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  I keep harping about how one can see that American culture is dead by the awful state of contemporary music. I mean, Madonna putting out a single? Really? All the cosplay cowboy nonsense happening? Really, Brandon Flowers? The very existence of the Beths, with their cloying garbage lyrics and lead singer who cannot sing? I mean, wtf? But listening to Julian Casablancas be autotuned in this way is a particular form of torture I hadn't expected (Strokes are awful, btw). https://www.youtube...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117016147352287285 "LemonLime is a small company with a grindset mentality. If you think you’re going to work there and, say, 'have free weekends,' you are fooling yourself. The 'entire team shows up to the office 7 days a week,' Zietz wrote in a LinkedIn post two weeks ago." A post like this, made on a professional social networking platform by a company officer, should immediately spark an investigation and fines/prosecution....

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nhamiel/116969469559537903 This wasn't a "security incident," it was fabrication, it was cosplay, it was two influencers doing a "colab." First, a chatbot, even a bunch of chatbots sutured together ass-to-mouth, doesn't do anything it's not programmed to do. The structure of this fabricated "event" will come out in time, and we'll see it was all a lie. Second, can we marvel that these two money-losing companies exist...

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  RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116937493213399942 This was quite a good convo. Though I’d argue it’s the financial aspect that will collapse the bubble, not anything inherent to LLMs as a technology, i.e., the dogshit unit economics, the reality that compute demand isn’t there, the inevitable revelations of massive fraud in data center build out, and the preposterously inflated valuations coming down to earth. Once OpenAI or Anthropic have a failed raise then the collapse will begin. A...

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  You know we're in a massive speculative bubble that will lead to a 1929-type crash when Google has a "Director of AGI Economics." This is like DuPont hiring an alchemist tasked with spinning straw into gold, or Bloomberg hiring an osteomancer to work on economic forecasting. The collapse will begin an extended period of pain for our species.

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  Is there a better illustration of the corrupt patronage network that is the Democratic party than a corporate PAC-funded politician who’s been squatting in her seat since 1997, doing nothing as living standards collapsed, being primaried by a 29 year old? For the math challenged: 2026 - 1997 = 29. The Democratic establishment is an abomination that must be burnt to the ground. https://youtube.com/shorts/bR_EdEMg6DI?si=qvsdQ_V18MGk6TVZ

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  Lol: "Career Treasury analysts found that AI firms are more deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy than their dotcom predecessors and pose significant risk to the entire system if financial conditions change, productivity goals are missed or various choke points stymie growth." https://www.notus.org/economy/treasury-internal-report-warning-dangers-ai-bubble

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  Lol, America is truly in permanent decline. Hard to believe we're eleven years into the Trump era; it's even harder to believe that, for four of those years, we had a Democratic president who's so forgettable I can't even remember his name at the moment. I'm sure Trump's third term will bring even more novel horrors (oh, he's running kids, don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise). https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/pathetic-in-ankara?r=riq9&utm_campaig...

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  How long before stories about administration officials corruptly profiting from this come out? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/oil-rises-trump-reimposes-hormuz-blockade-rcna587297

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  RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116924882909801744 It’s hilarious that so many have been screaming this for so long, yet so few listened. How can a technology that is so unreliable and so resource intensive be taken so seriously? The flaws were apparent from the start, but no one dared say “wait, if the technology is this unreliable and consumes endless compute, how is this supposed to pencil out?” In postwar France everyone had been part of the resistance, in the post-bubble period e...

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  Wait, having ChatGPT write every essay for you throughout college means you've...learnt nothing? https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@delta_vee/116512678659052578 I have been saying something along these lines for years and years: --licensing requirements for SWEs --a union/guild --apprenticeship model along the lines of trades --schooling model similar to law, where a four year degree is required prior to a 2-3 year SW engineering program (and mandated to include the humanities as a explicit way of dealing with the "what the fuck do we do with all these half-educated nitwits who only know h...

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  RE: https://c.im/@dpnash/116512385615435674 "Oh, look, an algorithm that extrudes synthetic text! Let's use this synthetic text extruder trained on the internet for...astrophysics!" Room full of astrophysicists: "Yay!" Small group of astrophysicists lurking at the back of the room: "What the fuck? Are they on drugs? Have they suffered brain damage? Wtf is happening?"

