What if we replaced the term AI, which is admitted to be for marketing and not scientific purposes, with "mimetic machinery"
09.02.2026 17:20 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@patrickgaley.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
What if we replaced the term AI, which is admitted to be for marketing and not scientific purposes, with "mimetic machinery"
09.02.2026 17:20 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0And when LLMs are asked to sit tests that they havenβt already learned the answers for (such as ARG benchmarks), they perform much worse than a dog. Literally
09.02.2026 16:57 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1Oracle, which heretofore has had a quite solid business (albeit a creep in charge) has been bitten by the Gen AI greed bug, and is allaying concerns it is overleveraged with debt by... raising another $25 billion to invest in... checks notes...
Its overleveraged customer www.ft.com/content/8a9d...
This really is monumental waste. Raising cash to torch it on machines that accelerate climate breakdown while making users aggressively stupider and call it R+D.
Boycott Gen AI and its bonfire of debt burns out fast
www.ft.com/content/d503...
And the tech CEOs boosting Gen AI, specifically aiming it at other CEOs desparate to automate and therefore delete human capital and call it cost saving, don't appreciate this, because they have never interacted with the world of work as a regular human individual
09.02.2026 10:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0As I predicted back in Jan, Venezuelan oil isn't going to be A Thing for a very long time. Certainly not until he's in the cold ground
Only Trump and his buffoons could hold up a train carrying gold and come away with shit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
When the monsters win, and they will win at this rate, it will not be because they are smarter or stronger than us.
It will be because apparatuses of democratic enforcement obeyed in advance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Venn Diagram of climate βskepticsβ and predatory men is a circle, change my mind
drilled.media/news/lomborg...
Perhaps the dumbest thing about this entire bonfire of cash and carbon is that if they had done nothing that would have been all they needed to do.
06.02.2026 12:04 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0So, worth pointing out that Google, Microsoft et al haven't actually "lost $900 bn" in a day. Because that money never actually existed.
It's the private debt they are torching to power their Rube Goldberg machines and call it tech. That's investor cash. That matters www.ft.com/content/0e7f...
I GUARANTEE you you aren't sufficiently outraged over the Epstein files.
Not only do they contaim some of the most degraded abuse imaginable, they also tie directly to our taxes.
Mandelson's firm secured the Β£240 mn deal with Peeping Tom Palantir. Arch creeps, our money www.ft.com/content/b3cc...
You possess critical thinking, and know, via onthological experience, that life - and by extension capitalism - isn't a stream of tasks to be hacked. These people are rich, which they conflate with smart. They are signally idiotic
06.02.2026 11:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0(Itβs OpenAI)
Thatβs the problem. The most famous Gen AI tool developer has conned all Big Tech into piles of debt it can never turn to gold
www.trefis.com/stock/msft/a...
That was quick
www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
@austingmackell.bsky.social a penny
06.02.2026 10:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They are all one giant, corrupt, power-abusing cabal, arenβt they? Even the supposedly reasonable ones
And Reform is the High Table of this insider trading, foreign asset style corruption
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Given this is a thing that is made up, it will crash just as the AI-distorted S+P will crash. It might already be happening
05.02.2026 20:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1AI doesnβt make business more productive (a key base case use premise)
Pass it on
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The Israel ties are being systematically buried by mainstream media, is the why
04.02.2026 13:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Anyone seeking to Russiagate the Epstein files is running interference and needs to be called out as to why
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
Itβs official, the Keyser Soze of Gen AI snake oilers hasβ¦ no other ideas
Thatβs all: Hyperscaled LLMs that canβt think or use less power or water and have no meaningful use case but, by gosh, they will do it quickly
If you invest in this, youβre an idiot.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
This is not M&A, this is circular investing.
If any regulator had the merest of backbones this stuff would be cut out like the boys club nonsense it is
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
I've only read up to the paywall but this is an incredibly weakly-argued piece where the authors claim LLMs are intelligent based on their own redefinition of what intelligence is. Not one psychologist or cognitive scientist between them.
02.02.2026 18:44 β π 47 π 8 π¬ 9 π 0On the one hand, no shit.
On the other, international law is only fit for purpose if our leaders choose to enforce it. And for years, our leaders watched genocides in Gaza, Sudan and DRC with indifference
Alternative title: leaders failing history test
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
Seems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 β who helped elect Trump & Vance βΒ repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island.
Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he facesΒ β or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
This is amazing.
Musk is so creepy and cringe that the entire Epstein paedophile operation preferred to shut down rather than allowing him to attend for a single weekend
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk had extensive correspondence with a convicted paedophile and most likely visited his island, just for the next time anyone pretends to be impressed by the Keyser Soze of taxpayer funded Epstein bros www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
31.01.2026 10:05 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Iβm on @upscrolled.bsky.social!
If you love human thought, hate AI slop and vampire capitalists, letβs hang
share.upscrolled.com/en/user/e35a...
Regular reminder that investors nearly always spend other peopleβs money and so donβt need to be particularly smart
Though I had hoped they would be at least slightly smarter than South Parkβs Pants Stealing Gnomes
1. Build Rube Goldberg Machine
2. β¦
3. Profit
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...