Here at Hellscape Ltd we have Senior Developers who don't know what the Refactor menu of their IDE does. But Management are pushing "AI" to "increase productivity".

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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”

That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

> Do not let the duck in

All safety rules are written in blood.

Again, it's interesting to point out that since LLM's stole literally every scifi book and convo ever written, they contain lots and lots and lots of training data about the statistical correlation of words like "AI" and "superhuman genetics" and "spaceship" and "immortality" and "I must scream."

Wow, only 20 years. I own a couple of expensive items of furniture that are over 25 years old, and still going strong. I would be exceedingly unhappy if I paid for an oil painting and it did not last as long as the other furnishings.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

"I have compelled friends and strangers in a doomed bar of downtown Houston to listen to Soft Cell’s “Sex Dwarf” on loop"

JFC

Also: notice that it lowercases like 3 different places in the process depending on what the string is.

It doesn't take the raw input, sanitize and lowercase in *one single goddamn spot* and *then* run the tests on it.

This is pigshit awful fucking code.

Here at Hellscape Ltd I just had to ask our *Release Manager* not to create the release branch from the main branch until *after* the main branch passed its unit and integration tests (which it hasn't done for a *week*).

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Word processors permit abomination such as double spaces after periods. Intolerable. Yes, I used to use LaTeX.

/2 … right there in Genesis 6:15 and she said I must have skipped that part so I asked so like is the Bible study like book club where there is a certain amount of Pinot Grigio and she said THIS GROUP HAS MORMONS and I declared that non-responsive and asked it be stricken and it went down from there

I'm guessing a modern Pope, especially one from the US, has studied Catholic theology and philosophy about Just War.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Competence, a sense of shame, and (dare I say it) humility is for the "little people".

I said NO, it is not, don’t feed my words into AI ever again

also it says “Pope Benedict” and not “Pope Francis” so you’ve taken my joke, gotten a key detail wrong, and then made AI art with it that doesn’t even have my name on it

take this shit down

none of y’all better EVER do this again

Obviously mistook Papal vestments for a dress.

Most of them are felons either because of the war on drugs, or because we have criminalized poverty, or because they were overcharged as a result of being Black. I'm representing people charged with felonies for protesting ICE or genocide PEACEFULLY. Those are the people you WANT in public office.

Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly His nonstop bullshitting can't change the facts on the ground.

New in PN: Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly

"The ability of the free press, much less regime propagandists, to grapple with the scale of the loss & its implications is very much in doubt. It’s worth, therefore, laying out the nature of the defeat, who's unwilling to describe it as such, & why."

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

"My fridge of future plans" is verging on Vogon Poetry. 10/10.

A line of Nazis at the Nuremburg rally, throwing Nazi salutes. Their backs are to us. Facing them is a hand-tinted group of child laborers from the early 20th century, squinting suspiciously at them.

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Austerity creates fascism; and more!

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Chinese Defense Minister Admiral Dong Jun:

"We have trade and energy agreements with Iran; we expect others not to interfere in our affairs. The Strait of Hormuz is open to us."

PRC Oilship captain: are you really gonna shoot at us? really really? you really wanna do that

US Navy Captain: .... well, this is a sticky wicket

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia
>threaten the Pope himself with personal violence
>heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion
>misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy

Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

I'm a broken record about this, but we need a society than implicitly recognises the Labour Theory of Value. That is, wealth comes from people providing useful goods and services; financial trickery, rent seeking and off-shoring does not.

We can't let you have those dentures, granddad. We don't want no trouble.