Notices by Sue Smith (sue@glasgow.social)

While I hesitate to encourage folk to run unnecessary queries, I do think the "made up phrase" + "meaning" google search is a great exercise in helping people understand what generative AI actually does.. I've found it hard to explain to folk outside tech that its purpose is literally just to generate text but this seems a more intuitive demo that might make them question the output.

Re last boost, have always been repelled by nostalgia which is obviously facebook's bread and butter, but it's wild to see how directly cultivating that has set them up to spread fascist propaganda

When you've reverted the same "correction" google docs made to a word at least ten times in the same doc on the same day, why is this never the kind of learning the machines are engaged in

Three years ago today I had major surgery that cured me of cancer

The department of work and pensions is hiring a deputy director of artificial intelligence delivery, that's irony deid again etc 💩🤡 https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/16116354

Mind when tech job titles had "ninja" and shit in them, truly the most embarrassing industry

Still so pissed off at William Gibson for making me think the tech fueled dystopia was going to be cool and not cringey as fuck

Has anyone broached the - your employer probably shouldn't be asking you to travel to america right now - thing yet lolol asking for a friend

This is what happens when you optimise for productivity, it actively inhibits the work where people actually create value.

Lines of code anyone? We need to get to grips with this shit if we want paid work to remain a thing in the face of the AI grift.

The work isn't producing the output, that's a tiny fraction of it. The work is thinking, taking time to understand the problem you're trying to solve, making sure it's the right one, communicating and collaborating around it within an organisational and economic system, it's.. complex. What we call "knowledge work" is about as far from being on a production line as you can get and yet here we still are dealing with this nonsense.

The foreman cannae see how hard you're thinking 🤡

The question then is why don't we optimise for the conditions in which employees are best able to create value, surely then everyone wins.. Well it turns out holding the balance of power is even more important to yer ruling classes than making money is. They'd rather have a bit less money than share power with you.

Something that really annoys me with text editing apps that give you intrusive suggestions as you type (AI or other) is that a lot of the time the writing is part of my thought process. The goal is more complex than getting the words on the page, it's part of me figuring the thing out and these prompts interfere with that, aggressively so. 🤬

it's kind of nice to be able to point at instead of trying convince friends outside tech what an infantile farce it is 🙃

This pattern of toxic CEOs posting from corporate social media accounts, forcing highly visible product changes based on their own personal drama etc is certainly revealing what joke organisations populate the tech industry lol

Migrating all your shit away from problematic companies As A Service

I'm not sure if this is symptomatic of having had a life threatening disease, but it's my birthday in a few days and am realising I'm very conscious of the age I'm about to be, but not the age I currently am, I haven't taken my current age in somehow.. idk it's like reaching the next one was a goal or something

I'm planning to track some bigger swim goals than normal this year, but since garmin's approach to accessing or customising displays of your own data is dreadful, I decided to just make a spreadsheet and periodically import the data in manually, and you better believe I'm having the time of my life in there 🤣

Got an electric blanket for Christmas

"It's already on 9, on 10 you can cook a lean cuisine!"