@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages"
The purpose of a system is what it does.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-bubble-wages-economy
@grumpybozo@toad.socialFinally pushing back dawn. Almost gaining a minute per day now, and it will keep accelerating through late March @… https://<…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toThis is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…
@aardrian@toot.cafe@… I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.
You gotta find a better way.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThe term "AI" is worse than useless because it hides more than it explains. Mozilla Firefox's "AI killswitch" shows how
(Original title: Hiding behind translations)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/03/hiding-behind-translations/
@cdarwin@c.im#Security #guarantees were discussed during Zelensky's two-hour meeting with Donald Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which ended without a breakthrough.
In the draft agreement, U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are outlined 👉for a period of 15 years,
with a possibility for extension…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI'm originally from Texas. There are times I'm not really proud to say that.
Why is it always the Decalogue they want posted? Why isn't ever the Beatitudes?
And if posting the Decalogue makes people behave, why aren't churches the safest places around?
https://www.friendlyath…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSeriously, it seems like every town got slammed and just gave up on
plowing sidewalks.
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-next-storm-city-can-concentrate-just-tad-more-crosswalks
@scott@carfree.cityI'd been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years because of their dead zone in the Mission but never got around to it. This boycott that begins this weekend is pushing me to finally do it
https://tmobileboycott.org/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAt least Rubio says what it is...
"US senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia’s ‘wish list’"
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-peace-plan-security-confernece-halifax-senators-6041a181…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSTM32MP2 XC7K160T PCIe test board progress! 66 unrouted nets in the power supply, but I think it'll fit.
There's something for everybody in this board:
* 0201 passives? Check (under the SoC)
* Lots of FPGA? XC7K160T is decently sized
* Lots of CPU? Dual A35s, a M33, a M0 , and a M4
* High speed? PCIe gen2 and a SFP that is theoretically capable of 8 GT/s but I'm gonna try pushing the FPGA a bit and see if I can make it do 10Gbase-R with acceptable BER…
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
@mickgeek@social.linux.pizzaJanuary recap blog post: #MastodonDev
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de#Vietnam is pushing hard on the #semiconductor front, the first fab in view. 32 nm only, and few details on how it shall be built. But it remains a theme reshuffling funds, also supported by growth in #datacenter
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThe climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy favorite video game company is currently making news because they admitted to falling to AI hype and pushing it on employees even though they’ve (predictably) seen no actual benefits.
I am sad about it but, in good news, writing with a fountain pen continues to be an extreme delight.
I developed carpal tunnel nine years ago, and handwriting would always be a stolen joy in the brief moments before pain would start again. I have been feeling nearly 0 pain in the last two weeks despite filling 50 pages. I feel like I’ve been given a new lease on life in a small way.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-elon-musk-is-
@cdarwin@c.imDOGE was never about efficiency.
It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and
“We need something for Elon to do.”
America’s veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein’s monster,
which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.
Three stories illustrate how DOGE damaged our veterans most of all.
First, the early warning signs:
firing veteran federal employees en masse, pushing GI Bill mortg…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhen "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.
@stf@chaos.socialthinking of #39c3 and all those people with cat ears. in retrospect it feels very unauthentic, none of them were sitting on the tables and pushing things off them. 🐱
@tarah@infosec.exchangeI do this ish for a living, I am an AI developer and researcher, and *I* don’t fully understand the security implications. What hope do regular users have?
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-war…
@DamonHD@mastodon.socialJust while I'm continuing to procrastinate on some admin today I get an annoying call claiming to be from from my (generally good) ISP with the usual "just give me all the secret info needed to get into your account" to 'verify' me nonsense. So my head explodes and I say "put it in email" and hang up.
On calling the company back it seems the 'necessary' upgrade he was pushing may well not be needed at all. So I've lodged a complaint on proc…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Through a friend, these are second-hand supermarket price tags.
It's going to be fun pushing info from HA to these displays, once I've figured out the access points right place for optiomal reach:
@rigo@mamot.frMaybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).
@inthehands@hachyderm.io❝
For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
❞
(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaThis could be long. It's hard to express my thoughts on this.
I had a bit of a heart to heart with my son today. My son is a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He's 26. I'm white, his mother is third generation Mexican-American. To me, my kids are just my kids, I see myself and my ex-wife both in them. But he has been pushing me to realize for some time that isn't how the rest of the people around us see them. They don't see me in them at all, they ju…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump: We should release them.
Trump: UH, THEY'RE NOT IMPORTANT.
Trump: I SAID THEY'RE A NOTHINGBURGER
Trump: DON'T YOU DARE RELEASE THEM
Trump: IT'LL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM
Trump: I'LL UNLEASH FURY ON EVERYONE
Trump: Go ahead & release them.
☑️ In stark reversal, #Trump says House should vote to release
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialReally surreal driving experience on the Frankfurter Allee today. Of course there was a lot of construction and rerouting, single lanes, delivery drivers blocking one etc. But the weirdest thing was the wandering traffic lights. Some workers where pushing the large temporary traffic lights around. It felt a bit like the bending cities in the movie "Inception"
@scott@carfree.cityThese goofs want to use "drones that would fly up to 150 feet and eventually deliver some of the orders that today are transported by the company’s drivers."
We have a technology that efficiently delivers goods to homes in an urban neighborhood. It's called bicycles. https://
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaInterestingly enough ghcr.io seems to remember old repo-names when pushing an image (probably as long as they originally came from my github). Once I renamed to sth new the build went through. It is also telling, in the larger scheme of things, that I was adding flatpak removal to the code, only to find out I previously wrote a just action for that 🤣 Keeping ourselves busy, are we? 😜
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhile Elon Musk is pushing hard to get the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant out, The vOICe vision BCI can grow organically, no matter how long it takes https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Applied psychohistory
@steve@s.yelvington.comPeople having a fit about "the Democrats folding" and "we need a third party" need to chill out. It was eight. Not 45. Keep your eye on the ball. Don't get suckered by bots pushing the third-party crap.
@cdarwin@c.imMinnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStudy: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algori…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioOne other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble
@cdarwin@c.imDay of Truth and Freedom
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3mczfkmy5ec2v
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaWhen you get that opacity and Gruvbox theme working in Wezterm (wezterm.lua).
Pushing my luck here, but it looks to turn out as a great day.
#freebsd #wezterm #geekspeak
@brichapman@mastodon.socialOman just hit a major renewable energy milestone.
Masdar's Ibri III project combines a 500MW solar plant with a 100MWh battery system—the country's first large-scale solar-plus-storage facility. It'll power 33,000 homes and cut CO2 emissions by over 500,000 tonnes yearly, pushing Oman closer to its 30% renewable electricity target by 2030.
@scott@carfree.cityI don't see a big conflict here. BART is right to focus on keeping the lights on, but Oakland advocates are also right to think long-term. It's good to give people a future with better BART to look forward to in the runup to the funding measure.
"BART’s fiscal crisis could close 9 stations. So why are people pushing for a new one [San Antonio] in Oakland?"
@cdarwin@c.imA new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…
@cdarwin@c.imExactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …
@cdarwin@c.imAt least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…
