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@zzt it is *indeed* the Grift Age

the marketing class is going to try and convince you this is the AI Age, and you need to shout them down every time this is the age where technology doesn’t do anything for anyone, but you’re forced to use it without your consent this is the age of crazed CEOs posting wild-eyed videos lying […]

oh boy have i got some fucking rage bait for you https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cEQYoht2Yzc i'm linking an invidious instance so this does not count as a youtube view title: This is the End of The Blockchain Socialist this guy calls himself the Blockchain Socialist. This is his last video […]

i've known you eleven seconds and our only interaction is you assigning me homework

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

goku is the kind of guy who has such perfect fighting technique he can create energy beams and fly, and that’s why once he was taken out by forgetting to take his heart medication and couldn’t resurrect for some reason

This could have been an article. #Reading

[re: LLM brain worms, Linux kernel & whatnot, inside baseball] @nev @mayintoronto @davidgerard @zzt yeah, I was just thinking that: it is like y2k, in that: they'll have to 4bire "specialists" (people from the before-times, who actually know how to code) to undo the damage. I wonder if, once […]

FinCEN declares crime is legal now https://x.com/USTreasury/status/2087269903334265280 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0603

Guys who love guitars and hate ukuleles are so funny. Likes: big guitars Dislikes: small guitars

xAI data centre contractors file non-payment liens Elon still a drag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYKFfzTcVo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260812-xai-data-centre-contractors-file-non-payment-liens - podcast time: 4 min 37 sec

Try pissing on my floor now bitch

a fake Ed Zitron profile just tried to friend me on discord. icon is the same, name is .edzitron with a dot in front, join date is 3 Nov 2025 - been stealthing for a while. not just me but others, it's not Ed!

It is a hard thing to be all "All you've gotta do is install this F-Droid thing which is a program for installing other programs and then let that update its repositories for a few minutes and then search for Conversations and install it from there and then choose a server you wanna use it […]

had a wee chat with some folk in England about that weird open source chat thing I use (xmpp/jabber) and they said yeah write a guide for it and let's get on with it, so I figured I'd have a gander through my Newbie Goggles at the current state of things that aren't Conversations wiki.xmpp.org […]

Good news, the reboot of the sun has been successful. Please bear with us for the next 90 minutes or so as illumination returns to full power.

my Tech Report interview is up! "It's mad cow disease for AI." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElBQ6CGHt4

@zzt I was willing to believe he was decent, but the LLM stuff makes that hard to believe.

according to some people who I’m sure consider themselves adults, showing a financial link and evidence of a series of major conflicts of interest in favor of the corporations funding a person to the tune of several million dollars isn’t enough to prove corruption. you have to peer into the […]

@zzt Honestly I was expecting Kay Seivers and IBM to be the death of Linux, u was not expecting the call to come from inside the house.

the “software that uses AI to check if AI was used” hustle is so good lol. i am sorry i keep punching you in the face but how would you like our new Icepack-as-a-Service. the icepack may or may not be frozen; but it’s better than nothing, right? it’s better than letting us sit here and punch you […]

jesus fuck torvalds isn’t making a small amount of money off of the AI companies funding the Linux Foundation. he’s making fucking *bank* forcing LLMs into the kernel development workflow and turning his project into slop. it’s always interesting finding out exactly what number it takes to […]

you know, I’m not sure if Freddy Mercury was a reliable source for how many fat-bottomed girls I should expect at the bicycle race

@mhoye car indicator signals that “tick”. They’ve not used relays for years, but the audible cue is still useful to drivers.

For no reason today I find myself idly thinking about the number of things that are casually faked at me in a day. Static on a TV, is the sort of thing I mean; there's no unconstrained cathode ray tube spraying noise in a LCD, and what you're watching is a looping movie of pretend static that […]

Domain squatter keeps sending increasingly desperate emails to buy a domain from him that I intentionally let expire 🍿

[re: LLM brain worms] @cks @nev with llms i think there's also a bunch of crank writing and genre fiction associations in the traning data -- this complex of Paradigm Shifts and Physics and Dark Matter and Recursion and all this other stuff that winds up in the sycophancy psychosis endpoint are […]

[re: LLM brain worms] Once I would consider it hyperbole but at this point1 I'm just like, yeah it rots people's brains. Someone's like "oh but I just use it for x" and then they're producing a complete slop site with LLM copy, made-up facts, plagiarized code, their crank Grand Unified Theory […]

[re: LLM brain worms, Linux kernel & whatnot, inside baseball] At this point so many fundamental software projects are allowing LLM commits that just using something else isn't practical or sometimes even possible, but I guess it can be mitigated by going with long-term support releases instead […]