To the Beautiful and also very Shitty Nation of Iran: please DO NOT mine the great and very inconsequential "Strait" of "Hormuz." Such a thing would be both Trivial and Devastating, and therefore a TOTAL LOSS!! With this warning I forthwith Declare that mining this "strait" would be Bad & Good
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Even "responsible" use entails paying digital rents to the techno-oligarchs who steal the labor of others
>Start war with Iran
>Everyone tells you Iran is gonna shut Hormuz
>Ignore them lol
>Iran shuts Hormuz
>Ohfuckwhatnow.png
>”uuuhhh we’re weighing options”
>Can’t Transformers hype edit your way out of this one
>”Yeah I’m calling it Epic Escort, sounds tough huh, yeah I came up with it myself”
Remember the mystery a few weeks ago, about how and why xAI was spitting out people's government names, even people who have only *ever* used a pseudonym professionally?
its cool how we’ve spent decades anticipating this exact scenario where a cornered iran would mine or otherwise deny access to the strait and the US gov is just like “woah, no idea they’d play this card in response to [operation: no iranian government official left alive]”
Your guide already highlights transparency and user trust; refining threat models, versioned documentation, user-centered examples, and layered information will make the advice more vivid and immediately actionable. All suggestions: Bruce Schneier, Eva Galperin
I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..."
Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."
yeah we all showed everyone this in 2015 and no one gave a shit
The "AI" industry holds the very idea of consent in contempt.
Stealing your words and voice and likeness are how they stay in business and make their money.
"Christianity, to be sure, comes in both liberationist and authoritarian interpretations, but it is anti-pluralist by default."
We will not achieve dunctional democracy unless we face this fact.
My latest for @theflytrapmedia.com
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"You go to sleep, the agent does the science and when you wake up, you have the results."
That's not how any of this works. You're not "doing research with help" you have sth. generated that looks like a research report. Without the research happening.
Hey, it's Flytrap Tuesday! This week, worker-owner @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social writes about how the media ignored evangelical support of Donald Trump--and now, we are all paying the price.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to oil. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
Angrily demanding to speak to the manager of Iran would probably be more productive if you didn't kill said manager's entire family first.
the greatest example of this was Michael Lewis and others watching Sam Bankman-Fried playing a shitty autobattler badly during meetings and concluding he must be a genius
this is semi-related but every once in a while I remember the (white) evangelical maoist podcaster on Twitter (look, left Christian Twitter was a fascinating place) who got mad at MLK for not advocating People's War against the government
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
One of my insta-block heuristics is people condescendingly calling events like No Kings protests "performative" or "a useless parade."
I didn’t have to use ChatGPT to know it tells you that you’re right even when you’re wrong. I’ve talked to people about their LLM usage, read reporting and studies about it, and seen what people have shared online. The idea that you HAVE to use something yourself to critique it is not always true
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’
www.ft.com/content/7cab...
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so what happened was, i read nine john le carré books, then i saw the pictures of the preposterous drapery SCIF at mar a lago where the iran war was being conducted, and then i thought about how many spies there must be at that place
and then i wrote a short story
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here's the interim (🙄) CEO of bsky shilling his VC investment in a wearable - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVd6...
