“Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads”
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/11/02/microsoft-just-gave-us-the-perfect-name-for-ai-thieves-kyle/
> The narrator drops a precise timestamp, like he’s recounting the exact moment of a terrorist bombing inside Kyle’s soul.
I’m honestly a little befuddled that an incorporated entity could put “our core product may end humanity” in its IPO prospectus, and we didn’t just immediately march its entire executive team to the nearest bog and ritually strangle them, then disband the company and redistribute its assets, then gather and incinerate all their intellectual property.
Imagine if real engineers said “we asked an AI because checking the integrity of the steel that went into that bridge was slow and boring”. Grow up and do your job, computer touchers
you ever write code so inefficient you have to start complaining about the global allocation of RAM
"Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but..."
-sigh- Do I have to tap the sign again?
STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING AI EXECUTIVES.
For fuck's sake, they just keep overselling these things. Do they *really* expect us to believe, 4 years into this tsunami of horseshit, that an AI executive can "sympathize" with human concerns now?
Sam Altman is as capable of sympathy as your toaster is.
Nous avons toujours alerté : les mesures antiterroristes sont présentées comme exceptionnelles puis s’appliquent à toutes et tous : militants écolos, gilets jaunes, syndicalistes, soutiens de la Palestine, etc.
En 2027, nous abrogerons cet arsenal répressif.
Je ne sais pas si l'on réalise bien ce qui est en train de se jouer en France : derrière le mal-nommé (c'est vraiment pas de bol, on croirait que c'est fait exprès) projet de loi « casseurs-payeurs » de l'axe Macron/Le Pen, se cache littéralement une interdiction de facto de manifester en France : toute personne PARTICIPANT à une manifestation où il y aurait PAR AILLEURS de la casse pourra être sanctionnée par une amende de 10000€.
Oui, 10000€ pour être allé manifester pacifiquement dans un rassemblement autorisé.
my favourite post from another site, i give you the non-interactive css colour picker:
Sam Altman said it's "quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply" of DRAM sitting in personal computers.
You know what Sam? I think that it's quite terrible to have all the billionaires have a bunch of the world's money sitting around in their personal bank accounts unused when there are people living on the streets and children going hungry.
And also, as always: Go fuck yourself Sam Altman.
I really need y’all to understand that “I had AI generate a bunch of gibberish code in a theorem prover that I can’t read and don’t know how to operate” does not count as formal verification
It is really *truly* starting to grate on me
More "boring" service providers who are content with a modest profit margin and slow organic growth, please. I don't even care if the UI looks "dated" and new features take a long time to be built. Traditional boring bare metal, only add new customers when you have capacity to support it, whatever.
A company of 50+ year old tech veterans who have been laid off and left behind from age discrimination just looking to keep the bills paid until retirement.
Run it like a co-op, like a little credit union that isn't looking to expand quickly, just serve their little niche of the community.
The end goal of all of this, is an end to personal computing. They do not want you to have a computer capable of doing its own thing. They want you to have a box that requires a constant connection to the cloud where you can only do what they allow you to do. And you will pay subscription fee for it. #AI #techbros #FuckYouSam
"Has anyone here ever played 'Core Wars'?"
It wasn't the weirdest question our lecturer had asked the class, but it was close. Professor Artemisia Berman had finished the syllabus for RE211 Comparative Religion and Metapsychology last week; this final lecture of the term was listed as "Coda: Conspiracy Theories".
"It's an old computer game", she continued, "where the players write software programs that all reside in the address space of a single simulated computer. The goal of each program is to eliminate the others by overwriting their memory, and to maximise its own survivability by replicating to control the shared address space. This is directly analogous to religions and other metacognitive entities."
A murmur ran around the room. This was a little more off the wall than usual.
"As you'd know if you've read my book 'The Origin of Metaconsciousness in the Arthropoidal Hivemind', it is my thesis that metacognitive entities such as anthives and beeswarms made the leap to mammals around a hundred and fifty thousand years BCE. Religions were the first metacognitive entities to run on the mammalian brain; since then joined by nation-states, corporations, conspiracy theories and political parties."
I was sitting up straight now. I'd heard of the epithet "Bizarro Berman" applied to Dr B and her off the cuff closing lectures covering extrasyllabic material. The University had tried to stop these, but tenure still meant something at The Big U.
Berman continued: "The common goal of all these entities is survival. And like in core wars the way to do that is to expand territory and eliminate competitors."
"This semester we have reviewed the major religions that are still executing on human brains today. We've seen that these all feature a characteristic fictive origin narrative. For example Judaism purports to have begun around 2000BCE yet the entire text of the Pentateuch in fact dates to no earlier than 300BCE, Christianity has no evidence for the historicity of its founder, with gospel texts unable to be substantiated before the second century of the common era, and some not before the tenth. Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, and all the others we've studied consist of a narrative that, looking back, shades into myth somewhere in the first quarter of their purported histories."
"Why do religions do this? Camouflage! A metacognitive entity executing on a hundred million brains for several centuries has sufficient spatiotemporal baseline to manifest a very small retrotemporal instantiation—say a virus or a tumor—in one brain. But if the founder is lost in mythical nonhistory, retroassassination becomes a crapshoot."
"The same is true today, Bermuda Triangle, Roswell Incident, MAGA, Facebook, all these metacognitive entities transition from fiction to actual history /somewhere/ in their development but their survival in part depends on concealing the phase-change from competitors."
One thing that we lost with the demise of Maemo and Nokia’s phone business is touch keyboard design by designers who have first-hand experience of writing more than one Latin-script language every day.
Switching the keyboard layout makes sense when switching language also switches script. But I want the Finnish touch targets to stay in the same positions for English.
And then there’s the nonsense seen in this screenshot: Someone thought I should use AZERTY if I want to translate from French.
HP/MP restored! But you're still hungry.
i think reddit is a genuinely well designed social network bc its the only place i can go look up one of my interests and have like a whole forum on it, with lots of similar interested people
sad to see it go
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
RE: https://flaki.social/@flaki/117536748497863970
The fact of it is that we live in a world where the mood swings of a ketamine-addled narcissist are a national security issue for more than a few countries.
Louder for people in the back:
Debian without politics is just volunteering for Canonical.
Scenes of inspiring heroism from London's #MetropolitanPolice today, as they bravely start arresting the ~400 people sat outside the #USembassy holding signs "I oppose #genocide, I support #PalestineAction".
#MetPol began arresting these #terrorists before any signs were displayed. They arrested ppl like this woman for supporting ppl holding signs, & arrested ppl with blank placards.
If it wasn't for the courageous cops, countless ppl might have seen blank paper.
Video from #DefendOurJuries