Programming isn’t for girls, they told me, and I didn’t care. Programming isn’t for humans, they tell me, and do you think I fucking care?

The beautiful dedication in Karen Hao's Empire of AI.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

punkin dunkin

En statlig finansiert kulturinstitusjon velger vekk norsk kompetanse og kreativitet, bruker 7000 kr på tokens og lager KI-film med Chat GPT. De har et oppdrag: Å ta vare på og formidle kulturen vår. I stedet velger de å: www.nrk.no/innlandet/an...

Museum lagde KI-generert film: – Et svik mot kulturarbeiderne

Ved å vekke Baldisholteppet til liv med kunstig intelligens, vil museet skape en debatt.

nrk.no

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

old iTunes is way better than current iTunes, it's fast, everything is fine, old computers are fine, there's no reason we should have to tolerate what we have in current computers, it's absolutely abusive that this is how things go

I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.

the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.

All this is AI intelligent stuff is fantastic proof that men’s idea of intelligence is based on how well something convincingly tells them they’re a good boy and does all their busy work for them

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

This is fucking embarrassing but I swear not everyone working with computers is this stupid

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

I prefer to be obliterated by «AI» than by fascism. Sadly my wish won’t be granted

Omarchy is objectively crap. So the only way you can interpret @1password.bsky.social decision is that they like fascists

The positive side of this timeline is that it has shown I was fucking right: some people should not become parents

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

I got nothing.

Doesn’t matter, viruses trapped in permafrost will get to us first

Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

what are we doing

Please you all go to Mars and leave me behind

Meanwhile I’ll keep having stupid thoughts by myself. They can’t be more stupid than this stupid timeline anyways

Opinion | The Hidden Cost of China’s Free A.I.

Whoever supplies the world’s A.I. will shape how the world thinks.

nytimes.com

from Carmen Losa, a Spanish screenwriter: leave Ithaca, Penelope. the sea is also yours.

@wikimediafoundation.org WTF⁉️

This is embarrassing

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously

It’s there any tech magazine whose reporting is somewhat decent?

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

My expert football comment is that the teams should return home

IMO long time contributors/experts using models to generate Haskell say something about the language that I don’t like

I’m reading @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s translation of the Odyssey for the second time because I heard a famous director made a movie and I’m a snob getting ready to trash it. And I’m having a blast. Probably because in these 8 years I’ve had more godlike experiences

Help I need more music

So how do you stop obsession over a guy that pretty clear said nothing serious huh