Ken Mayer
@biking-n-dancing.bsky.social
Contradancer. Lover of the ancient world. Bike enthusiast. DC Bike Party!
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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This gift NYT article is worth your time. It describes how Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the rest caught the same sort of stupid that the big US automakers did in the 1960-70s and lost their dominance and power because they lived off of monopoly and group think.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
Opinion | DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech (Gift Article)
The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This gift NYT article is worth your time. It describes how Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the rest caught the same sort of stupid that the big US automakers did in the 1960-70s and lost their dominance and power because they lived off of monopoly and group think.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
Reposted by Ken Mayer
Ich meine das weder polemisch noch als Gedankenexperiment, sondern völlig im Ernst: Wann startet die EU Programme, WissenschaftlerInnen aus den USA nach Europa zu holen und ihnen Stellen anzubieten, damit sie ohne Angst vor Repression forschen können? Braindrain nach Europa jetzt!
February 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ich meine das weder polemisch noch als Gedankenexperiment, sondern völlig im Ernst: Wann startet die EU Programme, WissenschaftlerInnen aus den USA nach Europa zu holen und ihnen Stellen anzubieten, damit sie ohne Angst vor Repression forschen können? Braindrain nach Europa jetzt!
So on the daily I get Bluesky notifications about followers, and they are usually thirst traps with OnlyFans accounts that I block immediately. Today I got those but also 3 plausibly real accounts of people unknown to me who were into exchange trading with no overlap with me. Block? or what?
January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So on the daily I get Bluesky notifications about followers, and they are usually thirst traps with OnlyFans accounts that I block immediately. Today I got those but also 3 plausibly real accounts of people unknown to me who were into exchange trading with no overlap with me. Block? or what?