Domingo Flores 🏳️🌈
@riesgos.club
Digital Security, Privacy and Ethics. He/him, cisgender, autistic advocacy. Activist!
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Premium newsletter: The much-demanded 16k word guide to how the AI bubble might actually burst, starting with the collapse of data center debt financing, the end of venture capital funding for AI, OpenAI's death, and how NVIDIA's AI GPU era might come to an end.
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense.
NVIDIA claims to hav...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Premium newsletter: The much-demanded 16k word guide to how the AI bubble might actually burst, starting with the collapse of data center debt financing, the end of venture capital funding for AI, OpenAI's death, and how NVIDIA's AI GPU era might come to an end.
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Speaking from experience (I work in procurement), someone needed a Specific Thingy. They asked ChatGPT, which spat out the wrong part number. I had to spend 30 minutes convincing them it WAS the wrong part number and 5 minutes calling the human vendor who knew exactly what we needed.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Speaking from experience (I work in procurement), someone needed a Specific Thingy. They asked ChatGPT, which spat out the wrong part number. I had to spend 30 minutes convincing them it WAS the wrong part number and 5 minutes calling the human vendor who knew exactly what we needed.
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AI "benchmarks" are all marketing lies - all of them - but they're startlingly elaborate lies
What does a leaderboard of AI metrics really represent?
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
AI "benchmarks" are all marketing lies - all of them - but they're startlingly elaborate lies
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The Careful Consequence Checker,
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Consequences — Careful Industries
A free tool to help you rapidly assess potential risks and issues with AI-powered products, tools and services.
www.careful.industries
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The Careful Consequence Checker,
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
a free, self-directed tool for understanding the impacts of building, buying or adopting an AI-powered product or service www.careful.industries/consequences Thank you @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
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Folks don’t seem to understand. It doesn’t MATTER that AI is shitty at your job. Your CEOs will happily deliver a 100x shittier AI version of your job if it means they don’t pay your salary.
This is true no matter your pay level. But it’s coming sooner if you’re underpaid.
Neutrality is complicity
This is true no matter your pay level. But it’s coming sooner if you’re underpaid.
Neutrality is complicity
Said it before and I’ll say it again: we in SAG-AFTRA and/or the WGA know they are not going to stop with OUR jobs.
If your job CAN be replaced with AI, it WILL be.
If your job CAN be replaced with AI, it WILL be.
I wrote about how Amazon’s bookstore is filling up with deepfaked authors and AI sludge — an early warning of the challenge that text generation poses to platforms. https://www.platformer.news/p/writers-are-getting-deepfaked-on
August 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM
Folks don’t seem to understand. It doesn’t MATTER that AI is shitty at your job. Your CEOs will happily deliver a 100x shittier AI version of your job if it means they don’t pay your salary.
This is true no matter your pay level. But it’s coming sooner if you’re underpaid.
Neutrality is complicity
This is true no matter your pay level. But it’s coming sooner if you’re underpaid.
Neutrality is complicity
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these people know how extreme they are
October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
these people know how extreme they are
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READING YUDKOWSKY/SOARES, A THREAD
this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth
it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward
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this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth
it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward
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September 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
READING YUDKOWSKY/SOARES, A THREAD
this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth
it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward
>>
this is the new book by the founder of the AI doomsday cult and his charity's CEO on why stopping the doomsday AI is the most important job on earth
it's called IF ANYBODY BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES which is y'know pretty straightforward
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This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
August 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
I will say it again:
We Salvadorans have a lot in common with the Palestinians. We both survived U.S. manufactured bombs, and Israel trained psycho-killers. We are brothers and sisters.
We Salvadorans have a lot in common with the Palestinians. We both survived U.S. manufactured bombs, and Israel trained psycho-killers. We are brothers and sisters.
August 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I will say it again:
We Salvadorans have a lot in common with the Palestinians. We both survived U.S. manufactured bombs, and Israel trained psycho-killers. We are brothers and sisters.
We Salvadorans have a lot in common with the Palestinians. We both survived U.S. manufactured bombs, and Israel trained psycho-killers. We are brothers and sisters.
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The most accurate headline about the PACER compromise I've seen yet www.techdirt.com/2025/08/15/p...
PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
The US Court system’s electronic filing front-end has always been a mess. Not only is it prohibitively expensive for most casual users, it’s prohibitively dysfunctional even for power u…
www.techdirt.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The most accurate headline about the PACER compromise I've seen yet www.techdirt.com/2025/08/15/p...
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When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
It matters. I care.
It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711×
Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.
“Who cares? It d...
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June 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
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Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
Grok spread dangerous misinformation during the tsunami last night.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
July 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
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Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
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The solution to age verification is simple. We must remove the Internet entirely from the public and make it only available behind a red curtain at the back of the video shop after you showed Dennis at the desk your id.
July 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The solution to age verification is simple. We must remove the Internet entirely from the public and make it only available behind a red curtain at the back of the video shop after you showed Dennis at the desk your id.
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Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat
Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector
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July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
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Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
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Finding out torture doesn't work by first principles
I wish I could brutally interrogate myself every time I forget a password.
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Finding out torture doesn't work by first principles
Que duro es el el exilio.
June 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Que duro es el el exilio.
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.
May 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.
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I don't think the tech industry realises how much it's pissing off the general public
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
There's controversy over a possible new data center in rural Davis, West Virginia. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Dan Parks.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I don't think the tech industry realises how much it's pissing off the general public
Oh, so you can look to El Salvador for a preview of what the continuation of these policies look like.
Just "the independent reviewer of state threat legislation" implying that if you're against racism, misogyny or transphobia you should be investigated on suspicion of being a paid foreign agent, this is fine
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Oh, so you can look to El Salvador for a preview of what the continuation of these policies look like.
“It’s just a Milkshake, what could go wrong?”
Oh… silly optimistic me…
Oh… silly optimistic me…
March 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“It’s just a Milkshake, what could go wrong?”
Oh… silly optimistic me…
Oh… silly optimistic me…
I’m not a prophet, this is just a logical inference.
Understand that in fascism, violent repression of criticism is -the- way to stay in power.
I encourage U.S. journalists and critics to take anti spyware measures. We already had this in El Salvador.
Understand that in fascism, violent repression of criticism is -the- way to stay in power.
I encourage U.S. journalists and critics to take anti spyware measures. We already had this in El Salvador.
March 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I’m not a prophet, this is just a logical inference.
Understand that in fascism, violent repression of criticism is -the- way to stay in power.
I encourage U.S. journalists and critics to take anti spyware measures. We already had this in El Salvador.
Understand that in fascism, violent repression of criticism is -the- way to stay in power.
I encourage U.S. journalists and critics to take anti spyware measures. We already had this in El Salvador.