kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Pouring one out for the homies 5 hours 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 9 hours ago:
Use Kagi
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
But have you considered that people also consume water? Checkmate, Luddites.
- Comment on Are you telling me they don't? 1 month 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.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s incredible how we went from everyone laughing at the YNGMI crypto bros to the entire economy being built on top of YNGMI AI bros.
- Comment on Yup 1 month ago:
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work 1 month ago:
Guys I’m starting to think that maybe capitalism and democracy are not 100% compatible
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- Comment on The Ethics of Generative AI 2 months ago:
All artwork for the series was hand-drawn by Anna Rettberg (x.com/aerettberg) without generative AI.
For context:
Demetri Spanos (PhD) is a 25+ year veteran of AI development. He wanted to speak out about the negative turn that his field has taken, but he didn’t have an audience so he turned to…
Casey Muratori, an accomplished software developer with a considerable media presence, who makes a good fit for Demetri in this case because while Casey himself is an AI skeptic, much of Casey’s audience are young professional devs who are probably using AI (whether enthusiastically or reluctantly) in the workplace.
The title of the video should be read as “the ethical questions and proposed frameworks that have appeared throughout the past 30 years of AI research”, not “an affirmative argument for the question of whether the current crop of AI software is ethical”.
(Spoiler: Demetri makes strong arguments that the industry entered unethical territory more than 15 years ago)
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- Comment on Shoplifting rife, police overwhelmed, an angry public – the trail leads back to one person: Theresa May | Dal Babu 2 months ago:
Written by a cop lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve seen that name a bunch but never bothered figuring out who that is. Does this mean I put it off for long enough that I no longer need to?
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
Corrections are the piece that the public sees, but liability has more to do with being able to prove in court that you took reasonable steps to make sure you were providing accurate information.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
News outlets are liable for what they publish. LLM vendors should be as well.
- Comment on Shame. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Source—The Internet Is Keeping It Forever 2 months ago:
Anthropic, without an ounce of self-awareness: “Hey, just cuz you used AI to change it doesn’t mean you can copy our stuff and use it to compete against us!”
- Comment on Minimum wage rises to £12.71 an hour as firms warn of impact 2 months ago:
They would rather see zero.
Dan, thank you for this question. It’s really at the heart of the work that I’m trying to do now, which I call thanatocracy. So, it was John Locke who said political power is making laws punishable by death.
And I think anyone who’s studied Marx or studied other political economists will see that the human surplus arises from reducing the value of the workers to zero, as close to slavery as you can get. So, that’s the matter of value theory and political economy. But I think it rings true for most everybody that the boss is trying to reduce wages, the workers trying to increase them.
And the boss, unless he reaches some opposition, will go down to zero. You know, as long as labor is plentiful, as long as a new generation is created, or as long as immigration is possible, slavery is the tendency of capitalism. When I say slavery, I mean reducing the value of the human life to zero, to nothing.
From The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh, Feb 17, 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…/id1043245989?i=10…
- Comment on pretty average movie tbh 3 months ago:
Part of the trilogy: Mean Girls, Median Girls, Mode Girls
- Comment on Bradford Pear Trees 3 months ago:
Annyone
We are ruinning language for the sake of engagement.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 3 months ago:
The vulnerability is coming from inside the house
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 3 months ago:
Yeah, items are licensed according to where they’re sold, not made. “More oversight” makes no sense.
