Just saw a boomer buying the courier-mail and a hot coffee from the servo. A dying breed.

“Well, @vizcomic.bsky.social, you won’t have Liddell around to write scathing satirical columns in his style anymore” - Liddell, emulating Nixon, in hell.

We can't take their money or power, but we can make their money and power taste like ash in their collective mouths by showing that it is entirely possible to not be a piece of shit, that they didn't have to do all the awful things that they have done.

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Every now and again I just get the irrits about being seen as a Source of Revenue to make Line Go Up this month. And I’m quite aware I’m speaking from a position of privilege.

Don’t even get me started on the delightful Australian idea of selling you shit that might require support and then completing hollowing out support to increase new build construction, and then cut back of new build construction anyway to create scarcity

Every non-mainstream power provider does this mewling hand-wringing thing about how they have no control over wholesale pricing and then knock the daily charge up 50% and fire all the support and then sell out to origin anyway

Got the home battery working again by resetting the bms using a method that would’ve worked several months ago had anybody told me how. Bugger it.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

“Well, @vizcomic.bsky.social, you won’t have Liddell around to write scathing satirical columns in his style anymore” - Liddell, emulating Nixon, in hell.

Need a Time Machine so I can buy my computers from these people exclusively

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · last wk.

khalsa computer systems, computer store, california, u.s. (1978) archive.org/details/1978...

I'm so tired of "social construct" being used to mean "false beliefs", either for or against. Things that are socially constructed -- e.g. money -- are palpable and often extraordinarily powerful. The denial of the social is a curse.

The surveillance is the end game as has been manifestly obvious for a decade

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Suspiciously helpful person from an electrical company, after exchanging info over sms for a bit it dawns on me I’ve been talking to a fucking chatbot and it doesn’t know shit. Fuxache.

"How did anybody do anything at all before a year ago?" nation's dopes ask

Don’t make me tap the chart

If you’re still pretending to be some principled proponent of sensible enlightened self-interest, no you’re not you fucking fascist crunt, look around you and make a choice

lol, try getting any support for Solaris and see how well oracle is doing. Even oracledb support is basically “pls read knowledge-base [TICKET CLOSED]” now and you pay five figures a month for the privilege. Oracle is a whole new level of Fucked.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Had a beer after work and had a feeling! Gross!

I see people with an expectation of normal behaviour from rational people getting horrified when confronted with the bigoted ululations of the ascendant fascist right and it’s a bit sad, stuff has been going down for a decade now, you can’t actually have friends of the left /and/ right

pete evans hitler particles emanating from the british media class on disability

centrists when a leftist loses: your high-minded ideals amount to nothing if you cannot win power centrists when a centrist loses: the hateful electorate does not deserve the majestic rationality of The Candidate

But but data centres have been around for ages, what about the good uses for machine learning etc

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7d ago

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

Life in prison, seriously, this is a proper sin

Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · last wk.

Is there anything that more exemplifies the anti-intellectualism of the current age? AI companies like Anthropic are buying rare books, breaking the spine to allow for fast scanning, then shredding them... even if they're the last copies on the planet. (Tweet 27/7/24. Full text in ALT)

Marvin, it’s your cousin Chuck! Chuck the Martian! You know that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS! [phone is actually just a stick of dynamite, explodes]

Chatgippity, generate a plausible looking csv with three years of invoices, hurry up

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.

One Nation vows to hand in three years of financial statements it failed to submit in Queensland

Belle didn’t leave Scrooge because he loved money, she left because she couldn’t handle a high-value Victorian male. Jacob Marley is forced to drag chains because accountability culture has gone too far. Tiny Tim, who does NOT die, starts a YouTube channel called Crutch Grindset.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...

WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS