FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

sewing machines are power tools

knitting is technology

ACAB includes the Elf on the Shelf

gender fluid storage device (comment courtesy of @rail_)

For the bus enthusiasts 🚌

i dislike how many problems can be solved by “buying things” i already have too many “things” i don't want to have to get even more of them i don't want to consume i don't want to accumulate excessive physical manifestations of material wealth

This whole situation is about as believable as a Russian dissident or oligarch falling out of a midrise window in Moscow. Like the Boeing whistle blower I don't think it much matters if "foul play" was involved because this whole scenario is foul af.

This young man was very brave and righteous to blow the whistle and was undoubtedly under immense social and professional pressure not to. He's fucking up A LOT of people's grifty gravy train.

We should read his words

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

#AI

I was just talking to a colleague about how much of a bubble AI is. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, the costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.

Is there enough money on the line to kill over?

There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

#OpenAI #AI #VC

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"May you live in interesting times"
Old, tired, all times are interesting times.
"May you be the back half of an Hbomberguy video"
Terrifying, life altering, a curse to rival the gods.

hi, new to this mastodon thing

i do things with computers and else i try to cope with the state of things in the world

#introduction

‪Large Hadron Collider-tan~‬

Average fedi experience:

I've seen useless notifications before, but this one is probably the winner.

you have to imagine Sisyphus horny

Y'ever notice that FEMA says you ought to have backup medication supplies in case of a disaster,

but insurers will never pay for you to have and maintain such a supply because it's "excess",

and doctors insist that the desire to have continuity of medication is addictive, "drug-seeking behavior"?

Exploiting mansplaining as tradecraft during WW II:

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

From Elyse Graham's “Book and Dagger”, describing a training school for the SOE.

That sounds stressful.