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@oldmate.bsky.social
Blovius Maximus.
Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT.
Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy.
Utter contempt for Generative AI and Crypto.
Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT.
Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy.
Utter contempt for Generative AI and Crypto.
I've long thought that these broligarchs think they're creating Star Trek, when all they're doing is LARPing The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
This has more of a Douglas Adams feel to me. What he's describing is Deep Thought.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I've long thought that these broligarchs think they're creating Star Trek, when all they're doing is LARPing The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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The only thing that should be talking with AI Fake Jesus is AI Fake Dead Grandma
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The only thing that should be talking with AI Fake Jesus is AI Fake Dead Grandma
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AI is a science fair project built by tech nerds to see if it works, not a serious monetisable business plan
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
AI is a science fair project built by tech nerds to see if it works, not a serious monetisable business plan
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
If a potato battery clock or a bicarb volcano promised to allow capitalists to fire all their staff somehow, we’d all be talking about that now.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
again I ask, what is the upside of this technology
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happy four seasons total landscaping day to all who celebrate
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
happy four seasons total landscaping day to all who celebrate
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50% of rabbit foot keychains are actually rabbit hand keychains
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
50% of rabbit foot keychains are actually rabbit hand keychains
The implication seems to be that this is somehow a positive development. Why would anyone wish such a thing on themselves or their colleagues?
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The implication seems to be that this is somehow a positive development. Why would anyone wish such a thing on themselves or their colleagues?
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@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong.
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong.
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
This country is so broken.
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This country is so broken.
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OpenAI is a social arsonist.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
OpenAI is a social arsonist.
Another cracking post from @sarah-j-smith.bsky.social
"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."
Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
totallyathing.substack.com/p/where-we-a...
"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."
Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
totallyathing.substack.com/p/where-we-a...
November 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Another cracking post from @sarah-j-smith.bsky.social
"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."
Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
totallyathing.substack.com/p/where-we-a...
"Generative AI is a dancing bear, a superficially impressive technical parlour trick that cannot translate to real world value for the enterprise."
Come for the text, stay for the great infographics.
totallyathing.substack.com/p/where-we-a...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Just catching up with Cory Doctorow's blog: "Bain & Co say the sector needs to be grossing $2T by 2030 in order to break even, which is more than the combined grosses of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta"
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just catching up with Cory Doctorow's blog: "Bain & Co say the sector needs to be grossing $2T by 2030 in order to break even, which is more than the combined grosses of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta"
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
How can anyone take this "industry" seriously?
pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/w...
This is brilliant. You don't even need to read the original TSP article, this skewering of it is all you'll need.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is brilliant. You don't even need to read the original TSP article, this skewering of it is all you'll need.
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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Sci-fi novel premise:
Instead of taxing the rich, we pass a law that every year, we execute the ten wealthiest people alive.
Then we make a reality TV show about billionaires desperately trying to donate money to charity to avoid Cut Off Day.
Instead of taxing the rich, we pass a law that every year, we execute the ten wealthiest people alive.
Then we make a reality TV show about billionaires desperately trying to donate money to charity to avoid Cut Off Day.
October 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sci-fi novel premise:
Instead of taxing the rich, we pass a law that every year, we execute the ten wealthiest people alive.
Then we make a reality TV show about billionaires desperately trying to donate money to charity to avoid Cut Off Day.
Instead of taxing the rich, we pass a law that every year, we execute the ten wealthiest people alive.
Then we make a reality TV show about billionaires desperately trying to donate money to charity to avoid Cut Off Day.
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Some other new technologies that were just "put out in the world" without too much testing:
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Some other new technologies that were just "put out in the world" without too much testing:
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
Disagree with the take by @daringfireball.bsky.social in this piece. It's quite reasonable to feel deflated or grossed out by AI generated art. Like discovering something is being passed off as original when it's a blatant ripoff of others' work. Exactly like. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’
Link to: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
daringfireball.net
October 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Disagree with the take by @daringfireball.bsky.social in this piece. It's quite reasonable to feel deflated or grossed out by AI generated art. Like discovering something is being passed off as original when it's a blatant ripoff of others' work. Exactly like. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...