Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

US is winning the special military operation against Iran so hard they needed to lessen the sanctions on oil coming from *checks notes* Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-sanctions-iranian-oil

Donald Trump remains a master strategist.

#USpol #Iran #IranUSWar

@chiraag basically the point is: if you feel the need to mention peaceful transfer of power in the USA – as Chan reportedly did – there is something very very wrong going on.

It's like your boss calls a meeting and mentions that "book keeping continues to be done correctly in this company" after having been spotted having lunch with a known mafioso. The immediate question is: are they in denial, or is there something else going on?

@glitzersachen @timnitGebru

Of course eventually, chickens will come home to roost. Amazon has been laying off tens of thousands of engineers over the last few years, sometimes claiming to be replacing them with "AI".

The result is brain drain, and thus outages big and small:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

Called it:
https://archive.md/20260313093508/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing

> A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”

Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai

> Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech

Of course Meta is pretending this is because "effectiveness gains in AI".

But if an industry is laying off tens of thousands of people, maybe it's not magic, but an industry in deep crisis. Using "AI" as a convenient excuse to not have stockholders worried.

I am absolutely loving the fact that fedi is the kind of place where people still not only know the terms "scrip" and "company town", not only understand why these are dangerous ideas, but are also violently vocal about how bad they are as soon as something shaped like them is mentioned.

:blobcatlove:

OpenAI is doing this because the investment money is drying out – Nvidia for example is not keen in dumping more money into this particular dumpster fire:
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-will-not-be-able-invest-100-billion-openai-due-ipo-ceo-jensen-says-2026-03-04/

OpenAI business plan used to be:
1. build "AGI"
2. ask it how to make money
3. profit!!1!

A bit over a year ago Altman claimed OpenAI "knows how to build AGI". End of last year Altman started saying "AGI is not a useful term". So that plan fell apart. 🤡

New plan: company town economy!

If employees are paid in tokens that means employees are *paying* for tokens out of their own pockets.

No different than mining company town folks having to buy (or rent!) boots and work clothing from the company that employs them. At "special" rates, no doubt.

By the way this should tell you all you need to know what class "white collar" vibe coders and broader IT folks are.

Hint: no, you're not running the company town, you're renting your tools from your factory owner. :blobcatcoffee:

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.

This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").

Here:

👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens

👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)

:blobcatpopcornnom:

#AI

Claude Desktop app was unresponsive for users for several hours because it did not account for daylight savings time:
https://status.claude.com/incidents/pqpgkf52p3tg

> Root cause: Users with scheduled tasks in Claude Cowork or Claude Code who are in a timezone that observed daylight saving time last night were affected by an infinite loop. When the app tried to locate tasks scheduled during the “skipped” hour, it couldn’t resolve them and got stuck.

Enterprise quality. Serious company. Many wow. 🤡

#AI #Hype #Claude

@ErickaSimone oh damn, I'm a white guy and even I was like "seriously?!" when I saw it.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Oh no, again? Who could have seen it coming?!

Narrator: anyone could have seen it coming.

Also, this is a new thing, not the old thing reported on a few weeks ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws

#AI #Hype #AWS

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe

> The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.

That story again:

Even parody Nobel committee recognizes how dangerous it is to travel to the USA these days. If your conference doesn't, your conference is less serious than parody Nobels. 🤡

#USpol

That's just fscking great, ffs:

When Google Changes Brand Websites To AI Pages In Dynamic Takeover
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413133/when-google-changes-brand-websites-to-ai-page-in-d.html

> This patent allows Google to evaluate a brand's landing page -- and if it predicts the page will underperform for a specific user, generate a machine-learning-generated alternative page in real-time. It's described in the background of a “conventional system."

#Google's getting into the business of "improving" your website landing page, without your permission. 🤡

@dalias @futurebird I'm with you on this, but that would require calibration in ways a scale of 1 to 10 does not.

Spain denies USA use certain bases for their Iran aggression, so Trump threatens to cut off *all trade with Spain*
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-trade-after-spain-denies-air-base-use

US their trade policy is just another tool of imperialist coercion and control.

That said, I wonder if that means that Spain will lose access to all the US-based Big Tech services and tools? Because it would seem to me as if that was the case.

And if that's the case… tech sovereignty becomes even more clear of a choice for EU. 🍿

#USpol #USA #BigTech #EU

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116162414118315263

One would imagine Microslop, being a pretty old company by now, would have heard about the Streisand Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I mean, they almost certainly trained Slopilot on that particular article (among others). :blobcatgiggle:

It's not war, it's a "major combat operation"?

Trump can't even come up with his own bullshit, has to steal Putin's homework.

Receipt:
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-targets-us-bases-amid-joint-usisrael-attacks/live-76161011

Also a reminder that while the Iranian regime is undeniably horrible, it is also the result of CIA and MI6 instigating (in 1953) a coup d'état against the government of Iran that had a democratic mandate, over oil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Here's the Wikipedia page about the prime minister of that government, Mohammad Mosaddegh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

The coup made shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi an authoritarian monarch with US backing. His oppressive regime ended with the 1979 Iranian Revolution.