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kibiz0r

@ kibiz0r @midwest.social

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  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • Not saying mod was wrong but… It’s weird how we define politics.

    Like, if portals started randomly appearing all over the Earth, spawning little goblins that like to turn human bodies inside-out, that would pretty clearly not be politics — but only for like 2 months.

    After a while, the political parties would settle on their positions (probably with one of them calling it a hoax), and from that point forward saying “I can’t believe people are okay with the inside-out goblins” will be labeled “political”.

    Which I guess is basically how fascism wins so easily. As long as it’s impolite to acknowledge the horrors of the world, it’s okay for them to continue.

  • Avocado toast is out. Rotisserie chicken is in.

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  • If they were interested in doing favors for humanity, they wouldn’t be working at WSJ

  • SUV Rule

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  • You can stop making trucks taller at any point, but everyone else’s LED headlights will be right at your eye level

  • Locked

    That's not lemonade

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  • Multiple things can be true at once.

    • The election process in the US is horribly constructed in the first place
    • It’s executed even more poorly
    • Nevertheless, voting does determine who sits in the seat
    • It does matter who sits in the seat
    • The person who sits in the seat will represent the wealthy and powerful, not you
    • It does matter who represents the powerful, because they can be pushed (by the people, and by the powerful) in different ways
    • Even if we get the right person in the seat, and do a very good job of pushing them, it won’t be enough
    • We need to do it anyway, because that act of organizing isn’t only to influence politicians — it’s also to influence ourselves, and improve our ability to find a path to real victory

    Don’t think that voting alone is sufficient. Don’t think that voting and organizing are sufficient. But also don’t think that voting and organizing are not necessary.

  • This is absolutely why I wouldn't make it

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  • But “shoot” is why you went in there!

  • Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

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  • They don’t want to save capitalism. They believe capitalism is about to be over, and they want to be in control of whatever it is that comes next.

  • US Democrats: proud of deportations

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  • You might wanna check out what immigration looks like on the easiest setting: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/

    This is a photo of my second O-1 ("Alien of Extraordinary Ability") visa application. It's 800 pages long:

    The next one was 1200 pages long.

  • Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

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  • They're worried they're not spending enough on AI.

    Classic MLM tactics. “If you’re not seeing a return on Herbalife, it’s cuz you’re not spending enough on it!”

  • ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations"

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  • This sounds eerily familiar…

    I don’t know if Hearst told him to use a chatbot to generate their “Best of Summer Lists,” but it doesn’t matter. When you give a freelancer an assignment to turn around ten summer lists on a short timescale, everyone understands that his job isn’t to write those lists, it’s to supervise a chatbot.

    But his job wasn’t even to supervise the chatbot adequately (single-handedly fact-checking 10 lists of 15 items is a long, labor-intensive pro­cess). Rather, it was to take the blame for the factual inaccuracies in those lists. He was, in the phrasing of Dan Davies, “an accountability sink” (or as Madeleine Clare Elish puts it, a “moral crumple zone”).

    https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

  • No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate

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  • I feel like I’ve been saying this every day since like 2015 (Or maybe 2001. Or maybe 1999. Idk. Anyway…) but: This is a really bad idea.

  • Words Without Consequence

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  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • AI (through agents, but even completions to an extent) extends your reach and reduces your grasp.

    For some sectors, that’s perfectly acceptable. There are plenty of codebases that don’t need to worry about keeping devs accountable.

    There are also plenty of business models these days (especially in the Trump era) that face no downside from failing to keep devs accountable even if they should. VC-backed vaporware looking to exit before they drown in tech debt, private equity acquisitions that just need to bleed existing customers dry while disemboweling the productive capacity of the firm, or even publicly-traded brands that are chronically unable to think past next quarter’s P&L. And especially if they’re already a monopoly.

    The trouble is really when a CTO misunderstands what kind of business they’re running, and considers the wrong folks to be their “peers”. There’s a big incentive to just copy whatever Amazon/Microsoft/Google says. It’s the new “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”.

    Idk if that’s your situation or not.

  • Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

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  • I’m guessing they meant “raw milk”?

  • Badabadeedabadie!

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  • He’s even got some yellow as a backup

  • Are there any examples of 'perfect' software?

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  • Is there a perfect building?

    Probably not, since they exist in an environment — which is constantly changing — and are used by people — whose needs are constantly changing.

    The same is true of software. Yes, programs consist of math which has objective qualities. But in order to execute in the physical world, they have to make certain assumptions which can always be invalidated.

    Consider fast inverse sqrt: maybe perfect, for the time, for specific uses, on specific hardware? Probably not perfect for today.

  • Rubio calls on Europe to join US in preserving 'western civilization'

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  • Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

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  • UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry

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  • Classic example of what Cal Newport calls “vibes reporting”.

    No quotes from agencies saying “we fired people because of AI”, but if you put “people got fired” and “AI threatens jobs” next to each other, you can get the reader to assume a more salacious story without technically lying.

  • Rubio calls on Europe to join US in preserving 'western civilization'

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  • Weird. I wonder why the UN has been unable to achieve peace.

    Maybe we could ask each country who they view as the biggest obstacle to world peace?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    AI is draining water from areas that need it most

    www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

    www.404media.co /elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x
  • [CLOSED] Demos, intros and related tunes @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    .kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS

  • News @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-taps-key-project-2025-architect-russ-vought-head-budget-office-2024-11-23/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Ali Alkhatib - Destroy AI

  • Technology @midwest.social
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    time.com /6564434/connor-leahy-ai-risk-deepfakes/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Cain and Abe-rule