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Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 21:46:37 JST Jonathan Schofield

Just had a chat with a client who was describing how ChatGPT has saved his bacon by enabling him, without technical understanding, to conjure an API-based solution to a time-constrained data transfer issue.
Our dilemma is that the tools obviously have great utility if one is prepared to ignore their costs.
And we live in a culture that is committed to ignoring its costs.
These are the FOMO meets FAFO years of LLMs
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  Attached: 1 image …In 29/35 years after establishing the IPCC – the FAFO (Fuck Around Find Out) years – emissions have gone UP https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions Of the 5 years when our CO2 emissions went DOWN (plus 1 where they were flat), none of that was *intentional*: 🤦♂️ 1992: -2.8% (global recession ) 🤦♂️ 1998: -0.29% (Asian financial crisis) 🤦♂️ 2009: -1.72% (global recession) 🤷♂️ 2015: -0.03% 🍊 2016: 0 😷 2020: -5.48% (COVID pandemic) And across the 34 years shown below, emissions increased by **66%** 😱 #climateCrisis

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