Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving away from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention.

It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

we, actually, think that using slop tools to program does disqualify you!

reading an arse slopnica article that says the quiet part out loud:

you likely are running or will eventually run an app containing AI-generated code whether you want to or not

why yes, the "we don't want to do that" part is a fucking problem

Hey, I'm gonna put this out there now:

When the backlash of the true cost of LLM becomes critical and companies start having to bend to hire and rehire talent they cut because "AI is here and we don't need humans anymore"? That needs to come with tech worker unionization.

Start planning this now if you're in a position to. Quietly. You don't have the upper hand yet, but either you will soon, or we'll all be screwed. Choose optimism for this one.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115021948428162829

Today I visited a place that used to host a duck. As I entered, a very serious looking security dude tabbed his hand on his pocketed gun and with a deadpan tone said: 'no ducks this time, we'll make sure of that'.

After a second or two he burst out laughing and told me how much he had enjoyed the duck story.

Standing next to me was the manager of the location who had just explained how he was sooooo done with the duck thing.

Pure happiness.

A reminder to all the TERFs and transphobic queers out there that the first Pride was a riot, literally. And it was led by trans women and drag queens, including Marsha P. Johnson, as well as lesbians, who refused to submit to police bodily searches during a raid on the Stonewall Inn night club, and who fought back during the cops' attempts to mass arrest patrons and community members.

#lgbtq #pride #stonewall #transrightsarehumanrights #transphobia #Riot #police #policebrutality #homophobia

Happy Pride Month!

We are still here! ✨

#Art #Pride #PrideMonth

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

Happy Pride

It's Kaijune.
It's Pride Month.

ROOOOOAAAAAAAR!

Happy Pride Month, everyone! Time to be loud and proud!

@pfish.zone so much of the maintainer community right now is handwringing about "but if we ban LLM use, how will we tell?" and I am exasperated because the answer is not some sophisticated word-probability detection machine, it is "they will be blindingly obvious about it, and if they manage to not be obvious for a second, they will brag about it, they can't stop themselves"

Luigi is a hero we need more of.

Oh this is an excellent resource for those wanting to avoid slopped projects!

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

#NoAI

@dbattistella I don't believe that publicly traded for-profit companies are capable of this. I think the very fact that such a company is incentivized to perpetually extract wealth from workers and customers and give it to 3rd party share holders who contribute nothing to wealth generation beyond a one-time contribution of capital is what makes these companies grow into vile monsters over time. They are exploitative by design, and this is the dominant form of company in our economy.

It's possible to break this mold. Cooperatives are democratically controlled, and often the workers and/or customers are the shareholders, with equal shares. This changes the incentive structure from an exploitative one to, you guessed it, a cooperative one. If we could only make this the dominant form of company in our economy, we would live in a very different world where "don't be evil" was the natural order of things.

The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.

Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.

#Google #AI #Tech