Notices by David Michaels (vwampage@xoxo.zone)

@annika I often do but it depends on the company. Bigger and more corporate? No. More surveillancy? No.

@skinnylatte What's the format for addresses there? I want to imagine it's like:

123 Letter St
Apt 42
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

And then it feels like you're chanting Singapore!

@annika Nice! I haven't touched Andible in aaagggeesss

@exchgr @cstross @jalefkowit The corporate death penalty is really just treating companies like the hoarder money piñatas they are

@exchgr @cstross @jalefkowit it really is the future liberals want

@exchgr What kind of liberal fantasy posting is this. What kind of twelve dimensional chess is he imagining exists here.

@exchgr Is he imagining that Merrick Garland is going to be persecuted like he should have persecuted Trump in some bizarre busted clock twice a day thing??? I cannot imagine what headspace is making this.

Ed Zitron has said in the past that one of the horsemen of the AI bubble popping would be the release of a shiny new thing to try and prop up generative AI's failure to generate profit.

Well here's OpenAI's Strawberry model to fulfill that promise! A new model that has reasoning! And is more expensive! And fails at grade school tasks in that classic generative AI bullshit way!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

@annika Wow sure puts his rivalry with Knuckles in a new light

@annika You sure know how to string me along

When I see you I spring a memory leak

@annika Oh no, jeez, tag your nightmares (I wish to acquire a TOOT pin)

Does AI entice people to buy?

No. No it does not. People are less likely to buy things when AI is a part of the product description.

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/

@annika @nora Figure out who is into Fedivore

@annika @babe I'm cackling at Hotwheels Sisyphus and saying it in my best Leroy Jenkins voice

These two vehicles are used to carry the same load (one human plus a small number of groceries) #fuckcars #fuckpickuptrucksinparticular

Adtech: We have surveilled you from every possible angle to determine the optimal ad that you are absolutely the most likely to purchase based on!

Also adtech: you bought one cargo e-bike, you are clearly in the market for additional cargo e-bikes right now!

@annika *slow clap*

Person who is attracted to material acquisition: buy-sexual

Person who is repulsed by material acquisition: non-buy-nary

My phone got searched* at the TSA checkpoint.

*they swabbed my phone for whatever and that was it

So that's a new experience

If AI researchers start to evaluate their colleagues using AI then I can't wait for the researcher to train a model to make sure Steve gets poor marks because they don't like him. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/ai_researchers_reviewing_peers/

@annika I hate it I get it I hate it wow. Very much violates how I think a physical thing should work