@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-07 01:38:13
Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org2025-07-04 17:28:53
#PostDoc position in #GIScience at @…
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-07-04 07:52:35
Seriously, linkedin spammers?
You say you came across my REcon talk. About semiconductor reverse engineering.
And this somehow makes me a good candidate for a role involving cheating at online poker???
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-08-01 17:09:48
Jupiter's UV auroral response to a magnetospheric compression event: #Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, briefly brightened the ultraviolet light displays.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-06-03 17:11:30
#KKR, the US company that has withdrawn from bidding for Thames Water is a pro-Zionist, fracking lobbier that is feeling the heat from BDS.
Good riddance and just #nationalise water now!
Economía | El fondo proisraelí KKR se hace con los grandes festivales españoles de música - El Salto - Edici…
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2025-07-21 21:57:34
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-06-16 11:01:51
Myles Garrett: Micah Parsons 'should get every penny he's owed' https://www.nfl.com/news/myles-garrett-micah-parsons-should-get-every-penny-he-s-owed
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-09 13:27:54
No, computers won’t replace humans to write code for themselves.
Please stop with this nonsense.
What we will see though is tremendous losses in productivity as deskilled programmers will get less and less education and practice—and take longer and longer to make broken AI-generated code work. Meanwhile, AI models will regress from eating their own generated shit when being trained on.
Eventually AI companies will finally run out of investors to scam—and when they disappear or get so expensive they become unaffordable, “prompt engineers” will be asked to not use AI anymore.
What’s gonna happen then?
We’re losing a whole generation of programmers to this while thought leaders in our field are talking about “inevitability” and are jerking off to sci-fi-nostalgia-fueled fantasies of AGI.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-06-15 11:20:26
Search for the Anomalous Events Detected by #ANITA Using the Pierre Auger Observatory: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.121003 -> Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-07-10 17:58:16
Astro-COLIBRI - a Comprehensive Platform for Real-Time #MultiMessenger Astrophysics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06616 -> "Maximizing the discovery potential of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength follow-up observations, as well as serendipitous detections, requires a tool that rapidly compiles and contextualizes relevant information for each new event. We present Astro-COLIBRI, an advanced platform designed to meet this challenge."