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@CStamp @realtegan @mekkaokereke if we’re going to give billionaires and corporations tax breaks then feeding kids without means testing seems like small change.

@grammargirl@zirk.us these folks are stealing language to whitewash a con. In my opinion. Hallucination is a deviation from the normal way healthy human minds work. The confident incorrectness presented by the companies shilling AI is working as designed.

@cstross@wandering.shop since Brexit it’s more like four gerbils in a toilet roll tube. Or that’s how it seems to me from Canada.

@Quasit@beige.party @joeposaurus@chaos.social I think the product AI companies are selling is more like mechanically recovered meat than filet mignon.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us for a little occasional “edutainment” about antisocial folks I enjoy videos like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMJxoYzWT5A&pp=ygUWVGhpcyBmdWNrb25nIGd1eSB0aGllbA%3D%3D

@josh I’m more than 60 years old. Is there time for me to understand it?

@ferryoons @wordshaper hopefully a few more parasitic US tech companies will vanish soon too. I can despise the companies without hating the folk I know who worked for Google.

@wordshaper @ferryoons nothing has exponential revenue growth for long.

@ellesaurus @KimSJ … and even if we are seduced by the productivity mirage, what damage is wrought in its pursuit?

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network I have been realizing how many JavaScript bits in a 15 year old site I’m looking at could be replaced with modern CSS. Getting rid of code is always a good feeling. Even better than making it faster.

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @mhoye@cosocial.ca @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club the whole idea of binding before run time seems shockingly primitive and premature.

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @mhoye@cosocial.ca @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club AIX had smit. That was a really great idea. I was a big fan of the 6150.

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @mhoye@cosocial.ca @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club let me suggest that C++ was the problem 😉 A proper OO response would have been to make the symbol table entries an s-expression, but if they had done that we wouldn’t have needed Perl.

@talexb@fosstodon.org and the imbecile running Ontario is all in on imaginary nuclear technology (SMRs)

@Lana @jzb I hope you enjoy being told you’re right. You’re right.

@Lana I think that I’m a proud, thoughtful Luddite. That’s an aspirational goal.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place does that mean a 10x chatbot would be wrong 100% of the time?

@wordshaper @ferryoons is MBA related to MDMA?

@exchgr @PragmaticAndy should there be quotes around “engineering“?

@kumarvibe@mastodon.social @anttipeltola@mastodon.world is that the same Lütke who’s happy to host Nazi stores on his platform?

@haruki_zaemon oh come on, think of Orbán and Putin, and that limey lickspittle Farage.

@downey @wordshaper maybe Chrome is part of the problem too.

@bascule and the dunderhead running Ontario stopped a bunch of renewable projects when he came to office and is pretty much all in on gas and nuclear. At least his buddies building the new facilities will do well.

@inthehands @mralancooper @EugeneMcParland cornhole?

@bruces @wordshaper “Long-term preservation of digital information is vital for safeguarding the knowledge of humanity for future generations.” If it’s digitized it’s crap. The amount of potentially useful physical evidence we discard while digitizing frightens me, and it’s not entirely clear future generations will have electricity, water etc. the way we’re going.

@nedbat@hachyderm.io @philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com then there are the AI cores that just guess the result and hope it’s close enough (first seen in pentium floating point) 😉

@Paulatics@mstdn.ca especially beware of MBAs in management positions. They are easily hoodwinked: they paid for an MBA!

@newsthump “Nothing sucks like Electrolux” springs to mind. Edit: misremembered the slogan from the 1970s, there was no “an”. And I found a video of an Electrolux ad on YouTube. https://youtu.be/yZrQqnRhmZ0

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network for a second I thought that was Bill Gates’ dick after a visit to Epstein’s “Love Island”.

@straphanger@urbanists.social I wish this was a world where I could live a meaningful and fulfilling life without the notion of employment. It would be different…

@wordshaper @cstross @mhd @jwz @mikej @mjg59 @glyph I prefer radium. Much safer.

@liaizon@social.wake.st @nielsa@mas.to avoiding anything from Google is a goal worth working towards.

@aparrish@friend.camp @jef@mastodon.social I am still amused that some AI boosters whine about “damn autocorrect” getting things wrong.

@IanDSmith someone once said that all property is theft.

@rmondello@hachyderm.io @vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com why would I use a passkey if I have a password manager?