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My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

Feels like all I've done is knit baubles for the last fortnight but this is all I have to show for it. To be fair one's with Mum and one's on the 🎄 as I wasn't happy with it. I've ordered the wrong size bauble and played yarn chicken with the white so it hasn't been plain sailing. @… has ordered two more for a relative so that's m…

Darius Slay explains decision to decline joining Bills: 'They just caught me at a bad time' https://www.nfl.com/news/darius-slay-explains-decision-to-decline-joining-bills

I want to „design“ a speech bubble that I’ll lay over an existing illustration. Any tips on font and tool usage so it looks as close to one drawn in a comic as possible?

We found that ChatGPT made executives significantly more optimistic in their forecasts while peer discussions tended to encourage caution. Additionally, we found that the executives armed with ChatGPT made worse predictions, based on actual stock figures, than they had before they consulted the tool.”
But they'll still keep pushing it down our throats, because nobody wants to be first to get out of the bubble.

Research: Executives Who Used Gen AI Made Worse Predictions
In a recent experiment, nearly 300 executives and managers were shown recent stock prices for the chip-maker Nvidia and then asked to predict the stock’s price in a month’s time. Then, half the group was given the opportunity to ask questions of ChatGPT while the other half were allowed to consult with their peers about Nvidia’s stock. The executives who used ChatGPT became significantly more optimistic, confident, and produced worse forecasts than the group who discussed with their peers…

At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/softbank-m

SoftBank’s Son ‘was crying’ about the firm's need to sell its Nvidia stake
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has downplayed his firm's decision to dump its Nvidia position, saying he "was crying" to sell the shares. 

Die aktuellen Diskussionen um Techno-Solutionism und maschinelle Intelligenz haben eine Geschichte, die mindestens in das 19. zurückreicht. Ein Beispiel ist Samuel Butler namensgebend für die Ausrottung der Maschinen in Frank Herberts „Dune“, dem „Butlerian Jihad“:
> Butler mocks the prevailing Victorian attitude of the time—blind faith in science, reason, progress, and profit—as a "low materialistic point of view" that believes mindlessly adopting and advancing technolog…

On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad
Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

Oklahoma court tosses lawsuit over Bibles in the classroom after state refuses to enforce mandate | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-schools-bible-mandate-lawsuit-decision-b2872528.html

“the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector,”
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026. ‡probably ⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: …