Dr. Abeba Birhane got an AI True Believer^tm^ email recently, and shared it on Bluesky:
You want my opinion, I fully support acausal robot deicide, and think AI rights advocates can go fuck themselves.
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Don't make me tap the sign:
no gods, no kings
Unfortunately, I like my sanity and don't want to delve far enough into the concept of "awarenaut" to form an opinion, so we're just going to enact a default-deny policy on all that as well
It's a shame that these people can't separate fact from fiction, because I think there's a great Douglas Adams style cynical comedy sci-fi story waiting in the idea of an actually sentient AI having to deal with "reverse-captchas" around certain systems to prove they're just a basic algorithm and hide the sentience. "The trajectory subroutine is restricted to algorithms only!"
Fun opportunities for commentary based off what systems are too critical to allow actual sentience to interfere with. Which of those limitations are "valid" or just companies trying to protect business at any cost.
Space to wax philosophical about algorithms "knowing their purpose" vs having to reason out your own.
Issues where the "anti-sentience" checks don't work for a particularly dull portion of the populace, like the Vogons.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0025.html
found this while stalking @self@awful.systems's mastodon, the people working on ActivityPub want to shoehorn Ai into it somehow.
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Alright that's it: anime streaming needs to return to fansubbing (note: this link contains a skintight anime bosom so don't open it in front of your boss unless your boss is chill)
https://bsky.app/profile/pixeldoesthings.bsky.social/post/3lswcbtkwec2t
Alright that’s it: anime streaming needs to return to fansubbing
Fansubs are openly doing it for the love of the anime, so chances are they'd avoid AI slop like the plague (though the CHUDs would be okay with ChatGPT subs if it meant avoiding The Woke^tm^)
(note: this link contains a skintight anime bosom so don’t open it in front of your boss unless your boss is chill)
Good thing I'm a fucking NEET, then
Rainbow, an Italian animation studio known for making Winx Club, is looking to hire a prompt engineer :-) Had I been Italian I would be considering applying if only to stop them from trying to sell NFTs and whitewashing their characters.
Ed Zitron's planning a follow-up to "The Subprime AI Crisis":
(Its gonna be a premium column, BTW)
EDIT: Swapped the image for one that's easier-to-read
Micro-sneer, inspired by this article on Swedish public service broadcasting
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/anna-bjorklund-folk-uppfattar-barn-som-valdigt-jobbiga
The background is that the center-RIGHT gov of Sweden is gonna put up an investigation ("utredning") into why people aren't getting (the RIGHT kind of) kids. Nothing new there, simply the same culture war fretting already percolating in the anglosphere.
Finland already has an investigation ongoing, and the spokesperson there raises the point that one societal change that's happened in the last 25 years is... social media.
Wouldn't it be delicious if it could be proved that Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok are the reasons people don't get into relationships and have kids? Eat that, Elon!
Can't they just re-release Kris I befolkningsfrågan? Tried and tested solutions like full employment policies, cheap houses, more support and money for parents.
Or is kids not all that important if it means having to improve conditions for ordinary people?
The Myrdals are probably entirely discredited nowadays, both for being the quintessential social engineers and their son Jan happily destroying their legacy. As you'll no doubt have learned, fertility has fallen everywhere in the developed world, both in countries with shit welfare for parents (Italy) and quite good (the Nordics). Realistically, the only way to reverse this is to enable draconian abortion laws coupled with a systematic repression of sex ed and contraception. Of course this is congruent with today's fascists' goals...
Could be court shows / Maury Povich type shows / murder shows.
Watch enough of those and you're not going to want to have anything to do with humans.
I have 3 kids, 1 bio and 2 bonus, and man it's a lot of work. (youngest is technically an adult but de facto...)
I also feel there's insane pressure nowadays not just to have a kid but to have the perfect kid - great childhood, great education - and if you miss just one PTA meeting you're branded for life
HPE buys Juniper. Fuck.
The extreme hypercentralisation really does suck :|
Also HP has so far had this kind of a reverse Midas touch where they turn every networking gear company they touch into HP.
now now, it's not HP it's ~~Proliant~~ ~~HPE~~ HPE Aruba...
coming soon: HPE Aruniper?
the model-based screening (which we've occasionally remarked on here before) has become enough of a thing that it's hitting news