Like that classic Žižek bit about fair trade organic coffee in Starbucks being a way of offering temptation, sin, penance and absolution all in one convenient package, you pay to absolve the guilt.

Invest in benefit corporations to wash the guilt/bad PR from social and environmental damage, and as a bonus if any of them randomly strike a vein in the hype mines, you can let go of the pbc frame and milk some profits. (they think. it remains to see how much profit can be made out of this bloated, costly software.)

and on the side of the _entepreneur, start your grift as a pbc and you get some investment even if you never reach a point where profits may be made.

As “AI” grift corporations race to extract all the shareholder value they can before the con is off, I expect we’re going to see a race to the bottom of polluting and destroying the environment more and more brazenly to squeeze those few more profits—an approach tolerated, when not outright endorsed, by the current political landscape. Ahead of the race and already a veteran at the bottom, Elon Musk: https://xcancel.com/aakashgupta/status/2012588893884019092

my landlord’s app in the past: pick through a hierarchy of categories of issues your apartment might have, funnelling you into a menu to choose an appointment with a technician

my landlord’s app now: debate ChatGPT until you convince it to show you the same menu

as far as I can ascertain the app is the only way left to request services from the megacorp, not even a website interface exists anymore. technological progress everyone

oh gosh our boy is just so proud that he got the echo-chambering machine specifically engineered to chamber echoes to echo his words.

what kinds of jailbreak is he going to invent next, maybe a way to make LLMs suck up to everything you say? perhaps even a sophisticated hacker glitch to make LLMs say things that are statistically likely to follow the preceding input

sorry Scott you just lacked the experience to appreciate the nuances, sissy hypno enjoyers will continue to take their brainwashing organic and artisanally crafted by skilled dommes

the incompetence of this crack oddly makes me admire QAnon in retrospect. purely at a sucker-manipulation skill level, I mean. rats are so beige even their conspiracy alt-realities are boring, fully devoid of panache

techies: ok but let’s talk about what really matters: coding. programming is our weapon, knowledge is our shield. cryptography is the revolution…

free as in slop

the open slop initiative

mass hallucinations

biosphere watch

reference will be lost to anyone not in specifically the German antifascist milieu, but: AntiFAI Recherche AG.
*AntiFAI stands for “Anti Free-software ‘AI’”

please no LibreOffice please no LibreOffice please no…

When I first learned that you could program a chatbot merely by giving instructions in English sentences as if it was a human being, I admit I was impressed. I’m a linguist, natural language processing is really hard. There was a certain crossing over boundaries over the idea of telling it at chatbot level, e.g. “and you will never delete files outside this directory”, and this “system prompt” actually shaping the behaviour of the chatbot. I don’t have much interest in programming anymore but I wondered how this crossing of levels was implemented.

The answer of course is that it’s not. Programming a chatbot by talking to it doesn’t actually work.

guess the USA invasion of Venezuela puts a flashing neon crosshair on Taiwan.

An extremely ridiculous notion that I am forced to consider right now is that it matters whether the CCP invades before or after the “AI” bubble bursts. Because the “AI” bubble is the biggest misallocation of capital in history, which means people like the MAGA government are desperate to wring some water out of those stones, anything. And for various economical reasons it isn’t doable at the moment to produce chips anywhere else than Taiwan. No chips, no “AI” datacenters, and they promised a lot of AI datacenters—in fact most of the US GDP “growth” in 2025 was promises of AI datacenters, if you don’t count these promises the country is already in recession.

Basically I think if the CCP invades before the AI bubble pops, MAGA would escalate to full-blown war against China to nab Taiwan as a protectorate. And if we all die in nuclear fallout caused to protect chatbot profits I will be so over this whole thing

To me it’s hilarious to repeat a part of a sentence without changing its stress because in English and Finnish it’s unusual to repeat a part of a sentence without changing its stress.

Not a native speaker of either language but I read this in my mind without changing its stress in the part where it repeated “without changing its stress”.

tf is jai

Why is Jai ground-breaking? Jai is so important because it is an effort to build a modern systems programming language from the ground up by a very gifted and experienced developer.

programmers. programmers never change.

With his knowledge of all C/C++ shortcomings, he rethought every one of these problems to give them an easier to use, more elegant and more performant solution. In this way Jai really is a better and modern day C, and also a C++ done right.

“14 competing ‘modern take on C’ languages? Ridiculous! We need to develop one definitive alternative that fixes all the problems with C++”

And here I was innocently thinking this was something about the excellent lesbian novel This Is How You Lose the Time War 😔

A particularly pristine and high-value commons about to be pissed all over with slop.

Hijaking the Mozilla mention to point to https://tabstack.ai/ again, the upcoming Mozilla-branded scraper API for AIs that promises to “stealthily” (their words) bypass captchas. Cos I don’t think enough people have heard of it still.

oh is that the “autodub” feature? I can only imagine lol, even the auto-subtitles without translation are all sorts of wrong for Japanese. I’m using the “tubular” app for youtubo and it mercifully blocks the dubbings

you just activated my trap card and became a person to whom I will forward this video evaluating the usefulness of gatotsu in a real life context, because I have no one else to show it to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EITUJ1HqSCQ

@cityofangelle.bsky.social comments:

HAHAAHHAHAAHHAAA

Anthropic has posted two jobs, both paying $200K+.

FOR WRITERS. (Looks like a policy/comms hybrid.)

ANTHROPIC.

IS WILLING TO PAY HALF A MILLION A YEAR.

FOR WRITERS.

Whatsamatter boys, can’t your plagiarism machine make a compelling case for you?

LOL. LMAO, even.