Timo Mihaljov

earnestness is punk rock. libraries are punk rock. cleaning up litter is punk rock. everything is punk rock except making loud fast music that annoys your neighbors

Sam Altman @sama someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want. this is a very remarkable thing.

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

> Probably one of the most common fallacies I see in tech is that it pays to be early. The “first mover advantage”. This is not something that has ever seemed consistent with reality.

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Related to this, when we're talking about AI in general, is how many people think an LLM functions like a human brain and I'm like. Human brains exist in a constant sensorium, a feedback loop of our bodies and the world beyond. An LLM purely exists in the realm of symbols

> Science is no different from poetry ... we're trying to make sense of the world, trying to give it meaning in relation to our own existence.

> Super intelligence is only interesting to the extent it makes *me* more intelligent, not to the extent it makes me more stupid or servile or dependent.

The answer is no. We will continue to make the same mistakes just using the newest tools thus allowing us to make more of them faster.

In the eyes of a true profession, the order of our priorities might go:

society > customers > employees > executives > investors

And not least because members of any of these groups are also members of other groups. So when your interests as a shareholder hurt society, that includes you and yours.

yeah, from a left wing perspective, I am troubled by a technology that represents a massive campaign of extraction that immiserates everyone who actually makes anything, enriches a handful of fascists with more money than satan, and uses untold volumes of natural resources. this is "reactionary"

a single fluffy cloud with a purple-grey underbelly floats alone in the sky. the top half of the sky is deep blue with wispy cirrus clouds. the bottom half is almost solid white with cirrostratus.

it's cloud szn

pentax 645d + 80-160mm

#photography

#Finland bubble I need your help.

My bike has been stolen 30 minutes ago in #Tampere. Between Korkinmäki and Turtola.

If you see it please report to the police. Can be easily spotted by the red cable ties.

Please repost.

This thread (and the multiple quotes) remind me of something: it is a lot harder to build something than it is to break it down.

There is no “Democratic Stephen Miller” because turning off a hundred switches takes one person, but turning on one hundred programs is going to take thousands.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Don't keep up. Get left behind. Walk backwards. Walk sideways. Be weird. Be embarrassing. Be a failure. Appreciate all the wonderful, interesting failures around you. Get left behind together. Walk together. 4/4

When you appreciate a work of art, there's a sense of connection with the artist. You both get it, you both see the value in the piece. That's one reason why generative content will always be hollow and inauthentic. Even if it evokes something in you, you remain alone with that something. 3/4

And yet this uniqueness doesn't have to close us off from each other, but on the contrary, it creates the space for a recognition, a fellow feeling. When we can intuit that another person sees what we see, in that moment we get the wonderful feeling of being seen ourselves. 2/4

It's precisely our extremely limited human nature that gives every one of us something that an algorithm will never have: our unique point of view. You, in all your aspects, couldn't be average or statistically probable even if you tried. 1/4

Saw an AI guy comparing using ChatGPT to rubberducking and I have to emphasize that the point of rubberducking is that the duck does not give you answers or suggestions or even respond in any way

It’s a slaughter trap, in no way, whatsoever, is this a humanitarian mission. I’ve been involved in humanitarian work in Palestinian for well over three decades. This is a killing set-up. The antithesis of the very concept

People killed or injured while seeking aid in Gaza

June 1 - July 1, 2025

If we threw the same amount of money at climate catastrophe that this unhinged iteration of Silicon Valley is at “AI” to force us all to use it, we could actually mitigate some of the damage and protect our ecosystems, but then how will 6 guys make all the money.

Excerpt from "The Toyota Way": The mid-century corporation's workplace training and many-layered hierarchy built a pipeline through which the top jobs the might be filled. The saying "from the mail mail room to the corner office" captured something real, and even the most menial jobs opened pathways to promotion. Much of this pathway to the top ended as professional executives were hired from outside and worked with large consulting firms to cut labor costs and "rationalize" the enterprise: When management consulting untethered executives from particular industries, it also led them to embrace the one thing common to all corporations: making money from for shareholders.. Executives raised on the new, untethered model of managment aimed exclusively and directly at profit: their education, their career arc, and their profssional role conspire to isolate them from other worker and train them single-mindedly on the bottom line. Toyota apparently did not get the memo. The primary company mission still is to add value to society. It invests in its team members, value chain member and local communities. It begins by providing employees with a stable income. Profits will come, but they are an input to Toyota's broader purpose-and def minitely are not the ultimate goal. Outdated thinking? Yesterday's news? Need consulting firm to rationalize them? When we understand how interconnected and uncertain the world is, we can begin to see the business case for a more people-centered way of thinking and acting for the long term.

Page 41 from "the Toyota way". Sorry for the missing alt text, I'm missing time, my connection will drop before I finish that post

I expected a management book in "The Toyota way", I did not expect the critique of late stage capitalism, love to see it.
Yes, other kinds of companies are possible, not purely centered on short term profits

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

> If you process untrusted content, like summarizing a website, or analyze a pdf document, the author of that document can exfiltrate any information present in the prompt context, including your past chat history.

embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...

The obvious Russian connection aside, I think the full irony of this will be lost on the international audience. No worries, I help.

My grandpa owned a Lada 2101 (aka kopeyka = 1 cent) depicted here. It is the Soviet knockoff of Fiat 124, which was so poorly made that it became a meme in the USSR.

Miljonäärilobbaajien johdolla hajotimme oman, maailman parhaisiin kuuluneen yhteiskuntajärjestelmämme, jossa vahvaan hyvinvointivaltioon ja korkeaan veroasteeseen yhdistyi vapaa yrittäjyys ja markkinatalous. Syyllisiksi maalattiin köyhät, sairaat, vammaiset ja vanhukset. Kannattiko?

13/13

Cover art for Land of RuneQuest - Dragon Pass. Adventurers are trying to ambush a dream dragon.

Staff Artist at Chaosium Inc.

My job is to bring worlds to life. I like to illustrate subtle stories of the mundane, not just the stories of the heroes. And the heroes are not perfect either. My view is not focused in the middle of the scene. It’s a little bit off*.


I am where I want to be.

post from an oxford comma fan account on twitter showing a magazine cover with Rachael Ray and her dog. the circled words read "Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog"

I'm weirdly annoyed by this oxford comma fan account getting 12k likes for this when an oxford comma wouldn't be needed to resolve the humorous ambiguity