The Future is Stupid

guardrails are a scam...

as I said before: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a ouija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Governments Are Using AI To Draft Legislation. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The power of AI to parse public responses or draft legislation is recognized worldwide. But how should lawmakers and leaders use the tech?

As AI reshapes how governments analyze public input and write laws, questions of transparency and democratic legitimacy loom large, Chris-Stokel Walker reports for Tech Policy Press.

Urban Dictionary: ai;dr ai;dr: "Artificial Intelligence; didn't read.", meaning a post, article, or anything with words was auto generated by some AI, and whoever used the...

Can't believe "ai;dr" has been on urban dictionary for almost two years already

Twentieth-century futurism was largely a project of “don’t worry about the problems of the present. Corporations will build you such a lovely future.”

21st-century futurism has mostly been billionaires and their courtiers whining about the mean environmental movement blocking their cool ideas.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful Ministers argued the direct action group engaged in a campaign of criminal damage and violence

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

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One of the most amusing online micro-interactions I see a lot at the moment is grumpy redditors telling anyone with a question "just Google it"

Even though right now Google's number one source of actual answers written by people is: reddit

Is a Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen? Ted Gioia has a popular Substack called “The Honest Broker”.  Although as an author, his books tend to focus on music and popular culture, he writes

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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

I consider it a promising sign of weakness that the rhetoric from the gentry indulging "ai" is shifting a bit from "it's inevitable! Shut up!" to "can't we have a reasonable discussion?"

The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

BUSINESS BROS: With the limitless potential of AI for innovation, companies can do anything

ALSO BUSINESS BROS: Give me public subsidies and backstops and do not EVER ask me to comply with your "laws" or fill in one (1) form

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Hell yes, please fire everything that guy touches into deep space Moonbase Alpha

Post by David Roberts (@volts.wtf) I am the anti-Stancil in that I *love* blocking you fuckers. I go to Stancil threads just to find new people to block! I mention AI just to attract new people to block! Gavin Newsom! AI! Campaigning with Liz Cheney! Boogabooga! C'mon over. Get blocked.

Kinda sad about this tbh. I've enjoyed Volts' energy analysis for a long time and always thought he was sensible, but "I mention AI just to attract new people to block" is quite a weird thing to do and say. Especially for someone who *must* know the energy, climate and material implications of AI

AI: steals everything, enriches and empowers assholes, makes people stupid, unleashes rivers of slop

AI critics: stealing is wrong, assholes are assholes, slop is ugly, my boss can't think for himself and I don't like where all this is going

AI understanders: why is everyone so unreasonable

The company was raided in France over CSAM this week, and the UK opened an investigation

Merger in the works, payouts might already be on offer

These are wealthy, highly mobile people

Some may be running scared, some probably just don't want the hassle or the association

I experience AI like I'm watching a child do a magic trick. I can try to convince myself that it's impressive that they can do that, but I have to ignore all the obvious things that are screaming at me that this is shit, actually, as I hope with growing desperation for them to give up and release me

Steve Jobs stood on stage and showed us the iPhone and we instantly knew how useful it could be and wanted it as soon as possible. AI has been out for like 6 years and everyone hates it more and more every year. If it was actually useful in a general mainstream sense, we’d know by now.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

NEW from @laurengoode.bsky.social

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VIRGIN AI LOVER: for non-profits who know their problem space, AI is a game-changing force multiplier

LUDDITE CHAD: or, yknow, governments could just tax billionaires, fund social safety nets and public services, abolish or rein in rogue agencies, prosecute corruption and environmental crimes...

Person saying “say I am alive” to a computer Computer says “I am alive” Person saying “oh my god”

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

OMG stop you sound like the creepy boyfriend we're all waiting for my sister-in-law to dump

I feel like a winning strategy for Democrats would to condemn the ballroom for demolition and give everyone in America a free sledgehammer