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so i did tech report just now (on Altman's "but that's a sacrifice i'm willing to make" quote)
and i mentioned the jacob coxon tweets and how he was doing some light holocaust querying
and obviously i need to back up that claim so i sent him the futurism article and the tweets
and the host's entire response:
CHRIST.
not sure i can write a good pivot about the Artificial movie, it's not out yet, it's not on the dubious torrent sites and all i have to go on is early reviews
wot else is hot (or makes your blood boil) in AI today?
just thinking how Worm features circular smartphones with a radial interface
sounds like a wild early 2000s Nokia idea, to go with the goatse phone
Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no - podcast
time: 7 min 58 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/ - blog post
Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
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Pivot to AI is more profitable than OpenAI and Anthropic together
please gimme $100b in my IPO it's AI
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How to force chatbots into GNOME - a proposal to block anti-slop projects from the GNOME GitLab:
Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
Australian researchers told an AI model to act drunk and found it was more likely to break rules or divulge information it was supposed to keep private.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/drunk-ai-testing-unsw-research/107208104
"This project would become stangent without using AI"
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"Life gets in the way, it's hard to keep working at the same pace."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"The project just isn't as fun to work on as it used to be."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
"AI lets me implement otherwise impossible features."
Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit.
https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/stop-fucking-working-on-it-them.html
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best conspiracy theory: the Super Intelligence thing is so Trump could sell .si domains in Slovenia which benefits Melania in some unspecified manner
AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software
proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump
the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now
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lol didn't see this in time for today's Pivot - Meta Muse uploads your past and present Apple Messages to Facebook's cloud, even if you told it not to
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/metas-new-ai-agent-blatantly-ignores-users-permissions
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SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured.
https://archive.ph/3B8Bo
original thread: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q
so it's probably important to know this stuff. but it's important to remember that Gyges is a rationalist who insists he isn't a rationalist, a solid AI doomsday believer who tried for the longest time to hide his power level, and someone who *seriously believes* that you can say slurs against a computer (he compiled the blocklists "AI slur user" and "AI hater" on bluesky).
it's nice to see someone listing all this stuff but also these are the grains of salt you have to take this writeup with.
anyway, TESCREAL is a cult and Gyges seems to be under the impression he's out of the cult in any meaningful way.
Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers
when you can’t fiddle the numbers any more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261001-anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers - podcast
time: 6 min 56 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/ - blog post
Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers
oh, so debian is *cooked* cooked
https://inference.debian.net/
Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI data centre contract
Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260925-oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract - podcast
time: 4 min 50 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/25/oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract/ - blog post
Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI contract
messing with my lovely new green screen
it is literally too big for the room lol, a full 12ft wide studio backdrop
here is the pastede on yay test video. not production quality as yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUGw9i669k
green screen test video: pastede on yay
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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@antimundo/117338493301655253
always the ones you most expect
Quoting
Pixelfed is now using AI, and I'm stopping recommending Pixelfed to anyone.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/65dff00e4fdf06be87e1122420d2ffec1d21f8a7
#pixelfed #fediverse #AI
Open quoted postjust discovered radium water instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYxNRtJR4ei/
there's a ton of long form videos
on rumble and lbry lol
you know these idiots will radiationmaxx and have their jaw fall off on stream
Hot take: if you have a useful argument against AI that's swaying people, you should stop doing that because of uh reasons, ok. how do you do fellow AI haters
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i know people use chatbots for search because search has been made deliberately bad, but i can't see how they use it. the AI Overview is a reliable source of wrongness, and remarkable claims that are absolutely not in the sources.
does anyone have informed ideas on what they get out of this wrong answer machine?
(this is not a call for evangelism on how to search, STFU. it's asking about thought processes in the people who do use it)
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KDE just spent three days in a chatbot coding advocacy meltdown on masto that now has Nazis and Nazi apologetics, an incredible 100% speedrun auguring into the bottom of the barrel
boss i'm tired
Wile. E. Basilisk, soooooooper intelligence
lol, the attempt to ram through a pro-slop KDE policy just got closed yet again because people found out about it
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/work_items/187#note_1648917
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@gildilinie@beige.party @LabSpokane@mas.to you're at "it can't be that stupid, I must be understanding it wrong"
it's that stupid
hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!"
nope, they're now doubling down further.
this post is a study in the art of nazi apologetics in online discourse - removing the content of the issue and leaving only a description phrased to sound innocent.
what happened is that the straight-up nazi was posting, someone identified that this person was a straight-up nazi, the nazi admitted they were that nazi, then KDE banned the person calling out the nazi and kept the nazi
the social media person sympathising here with the nazi tries to claim that calling out the nazi is equivalent to real world violence.
https://archive.ph/dPms4#selection-1304.0-1304.1
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@gryphonmyers@mastodon.social it is 200% a let them fight
gyges rags on the rationalists as someone who believes a large amount of what they do and knows them personally, but is totally not a rationalist how dare you
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social @djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology 90s translucent design was the best
i spent today frantically reading up on palmer luckey for this podcast interview this afternoon that we'd had scheduled for literally months
then we promptly filled 18 minutes of 30 with talking about kathy hochul's new anti-data-centre initiative
which is tbf pretty big news for them (they're local news in upstate NY)
but now i know more about palmer luckey
ew
luckey is precisely who he appears to be, in all details. he is who he is telling you he is and wish he would stop telling you
i found one (1) non-shitty fact about luckey: he thinks ai doomsday is nonsense
i learnt how he's very concerned that some "kinetic approaches" are blocked by "lawyers"
it takes some digging to translate this, but what he meant was, he wants automous drones to seek and kill people
and is upset this is a war crime
the other plus point of anduril is that none of its shit works. his drone systems literally don't fucking work.
but having your weapons system fucking work was never a requirement to sell to the department of defense
or, to use its proper name, the department of defense
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@gildilinie@beige.party (waves hand around at our incredible AI bubble)
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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social
Hi, my name is Elias Thorne. I'm a lighthouse keeper. Here's reasons why I *hate* AI:
🔆 Lean customer engagement value justification social media benchmarking personalized interconnected sincere voice user-directed market identity!
🏠 Strategic promotainment visibility ‘wow’-factor network actionable content optimisation wiki analytics B2E brandstorming corporate DNA.
🌊 🐴 Semantic mapping please dear Lord stop me before I kill again Obama effect synergy ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn research embedding!
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@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social second, first is Oracle getting downgraded to just above junk. they've *badly* overextended and it's obvious to everyone.
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The debt tied to the development is already trading at stressed levels, below 90 cents on the dollar, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange centrism is a prion disease
Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on-controversial-data-center
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/oracles-ai-bet-just-sent-202854124.html
i can here Ed Zitron from here: IS THIS GOOD??
it's official, Facebook wants you to buy a subscription to post or comment with more than two links in a month
https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792
Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to external investors
https://app.ft.com/content/97d8d346-519e-48fb-8df8-66cf5f12ef62
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@thesupertechie@lgbtqia.space the KDE Akademy talk didn't *endorse* the neo-Nazi distro! it just showcased that one as its go-to example, rather than choosing not to do that. There are dozens of non-Nazis in KDE!
rationalist funding thread. it's always the ones you most suspect
https://bsky.app/profile/franceslorenz.bsky.social/post/3mwrnuliihs26
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange 20 years ago, I made drunk clippy for this Uncyclopedia article
https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Total_Fucking_Asshole_Server_2006
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SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured.
https://archive.ph/3B8Bo
AI Won’t Kill You, But This Big Pat Ryan Donor Might
Pivot to AI’s David Gerard drops by to talk about a man selling War Crimes in a box at West Point, and Kathy Hochul’s sudden about face on Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.monroegazette.com/p/ai-wont-kill-you-but-this-big-pat
(podcast and auto-transcript)
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@chrisp@cyberplace.social @MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social 13/10 heartbreaking work of staggering genius
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@neal@social.gompa.me @dzwiedziu@mastodon.social "brigading" meaning non-devs? because the community seems plenty pissed, unless you're using a special definition of the word "communtiy".
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@bignose@awful.systems @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de the kde@floss account has got into blank assertions contrary to observable facts, and Nate may be one of the people controlling that account, so if Nate posted the sky was blue I'd assume it was night and overcast
lol, spacex is getting out of, uh, space
https://www.ft.com/content/0fd15797-ac89-4222-a4bb-03a6a1330f48
archive: https://archive.ph/Xot6N