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"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Whenever I come across an article on teaching titled something like "ChatGPT isn't just for cheating anymore," I assume it was written by ChatGPT.

Good statistical analysis of sea level rise accelerating along the US east coast, despite what the new DOE climate deniers say. https://tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/sea-level-mis-information-from-doe/

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE
Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the …

✅ #afterwork #cycling loop

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Ingeniero todo el rato 😅
#Memes #Humor

Started watching this on Hulu and it's precisely my kind of dark humor.
Creator Kat Sadler described the show as “a family sitcom about trauma, but it’s more about us being narcissistic losers who are pathetically obsessed with what people think about us.”
#streaming #tvshows

I’ve set up modes on my Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS. I’ll share an update in a few weeks with my experience using it.
#MentalHealth #Modes #Pixel9a

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/sea-level-mis-information-from-doe/

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE
Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the …