Dave Frampton

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MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"

Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

20 minutes of cutting up prunings and now I have a month worth of kindling for winter 😁

The reality is that IT workers are finding it hard to find jobs, like everyone, because all the money is going elsewhere, maybe to things like building AI data centers, and to trillion dollar cunt taxes, but not wages. The actual utility of AI has very little to do with it.

It’s clickbaiting of course, but it’s also interesting, watching how hysteria works, how reality is obscured and twisted. And annoying, because it spreads fear and lies.

‘Hundreds of applicants for every job’: Why not even the tech industry is safe from AI One contractor has listed his house to stay afloat, while another said he is on a benefit, trying to make ends meet.

This happens every day. Headline “AI is a big deal, it is scary and coming for your jobs”. Article content (99% not related to AI) ”AI is a little bit useful sometimes“ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Might be some time off yet haha, but it’s on the bucket list!

This is the best time in the release cycle to take a break for a few days, when the build is out with testers. So yesterday I played the guitar and sang for a total of about 6 hours 😅

one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal.

feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.

I just realized I managed to get through the entire spring without using any roundup. Lots of line trimming and hand weeding actually did the trick.

Spent most of yesterday trying to track down a memory corruption crash, then this morning it finally occurred to me to try it on a Mac instead of PC. It instantly crashed in a new place, right where the actual problem was. Cross platform FTW!

Trump govt warns NZ of migration 'risk', asks embassy to collect data The US State Department has ordered the US embassy in Wellington to begin collecting information on migration data and "migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses".

The US Sate Department can fuck right off www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...

And I also have to post this cheeky little chives plant. It is growing in the middle of a path, in the way, and I don’t understand how it got there, but it’s my friend now. 🌱

And this year is the first year that my kanuka have flowered, and it’s great! I got this one in the post rolled up in newspaper as a little seedling from a nursery in Northland. 🌱

Here’s the first dahlia of the season just opening up. Last year this one really struggled in the dry and with the rabbits, but after loads of mulch and water, this year it’s doing OK! 🌱

That was an extremely grim thing to say, sorry. Generally I try to stay positive, but sometimes it needs to be acknowledged. I’m keeping busy, as we all are. There is plenty of hope, still.

This whole year I have been in grief about the state of the world, what we have lost and will lose. And the year is not even over yet. And next year will almost certainly be worse🫩

I’m at that point with the update where everything on my todo list is done, so I guess I have to release it soon! Always feels anticlimactic somehow.

The banana has survived the winter and is growing again. And we have a couple of pups!

When we were kids, a major weather disaster used to happen in NZ every few years. A decade ago, it was every year or so, now it’s multiple times a year. A decade or two from now is going to be quite something.

Chopper got a question on The Chase!

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

I found a fasciated thistle! Now I’m going to have to let it flower 😅

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Found some photos from the 2000s and was sad they were in a shoebox, so I stuck them all to my office bathroom wall between the flamingos. Found an old folded up painting too.

Yes! humanity as a whole seems to behave very much like a 5 year old. Not a very intelligent or good natured one either.

We’re going to get addicted to AI, and then it will be used to control us. Not me, of course, not you either maybe. But society is fucked.

Every hour you must report to the AI to admit all your sins, it knows if you lie. The AI will instruct you on what you must do to help us defeat all those that worship the evil model.

It occurred to me over breakfast that the social consequences of many people believing that LLMs are intelligent might have a lot of similarities with what has happened with many believing in a god, and it ruined my day honestly.

Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.

Devastating in our premier national park.

Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro