mastodon 4.7.2“We are hiring junior programmers who rely on AI to complete the simplest tasks. They don't have the knowledge or experience to know when AI output is error-laden or inefficient.”
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/
"Google is betting its entire future on a world where people eagerly hand over their emails, their files, their habits, and their trust – to an AI system that will quietly auction off their attention, word by word, to the highest bidder."
"Far Side" cartoon from December 6, 1987, almost 40 years ago.
Thank you, AI bubblers and RAM speculators.
The Raspberry Pi used to be a cheap computer.
A RPi5 now costs € 329,95...
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier.
"The purchase was seen as posing "a possible risk to the public interest.""
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
RIP Peter Salus :(
Author of, among many things, "A Quarter Century of UNIX", "Casting the Net" and "The Daemon, the Gnu & the Penguin", and a really nice guy with endless amusing and interesting stories.
Actually no. Werner Herzog didn't say this. It is still worth saying.
"According to the CvdM, social media feeds increasingly show people only news that aligns with their own views, contributing to growing problems like division in society and the manipulation of opinions.
These algorithms can also amplify polarizing, extremist, or misleading information, putting the reliability of news reporting under pressure. The rise of AI-generated content also plays a role in this "
https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/19/risk-democracy-social-media-feeds-harm-peoples-ability-form-opinions
Just got emergency broadcast alarm on my phone, with a warning of code red for extreme temperatures in most of the country.
"The concern is not that AI makes people less intelligent overnight, but that constant reliance on artificial cognition changes our relationship to effort itself. The student who once wrestled with a difficult text now asks Claude for a summary. The programmer who once debugged line by line now supervises generated code they barely understand. Over time, the muscle of sustained thought weakens through disuse."
https://www.techpolicy.press/ais-catastrophic-risk-isnt-rogue-machines-its-cognitive-surrender/
Kudos to the Ukrainians for sharing what they find out about captured Russian equipment - they are in a rather unique position to study it.
"Some may argue that the world’s first trillionaire is a story of technological triumph and a win for American capitalism. But markets have not bet on cutting-edge technology or a company too big to fail, but rather on the idea of a mega-monopolist with wealth and influence so vast that the US government will not allow him to fail."
"Narcissistic leaders resist remote work because it interferes with their motivations for power and status."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
"So things are getting more expensive, and people are getting displaced by largely untested and ineffective technology, but if we just keep doing that, it’ll all work itself out."
@holly@social.v.st Amaryllis Tannoyii?
From 2019:
"Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing""
"The ground is shifting underneath every industry that was built on the assumption that the US would protect and preserve the globalised status quo. The software industry has shifted its entire value proposition from “we make tools that help you make or save money” to using political clout and the dollar hegemony to capture, control, and loot entire sectors of the various economies of the world. That strategy only works when you’re in charge."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
"Of all posts we flagged as AI-generated, two-thirds came from LinkedIn"
As long as they don't call it "HAL"...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515002134.htm
"Oh, don't worry, all your data stays in Europe"...
“We want critical thinking, not just AI”
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
