Vladimir Savić

The world we grew up in no longer exists. The world we prepared to live in never came into being. They weren't lost - they were destroyed. Intentionally. 😔

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.

Oh, joy...

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #GenAI #AI #LLM #zeitgeist

For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here

It begins.

For some recent graduates, the #AI job apocalypse may already be here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t... #zeitgeist

"Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb #q

AI in the workplace is nearly 3 times more likely to take a woman’s job as a man’s, UN report finds The gender split could be one reason men feel much more confident that “if they use AI, they'll still get all the benefits,” a Harvard Business School professor said.

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#AI in the workplace is nearly 3 times more likely to take a woman's job as a man's, UN report finds fortune.com/2025/05/20/a... #zeitgeist

"People thought that GenZ would be great at using computers because they were born in it. Turns out they suck at using computers even way more than boomers because they are used to the curated interface of smartphones and can't solve any sort of problem on their own." #q

Journalism: Online headlines shift from concise to click-worthy Over the past 20 years, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly focused on click-through rates—regardless of journalistic quality. This is the conclusion reached by r...

"Over the past 20 years, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly focused on click-through rates - regardless of journalistic quality."

Journalism: Online headlines shift from concise to click-worthy www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas... #zeitgeist

YouTube video by Clarified Mind AI Decides on Absurd Trolley Problems

Hmmm... 🤔

#AI Decides on Absurd Trolley Problems www.youtube.com/watch?v=1box... #philosophy #watching📺

Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long...

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A new study shows that even if we overshoot 1.5°C and cool back down, glacier melt and reduced runoff will continue for centuries - some changes are irreversible www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4 - Nature Human Behaviour Salvi et al. find that GPT-4 outperforms humans in debates when given basic sociodemographic data. With personalization, GPT-4 had 81.2% higher odds of post-debate agreement than humans.

It begins.

#AI is now more persuasive than humans in debates, study shows - and that could change how people vote

On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LLM #GenAI #zeitgeist

Man shows up to job interview and finds out he's being interviewed by AI Due the rise in artificial intelligence in the workplace, some job candidates are experiencing a unique situation.

It begins.

Man Shows Up to Job Interview and Finds Out He's Being Interviewed by #AI www.newsweek.com/man-shows-jo... #zeitgeist

What would happen if you set the destination date of your time machine to October 13th, 1582? 🤔

The Surreal Landscapes of Industrial Waste in Russia These unworldly photos of Russia’s industrial waste sites capture landscapes that appear stunning but hide a toxic reality beneath their surreal beauty.

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The Surreal Landscapes of Industrial Waste in Russia www.comradegallery.com/journal/phot... #photography📷

The world needs more modest, linear growth companies. Please make some. 14 years of linear growth at Basecamp.Exponential growth gets all the glory. Every startup story that lands on the cover of a magazine has a hockey-stick chart to flaunt. Yes, disruption is driven …

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The world needs more modest, linear growth companies. Please make some. signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-wor... #opinion

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"The real problem is that any #AI which is able to create an app which makes money, is also able to run the company and be the CEO too, making the CEO redundant." #q

"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."

- Groucho Marx

From: The Mermaid (1996), dir. Alexander Petrov, Panorama

Animated with paint on glass

Pope Leo XIV speaks against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’ New leader of the Catholic Church says AI poses challenge to humankind and dignity of workers

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Pope Leo XIV speaks out against #AI: 'A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... #zeitgeist

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It begins.

Everyone is cheating their way through college nymag.com/intelligence... #AI #zeitgeist #education

P.S. "I'd just dump the prompt into #ChatGPT and hand in whatever it spat out."

Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to ‘unify all the national data’ and then feed it to AI Ellison is a Republican donor and friends with Trump’s federal cost-cutter Elon Musk.

What could possibly go wrong?

Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to 'unify all the national data' and then feed it to #AI fortune.com/2025/02/14/l... #zeitgeist

P.S. Also - when China does something like that, it's bad, but when the US does it, it's good?!

Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI Meta’s CEO is promoting a future where artificial intelligence is increasingly intertwined with people’s lives.

Unsocialized nerd with no understanding of friendship and society thinks he has a solution. 😔

Zuckerberg's grand vision: Most of your friends will be #AI wsj.com/tech/ai/mark... #zeitgeist #asteroid☄️

P.S. Paywalled, so https꞉//archive․ph/vkMoW

"Doing what everyone else is doing is the very definition of how to become average. And there's nothing wrong with that. But if you want to get ahead of others, you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do." #q

YouTube video by Y Combinator Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem

Some good points here - Dalton & Michael on Y Combinator YouTube channel:

• Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLJ...
• Why You Shouldn't Copy Your Tech Idols www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mX...

#watching📺

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

They say AI is creating jobs, huh?

#Duolingo will replace contract workers with #AI www.theverge.com/news/657594/... #zeitgeist

From: A Drop Too Much (1954), dir. Břetislav Pojar, Loutkový film Praha

This is a masterpiece of Czech stop motion -- with an unbelievable use of camera

3 Kittens playing inside a computer tower which is offline (kittens are safe)

nc -l -p 123 : netcat listening on TCP port 123 be like …

Thy has been on the radio for six months. Turns out she isn’t real An Australian radio station has been called out for using an AI-generated host for months without disclosing it.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It begins!

Thy has been on the radio for six months. Turns out she isn't real. www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a... #AI #zeitgeist

With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

With 'AI slop' distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster - A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #AI #zeitgeist

Interesting read!

The Bitter Prediction 4zm.org/2025/04/05/b... #AI #GenAI #philosophy