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116510569333559021 No one. But that's not the point now, is it? The point is to further undermine the bargaining position of actual musicians. That's the point. That's always been the point, that's always been the goal. It's not that AI-generated "music" is good, or that people want it, or that it's even music. The point has been to use AI, however bad or broken it is, as an excuse to undermine the financial position of...

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  RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116340694899497825 This is exactly what Microsoft is and always has been. Nadella’s completely false reputation is perhaps the biggest PR stunt in modern corporate history. Azure, more, has always been a bit of a psyop: faulty services no one really uses, a pale comparison to its competitors.

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  “Candy maker, whose livelihood depends on sale of candy, is bullish on candy sales despite diabetes epidemic killing off candy buyers.” This is malpractice by a faculty at a major institution. https://www.businessinsider.com/cs-professor-explains-changes-software-engineering-ai-2026-4

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@minmi/116494534847016854 A core policy of the left should be a comprehensive crackdown on the modern surveillance state.

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@wired/tv-movies-ai578k8nz/-/a-6vvm90D0SmKKreoq7Zu4JA%3Aa%3A3199480-%2F0 Remember when the entirety of Maga realized, apparently all at once, that the character of Homelander from "The Boys" is actually the bad guy? Remember how shocked they were to find this out? So telling that it was season three before they realized he was the antagonist. The American right is, yes, very stupid; but there is a whole lot else going on there, and the Homelander...

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  These dumbshits get **this close** to getting it, then they just can't and back away. **This close** then...nope. Every time. https://youtu.be/7tnwGolP9xE?si=59SD_BfoosKPwGSY

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  Not a bad lineup -- but, Ethan Mollick? Lol -- but one still should need a license to have a podcast. https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2026/04/30/ms-nows-chris-hayes-takes-on-the-terrifying-questions-around-ai-with-new-podcast/

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116497045957591415 "Forget curing cancer, AI will instead make large swaths of the population indigent and, we who will not be part of this permanent underclass, couldn't care in the least."

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116497163911143509 This man is such a freak it's hard to put into words. Also, what's wrong with these women?

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  “Lieber is now overseeing China’s state-funded i-BRAIN, or the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard.” Moving to Shenzhen because Harvard wasn’t paying you enough money, or allowing you to torture monkeys in the way you prefer is…a decision? I guess? https://www.reuters.com/world/china/convicted-former-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-brain-computer-l...

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116501785630886643 Ooooh, Spacex -- a rocket company that owns Twitter, for some reason -- now offers voice cloning as a SAAS product. Makes sense.

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  Yes, kids, listen to the man with a JD from Stanford on how skool is bad. https://fortune.com/article/billionaire-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-working-at-his-tech-firm-better-than-harvard-yale-princeton-degree-does-not-matter-gen-z/

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  Just a totally normal gambling establishment, oops I mean “prediction market.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116398346008503706 The only stories to pay attention to around OpenAI relate to (1) the psychopath grifter that is the company's CEO, and (2) the fact that markets and the general public are quickly coming to see the company as "WeWork 2.0." This isn't a company-wide memo, it's a press release. None of these attempts to control the narrative will work in the end, by the way, as the underlying financials are simply to...

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  RE: https://timeloop.cafe/@alienghic/116359241434264555 The insistence that software developers accede to the gaslighting around AI really is something. “We built this technology to replace you, but we also want to gaslight you regarding your planned obsolescence. Please sit here quietly and allow us to present our case as to why we’re seeking to destroy your profession.”

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@shituationist/116358728945463168 One of the more interesting developments over the last year or so is the rise of skills/rules being put into markdown docs and then fed into LLMs, in the hope this cargo culting will appease the gods. This is, of course, insane. How a sector that asks, at every turn, for respectability, can behave in this manner is unbelievable. Again: watching software development destroy itself has been quite weird. The sector will never reco...

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  RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116296554889358927 "Comprehensive ban" is the best LLM policy stance in so many instances.