industries — for example, writing boilerplate code or technical documentation

Not because it does it well but because the flacks can sell upper management on the idea that it can do it at all, as @pluralistic recently pointed out

This sale is a pig-in-a-poke, and the winning move is to not be holding the bag when the actual code or documentation is found to be terrible

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trochee, 2 months ago to random

Louder again, for the people in the back. This is why Ned Ludd rose up!

> AI companies make money by selling models to companies hoping to fire their workers.
> for that to work, companies have to plan on making money by firing their workers and replacing them with AI.
> If no company was interested in this proposition, we wouldn't have to worry

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112088883766763211

trochee, 1 month ago to random

This thread of trains driving on grassy tracks is pure solarpunk competency porn in the vein of @annaleen 's THE TERRAFORMERS

(via @blogdiva ; thx!)
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/112168979067387415

trochee, 3 months ago to random

one of my co-workers confused Animal Crossing with Animal Farm before coffee, and made this brilliant thing

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-campaign-fundraising-five-percent-00152830

trochee, 1 month ago to random

OMG this is so good

as someone who has been in a fairly exciting field (speech and language tech) for >25 years and at least a dozen technical self-reinventions, this 💯 rings true

The negotiation cycle. — Ethan Marcotte ( @beep ) via @grimalkina
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-negotiation-cycle/

trochee, 3 months ago to random

the current AI boom is 100% "put a bird on it"

but that bird is a stochastic parrot 🦜

with apologies to @emilymbender and @lzg

trochee, 4 months ago to random

Musk is trying to turn his loss to the NLRB into a corporate headshot against any federal recognition of labor whatsoever

Gloves and mask are off; he really wants to be the manifestation of racialized Capital embodied in saggy middle-aged flesh

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/111701537379211149

trochee, 1 month ago to random

This article is one enormous [citation needed]

> “I’m more optimistic because we have been using the tool a lot, and some of the insights we’re starting to get from a scientific standpoint are things that none of our scientists were aware of,” he added.

Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/18/2024/moderna-ceo-says-ai-will-help-understand-most-diseases-in-3-to-5-years

trochee, 2 months ago to random

Six forms of AI-driven dehumanization, and six forms of cognitive scientist resistance

thanks @emilymbender for sharing this preprint of https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231217286

(preprint at https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Bender-2024-preprint.pdf)

trochee, 5 days ago to random

OH at work:

"giving out medals for firefighting quietly encourages arson"

this is a post about software engineering

StefanThinks, 1 month ago to random

Inspired by Stephen Hawking, to test if time travel is possible, I threw a party for time travelers but sent out the invitations afterward to see if anyone came.

Nobody came, but I don't know if it’s because time travel doesn't exist or everyone hates me.

trochee, 9 months ago to random

Oh man, Sinead and Pee-wee in the same week

A rough week for us gen-x weirdos

trochee, 1 year ago to random

A mild-mannered (but deep) burn on a great many self-serving technosolutionists, from @PavelASamsonov

> If your goal is to "create value," solving the problems of the people with the fewest problems may not be the best place to start!

https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/110374060820177995

plaguepoems, 17 days ago to random

It would be easier
if our world was run
by heartless monsters
unspeakable eldritch creatures
out of a tale of horror
unable to imagine
the suffering of others
but our world is not run
by heartless monsters
it is run by human beings
unwilling to imagine
the suffering of others.

trochee, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

NO RELATION. I don't know him.

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

(But let me tell you about the Joe Kahn I am related to: 1/3)

xgranade, 21 days ago to random

Hot take: that "AI" manifestly doesn't work makes it even all the more clear of a snapshot of what it would look like if an actual quantum computer was ever built.