kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 2 days ago:
In a good way, I hope?
- Comment on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons 1 week ago:
IMO, the concern over ASI is overblown/premature, but since the AI bros insist on having that conversation instead of the very real harms that already exist… I’m in favor of just documenting the prohibition of ASI so we can move the fuck on already and hopefully make them less able to what-about their way out of genuine grievances that deserve careful attention.
- Comment on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists 1 week ago:
The real basilisk was the fascist oligarchy we made along the way
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 2 weeks ago:
Everyone’s life works differently. Let them enjoy themselves.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - New Trailer 9.8.2026 2 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity to go super stylized with it. The new titles lean so far into realism, it makes me wonder what it would look like to try to evoke an N64 aesthetic with modern graphics power.
- Comment on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. 2 weeks ago:
Article seriously undersells how Kenyan RLHF was crucial for building the very AI that threatens their livelihood — and also the abuses of those companies, like exposing employees to horrific traumatizing content on a regular basis, and hiding the already low payment behind absurd obstacles like “you can only withdraw your payment once you hit $20 (but we’re only gonna give you $12 of work)”.
Kenyans are, in effect, still doing students’ homework, and they’ve been cheated out of any economic upside for it. Articles like this that are 98% criti-hype (with a little asterisk about how labor disputes pushed RLHF firms out of the country) serve the interests of the tech barons, not Kenyans.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 3 weeks ago:
“Hey it’s against my rules to be mean to me! You better stop, or I’ll… I’ll stop talking to everyone!”
Sony is officially a preteen. So proud!
- Comment on Grug Stonethrow would want this for you 4 weeks ago:
Hyper-realistic VR rig so that I can make my indoors feel like outdoors.
(And then in that virtual outdoors, I spend all my time building shelter.)
- Comment on BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is a warning sign: we were promised a transport revolution, instead we got cars tracking us and serving us ads 1 month ago:
This is what all the big promises have amounted to for most people: cars that are more and more expensive, devoid of physical controls which makes vehicles less safe, and constantly monitoring everything you do with the option for manufacturers to change whatever they want in your vehicle, including sticking a Spider-Man ad in front of you and presenting it as a fun “surprise.”
Reminds me of:
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow (coined the term 'enshittification') talks with John Stewart about the unsustainable AI financing scheme 1 month ago:
I’ve been watching Doctorow build this set over the past few years, and Jon Stewart is the perfect host for it. This is a master class. The only thing missing is that he didn’t get to mention the price of the Kentuckey Derby winner’s semen.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 1 month ago:
That’s “midsize”? The fuck?
- Comment on Massachusetts prosecutors run their offices on software from the dial-up era 1 month ago:
Age alone doesn’t tell you much about a system’s quality. Well-maintained systems can stay alive for decades and achieve a defect rate that a greenfield effort could only dream of.
We have a tendency to use “legacy” as an insult, but software tends to only stick around for decades if it’s so valuable that it’s hard to replace.
- Comment on Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks - Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off 1 month ago:
They’re leaving out two big pieces of the story:
- Apple is switching to CXMT, whose IPO just made them China’s most valuable company.
- Open weight models are putting a damper on centralized frontier models, making it look like efficient local inference rather than next-gen training may be the winning investment. And what do you need for efficient local inference? Why, a heterogenous SoC architecture with unified memory. And what has Apple bet their entire product line on, for the past 6 years? Exactly that!
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 2 months ago:
Yup. At this point, the only sensible model is harm reduction. I’m not happy about where we are, but we do need to be realistic about it.
- Comment on Spain watching Argentina vs England 2 months ago:
AI basically is lossy compression.
- Comment on Not a single one 2 months ago:
The question was “why is public sentiment so against nuclear?” and they answered, with a note that they personally support it over fossil fuels.
- Comment on James Bond should stay white and male, says casting chief 2 months ago:
There’s not really a good option, in our current culture of endless remakes of the same crap.
Keep James Bond white and male: allows the writers to show specifically how his race and gender interact with the way that Western imperial espionage operates, and there’s an “authenticity” bonus there too. But this effectively prevents non-white/non-male viewpoints from emerging into the scene.
Change James Bond to non-white and/or non-male: gives a head-start to a minority-voiced character, but pretends that the race/gender of the previous iterations didn’t have any practical implications (basically an “I don’t see race” stance from the franchise).
Really, the question is: why are these the only two options? Why not a new character and/or franchise?
Why do we have to reuse an existing character who’s steeped in problematic context, and either perpetuate that (or use it as an excuse to specifically address it, which would be cool but maybe not that great for a popcorn action thriller?) or pretend it was never there?
- Comment on We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? 2 months ago:
It baffles me that people live their lives smoking, vaping, getting smashed, and eating kebabs
It does? If I read enough headlines in a single, I feel like I’d love to get smashed into a fine powder, or vaporized, or turn myself into a kebab.
- Comment on Copper 2 months ago:
Customer
- Comment on Pouring one out for the homies 2 months ago:
You can pay with Bitcoin if you want, and there’s privacy pass. But I thought we were talking about forced AI overviews in search?
- Comment on Pouring one out for the homies 2 months ago:
Use Kagi
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 months ago:
I’m convinced that the real goal of most tech these days is not to solve problems, but to make them someone else’s problems.
You’re a driver and think we’re not paying you enough? Sorry, our hands are tied, it’s all algorithmic.
You want sick time and health care? Sorry, since your manager is an app you’re technically not an employee but an independent contractor.
You want the food you paid for? Sorry, that’s between you and the driver and/or restaurant. We’re just a mediator.
And then they dupe some of us into blaming the consumers or workers. This is not a problem you can solve with market forces.
They act this way because the regulatory environment allows them to, not because they’re carefully watching what consumers think.
Remember, these are companies that are willing to burn billions to shut down any threats to their business models. By all means, be choosy with where you spend your money and who you work for. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s how we win.
- Comment on OnlyFans 'agents' control and threaten creators while taking half their earnings, BBC finds 3 months ago:
No worries at all. I understand how it was easy to take a bad message from that. Have a good day!
- Comment on OnlyFans 'agents' control and threaten creators while taking half their earnings, BBC finds 3 months ago:
To rephrase more clearly: Manyvids is the one platform in this space that’s historically been on the side of creators, and with Manyvids imploding and the other platforms turning the screws, creators are facing an increasingly bleak landscape with no decent options. It’s extremely depressing.
- Comment on Updates to our Privacy Policy | Antrophic 3 months ago:
Incredible. They’re speed-running enshittification, but they forgot the step where they make something that almost everyone wants to use.
- Comment on OnlyFans 'agents' control and threaten creators while taking half their earnings, BBC finds 3 months ago:
Cool. Meanwhile, this is what’s happening at Manyvids: www.404media.co/manyvids-porn-platform-ai-psychos…
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 3 months ago:
Plot twist:
So-called “filler” is precise and meaningful.
It conveys an extra layer of messaging, describing attributes of the speaker and how they feel about the literal message they’re communicating — including their relationship to the listener.
It’s not my fault you’re, like, too simple-minded to get it, dude.
- Comment on AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC. 3 months ago:
“Polarizing”? Isn’t there a poll that something like 85% of Dems support a total arms ban?
- Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 3 months ago:
But have you considered that people also consume water? Checkmate, Luddites.
- Comment on Are you telling me they don't? 4 months ago:
That’s a great point. You’re right, I do love grinding my ass on your lap. It’s not just lap-dancing, it’s lap-salvation.
