A few of the videos I’ve been encountering lately really triggered my “AI”-radar when they clearly weren’t (shots were to long) and I’ve been wondering why
But I think it's a combination of the script being LLM-generated, the delivery style, and that supersharp/upscaling look to the video that makes it feel "AI"
The explanation below is basically what I said yesterday.
Jen Easterly, former director of CISA: “The United States does not have a cybersecurity problem so much as a software quality problem,” Ms. Easterly wrote. “Much of the multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry exists to compensate for technology built for speed, convenience and features — not security.” (From https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/business/technology-dependence-microsoft-airlines.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub -- gift link)
If you've ever struggled with getting anyone to switch to an open source, self-hosted or EU-hosted alternative to Microsoft Office/365, picture this:
Last Friday, large organisations brought out fax machines rather than attempting to use anything but Outlook and Teams.
It's not you. It's them.
Everyone hates AI, but do you even know how a coding agent actually works? It's hilarious:
LLMs mess up indentation, constantly mix tabs and spaces, get line endings wrong, hallucinate diff line numbers and produce completely broken patches. So the harness throws increasingly desperate fuzzy matching at the problem and blindly tries to apply whatever sticks.
This is software engineering now. Apparently.
One of the closest things we have to a fact in this era of AI coding is that you will tend to improve the overall performance of an average dev team by taking the technology away from them.
It's very important to call out, criticize and push out LLM usage for creative expression (writing, art, music, code).
But we also should not make "hunting LLM usage" our identity because it can also bind so much energy we could invest in building something better.
(I am in the target audience for this post)
Since my above post is going "viral" by Mastodon standards, I could really use your help in signal boosting my anti Gen AI whistleblower memoir Kickstarter, for the sake of my survival.
Less than five days left!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate
Apple Logic Pro breaks the customer mental model and its own brain with ill-considered “Unified Browser” reminiscent of everything terrible. Prepare for a deluge of ugly metaphors....
https://zeldman.com/2026/11/15/thanks-for-nothing-apple-logic-pro/
The more I read about it, the obvious it becomes that the big news story regarding Nvidia is corruption and financial shenanigans, not the affairs or honestly even the spy rumours. The scale and potential consequences of the former far outweighs that of the latter.
Friends, it looks like someone is trying to impersonate me on the Fedi --- I can't see any content they've posted, but they're using my display name.
Please block/report that account if you see it.
🎯♥️🎯 but 40 and 55
Why the only socially responsible policy on AI is no AI. Think of the rhinoceros!
> We are in a war for the commons and our humanity. We have chosen to pick a side, we’ve chosen to reject evil.
Seem extreme? Then read why it is right. We all intuitively know this, we only don't want the inconvenience to ourselves that acknowledging this brings. But think of the humans you hurt, or if you can't do that, think of the rhinoceros. 🤔
@librecast statement on AI:
https://librecast.net/2026-11-14-AI-Statement.html
#LLM #noAI
In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular for pushing it.
You know it’s properly winter once my neighbour has parked his tractor in its winter parking spot.
Hyperscale data centres are a crisis waiting to happen. They put intense pressure on our electricity supply, drive up bills, and put our environment and climate at risk.
Today we joined communities across Scotland to send that message to the Scottish Government.
https://greens.scot/news/scottish-greens-to-join-edinburgh-march-against-ai-data-centre-rollout
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117616100920220358
My friend @oration is fond of pointing out something that an awful lot of people who own several very nice suits really do not like to hear: any postmortem incident analysis that does not trace cause back to one or more management decisions is incomplete.
“Butkus the bullmastiff ended up in Rocky II, and Jimmy Gambina has ended up living the rest of his life as the scapegoat in a story that seems so touching and magical … so long as he isn’t the one sharing it. You’re the guy who took Sly’s dog from him. He wasn’t. He and Stallone haven’t spoken since 2005. The days that Rocky’s cast and crew spent working in Philadelphia would define the film’s staying power. They remain for Gambina a memory laced with pain.
“‘You know what?’ he said one night over the phone. ‘It’s hurt me in a lot of different ways. It’s broken my heart.’”
https://slate.com/culture/2026/11/sylvester-stallone-rocky-balboa-movie-dog-cast-butkus.html