I'm truly, deeply alarmed at how the tech industry is trying to insert itself in every human interaction, getting between humans in every possible relationship, and they think that's "better" while absolutely destroying everything that makes society work.
The answer is MORE human-to-human interaction not LESS. FFS.
(screenshot from a substack that landed in my inbox, but you can see this same ethos everywhere, including strained attempts to portray chatbots with "theories of the mind")
apparently today is the 25th anniversary of the release of The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. Could be wrong. But anyway, putting it on, strikes me that they ahve mcuh more cogent thoughts about AI safety than any of the rationalists/techbros #ai#flaminglips#techbros#rationalists#rationalism
“The leak is a reminder that customers of nonconsensual porn makers are sharing their personal information with people who by definition don't respect other people's privacy, and that platforms like Patreon have their information as well.”
DIDN'T THE COURTS OR DoL RECENTLY SAY NDAs ARE ILLEGAL?
«I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.»
the very fact that techbros made up a word to insult people not in on the scam "nocoiners" puts them on a par w incels who call men who actually make women consider having sex with them "chads"
With this big Tech Bros vs Artists thing brewing, the Tech Bros will lose.
Artists bring joy to our lives while Tech Bros have been spying on us all the time and trying so damn hard to normalise White Supremacy (a sample of the multitude of their crimes), .....we fucking hate you guys.
Take your dead eyes and cheek microphones and fuck the fuck off
Say what you will about AI, but among the applications I am looking forward to is the scraping and synthesis of every manufacturer's catalogs. Since there are no copyright issues, it will give rise to a massive database for materials, processes, and parts sourcing. This is a typical source document that exists all over the web to be scraped.
I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company
Tech bros, thinking they could hurt the economy to help Trump, by firing 10 and twenty percent if random employees, AT GREAT COST, have let go thousands of people who should be bringing down the moronic tech bros with new companies and products,
From your mouth to the ears of every clever innovator fired.
May I just say that not being able to set your own fucking character limit on your own fucking Mastodon instance without having to fucking fork fucking Mastodon is a fucking pain in the fucking arse.
Thank you for listening and here’s wishing you a lovely day.
It does a lot of sane and interesting things, It was glissed because it was made by a bunch of #flossbros (too much leftist), then everybody called the experts and they came out with ActivityPub, which is a a W3C project, that means also the #TechBros are indirectly involved.
Maybe it is time to come back and rediscover it... 🤔
ALSO
i don't know what the hell people think is so great about the #Tesla aesthetic. they look like Mazda Miatas with a headache. then there's the spyware.
people are actually paying an apartheid-loving douche $60-$75,000 for a snitching Miata with an exploding headache and doors that won't open easily?
"Eight prominent U.S. newspapers owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, in a complaint filed Tuesday in the SDNY. On top of a similar case filed by NYT against both companies, the new suits add heft to publishers' claims."
Why enshittification of the internet is progressing so quickly - options are being destroyed one by one as monopoly power exerts itself.
"...So where have the missing companies gone? A 2023 paper by a trio of academics suggests a fairly straightforward answer: the Magnificent Seven ate them. Or at least a lot of them..."
before you go hustling for new work on these internets and fediverses, if you were laid off, HEAD TO THE CLOSEST #LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICE AND DEMAND YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
🗣️ LEARN #LABOR SOLIDARITY REAL QUICK BY DEMANDING YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
we need all the high income workers storming the Labor Department. why? because your employer is obligated to pay the other half portion of your benefits.
YOU ARE LITERALLY GIVING MONEY TO #TECHBROS BY NOT CLAIMING YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Consider how long it took society to realize the net negative that #SocialMedia is. How long before we saw the scam of the#gigeconomy for what it was? After a decade of breathless promises, people are no longer seriously waiting on #AutonomousVehicles and #Cryptocurrency is finally seen by the wider public as the toxic libertarian fraud it always was.
Consider all this and that #GenerativeAI has only been in the public consciousness for about a year and ALREADY non-tech-oriented outlets are lampooning it for the bald-faced nonsense that it is as well as the #techbros who shill it as the robber barons they are. I am not going to say that we have yet learned our lesson, but this is to me a very promising sign. #aiisascam#goodnewshttps://youtu.be/20TAkcy3aBY