Kristen Seversky

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If I can't have Rage Against the Machine in this cursed timeline, I'll take the backup plan of new Saint Agnes in their place.

"But everythings fine! Everythings fine! Get back in the line!"

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Yeah I mean, pretty much everyone in my tech sphere uses AI or LLMs to adjust their own language. It's hard for me to knock or bother with that so long as I'm getting someone's story but I get if that knocks people out.

I don't think we have a choice but to tolerate it.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

"The abstraction ship sailed decades ago. We just didn’t notice because each layer arrived gradually enough that we could pretend we still understood the whole stack. AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain."

Stewing on this one.

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This Breeze / Mist game is fun.

Watching Brink block Stewie is wild but might not be enough. 👀

Lolol I know I know 😆 I'm picking poisons over here

So damn upsetting 😔

I need to touch grass.

Yes, in the tech sense but also in the "omg enough snow" point of the non-stop winter.

My left hand with my kiddo's red, glass heart in it that he randomly handed over to me

"Here, Mommy, you can have my heart."

🥹

The world is :: vague gesturing :: but whew do these little, random moments come through. ♥️

Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.

When it finally happens:

I just don't get how it can't go the same path as chatbots lol we just ignore every damn pop-up or "lemme help!" request anyways. The conditioning is already stacked *against* these things but sure, sure, inevitable.

::chuckles::

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Too many believe that bots will do the mundane work, really well, while we sit back and chill.

NEVER been the case so I'm not thinking this time will be.

This this this.

The "it's inevitable" talk gets me just as fired up as this wild hype cycle and too many people trip into it. Yes, the powers-that-be are intensely shoving but it doesn't change that *it comes down to whether anyone uses this stuff at scale*

And I'll give that I spent time in my career in highly-regulated verticals so lliiiiike this is all too normalized for me and why moving fast and breaking shit never appealed.

We know humans are the ones to break.

It's the usual reaction to ANY effort to put some "hey, did you think about..." Qs in the front. Plus, people are applying GDPR energy to it all on top.

I'm at least happy (shocked?) to see people on LI saying how thinking ahead makes it all easy hahaha

GO.
FIGURE.

Watching the AI Act get framed as a showstopper on LinkedIn is another clear indicator that people don't give a damn about any accountability in this "EVERYONE GO BUILD SHIT, FAST" dash.

ESPNAssignmentDesk @ESPNAssignDesk · 2h Hello, Dane! Please see your DMs for a message from us! Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA You do not have permission to use it — as I’ve told you numerous times in DMs. Shouldn’t have laid off all those reporters if you wanted locker room content.

This is the correct energy against our media overlords

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Absolutely! It's a civic duty of mine to break cycles around us and I sure as hell won't do it with strangers if I can't do it at home.

These two are my lil pavers hah

As much as I want to eyeroll the mass cancellations and suddenly-horrified reactions to the status quo in tech, I have to remind myself that we all have our own journeys, biases, and bubbles to pop.

For those arriving today, there's plenty of room on board. Keep your mind open to more patterns.

Yup agreed. I refuse to go the nihilist path since giving up on humanity and future generations = guaranteed end game shit.

Also being pregnant and having a young child is the kick in the pants to get off my bullshit and leverage privileges while they last.

We all can still play many parts.

Oh absolutely. There's no denying the righteousness mixed with echo chambers in an increasingly siloed society, bubbling up by design to make our own mini universes.

It's another reason I'm more discouraged over time: these are all compounding issues that remove common threads. Brutal.

I appreciate it, fwiw. I know we all know that being a stick in the mud is considered worse than genocide in this industry but I still like catching as many shared nods and bits of energy that point to some people tryingggg to salvage.

Now now where's the "move fast, break [people and profit]" records with that approach?!?

(Yes yes ideally)

That's exactly it. I try hard to never absolve myself from this industry's gross reality while desperately trying to align to less toxic products.

But these hype cycles make it harder and harder with fewer guardrails in the mix *that we could otherwise build*

Aaaaand there's Anthropic on Sunday Morning (I know, I know, but I watch to catch what crap gets said) dodging softballs and saying they like to "play neutral." 🙃

Welp, opens a throwback reminder of @kimcrayton1.bsky.social's "tech is not neutral or apolitical" so there's that 🤷🏻‍♀️

My 3yo's hands as he practices the wiping of Nutella off a beige balloon with toilet paper, mimicking the practice of wiping poop

And sometimes, Sundays are glamorous in the "wiping Nutella off a balloon "butt" for practice" kinda way. Life's little joys. 😆

A picture of Trump's head above a white-on-black text reminder that: Trump's billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ, and NY Post -- plus 185+ local TV stations and news in 100 markets. They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Whatsapp, Tiktok, Truth, and Twitch. They control the AI you're integrating into your lives, the algorithms feeding your content, and your personal data you've given up for access. This is all by design to facilitate and surveil us, and we're not talking enough about it. Pay attention.

I like the summary of this, especially to remind non-tech friends and family.

The damning thing I am obligated to add is how people in tech definitely know all of this and yet here we are.

And no, switching to Anthropic isn't saving your soul. 🙃

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Same society that fires off natalism and whatnot despite zero support and all the antics that completely dissuade procreation so yeah, doing great.