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Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

À quoi ça sert, des certifs en 2025 ?
https://blog.zwindler.fr/2025/11/04/a-quoi-ca-sert-des-certifs-en-2025/

"Never forget: whenever Elon Musk walks up to a podium to bullshit you about colonizing Mars or whatever, he is walking on the bodies of dead children. He yanked their food and medicine away while telling lies and cracking stupid jokes."
From: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/

I think the concept is similar to Amazon who has killed retail to get a dominant position and then to monetize that position. The AI stuff is cheap and we shall get used to it. And then they slowly start boiling the frog. First, because it is integrated everywhere and one can't escape it. Second, because we lose our ability to do without.
IMHO, this bet can go terribly wrong if people will not become dependent on AI, just use it where it makes sense and is affordable.

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The Trump Phone Delivers on Its Promise of Being Complete and Utter Bullshit
https://gizmodo.com/the-trump-phone-delivers-on-its-promise-of-being-complete-and-utter-bullshit-2000701261

Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday!
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk series
Abstract here:

Thank you very much Dan, you really get us! https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115746825145674767

Love how some bullshit "AI" story is on top of The Guardian.
No, "AI" doesn't show signs of self-preservation.
"AI" does not exist. It doesn't have permanence, thoughts, reasoning or consciousness.

Your product is a hoax? Doesn’t matter. Your customer support is a completely inoperable bullshit bot? Doesn’t matter. You’re a con artist? Positive advantage!
Customers? What are customers?! Just a line on a spreadsheet that helps sell the con!
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Does anyone else have a weird thing happen when using Chrome (I have to for work) where if you're not scrolled just far down enough on a page, it doesn't let you click on things? Until you've scrolled down? It's a new type of bullshit for me

Behind the Blog: Trolling on the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-trolling-on-the-internet/

A family member of mine made a joke about trans people and I shut it down so fast I think they are still reeling a day later.
I got extremely serious, and loud, and told them it was bullshit, and I don't want to hear that sort of garbage again.
They tried to defend it with "Oh, it's just us, we're cool" and I called bullshit on that too.
We talked about it later and I think I got my point across. I ended with "We know you're a good person, so …

back on my bullshit (fighting shitlibs on bsky)

When I try to change my password, if you block paste I don't feel more secure, I wonder what other incompetence is hiding in your site's software stack.
And if you aren't letting me paste, _and_ you want annoying bullshit in my password, at least let give me a button to let me see what the fuck I am typing.
Having a password length limit, especially one as low as 15 characters, just makes me think you're doing something fundamentally wrong like storing passwords in clear text and confirms my opinion that there's a ton of other incompetence in your software stack.
This all came up when I was trying to add the mysubaru app on my wife's phone.
And a HUGE fuck you for claiming I had the wrong password when I tried to log in with the one in my password manager, but when I did a password reset, not letting me use the one from my password manager because "You can't change it to your current password."

This is an ad hanging on 42nd St last week. Obviously it’s meant to garner attention and I guess I’m doing that, but company name blacked out anyway.
Some real mask-off bullshit

You know what? I stick with Firefox. The Mozilla management might be detached idiots, but I firmly believe that the people actually making the browser, the engineers, have their heart at the right place.
They've shown it time and time again, bullshit got announced but not much actually happened. There was always a checkbox to get rid of that crap.
Unless the actual browser on my device does something unforgivable, I stay.

"In a blog post announcing Sora, OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman suggested that the app is like “ChatGPT for creativity” and could radically transform the arts in a Cambrian explosion-type moment. In my two weeks on the app, at times I found it entertaining. But mostly it was brain rot: hypnotizing and mindless."
--- SAMANTHA EDWARDSONLINE CULTURE REPORTER
in a nutshell it's all bullshit...

*clicks on Indeed.com unsubscribe link*
*gets caught in an infinite loop of cloudflare 'click here to prove you are human' bullshit*

For the love fuck, this is meaningless. LLM models can't shut themselves off. They're never "on" in the first place. They don't have physicality or permanence.
It's an algorithm that transforms one state of data into another, and for each invocation needs to be fed the whole conversation again.
Perpetuating the unhinged bullshit that LLMs are somehow sentient is harmful.
Dear journalists, for the love of Carl Sagan's sweater vest get some actual experts to vet claims from the industry or indusry-adjacent sources and clarify your reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-developing-their-own-survival-drive-researchers-say

Back on my bullshit (wearing shorts for my morning walk)

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I'm decades younger, work in tech, have worked on the development of a mobile phone OS in the past and also think this is bullshit.
I've got perfectly functional phones I can't use any more because they stopped getting security updates.
The way I found to partially mitigate this is to use phones as little…

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I'm decades younger, work in tech, have worked on the development of a mobile phone OS in the past and also think this is bullshit.
I've got perfectly functional phones I can't use any more because they stopped getting security updates.
The way I found to partially mitigate this is to use phones as little…

Apparently JD Vance posted this bullshit on Bluesky today (10/18/2025).
I guess he's saying the figurehead of the maga regime is a king and we should all bend the knee. But the American people today, showed what we think about kings.
#politics #resistance

#Snowmageddon has forced me to enjoy more coffee, relax in my sunroom, and binge on some YouTube content. This got injected into my feed, and because I was born in 1956, it's absolutely accurate. OK... it's bullshit since every generation has endured tough times. I mean, my parents grew up in the depression and survived #WWII. But if you were born in this time period - 1950 to 1969 - use this as proof of your emotional and physical superiority. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a nap.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Toughness
https://youtu.be/cJFWGg-LQhY?si=JWLsqaGffl-qkPat

So Trump is targeting NY's AG with bullshit charges. The AG is sending me emails that look like every single other generic Democrat "we need $15 to fight!" nonsense email, which makes me much less inclined to actually send her money.

Breathless headline: "97% of buildings on Earth now 3D-mapped!"
Well, 0% of my or my three nearest neighbors' 14 houses/sheds are there in any way, and the "buildings" that *are* present near us don't actually exist, so either we're the 3%, or that number is utter bullshit.
...which is a good thing, tbh, because this is a massive invasion of privacy. Bad enough to have Google taking pictures of me from the sky; now I have to let the council do dr…