There is no justice in this. Mass layoffs with selective re-hiring was the plan all along. If AI wasn’t the excuse, “the economy” would be and it would look the same.

Disrupt the lives of hundreds or thousands of people, indiscriminately. Then bet on being able to get enough of them to come back on weaker terms, weaker contracts, and with reset seniority.

A business with incentives to lie and zero consequences for lying, says something about business.

This is not news.

Hhhhhhhhello

Pleasssse let usss into your houssse we need to feel your ccccchildren

It will be ssssafe and not bad

We are very many all of us going to hhhhhfilm the touching and record it and watchhhh it to make sure it is safe

We promisssse to not eat your children

Let us in we musssst touch them

Clod Coding

“Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt”

Doesn’t roll off the tongue as well, though.

“Slopping”

I am not going to suggest, encourage, applaud and condone arson as a protest, because that is illegal.

Here are a range of estimates of AI data center water use for California, based mostly on simple fundamental physics of converting energy use to water use for cooling. I did these calculations and then, perhaps appropriately, checked and explored these estimates using four AI models

He guessed, then asked the sycophant machine to tell him he is a smart and clever boy.

To illustrate his point he used a nightmare-inducing AI generated image with talking headless birds and water flowing uphill into both ends of a tube.

Why math?

Does this also mean that my calculator with googly eyes glued onto it isn’t eligible for the Nobel Prize in physics? This is discrimination!

Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

I mean yeah? As a PC gamer what are you supposed to use? Fucking… Windows?

I know some people still manage to tolerate paying Microsoft for an operating system that serves popup ads, popunder ads, inline ads, bundles spyware, bundles adware, bundles malware, and literally spies on you. They either manage to filter all that out or tolerate having to spend time turning it off or mitigating it every two weeks/months when an update introduces more of it.

They angrily cope. They say things like “what is so hard about just clicking Close / Ignore on a few buttons!?” when this is pointed out. But they grow fewer and fewer.

Macs are mostly valid but expensive. If work doesn’t pay for one, or you have another big hobby that makes Mac a necessity, buying one for gaming is a bit silly.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/ is an excellent resource when xkcd feels confusing

Clammy Sammy

It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.

Previously from the same decision makers:

The Metaverse

Hiring the guy who fucked Apple’s UI design to shit

It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:

the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.

They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”

As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.

They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.

As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.

“Your kid is safe at school, because we insist all teachers use condoms”