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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real

it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this

I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences

"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.

Every time I see a cyber truck I am reminded that I've never seen a Cyber truck with someone in the passenger seat.

I'm going to continue to believe that this is why I was the prosecution's very first peremptory challenge last time I got called

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value

@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

i confess that one big reason it's hard to remain optimistic is the sheer amount of shit that needs to be handled. this idiotic out of control ai and ai economy, crypto, the shattered political order, wild wealth inequality and malevolent billionaires. a mountain of effort and courage is needed

Wait, I just realized I assumed it was something he aspired to be and not something he found frightening.

My coworker--probably my superior, but also just, like, head of the party planning committee --was dressed today in a Star Wars imperial officer uniform, which, uh...is either pretty loaded or super tone deaf and I fear it's the first

the news is hard to scroll through. everything is brutal and ugly and cruel. will try to do something to help someone today. and tomorrow. and again and again. will try to make myself a counter to my own nagging despair.

Apple is moving ahead with a plan to bring ads to Maps.

The company will allow businesses to pay to have their details featured more prominently within the app’s searches.

Apple plans to use AI to enhance this new feature, per Bloomberg.

I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy

Happy to report that pretty sure the worst thing I did while drunk in Croatia is half-watch a Nic Cage movie about the Rapture

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.

AI is another version of colonial extraction.

All for this techno-garbage that steals our stuff, that plunders art and information and jobs, that just all around sucks at doing all the miracle things it's supposed to do. It tanks productivity, makes jobs harder, lies and plagiarizes, and salt in the wound? Drinks our water, burns our world.

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

this, who like a block hath denied my access to thee.

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

don't follow them
don't reply to them
don't repost them
don't dunk on them
don't talk about them
especially do not make threats about them or at them

and their soft power vanishes

Most trucks manufactured after 2004 are way too big to the point of being an active hazard to everyone around it, and are only getting worse.

Your truck shouldn't have a hood height taller than my entire car, and visibility comparable to a Peterbilt semi or a main battle tank.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution