Notices by Chris Ammerman (cammerman@mstdn.social)

Other people are saying this as well, but: if the guts of the golden goose are where the future value is, then what they are trying to replace is where the value has been all this time.

What are they trying to replace?

LABOR!

What's new about the goose? They can own it instead of renting it. They want to put labor in a box and rent it back to you instead of paying you to rent yours.

Gas prices are about to go where they've never been before because our fascist president started an illegal war he can't finish. But sure, The Economist thinks the big economic threat we all need to fight RIGHT NOW is that Gen Z is Too Socialist.

Lololol. Kindly fuck all the way off.

Citation: https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3mnhswlglp52t

@inthehands But that deal wasn't his, it was Obama's. This deal is *his.* Can't have a black man's accomplishment stand unmolested.

Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.

Reading a claude.md and seeing written there many directives like this: "Don't make changes until you have 95% confidence in what you need to build."

This reveals such a profound misunderstanding of how this technology works that I'm speechless. And this is literally what people are trying to build fully-automated "software factories" from.

Look, if you tell an LLM it needs 95% confidence, it doesn't know what either "95%" nor "confidence" means. It knows people tend to respond to this kind of direction either by saying "I'm not sure enough because..." or "I'm super confident for these reasons." It has no ability to correctly choose which of those templates it will follow.

Flip a coin. You'll get a reasonable looking sentence back in one of those styles, with a random assortment of reasons that may or may not be rooted in fact.

Haha. Chuck Norris is trending again. People always freak out when that happens. Let's see what silly article is making the rounds this time...

Oh. Oh shit...

Maybe it really *is* the end times.

I know, this was a cheap joke.

It's important to remember that the mythology around Chuck Norris began as a parody of the ridiculous characters he played and the bad writing on his shows and movies.

It's also important to remember that Norris was a raging right wing Christian, homophobe, and racist who thought that Obama's election would usher in a millennium of darkness. He publicly shilled for Republicans, and rode right along as they pivoted to MAGA.

He will not be missed.

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116104073958774806

It becomes all the more important to preserve free (as in no landlords) tool chains that can ship software all the way to end users.

American conservatives are fucking terrified of the generation of kids being raised by gay parents reaching adulthood, because they know that when it turns out that loving, same-sex parents produce successful, balanced human beings, it will reveal that one of the things they've lashed themselves to for the past century, the supremacy of heterosexual marriage and parenthood, is complete bullshit.

If the U.S. learns nothing else from this dark era that we are in, we should at least learn that propriety and tradition absolutely cannot be treated as load-bearing.

I don't know how we ended up in a universe where "Trump Derangement Syndrome" refers to people who don't like Trump, rather than to all the batshit fucking unhinged behavior of all the people that have twisted their souls into pretzels supporting or following him.

There is no way around the fact that LLMs are being used as a weapon of class war, and that they are moving us the wrong direction on water and energy.

If you have the choice, I think you should not use them, for those two big reasons.

I understand that because the capital class is currently winning the class war, many people don't have the freedom to choose not to use them. But broadly we should be looking for ways to avoid using them wherever possible.

Kimmel de-platformed because MAGA doesn't like something he said. Remember when Trump took office and MAGAs were saying "comedy is legal again"?

Sorry, no. Free speech is dead in America.

TFW YouTube injects its own ad in the middle of the in-video ad read.

"Don't 'yuck' someone else's 'yum'" doesn't mean you're wrong to be personally grossed out by something that someone else is into.

It does ask you not to project your reaction onto that person ("you're gross"), or onto the fact that they are into that thing ("liking that is gross"), or to moralize based on your reaction ("it's wrong to like that.") And especially, it exhorts you not to do any of those things vocally, let alone from a platform.

Having a 'yum' is joyous. Celebrate joy.

Fuck Microsoft and the VS Code team for force installing no less than THREE different AI extensions without even asking.

Welcome to the profoundly stupid Age of AI.

https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/

Shockingly (not shocking at all), all the strict textualist interpretations of the constitution no longer matter now that their guy is the white house. Who could have predicted? Must be convenient to be able to enforce rules only on others and leave your own hands free to wreak whatever havoc you want.