@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.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-07-07 00:58:00
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#FilmCharactersViralPost
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-07 21:12:13
HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114643259120579546
@scott@carfree.city2025-07-07 01:59:13
"A paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed drug seizures by law enforcement in San Francisco and concluded that such interdictions were associated with an increase in fatal overdoses in the surrounding area the next day."
Mayor Lurie's #WarOnDrugs 2.0 is not just failing, it's actively killing people. Public health requires m…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-05 23:07:50
IRS needs 11,000 hires to ‘maintain’ phone support for 2026 filing season, plans on 60% cut to IT staffing
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/irs-needs-11000-hires-to-maintain-phone-support-for-2026-filing-season-plans-on-60-cut-to-it-staffing/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-08 19:10:53
Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-05-07 20:21:12
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2025-07-07 04:33:25
not sure if this counts but:
“Does anyone know how to set up an email filter for, say, ‘how do you type with boxing gloves on’? I asked The Cheat, but he lost me at the part where I had to do not-typing.”
#HashTagGames #FilmCharactersViralPost (strong bad isn’t exact…
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2025-07-07 04:33:25
not sure if this counts but:
“Does anyone know how to set up an email filter for, say, ‘how do you type with boxing gloves on’? I asked The Cheat, but he lost me at the part where I had to do not-typing.”
#HashTagGames #FilmCharactersViralPost (strong bad isn’t exact…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-08 01:58:49
On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…
