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innes

@innes.bsky.social

"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

10. The baby announcement

At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.”

19. The equipment

I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb.

This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense.

The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine.

1. The fake initiative

Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind.

Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative.

16. The scam

We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website.

You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.

November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Alex Barnhart

@alexbarnhart.bsky.social

Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us

*Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026

jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Sound Design Intern, Summer 2026 (Jedi)

jobs.ea.com

October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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MiMi Aye

@meemalee.bsky.social

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

Loving the speed of iOS 26. Everything else, not so much 🤢

September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Sarah Andersen

@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

August 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

Kinda agree.

August 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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CerberusXt

@cerberusxt.bsky.social

Good morning Bluesky !

The slow but real progression into fascism as charted by the évolution of the lego police officier

Lego police officier looking meaner and meaner.

August 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

One of my GBA tunes is featured on this as a secret track (so I’m led to believe). See if you can find it! #Rare40

Rare Ltd. @rare.co.uk · Aug 4

Another thing is this @rare.co.uk 40th Anniversary Box Set Vinyl from @iam8bit.com, featuring many of our best tracks from across the years with its frankly ravishing sleeve art that we've lost more time than we care to admit poring over. Pre-orders open soon: bit.ly/rare-40th

August 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Rare Ltd.

@rare.co.uk

Another thing is this @rare.co.uk 40th Anniversary Box Set Vinyl from @iam8bit.com, featuring many of our best tracks from across the years with its frankly ravishing sleeve art that we've lost more time than we care to admit poring over. Pre-orders open soon: bit.ly/rare-40th

August 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Robin Ince

@robinince.bsky.social

The evening show is some comedy - some poetry - and some serious stuff too

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Aug 3

Very few people coming to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth but I have decided not to worry - I will create different experiments every night- and if there are eight people there , so be it -I will be fully committed

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue

www.edfringe.com

August 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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Tim Nielsen

@sonofex.bsky.social

Very much time to stop using WeTransfer, with their updated terms that clearly state they have the right to use anything you transfer across their service, to train AI, create derivative works, basically steal and use anything you post through them. This is now laid out in section 6.3, posted below:

July 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM

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Wil Overton

@wiloverton.bsky.social

Guess I'm out in the wild, again.

wiloverton.com for all your silly cartoon needs.

Wil Overton

Current portfolio of illustrator Wil Overton

wiloverton.com

July 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

Does anyone like The 1975?

June 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Jared Alexander

@jared-alexander.bsky.social

Now is as good of a time as any to steal things on the high seas.

Also, Sea of Thieves is on sale.

A photo of the Sea of Thieves listing on Steam.

June 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR

June 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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Seamus Blackley

@seamus.bsky.social

The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.

June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Zarah Sultana MP

@zarahsultana.bsky.social

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.

Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.

Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.

The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

June 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Jamie Hughes

@jimthehumanoid.bsky.social

I worked in Burger King at Stafford services on the M6. Loads of minor celebs used to come in but I remember The Krankies coming in, looking at the menu then walking out again. I guess we didn’t serve anything that was ‘fandabidozi’.

"Timeless" Toni Soprano @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

June 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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SHAPINGWAVES

@shapingwaves.com

Give your drone scenes authentic sound with our "Quadcopter" collection - close-up recordings of genuine multirotor aircraft mechanics. #SoundDesign #AerialSFX #FilmAudio https://www.shapingwaves.com/downloads/quadcopter/