kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on pretty average movie tbh 2 days ago:
Part of the trilogy: Mean Girls, Median Girls, Mode Girls
- Comment on Bradford Pear Trees 4 days ago:
Annyone
We are ruinning language for the sake of engagement.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 4 days ago:
Went from believing “yes” is inevitable to believing “no” is inevitable instead of learning the lesson that most of this is just random
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 6 days ago:
In context, it sounds like he’s “disappointed a lot” by people choosing to use AI, which is a crucial distinction. His objection is one of kind, not of degree.
AI’s generated text is “too dry and too perfect, and I want something from a human being, and I’m disappointed a lot.”
- Comment on US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries 6 days ago:
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 6 days ago:
The vulnerability is coming from inside the house
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 6 days ago:
Yeah, items are licensed according to where they’re sold, not made. “More oversight” makes no sense.
- Comment on [Video] Muslim woman hit by car ramming in Abbey Wood, south London 1 week ago:
Mark NSFW please
- Comment on OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 1 week ago:
I just know that when 404 Media reported on the ManyVids founder publicly slipping into AI psychosis, they mentioned that ManyVids was often described as being the only platform to give workers a fair deal.
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 1 week ago:
Middle ages:
Peasants share common land and tools — it’s not so much that they collectively “own” it, but that “ownership” is not a concept that applies, because the land is an obligation and not a product.
Then come the enclosure acts, which take all of the land that the commoners have spent their lives contributing to, and give it to the wealthy.
And then come some of the bloodiest revolts in history. And coinciding with this, you have the Luddites objecting to the wealthy replacing their common workspaces with factories that maim and kill people.
The Luddites attack the factories, and destroy the machines. And the British eventually defeat them, using an occupying army larger than the initial wave they send to fight Napoleon.
Digital age:
Peasants share common online spaces — it’s not so much that they “own” them, but that they share a mutual obligation to each other to maintain these spaces.
Then come the tech oligarchs with their AI, and…
- Comment on Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? 1 week ago:
Enclosure never ended, they just keep finding new “commons”
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 1 week ago:
Something about this post makes me think you would enjoy playing Endless Sky
- Comment on You can now walk the whole way around England | BBC News [3:38] 1 week ago:
2689-mile coastline
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, it’s vibe reporting again.
Notice how it’s not “fired because of AI”, but “fired amid AI push”. They really wanna sell readers a particular story, but they know there’s a journalistic line they can’t cross (yet), so they put two pieces of information next to each other and encourage you to fill in the gaps.
This technique is everywhere.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 2 weeks ago:
Indeed: Everything was already AI
This has been a very long project — to separate conduct from consequences, in order to maximize profit. AI is just a breakthrough tool for doing it.
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 2 weeks ago:
Imagine losing your job to a recession that’s being masked by an AI bubble, and The Atlantic believes the CEO when they say it was because of AI
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 weeks ago:
A man
A plan
Amygdala
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 weeks ago:
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.
- Comment on Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing 3 weeks ago:
Yes. AI allows the user to separate output from understanding, accountability, and obligation. It can launder intention just as well as inattention. AI is the ultimate tool of fascism.
- Comment on Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds 3 weeks ago:
PSA: Check out Deku Deals to keep an eye out for Nintendo sales
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 3 weeks ago:
If a weak crypto market can tank your company, I’m not sure you should be trusted for business advice.
Still, maybe he’s exactly the right kind of businessman for these times. Genuine value and productivity don’t matter anymore. It’s a potemkin economy, so why not staff it with potemkin labor?
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 3 weeks ago:
Palantir has been doing this for ages, but yeah the LLM aspect is an interesting evolution of it. Probably overkill in the long term, but the availability and (for now) affordability is the main selling point.
- Comment on meow meow meow 4 weeks ago:
~pe~e^2^n~e~
- Comment on iykyk 🪰 4 weeks ago:
“But it feels good”
- Comment on Zero-hour contracts(Zero-hours contracts let employers hire staff with no guarantee of work, with employees only offered the hours for which they are needed) reach new record high 4 weeks ago:
“Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” (Cory Doctorow)
- Comment on Life Hack for you 5 weeks ago:
Along those same lines: add “anal” to any car model you see. Hours of entertainment.
- Anal Explorer
- Anal Avenger
- Anal Fiesta
- Comment on Always him 5 weeks ago:
Description
The hero is rescued from a final plight from an unexpected source.The rescuer may be someone who had previously abandoned the hero or even someone the hero does not know. In mythic stories, this intervention may come from a god.
Example
In Star Wars, Han Solo returns to help Luke fight the Tie Fighters. In Return of the Jedi, Luke needs the redeemed Vader to destroy the Emperor.
In Lord of the Rings, Frodo is unable to destroy the ring by himself, needing Gollum’s unwitting help to complete the deed. Soon after, Frodo and Sam are rescued by the eagles.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 5 weeks ago:
This is a terrible idea for Amazon, the cloud services company.
But for Amazon, the AI company? This is them illustrating the new grift that almost any company can do: use AI to keep a plausible mirage of your company going while reducing opex, and sacrifice humans when necessary to dodge accountability.
But his job wasn’t even to supervise the chatbot adequately (single-handedly fact-checking 10 lists of 15 items is a long, labor-intensive process). Rather, it was to take the blame for the factual inaccuracies in those lists. He was, in the phrasing of Dan Davies, “an accountability sink” (or as Madeleine Clare Elish puts it, a “moral crumple zone”).
- Comment on No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate 1 month ago:
I feel like I’ve been saying this every day since like 2015 (Or maybe 2001. Or maybe 1999. Idk. Anyway…) but: This is a really bad idea.
- Comment on Words Without Consequence 1 month ago:
Well-argued.
Unlearning Economics has a similar analysis of AI through the lens of cybernetics: youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg
