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Business software was a mistake https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley/114817160349601290

Kate Morley (@katemorley@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image You know that meme about the ridiculous names of business productivity software? This is an actual notification I received at work this morning:

A lot of open source is this and it needs to stop.
https://yearning.gay/objects/ee32d3cc-e1f3-4716-a115-6b54f149363d

well you will in a minute (@tenthousandisopods@yearning.gay)
we just need a safer, privacy-oriented torment nexus

"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
"The current trajectory of generative AI reflects the priorities of firms seeking to lower costs, discipline workers, and consolidate profits — not any drive to enhance human flourishing. If we allo…

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Don't use the "Change my Mind" meme with Stephen Crowder for anything.
He is a racist and a homophobe who abused his ex wife while she was pregnant with their kids. Fuck that guy and find a better meme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Crowder

Steven Crowder - Wikipedia

"The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning."
(Original title: Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits)

Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

"I deleted my second brain" by Joan Westenberg is very worth reading. I am on a similar path right now, removing a lot of digital cruft and structures I had applied to my life in the belief that I could gain more control.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Hey, at least now we know that not everyone hated Windows Vista.

Oh. Just checked the Calendar and the Refused concert is this week? Felt like it was still months away