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Current AI, regardless it's capabilities, is simply to expensive and companies are noticing it...
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Operations chief Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs within Uber.

RE: #Russia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116834698065101659
Quantum mechanics: there’s ALWAYS a “but.”
I don’t expect to live to see quantum computers that are sufficiently faster than traditional computers to justify their cost for anyone but t…

#AI

YDS Professor Yii-Jan Lin discusses the Department of Homeland Security's "calculated provocation" of using scripture and military imagery.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5698511/h…

Why should people in the UK suffer from heat in their own home? Because a piece of paper says so. Let's change it.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770729

Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… @… “There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.”
Go figure!

@… @… “There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.”
Go figure!

For years, a few economists and financial analysts have pointed to the fact that the amount of money being spent on AI continues to rise as evidence that the AI bubble is unsustainable.
The thing is, investors are fine with rising costs if there’s enough revenue coming in to justify the spending, which for AI development has already eclipsed $1.6 trillion as of 2026.
But whether we’re looking at data centers, digital ad revenue, or the cost of inference,
the kind of revenue …

Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses
Economy update: the AI bubble is so big that a record amount of money is now being bet on the S&P 500 collapsing sometime in the near future.

From the BBC article, quoting some random market analysts reaction to panic selling:
"'The long term investment case for AI remains compelling, but investors are becoming far more selective about which companies can justify the valuations the market has assigned to them,' Makaryan said."
"' 'The high cost of commercialising AI tools is gradually being passed on to consumers' said analyst Raymond Woo from Kyoto University Innovation Capital.

Why Callais Doesn't Justify Court-Packing (Ilya Somin/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-callais-doesn-t-justify-court-packing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p56#a260610p56

' Canada's 'powerful' dairy sector is in Trump's trade crosshairs:
Canada's dairy supply management system is in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify new tariffs. '
Canada has a very safe dairy supply and we don't want American Big Agro selling into our markets to ruin our health with their "products".

periodic reminder that Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly statistical error and if you're using it as a part of your worldview, that's maybe a problem.
Doubly so since a naive reflection of it is a belief in a fascist ubermensch who's just smarter than everyone else. You can justify deeply anti-democratic ideals with it. So consider this carefully.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116954673956412815
If this goes on for much longer customs will become as complicated as medical billing and we’ll end up with an entire industry lobbying to keep things complicated to justify their own existenc…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Madonna:
🎵 Justify My Love
#Madonna
https://luxar.bandcamp.com/track/madonna-justify-my-love-luxar-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cYs6km6tAzpPVk62WLpHn

“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…

Hanno Hauenstein on Twitter
Read full article HERE: https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/publish/post/201012022?back=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fscheduled

fuck man, kane parsons is actually 20 years old? the director of a franchise i've loved watching for years, now creator of a24's top grossing movie of all time, is actually two years younger than me? my understanding of growth and self worth is limited to a faulty capitalist logic of so-called meritocracy, ignoring all privileges, advantages, or even luck, fueling an inferiority complex in which i can only justify me being less successful than him by thinking of myself as lesser, despite tha…

Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/busines

China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs
A series of precedent-setting rulings signals that Chinese courts are being enlisted to shield workers from displacement by artificial intelligence.

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Using SEO to justify accessibility was only ever a technique for bosses / clients driven by dashboards, money.
Ideally, you want to get past that ASAP to drive better outcomes for humans, not SERPs.
I get it as a foot-in-the-door tactic — hopefully no further.
But it also drove alt text keyword stuffing (among other bad practices).
So I was always wary of companies pitching accessibility *and* SEO in their marketing.

It’s why they hired all these bulletheaded chuds in the first place, why they didn’t really train them in much of anything except violence, why they gave them a sense of total impunity.
Well, white supremacy is the reason. But wanting to foment violence that would justify the suspension of democracy was the other reason. They •wanted• one of them to get themselves killed.
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Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

The lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The

The lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The

SpaceX blacklisted from a Danish pension fund:
"Akademikerpension said in a statement, ​adding that it was difficult to justify ​a market valuation above $1 trillion."
"Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is ​expected to ​control more ⁠than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as ​chief executive officer, chief technology officer ​and ⁠chair of the board."

This is puzzling for me..
Do you know people who frequently use genAI / LLM (maybe yourself?)
Are these people aware of the current and future environmental cost of genAI and its datacenters, when we should instead be reducing those in order to save the planet? (let's try and forget about all the other problems it has for now)
If so, how do you / they justify using genAI despite those costs? (multiple choices possible)

China has problems, but at least their courts still do the right thing every so often:
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-termination-ban-why-chinese-184031008.html

The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots
Chinese courts ruled AI adoption can't justify firing workers, forcing tech companies to budget for expensive transitions that could increase global gadget...

Because I need to justify my hardware endeavours I did a quickie on the Framework website. Forking out 1739 Trumpies for a laptop that I'll have to keep looking at eternally. Guess I'll skip this 😆 Sold out until September. You never hear people talking about e-waste anymore these days. Crisis, what crisis?

Sonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows

ICE is still not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, but I’m willing to say that we are no longer under •siege•. The Eye of Dumbass Sauron has moved elsewhere. Now it’s more an ongoing threat, usually background-level but sometimes not, that continues through normal life. You know…like the supposed criminal gang activity they used to justify their mass attack on immigrants in the first place.
It’s not over, but it’s not just MSP. It’s the whole country’s problem.
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oh dammit. #Partiful's very good, but not good enough to justify using it. #palantir

we don't use partiful
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Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior (Dean W. Ball/@deanwball)
https://x.com/deanwball/status/2064665679307985244

Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) on X
My last observation re: Anthropic’s secret sabotage safety policy, is that it undermines actually good safety policy. How? 1. First, it is very plausible to describe this as anti-competitive behavior (even if you are maximally sympathetic to Anthropic here you must admit this),

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116902171696738201
If you didn’t spend your time writing it, I can’t justify spending my time reading it.

Three studies used by RFK Jr and allies to justify controversial vaccine policy changes facing new scrutiny (Michelle R Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/04/vaccine-studies-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p92#a260604p92

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/04/vaccine-studies-rfk-jr?CMP=share_btn_url

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/04/vaccine-studies-rfk-jr?CMP=share_btn_url

Build-Authorized Evidence for Opaque Calls: A Fail-Closed Rewrite-Authority Boundary
Zhonghua Yi (Toka Language Research Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18949
arXiv:2607.18949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detached semantic facts about opaque native providers do not by themselves justify compiler rewrites: rewrite authority must be confined to the accepted fact, selected provider and build, caller, callback environment, observation, and runtime target. We present a build-authorized path-effect interface that enforces this boundary through fail-closed authorization and link receipts. The design separates receipt closure, callback-environment closure, and projection identity, and passes accepted facts to LLVM through a narrow internal API. We use one-hop topology-load reuse as a minimal observable witness of authority, not as the optimization target.
A conservative LLVM consumer reuses a pointer observation only from a noalias root or one constant nonzero projection. Rocq models prove conditional refinement and authority non-amplification under explicit effect, alias, compiler/ABI, and target-resolution premises. We instantiate checked production with Toka: a source-summary gate emits exact LLVM IR, a separate IR checker accepts only a bounded topology-preserving subset, and only accepted IR is compiled into the receipt-bound provider object. A bounded static Darwin/arm64 profile also checks the final direct branch target.
Across issuer-declared readv, recvmsg, and Cairo boundaries, authorized IR retains each opaque call, reduces the relevant loads from two to one, and preserves observed results; mismatched providers, builds, callbacks, projections, and unsupported IR remain neutral. A libjpeg case is rejected because its callback environment is open, while a bound callback singleton demonstrates the supported closure rule. The contribution is a checked deployment-compiler boundary with an explicit trust and applicability frontier, not a uniquely expressive effect encoding or a new load-elimination algorithm.
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A uniformed member of the United States Air Force was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday
after demonstrating against President Donald Trump and urging Congress to impeach and remove him from office.
U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was detained by Capitol Police for protesting in front of the Capitol in violation of rules that forbid demonstrations there unless protesters are accompanied by a member of Congress.
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was pres…

Capitol Police Arrest Air Force Major During His Pro-Impeachment Protest Against Trump
US Air Force Major Jason Watson cited “an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s authority” to justify his protest.

The U.S. military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean,
killing three more people in what experts say is an illegal campaign whose death toll has now topped 200
The Trump administration has tried to justify the strikes by claiming that the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
-- Many legal experts disagree.
Former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote on X:
“Now more tha…

'Now More Than 200 Trump Summary Executions' as US Bombs Another Boat | Common Dreams
One legal expert said the grim milestone raises the question of whether the US is committing a "crime against humanity."

Okay, I'll give you that: LLMs aren't the root of the problem.
Capitalism is. The idea of infinite growth. The idea that people can't just live, they must with 40 hours a week to justify their existence, and they must be purchasing something all the time. Companies must keep selling new stuff. All the resources must be tapped into and exploited.
And companies are making software. They must keep selling new features and pointless complete redesigns nobody wanted. The code must keep being churned over and over again. Programmers must justify their existence by churning out absurd amounts of meaningless code. The companies must exploit them.
Then, companies are entering the #OpenSource "market". They are acquiring and enshittifying. They are hiring and exploiting. And then so many volunteers just jump on the bandwagon and keep cosplaying them. And they too churn out useless code, "sell" pointless complete makeovers, "profit" off their users (even if they actually aren't making any real profit).
And then come LLMs, perfect tools for the job. Perfect tools for exploitation, for churning out useless code, for creating addiction, and for turning everyone into mindless corpospeak bullshit machines.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #AntiCapitalism

Reminder that when they deserve it, it's fine to speak ill of the dead.
"Mortuis nihil nisi bonum" implies the dead can't defend or justify themselves but the Romans hadn't yet invented the replyguy.

If you're a fan of using Mosquito Dunks in buckets to control mosquitoes, please join me in leaving a comment for the patronizing jerks at Saginaw County Mosquito Control Commission, a taxpayer-funded entity. These organizations operate all over the U.S.A. and justify their large budgets (for planes, fogger trucks, etc.) by promoting the use of insecticides even when there is no public-health emergency. #MosquitoDunks #saginaw #saginawbay #michigan #mosquitoes #bti https://www.instagram.com/p/DL5Jm3xODBz/

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Appleblim & Ramadanman:
🎵 Justify
#Appleblim #Ramadanman
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What a disgrace this man is for the whole country. Is there a bottom to his indecency and crudeness?🥹
How do his supporters and enablers justify this behavior?😠
#tantrums #Iran #war #Hormuz #threat #disgrace