FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

[Opening a business to store paperwork for people. All kinds of papers and media.]

Customer, arrives with a box of stuff: Can you store this, please?

Me: Sure thing!

Me, opening the box: Ooh a family photo album!

Customer: Uh, what are you doing?

Me: I just need to sort this to store it optimally, so you can get stuff out quickly. Like, say this family photo you've labeled as a vacation photo with 'Aunt Ruby'

Customer: Huh, ok

Me: It seems to be in Hawaii, is that right? This AI has identified it as being on the Kona side of the Big Island.

Customer: Wait a minute…

Me: Is this the same Aunt Ruby who sent you these birthday cards, also in this box?

Customer: Hey!

Me: She seems to be the same person who is in your parents wedding photo! Ah, and here she is baby sitting you in childhood! And posing with you at your highschool graduation! What a close family you have!

Customer: Stop it! [Tries to grab box back]

Me, feeding the box contents through a high speed scanner: I can tell from the birthday cards that she lives in Canada now. Their record show she bought a house there five years ago at 64 Oak Street. You've got some mail here with frequent flyer points with Air Canada and your credit card shows that you did some shopping when you last went to see her some months ago. And look, a photo of you both at Niagra Falls, where you bought a hoodie! And you're wearing it now! Her birthday is next week, can I help you pick a present? Her shopping habits shows she likes candles. Here are a lot of nice candles we can ship to her for you!

Narrator: Trust US-based tech companies with all your data! They'll put it to good use! Like helping you buy gifts for your aunt! Feeding all your correspondence through five eyes intelligence services! And figuring out how to infer things, so they can use those skills to help drop bombs on people! Trust them. Trust Trump. Give us your data. Its so easy.

Fighting back the male gaze by Yuko Shimizu

#Art

Mistakes were made

nearly thirty years ago i saw a guy stand up in an all hands staff meeting, declare "this is stupid", walk out and never come back, and friends, there's not a single day of 2026 I haven't thought of him

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Might get CEASE AND DESIST'd by Microsoft, but fuck it, it'll be funny

standing in line for my daily allotted ration of 640kb of RAM

That "linkedIn Speak” translation option on Kagi is quite good and funny

A lot of Stuff lately has been the idea of "Just wanting to create something" smashing up against the idea that in 2026, being in a place where you can "Just create something" is kind of a privilege.

FOSS devs are trying to build resumes to get jobs, projects turn into corps that aim to be bought out, even artistic and accessibility-based fan works are built by people who are making ends meet with kofi bucks.

So a lot of people expect that Things that are produced are destined for the commons, then they run into creators that say no; they need to monetize, they need control.

It's the other side of the sword that is "Computing was so much more joyous 30 years ago. There was a mentality of sharing". Yeah there was, but it didn't just disappear due to greed. Not the greed of the creators anyway.

I did the `human.json` thing!

If you're a blogger who I've met in person, and you're not using AI or LLMs for your content, let me know and I'll add you to my list.

https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json

this has to be one of the best conversations i have ever had in my life

Hubby: “I need something that will help me remember to take my pill in the morning. Can you think of anything?”

Me: “Yep yep yep yep yep!”