⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

⭐ The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit https://aftermath.site/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit

"The once ubiquitous phrase “let me Google that for you” is now meaningless. You are as likely to return incorrect information as you are complete fabrications, and the people who put this content on the Internet do not care"

Yep. Google is basically useless at this point for anything beyond specific programming problems. I really need to look at other search engines.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit/

Remember, Old World religions are all lies.

We all know that thanks to Friend Computer, when we die we will be born again in a new body, given the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of our past selves.

We are all destined to reincarnate until either we run out of clone back-ups or improve ourselves in the eye of Friend Computer to merit being issued new ones.

All hail The Computer.

#Paranoia #RPG #TTRPG #games #game #religion #belief #clones #amen

Rest in peace Terry Bisson (who wrote the short story this short film is based on, among other things):

https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg

The short story: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

#scifi #TerryBisson #TheyreMadeOutOfMeat

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/

An other banger from @pluralistic

The early days of #Linux https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

Welcome to all new Gladiators!

And here are your new champions.

she'll get in and mess with your partitions, it is... FDISK!
you'll do his bidding, it is... SUDO!
you'll never escape, it is... VIM!
wherever you are, they'll find you, it is... GREP!
the two twins who'll manipulate your strings, it is... AWK and SED!

And here's your host, HYPERVISOR!

This is how headlines about abortion care being determined by judges should be written. "The Supreme Court Will Decide if States Can Force Hospitals to Let Women Die". Thank you Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-states-emergency-abortion-1234945425/

@acontios When I was at (large British ISP) one of the techs looked down the transatlantic STM-1 "to see what would happen". Half an hour later he started to get some vision back in that eye.

𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

Excellent explainer by @davidallengreen How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-it-so-easy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=474138&post_id=140614319&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=8zwbz&utm_medium=email

#OnThisDayInNTK:1998 http://ntk.net/1998/06/26/?arc

debut mentions of:

David Brake

doomed Psion/Nokia/Ericsson Symbian phone OS

"portable hardware [MP3] players"

Game Boy Camera, Game Boy Color & Datel's characteristically demented "GB Game Booster for Sony Playstation"
https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018/01/28/things-youre-probably-not-going-to-want-to-do-348693/

Fun couple of days at the #BreakthroughListen meeting at #SKAO this week, hearing about all the ways astronomers are searching for evidence of #technosignatures 👽 🛸 (we haven’t found any yet, but there are some really clever search techniques). The best bit? The final day pick n mix selection included UFOs…! 😁

Brexit: New report suggests UK £311bn worse off by 2035 due to leaving EU
https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-new-report-suggests-uk-311bn-worse-off-by-2035-due-to-leaving-eu-13046256
The report came up with a scenario for growth if the UK had stayed inside the EU, and compared it to forecasts the Office for Budget Responsibility made in March last year.

Brexshit was always a stupid idea!

Now we need to find politicians brave enough, and/or not in the pockets of the Brexiteers, to take us back into the EU

#Brexit #BrexitDividend #BrexitHasFailed

Well done, Sadiq Khan. One of the very few mainstream politicians (in England, at least) brave enough to speak the unspeakable.
* UK economy £140bn smaller than it would have been without Brexit – shrinkage of 6%
* 1.8 million fewer jobs — a drop of 4.8%
* Average Briton nearly £2,000 worse off (typical Londoner £3,400 worse off)
He wants "a pragmatic debate" on the UK rejoining the Single Market and Customs Union.
OVER TO YOU, KEIR STARMER.
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc52e35-f5b1-4c26-abbf-422f613d54e2

Whenever I see a news article with an isometric illustration my first reaction is “I’d love to play that game”. In this case I’m imagining rushing to apply surreal repairs (plasters, rubber bands, duct tape) to a miniaturised rail network while the trains are still running on it.

Remember when AOL would post these out everywhere, all the time?